Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery - 1958 | Movietone Moments | 10 Aug 18
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2018
- A film record of the highlights of the great soldier's career, who, at nearly 71, is going to have a well earned rest.
2 shots diff. angles Montgomery. Fade to LS St. Mark's Vicarage. MS wall-plate 'Kennington Oval, SE11'. Closer shot Vicarage. Interior shot room of birth. MS painting above fireplace. View of the 'Oval'. Dissolve to exterior shot St. Paul's School, London. Interior shot of schoolroom, MS notice board. 2 stills of cricket team with Montgomery in same. CU Montgomery 1st World War uniform. 2 shots Dunkirk. GV Desert 1942. CU feet marching through sand. CU Montgomery in desert before El Alamein. GV desert before battle. Montage of guns firing. 6 shots battle of El Alamein. MS Montgomery with Italian officers at the surrender of Tripoli. CU Montgomery. MS Italian officers. British flag raised. Crowds cheering. British flag flying. 2 shots Montgomery giving cigarettes to troops. Montgomery receives bouquet. MS Montgomery with General Dempsey. 2 shots troops land on Sicily. MS Montgomery with General Freyberg during Italian campaign. 2 shots yanks advancing. 3 shots people cheer British flag. MS Monty back in UK. LS war workers in canteen. MS Montgomery on stage talking to workers. CU Montgomery speaks (SOF). GV St. Paul's School. Board-room in school as it is today. LS same room as it was during World War II. MS Montgomery with Eisenhower planning second front. CU Eisenhower. MS Eisenhower & Montgomery. 2 shots German West Wall in France. 2 shots Rommel with party of officers inspecting defences. CU Rommel. 5 shots troops landing on the beaches of Normandy. 5 shots troops marching on land. 2 shots signs by roadside of Siegfried line. 2 shots German POWs. LS German officer preparing to surrender on Luneburg Heath. Montgomery walks out to German officers to surrender German troops. MS German officers. MS German officer signs document. CU crowds cheering. 2 shots Montgomery driving through crowds in Denmark & Holland. CU girls screaming with joy. Holding portrait of Montgomery. MS crowds. 2 shots Montgomery driving through crowds. GV Trafalgar Square during Victory Parade. LS parade. MS George VI with Queen Elizabeth. MS Montgomery drives past the King. CU King salutes. MS Montgomery drives past. 2 shots Montgomery speaking to City of London. CU British soldiers over Montgomery's speech. GV Windsor Castle 1946 - Garter Ceremony. 2 shots Montgomery with Lord Alexander in robes of the Garter. LS interior Board of Montgomery's old school. CU portrait of Montgomery in schoolroom. 3 shots Montgomery presents Belt of Honour to his son David. 2 shots of Montgomery arriving in Soviet Russia. GV building under snow in Russia (Moscow). LS Montgomery and party inspect armour. CU Montgomery in Russian outfit. LS American press interviewing Montgomery. 7 shots Montgomery answers Press questions on arrival in USA. (SOF). 2 shots NATO flags. CU Montgomery as Deputy Supreme Commander. 2 shots Norstad and Mountbatten during SHAPE lectures. CU Montgomery 3 shots CU Montgomery.
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I’m an American & I ❤️ Monty. He was a soldier’s soldier. I’d have proudly served under him.
leslie beddingfield you are very unusual as Americans tend to hate his guts with a passion. I tend to think he was one of the best if not the best Cmdrs.
John Cornell American subordinates under his command did learn to respect him and his abilities. The tragedy is the pervasive anti British elements among the senior echelon of the American army. The Americans having been grudging to offer any recognition of Montgomery's achievements on the battlefield. That is without doubt.
@@jotaiqc18 "In defeat unbeatable, In victory unbearable" Sir Winston Churchill. But he was no dumbass.
he was a dumb ass and lied excessively never thinking it would catch up to him.There are hundreds of examples of him blowing his own horn or lying and/or getting scarce during failure which happened all to often
Quite frankly he wasn't very effective and had an inflated view of himself that was self serving and detrimental to others.The Brits hated him before he ever interacted with the Americans
I'm from Russia but i ♡ Monty.
RIP Hero 🤍
Lovely Monty!!! 💖
Seriously-strong, cannot say enough, I obviously wasn't there but injured within an inch of life over and over snd still victoriously achieved his objectives.
No matter if there were mistakes but Montgomery was there to give the British Army the much needed victories at the right time.
Having always admired Montgomery for being so British . And physical resemblance with my father . Who fought the War as an Engineer in aviation Spitfires. Many years later when 30. I read a Biography by " Alan moorehead ". Very critical of his decisions as a Soldier . And his qualities as a leader ; man; husband. To say i was aghast at such derogatory Description of a UK War Hero . Was the least i can say now at eighty . I have the same esteem i always had.
My favorite, respected and heroic commanders... MacArthur and Montgomery. 22 years US Army Infantry officer and Paratrooper.
