The Black Day Of The German Army - The Battle of Amiens I THE GREAT WAR Week 211
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- Ludendorff and his generals didn't think the Allies had it in them, but this week they attack with the might off several hundred tanks near Amiens, the Black Day of the German Army.
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On September 1, you can see him do WW2 over at that channel.
shrillbert Which channel is that?
Dylan McMullen look for "world war 2 every day" on youtube and you'll find it.
We may take it for granted after 4 years, but it’s impossible to overstate how much of an achievement this channel, with its consistent, quality uploads, rich detail, historical accuracy, and a wealth of other qualities. Thank you so much to Indy and the team for shedding so much light on a catastrophic four years of human history.
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This should require a mandatory viewing by all people
Hear hear!
I am adamant that this is the greatest 'popular' history project ever, yes ever.
I miss it
The moment you realize that if you survive this, indeed you will be home by Christmas
V. Athanasiou were coming home!
Sadly I’m pretty sure that they will be fighting until 1920 at this rate.
Hurray!
And then you get killed by the Spanish Flu
Player 1 Yes, but it's different to die in your home than a muddy trench
We've had a lot of 'firsts' in this war so far, now we're getting to the 'lasts'
“August 8 is the _black day_ of the German army in the history of this war.” -German General Erich Ludendorff
„Der 8. August ist der _schwarze Tag_ des deutschen Heeres in der Geschichte dieses Krieges.“ -der deutscher General Erich Ludendorff
The Battle of Amiens marked the start of the _Hundred Days Offensive_ and the collapse of the German army. Tens of thousands of Germans began to surrender en masse. German morale had crumbled. The lines along the Western Front were disintegrating. Soldiers were no longer willing to fight to the death. This was the beginning of the end. _Es war der Anfang vom Ende_ ...
"Die Zeigefinger in die Ohren gesteckt und lauthals 'Tri-tra-tra-la-la...' singen!" - Bund deutscher Optimisten.
"Put both index-fingers in your ears and shout 'lalalalala...' as loud as you can!" - the unknown german zelot.
The day the WAR was won in the West.. yeah..for THE ANZAC CORP & CANADIAN CORP... BUT SADNESS ENSUED AS IN 3 MONTHS THE ANZAC's WILL BE EXHAUSTED AND TAKEN OUT OF THE LINE.😀 But 😢
mikhailv67 That’s right. The 5th of October at Montbrein was the last action the Australians saw on the Western Front. The entire 5 Divisions of the Australian Corps had been in continual action since April 1918 without relief as the British High Command squeezed every drop of effectiveness out of the Australians until they were exhausted. After 5th of October the entire Corps was removed from the British line and sent to Paris and London for rest and convalescence. They were heading back to the front as the news of the Armistice was announced. They’d done more than there fair share of bleeding. In the final year of the war they’d captured over 20% of the Germans captured by the BEF, and a similar percentage of the ground taken, but they comprised only around 10% of the British forces.
Thanks to the Australians, the breakthrough was made.
DO NOT LOSE YOUR FAITH! Our Connie ( Hotzendorf) will rise from the ashes and secure a Central powers victory.
With experience in winter offensives, it would be easy to end the war with a victory for the central powers. By Christmas, the victory is celebrated with a dinner between Hötzendorf, Hindenburg and Ludendorff in Paris.
I forgot is it next week or the week after when Hotzendorf ousts Franz and proclaims himself Kaiser?
I will cry if we don’t win.
Deutschland Deutschland Uber alles.
His cunning nature merely has him biding his time, waiting for the perfect time to attack.
Cheers to all our Aussie friends from Canada!
Me too! I’m from Canada!
🇦🇺+🇨🇦 forever
Indeed, The ANZAC and Canadians combined were the Allies Shock Troops. The difference as noted was that the ANZAC Soldiers were literally abused prior to Amiens.
no cheers
What is interesting to note is that the air defences that were erected in south eastern Britain during the war, were largely constructed by the Canadian Forestry Crops in 1916. The Corps was asked to assist in the construction of airfields for defence against air raids by the RFC and within a few short weeks the first airfields were finished and by the end of the year a network of airfields had been built all along the coast and outside of London. The contribution of the Forestry is largely unknown even in Canada where it barely rates a mention at all even from the most important military historians like Tim Cook. That is why I have settled on writing my masters thesis on the history of their operations in Britain and France during the war. These men made a huge contribution to the war effort and they should be recognized as having done such.
TheLazer3 cool, thanks for the interesting bit of Canadian history
Nice one.
