BATTLE OF ST. VITH - PART I
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- BATTLE OF ST. VITH - PART I - Department of Defense 1965 - PIN 30181 - BAKCGROUND OF EVENTS ON HITLER'S ARDENNES OFFENSIVEDECEMBER 1944, WITH FOCUS ON 19 DECEMBER ATTACK ON ST. VITH, MARKING BEGINNING OF BATTLE OF BULGE.
My dad, Staff Sergeant Raymond A. Wright was there. He fought with the 9th Armored Division, Combat Command B, 16th field artillery.
Thank him for all of us, even the ones who unfortunately have no clue what this all meant.
This is truly a superb documentary. The anguish, pain and death both sides of this conflict experienced can never be totally conveyed in a film documentary, but thank you very much for providing incredible film footage captured during this dark period in history.
My Father served with the second division. I always look for him in the footage of films. God rest his soul.
Outstanding documentary. I've seen a lot of WW2 footage but I've never seen any of this stuff. The stories from the soldiers on the field and the two Generals are amazing.
Thg2 wryjo
Incredible to see two opposing Generals side by side looking out over their battlefield years later. 6:56.
My grandfather, First Lieutenant Frederick A. "Fred" Pope (Jr.), was Clarke's dogsbody at St. Vith, staying in town with a radio to keep Clarke in touch with the front. He had to shoot his way to the last transport evacuating the town as it fell. Grandfather eventually left the Ardennes with half a shell's worth of shrapnel in him and Clarke's recommendation for a Bronze Star.
Robert Taylor had a great speaking voice.
My dad was in that 168th combat battalion that held the main road to st. Vith.They were there since D-day,taking a rest.He and his buddy made it back wounded,but so many didn’t
My dad was in the 168th combat engineers. They were mention in this video at 18:50. He was the only survivor of his squad, he thought, until there was a 1995 reunion, when he found one other man.
@@marinajustyaoi2398 company C .168th C E.battalion. They have a memorial now at Prumerburg .Fran Galligan and Bud Haney somehow survived.Both have passed now.
My father was in bastion also. All the way from Normandy beach
Bastogne I should say
@@marinajustyaoi2398 I had an uncle in the 168th. Captured on 21 December and sat out the remainder of the war in a POW camp.
Just like The Battle of Martens, I did not know that this battle also played such a pivotal roles in the in the victory in Europe. Plus Red Tails.
U R never too old to learn history.
Will Rogers Jr. sure looks and sounds like his Dad.
It’s stunning that Adolph Hitler, an infantry corporal, was presiding over all of Germany’s military strategic and operational matters. I suppose Joseph Stalin did more or less the same. Of the Western Allies Churchill interfered a bit, he at least had graduated from Sandhurst and had military experience. Roosevelt interfered very little at the operational level though he certainly was central in crafting the overall war strategy for the US.
Thanks for the great upload. My grandfather was a Tank Commander in the 7th Armored Division, 31st Battalion, HQ Company. After surviving this, and all that was to come, the only thing he ever complained about was the food. That had to have been pretty horrid food.
So interesting to see Clark and von Manteuffel discuss the desperate situation they were engaged in as adversaries not more than 20 years earlier (I’m guessing this documentary dates to early or mid 60s). Von Manteuffel is still quite a dapper, compact figure here even though he must have been 60+. He has the confident and gracious air of old line Prussian nobility, which he was. I’m sure he remembered every detail. He was one of the Third Reich’s very best generals. Such a shame that he and other men of his training and caliber wound up serving such an indisputably evil man.
Notice how much more articulate and succinct the Americans' speech was back in the early 1960s, when this documentary was made, compared to how younger and more middle-aged Americans speak, and write, now. The standards of English education in the U.S. have clearly declined since then.
Not only of the typical ya-know or like.
Incredible history
salute the nice job of yours
I live in St.Vith
nic hi how old are you, do you have knowledge of these battles?
Don McConnaughy I am 16 years old but I don't know anything about the war I only know that Saint Vith was very bombed and a bomb was found in the city center a few days ago
Your lovely town took quite a beating by both sides in 1944 and many citizens of your town were killed as a result. I drove through this region with some friends in 1969 while on leave from the military (I was in the U.S. Navy, stationed in Iceland, at the time). I wish I could remember the exact location, but I think we were driving somewhere to the south St. Vith on a two lane road when we came upon a Sherman tank with U.S. Army markings on it, slumped over in a ditch at the side of the road. Much had been stripped from it over the years and a lot of graffiti had been scratched into it. But there it still was, nearly 25 years later. None of us were historians by any stretch, but we all knew enough of WWII history to know right away that this tank was a relic of that very bloody campaign Americans call the Battle of the Bulge. I’ll never forget it.
Robert Taylor in his best speaking-role
I really was convincing myself it was Rick Jason from Combat! That would be fitting.
Bataille méconnue des Américain???????? tres importante pour retarder les Allemands, mais des unitées moins prestigieuse que les "Airborne".........................? mais des soldats courageux d'unitées perdues dans ces coins d'Ardenne Belge.
wow i live in Sankt vith
i was here
Thank you very much.
_Time after time during the Battle of the Bulge German soldiers outfought their American opponents. They were not supermen. They blundered, probably about as often as the Americans. And there seems little doubt that the best of the Americans were every bit as good as the best of the Germans. Furthermore, the Americans won the battle and, eventually, the war. Yet at the height of the battle for Bastogne, on 4 January 1945, General Patton wrote in his diary: "We can still lose this war….The Germans are colder and hungrier than we are, but they fight better."_
-Trevor N. Dupuy et al.
_Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945_
The Germans were hyped up on meth.
The former German commanding generals 5:00 and 5:10 names and facial sensible good human race genes( sense of humours) cannot be anyhow forgotten by the present ruling government ( former German soldiers of Iron-Fister Adolf Hitler has absolute terrified and shocked the nation Belgium amongst other European nations i.e, French and etched.
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What they don't mention is that Eisenhower almost certainly knew German intentions and decided to allow an attack with the idea that it could be used to exhaust German resources, however when it came the size of the offensive was far greater than anticipated
post war conspiricy hoax !
utter nonsense
Not supported by any credible evidence, and the Battle of the Bulge has been written about and researched to the Nth degree by several generations of historians, and continues to be researched and written about today. I just finished Antony Beevor’s very detailed history, which made plain what an incredibly bloody, long (over 6 weeks) and desperate struggle the Battle of the Bulge was. American armor and infantry formations in the Ardennes and to the west that had any kind of prior battle experience fought well and at times incredibly bravely. On the other hand, American top leadership were inexcusably caught flat footed by the German counter-offensive and at least one American 3 star on the scene (Hodges) does not come off well at all. It took Montgomery, at Ike’s request, to pull things together in the north to bring the necessary forces to bear to halt the vanguard of the German salient just a few miles from the Meuse river. But by that time many American units, often ragtag and under intense fire, had fought bravely to stymie the German offensive in a number of desperate holding actions. Often unsung was the sheer volume and accuracy of American artillery, particularly in the Elsenborn ridge area. The things the American military does well - solid logistics and raining down tons of ordnance on the enemy - were critical in this campaign, although it took a while for it to get in gear. But the improvisation and sheer grit of relatively small “scratch” units holding off the German advance as best they could were just as critical. Massive blood letting on both sides, but the Germans could ill afford such losses.
Made when?
1965?
to all who died OWNED