Undoubtedly one of the best allied generals of the war. He was an egomaniac but you need massive self confidence to win battles and he had to be frugal with men's lives. Many of the actions he criticized for were connected with this last factor and/or the relatively fragile state of the British army. For example he's much criticized for not more aggressively pursuing the Germans after El Alamein but apart from the logistical issues the British needed a victory for reasons of national morale and he didn't want to hazard his decisive defeat of Rommel at Alamein. His conduct of the D day landings was exemplary.
Have you read Nigel Hamilton's biography on Monty ?
He only won at El Alamein due to US support.
D-Day was to save western Europe from Stalin.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw load of bollox
@@johndawes9337 He only won at El Alamein due to the Sherman tanks the US provided.
Without D-Day the Red Army would have stopped at the English Channel. Stalin wanted to overrun Spain in 1945.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw yawn
Every General had their ups & downs i am an Englishmen and proud of Montgomery.
Tho i have huge respect for the Americans they didn't get their Homeland Bombed on a Civilian/Industrial scale.
That's pointed at those who go with the saying "If it wasn't for us".
The Blitz was in response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.
Great and bravest soldier
I find it interesting that this news event said that when Monty accepted the German Army surrender in the North of Germany that the war was over....The war did not end until Riems was signed some three days for all the allies...
Man kann ja von ihm halten was man will.Aber für mich sieht er aus;wie man sich einen Britischen Offizier vorstellt.Er hat eine Stolze Körperhaltung und Strahlt in gewisserweisse Ehre aus.Ebend wie ein Gentleman.Sowas kenne ich sonst nur von Sir Alec Guinness.
He seems like a very friendly and funny guy! I would’ve loved to meet him!!
He is known for having a terrible personality though
@@biggussdickuss5184 At one meeting during the war, Walter Bedel Smith, Eisenhower's Chief of Staff, said to Monty:
"General, to serve under you would be a great privilege for anyone, to serve long side you wouldn't be too bad. But, say, General, to serve over you is hell."
BIGUSDICKUSS,
Monty was only an arse to those he thought were desk men with no combat experience, telling him what to do.
Monty sat on his ass(no big surprise) in the Ardennes and told Generals Collins and Harmon they should fall back.They attacked 2nd Panzer and destroyed it as a fighting unit.
@@bigwoody4704 you seem to have been scattering anti-Monty comments all over the place, mostly based on the old Yank-inspired myths since they've been trying to scapegoat him for their failures for nearly 80 years. Try watching this from 6:15 in, and if you have anything to backup your sentiments, please post references: ua-cam.com/video/4A6D-NqyObw/v-deo.html
At 2min mark you can see my Grandad Stanley Coleman (shirtless wearing forage hat) center of the picture accepting a tin of cigarettes from Montgomery. We have been looking for this video for years, we only had a bad quality image to go off. Does anyone know where this was shot and where I can get more footage?
Big man!!!
5:09 - Cold as Ice
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Not the greatest Xs and Os general, and not an easy subordinate, but he was in the right place and the right time in 1943, and he stepped up and did what was required.
Was the greatest Allied commander of Army Group's
5:03 - The Strain of War
Nowadays i read his book
What is the name of the first opening tune being played?
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Ran Riegler
no. 1 general of all times . rab el elamin. the general of turning point and the guardian of israel
The irony of playing Beethoven in the background of a British WWII general bio is quite amusing. At least you didn't go with Wagner.
Dot dot dash, morse code for V, V for victory
Beethoven would never be a Nazi.
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Depts to Feild Marshall Montgomery.
I love Monty 😍😍😍🌈🌈🌈
İt is not end Bernard.....
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Germany had the best generals - Manstein, Guderian, Rommel, Kesselring, Model and von Bock.
With adequate fuel the good side would have won.
yawn
@@johndawes9337 We should have allied with the Axis against the only threat.
british politicians figured soon enough that they needed a simpler man in north africa. with sophisticated wavell it was like trying to beat the germans in their own game which was never going to be possible. but simple montgomery turned the tables.
In North Africa the US had to help him out, racing Patton on Sicily wasn't clever, taking Antwerp but not freeing the port, Market Garden and delaying the war by six months. Otherwise he was ok.
Errr its the other way round. Montgomery helped out the Americans in North Africa . There was no race in Sicily. Not taking Antwerp was Eisenhower's decision. How didMarket Garden prolong the war by six months?
It's not a myth Monty's military resume is meager and that's putting it kindly.The berk hardly moved and only when the Allies provided the advantages - even these rubes could do that.....maybe
In North Africa he beat Rommel at El Alamein before Operation Torch even started. The only one racing in Sicily was Patton, who was in such a hurry that he shot donkeys, slapped casualties (twice), attempted to cover-up massacres and let 100,000 Germans escape.
Market Garden wasn't even his plan. He'd already shelved Operation Comet due to reports of increasing German resistance, but Ike resurrected it, passed it to Brereton and Browning to plan, and then Gavin cocked-up the entire thing by going off-mission at Nijmegen anyway. If it had worked it would have avoided the 3 most costly battles in the ETO for the Yanks: Hurtgen forest, Metz and the Battle of the Bulge. Shame Gavin couldn't do his job but hardly Monty’s fault.