In his autobiography, the Red Baron commented about his first meeting with Ludendorff:
"It is a weird feeling to be in the room where the fate of the world is decided."
Just change "room" for "battlefield" and I bet many soldiers from both sides would say the same about the Battle of Amiens.
Indeed.
Though most would say that Amiens was merely the moment when it became apparent that the stalemate could and would be broken.
At last, all the effort building an Allied war machine...mobilizing the colonies...figuring out modern war...keeping everyone fed...holding off revolutions at home...convincing the last great industrial power to fully support you...was paying off...
...and the average German soldier, whose efforts for months before this only resulted in the capture of some worthless ground and an inability to break an obviously better supplied enemy; decides to give it up and go home (and try to build a new Europe out of a nationalist or socialist system instead of a monarchy).
I have a question for Out of the Trenches. Have there been any reports of strange paranormal events that might have happened in the trenches. I imagine the shell shock and all the dead bodies might’ve made some soldiers see things. Thank you Indy and the crew for making amazing content.
ButterWarrior this, bring on the inexplicable
There's the Angels of Mons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons
I asked the same question!
comet1970 thank you, guys.
ButterWarrior look no further to Europe . a lot of American. C.W. battlefields have a lot of paranormal activities .Gettysburg for one .
German soldier 1918,
"With our war being so close to being over i am more scared than ever before.
At last i can imagine a future.
Not one with Germany as victors but one where i see my family once again.
So now the thought of dying terrifies me."
This game is so dumb....
German soldiers in summer 1918 didn't have that hindsight about the war coming to an end.
For what they knew, Germany could have stalled the war for another 2 years
Thanks for the shout-out to Arthur Currie and the Canadians. They were the shock troops to the start of the 100-days war. They kicked off the offensive, kept the pressure on and had the German army backpeddling into the fall.
Aren't you forgetting the Australians?
Incorrect. The Australians led, the Canadians, British, Americans, then the French followed.
The proof isn’t just the record of the Amiens offensive, it’s the capture of the German artillery by the Australians that is all the evidence needed of which army was in the lead, and which followed, because artillery is positioned miles behind the front.
@@seanlander9321 Bullcrap
@@seanlander9321 Between Aug and Nov 1918 Arthur Currie and the Canadian Corps spearheading the 100-Days Offensive.
@@brettfavreify Simply not true. The ‘spearhead’ was the Australians, the Canadians followed. It was the Australians who captured the German artillery, without that the breakthrough would have failed by a German counter attack. You also seem to be unaware that Rawlinson asked Monash who he wanted on his flank, he asked for the Canadians. Being on the Australian flank meant that the Canadians were behind the Australians, as was every other allied army.
The blueprint for the Amiens offensive comes from Monash's Battle of Le Hamel on the 4th of July, the first battle to incorporate infantry, artillery, tanks and planes simultaneously. Mongomery inspected Monash's plan post Le Hamel and use this plan at Al Alamein a few decades later.
Your last statement is total nonsense. At that time in WW1 Montgomery was a major . So he goes to a Lt General and has a look at his plan. 😂
@@anthonyeaton5153 ...what on earth are you on about...after Le Hamel, Monty went to Monash and absorbed everything that Monash had planned and utilised that plan decades later. What has their rank to do with anything.
Rawlinson should take a LOT of credit for the spectacular successes of August and onwards to the end of the war. He encouraged and fostered the plans of his subordinates - including Monash and Currie, and gave them the room to develop their tactics and 'fight' the war.
it's also worth noting that King George would rush to the front and Knight John Monash in the Field on August 12th - the first man to receive a knighthood in the field in over 300 years. Might give clue as to who many people thought was responsible for the breakthrough ;)
Exactly. Without the Australians the attack was lost, because they took the German artillery which meant that there was no counter attack, for the first time in four years of war.
I think it is accepted that General Monash prepared the battle plans for Amiens. Rawlinson just recommended them to the high command.
This constant negating of Monash’s work is sad and shows the ongoing effect of the anti-semitism that he faced.
Monash picked the brains of other commanders and conferred with them asked their opinions. It was the brilliant accuracy of the artillery that made the attack such a success.
Australia had 800 men killed out of 1300 casualties a shocking percentage for a battle meant to protect the infantry.
@@brasschick4214 Not antisemitism at all. Monash was Australian, that was enough for the British to despise him. Britain continued the tradition after the war by insisting that only Australia had to repay war loans in full, then again in 1953 by agreeing with the Germans that only Australia be excluded from reparations.
@@seanlander9321Monash was held in the highest esteem by the British…. It was an Empire Army.
Lots written by people who have never served in the military (at a reasonably high rank) 7:34 and don’t understand how a military command system works.
That's it...that final Ludendorff quote means the beginning of the end.
Massimiliano Palladini sadly...
No matter. The Kaiser will dine in Versailles yet.
Gaslight Studios I agree
I'm not sure if he ever managed to visit Paris after his abdication and exile, but in Miranda Carter's book The Three Emperors, one of Wilhelm's frustrations in life was not to be invited by anyone even once to Paris -- he's probably one of the few European royalties never to have visited the city at all.
The ending quote is deep man....
So great meeting Indy and Flo at Bovington tank Museum! People say never meet your heroes. I disagree!
in march 1918 when british front at amiens were crushed by germans petain send immediatly 40 french divisions and save the british army,on 1940 in the dreadfull days of dunkirk, petain ask to churchill"where are your 40 divisions? that's the different point of vue of french and british history...
August 8th was 100 percent Monash. He took the plan to Rawlinson as a larger scale extension of Hamel, got the Canadians involved to protect his right flank (cause he didn't trust the French provincials) and co-ordinated the whole battle plan in extraordinary detail. He came up with and executed the 'double leap frog' manoeuvre, where two divisions, line abreast attack, and hold then two more divisions from the rear push through this position- leap frog- them to advance with fresh troops. This was the day where squads of armoured cars were first used like cavalry to push through the enemy lines and capture strategic information and cause havoc.... such innovations, such genius
The Aussies and Canadians and to some extent the Brits on the left smashed through the German defences in a major way and left them reeling. then kept up the momentum for the famous '100 days and pushed them back through the Hindenberg line.
This was the day that MONASH won the war.
what do you mean by French provincials?
True.
must be weird being a English/french soldier landing in vladivostok
I wonder what the locals were thinking?
Will you be doing a special on the so-called "Lost Battalion" and Major Whittlesey next month when the Meuse-Argonne kicks off?
As an American, I recognize that our overall contribution in the First World War was somewhat limited, especially by comparison with the Second, but their story is truly harrowing.
They should make a special on it just because we've finally got an American to admit -in writing- that they're not biggest badass ever and that they're the reason that the Allies won WW1, simply because of them, and them alone.
I mean I get ww2, but when you get seppos trolling how they won ww1 single-handedly... 😐
This has to be one of the most brilliantly conceived and produced series ever on UA-cam. I love everything about it
Indy correctly points out that some sources claim that the plans for the battle of Amiens came from the Australian Corps commander General Monash while others do not.
It's said that victory has many fathers but it could also be said that the writers of history don't always give credit or enough credit where it is due for all sorts of reasons.
While it is undoubtedly true that those responsible for the strategic direction of the war had been planning a major allied counter offensive for some time and had narrowed the area to the Somme Valley (unbeknown to Monash) many still believe that Monash was the true mastermind of the battle of Amiens and the creator of the blueprint on how to win the war in 1918.
Former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer, an authority on Australian General Sir John Monash, echoed this sentiment very succinctly when he stated: "It was not at Field Marshal Haig's HQ nearby but at the Lieutenant-General John Monash AIF HQ at Chateau Bertangles where the seeds for victory on the Western Front were devised and implemented.".
Ian Jackson: I agree that the Aussies raised the CONDITIONS Jointly and along with the Canadians. Canada had more Divisions but they were together formidable and relentless throughout the "100 Days" to Victory at a great Sacrifice.
@@susanhampson446The battle plan, and the importance of the capture of German artillery to prevent a counter attack were entirely due to the Australians. Every other army followed in their footsteps to Amiens.
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The British were bled white. The insertion of the Australians and Canucks must have been the same feeling for the Empire as having an IV mainlined into the heart. The British and French hung on manfully and grimly along with their allies month after month of unending torture; then the angels from the great north and the sons of the southern cross rose up and slayed the dragon.
Not bled dry like the Germans, many of the British still had a workforce that was predominantly male. An empire does not run itself.
My dad died in battle Amiens R.I.P. dad
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supported slavery I would have a profile picture of the stars and stripes or the likes of the British Union jack! Also I'm neither left or right I don't fall for the divide and conquer. You obviousl
I saw the service for the first day of the battle at Amiens cathedral yesterday on bbc1,very moving.All nations who took part represented as far as I could tell.
The beginning of the end
The most incredible cannonade I've ever heard, quite unending! Swept round us in a wide curve of red leaping flame!