Monty lost a lot. What he won he won with overwhelming superiority in men, materiels,air support and ULTRA. Then barely.. and poorly.Alam Halfa, which was fought with Dorman-Smith's battle plan but did not end the North African campaign because Monty montied….
The allies built the advantages not monty they were already in place when auchenleck got sacked for performing much better than monty.A fact that Churchill tried to hide for the rest of the war .
EVERYTHING was already in place to win in the desert. Churchill wrongly removed General Auchinleck who argued that his men had not regrouped and needed reinforcing. Several military analysts accused Churchill of misunderstanding desert warfare tactics, saying he placed too much emphasis on territorial occupation. They needed 6 weeks to refit and resupply. So what does Monty do - took 10 weeks(Aug-13-Oct 23) to advance - much more time than Auchileck and Dorman Smith insisted on and got fired for in the 1st place.
♦Montgomery had 1500 miles and every concievable advantage - BIG ADVANTAGES in men/materiel/air cover/intelligence/tanks/artillery and still Montgomery never captured Rommel
♦Monty didn't build up the arms/men/tanks/materiel - the allies did -Dorman-Smith had engineers and infantry plant the massive mine field on the Alam Halfa ridge , that Bernard attempted to take credit for.
♦ULTRA became fully operational in August 1942 after the Germans had changed some wheels/gears on Enigma
♦The Torch Landings - forces included 60,000 troops in Morocco, 15,000 in Tunisia, and 50,000 in Algeria.
♦Claude Auchinleck called over two fresh divisions from the Nile Delta after winning 1st alamain.
♦Both of those troop deployments forced Rommel's hand as now there would be more enemy troops to deal with.
♦The Air and Naval Corp completely strangled the Afrika Korps supply lines. Sweeping the skies and seas in/over the Mediterranean
♦Mongomery never opened ports or grabbed Air Strips for them in return
♦this would continue into Sicily and Normandy where Monty's deficiencies would be exposed -Rommel in his memoirs credited complete Air superiority by Conningham's RAF that they could hardly sleep in the heat and battle of the day and could only move at nite
♦ *Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts p.282-83* On 12 September 1942 Churchill had cause to thank Roosevelt telling him the 317 Sherman tanks and 94 self propelled 105 mm guns "which you kindly gave me on that dark Tobruk day in Washington" and arrived safetly in Egypt and been received with the greatest enthusiasm.....as these tanks were taken from the hands of the American Army
♦Montgomery had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with any of the above actions.He reaped the benefits of them and others who came before
♦*The Rommel Papers by B.H.Liddell-Hart page 521* Montgomery was in a position to profit by the bitter experience of his predecessors .While supplies on our side had been cut to a trickle ,American and British ships were bringing vast quantities on materials to North Africa .Many times greater than either his predecessors had ever had. His principle was to fight no battle unless he knew for certain that he would win it .Of course that is a method which will only work given material superiority - but that he had. He was undoubtedly more of a strategist than a tactician. Command of a mobile battle force was not his strong point British officers made the error off planning operations according to what was strategically desirable ,rather than what was tactically attainable
The British Press needed a Hero and Monty reveled in the roll, Denigrating others who had done so much for the War effort. He loved grabbing the Glory at least twice later he almost got sacked.And if it wasn't for the sorry fact that General Gott's plane crashed and British Press propped him up beyond his accomplishments & abilities he would have.The only thing Churchill knew about military operations was mismanagement. He took 50,000 troops from O'Conner after he captured 130,000 Italians,400 tanks and 1,294 artillery pieces.Shipped them to Crete were they were routed and in turn weakened the Desert Forces
Montgomery was a bigger hindrance to the allied war effort than the Germans.
And you claim this because?..
Ridiculous
Watch this and see where he ranks against all the other WW2 generals, and then explain why you think that: ua-cam.com/video/TmSQriq0zTc/v-deo.html
@@thevillaaston7811 He was a paedophile.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw just a myth started in the 70s.only someone with the IQ of a used toilet brush would believe it.
Erwin Rommel is best.
Montgomery beat Rommel in every battle, even without numerical superiority.
Not so. When he and Monty fought each other in France Monty out-generaled him.
@@Conn30Mtenor Erwin Rommel would have been in London if America hadn't been involved in the war in Europe. Germany alone occupied the whole of Europe.
@@mechanicalengineering5749 you have a mythologized view of Rommel. He was a great commander, but not the chuck norris-esque figure capable of impossible feats you paint him as. Rommel was a military genius, but a human being who made mistakes.
Mechanical Engineering,
The Germans had already failed to overcome the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy in 1940.
Perhaps you think Rommel could walk on water? Rommel was a very good divisional or corps level tank tactician but not a good army level grand strategist. That was Montgomery.
Good general but not great commander of ww2 !
Your post contradicts itself.
You contradict the facts all the time
Watch this, see where he ranks against the other WW2 generals and then explain why you think that: ua-cam.com/video/TmSQriq0zTc/v-deo.html
@bigwoody4704 your a Bell end
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