This infernal bombardment! The noise and the smoke!
Just concentrate on your bayonet. Imagine it piercing the hearts of the Hun. Every last one of em!
General Monash seams to have a different view of August 8th. The way it reads the plan to counterattack the Germans was his. I expect you have read it if you haven't then you can find his memoirs in the Gutenberg Libary. Search the Australian victories in France in 1918 by general sir John Monash, g.c.m.g., k.c.b.
"And I reach the end of another week"
A true hero, Indie!
It seems so long ago but there are people alive today who were alive on August 9, 1918. Growing up I knew a lot of people who were born in the 1800's. My great grandparents were alive when Custer got killed. Time and history really get compressed when you view it through your preceding generations.
Amiens has always been of particular interest to me as my great uncle died there fighting with what would later become the Cape Breton Highlanders. Always hoping to see his face in some of this old film footage.
Question for OOTT besides old Franz’s assassination, were there any attempts made on leading generals,heads of state lives during the war? Keep up there great work, your almost out of the woods yet *subtle foreshadowing*
Lenin survived an assassination attempt on 30 August 1918 by a woman named Fanya Kaplan. Wilhelm II survived an assassination attempt too, but that was in 1901. Rasputin wasn't a head of state, but he was very influential in Russian politics.
I’m convinced Rasputin must’ve been a vampire or at least very lucky for the amount of effort it went in to killing him
There is the murders of the Tsar and his family.
Today once more is the anniversary of one of the most important battle of history, the era of true modern warfare has begun
We're gonna be home by Christmas boys!
Someone told me that 4 years ago... I did not believe it anymore :'(.
What an absolute pleasure to meet you and the team in Bovington yesterday. What a great day.
So hard to listen to this stuff. So sad.
First time I listened to Carlin's BFA I was kind of sickened...
Thanks so much for sharing the true depth of where our leaders took us.
4:20AM? YEAHHH BOIIII BLAZE THAT GERMAN ARMY
*smoke gas every day*
The German army got pretty badly ripped.
Lmao
Its so surreal hearing about even little things like the "last" zeppelin destroyed. The whole war now feels like it's grinding slowly to a halt, and this show has been so routine for the past few years I still can't comprehend that finishing too.
Great video again, also was great to see you at tank museum yesterday as well as seeing you last year at stow Marie's
One of the few things British high command got right was to let the Canadians and Australians leeway to fight as Canadian and Australian units with minimal British oversight because unlike the British both nations had different ideas of attacking and achieving positions which earned them glowing reputations
Am I really following this show by 4 years now? So long.
And I really cannot imagine someone doing war for the same amount of time.
Indeed, I was wondering: has been ANY soldier who joined on the first day of war who sought ALL the war until the end, got back home unscathed, or at least without permanent injuries?
I think this time war might end before Christmas
Prussian Eagle shhh ;)
Communist dogge me to but don't forget everyone said that in 1914
C.. Comrade..?
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Communist dogge that's nonsense and you know it.
Wow, fellas. 3 months left. This has been such a fantastic project. Thank you for all your hard work the last 211 weeks.
I feel like before the war ends, you guys should do a poll, to see how many people support the entente or the central powers.
Indy, I just wanted to say thank you for these 4 years of a really deep education. I cannot possibly over state how much I learned. Thank you.
Get it right - this was entirely Monash’s Plan and Rawlinson was just trying to take credit for it. This was the first time combined arms (infantry, artillery, tanks and aircraft) were used - echoes of Blitzkrieg years later. Ironic that a German Jewish emigre imposed this victory on the Germans as a confirmed Aussie!!!
Second time, Hamel was the first.
One indication that John Monash was likely considered the architect of the battle of Amiens by his peers, is that King George V knighted General John Monash the day after battle of Amiens, after inspecting the battlefield. I believe John Monash was the last soldier to be knighted in the field of battle. Please let me know if that is not true.
My grandmother's brother fought in the Canadian Corp, enlisting in 1915. He was wounded twice, and sent to England to recover. Then back to those horrible trenches. He was in the attack on Aug 8. On the 9th, the German resistance stiffened and he was cut down by a machine gun. I came across some of his letters several years ago. The Canadians have an extensive digital war archive I have been searching. Thank you for posting this video. I liked the old photos. I can't even begin to grasp what a horrible affair this was.
May I ask what archive you used? Was it the Library and Archives of Canada? My 2nd great grandfather was with the 8th battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles) during the battle of Amiens.
@@UnknownUser22759 What a unique day to hear from someone who also had a relative in the 8th Battalion. Private Maxwell Melville was his name. He also fought in the Boer War. There Is an extensive online Canadian war library that I will send specifics on shortly. I will look up more specific information for you. Max enlisted at Moose Jaw with a Mounted Rifle Unit that was merged with another before going over. He was from outside of Saskatoon. They fought as dismounted infantry. He had his mother, sister and a brother he lived with before enlisting. The sister came to the US and was my grandmother.
@@UnknownUser22759 I was a university researcher and moved recently. I was going through old files tonight to purge files I will no longer use. I will make an effort this evening to find what I printed out and sent you the web address as well as specific pages to go to. Max's " little black book" said 1st company, but I don't know on which of 3 tours he wrote that. The archive provides the secret orders for the battle, basically everything put on paper. I spent hours digging, one thing led me to another. I can't believe I've heard from a relative of someone in the same unit.
@@UnknownUser22759 I have tried to reply with web page addresses several times but they do not go through. I will try another way.
The 8th Battalion (90th Reg) was part of the 2nd Canadian Brigade, 1st Division: aka Little Red Devils. Their shoulder patch was a red rectangle.
How to read a Record of service or casualty form (First World War) from Government of Canada, Library and Archives.
1st Division Plan of Operations: Aug 1918 Appendix # 2 p.1
Aug 1918 War Diary General Staff
Aug 1918 War Diary Daily Intel Reports Aug 1918
@@UnknownUser22759 How to read a Record of service or casualty form (First World War)
bac-lac. from Government of Canada, Library and Archives.
1st Division Plan of Operations: Aug 1918 Appendix # 2 p.1
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I truly love watching these videos, keep up the great work indie!
Started watching this excellent series in February 2016 and today I finally caught up. Still many special episodes to be seen. But surely well done to all contributors of Great War
*Out of the Trenches Question* hey indy and crew, thanks for the effort you put into the videos. My question - there is a saying that Bosnian regiments in the AH Army were fearless in battle and had a lot of success. Allegedly, before one clash with the Italians, all soldiers were given Fez's in order to strike fear into the enemy. How much truth is behind these claims? Thank you for your response.
Hope you enjoyed meeting all the fans at Bovington yesterday. I was the guy with the AT-AT Imperial Walker t-shirt. Thanks for the photo.
Canadians and Aussies fighting side by side? From their performance so far I'm glad I wasn't a German soldier!
They can't have been that impressive. In Germany we only talk about the French and British as serious opponents in WWI.
@@generalripper7528 Oh yes they have been . It's an absolute fact . Your sources must have been utterly unserious . And just look at the contingent of canadian airmen . It was the most fantastic of the war . If you can't make the difference between dominions' and UK's involvments during the war that's your problem . Europeans forget easily what these nations accomplished during the war . They did way beyond what could be expected.Within the Empire's forces they performed the best . Not an opinion but a fact . Arthur Currie and John Monash were highly regarded as generals .
@@vincentlefebvre9255 I don't doubt that. I'm just telling you that in German culture, we don't specifically refer to the Canadians. They are normally just referred to as the British.
General Ripper “A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die.” Sir John A. Macdonald (11 January 1815 - 6 June 1891) the first Prime Minister of Canada.
@@generalripper7528 kinda like canadians refer to germans as squareheads?
Anyone else see that that tank was called fray bentos at 5.19 made me chuckle.
Best Channel on youtube. You make history lessons in school obsolete. Keep up the great work!
fantastic video as always, Indie, every video i see on this channel makes me more eager for the second world war series. love it!
See “to the last ridge” the memories of W.H. Downing for the Australian POV on this battle
Haig and Rawlinson thought of Amiens but left it to Monash to come with the idea and lay the plans. The reason was that there was a strong possibility that Australia would pull its men out of Europe. Haig and Rawlinson wanted Monash to come up with Amiens so that he would be on the side of leaving the Australians in Europe.
Amiens was Monash's plan.
There was plenty of angst in Australia about continuing to finance the war. By 1917 Australia had spent all it had and borrowed £100.0M from London, half its GDP. The money was really running out, simple as that. Interestingly, the only war loan repaid in full by any country in WWI was the Australian. In 1931 Australia asked for a moratorium on payments, but the British singled out Australia as the only country to have to repay. Their position was summarised in Hansard as, the Australians need to be taught a lesson.
I just realized how much the Spring and Hundred Days offensives mirror the Kursk and Bagration offensives. A giant, all out attack that takes some ground but is unable to be held followed by another massive attack by the opposite side that, in the end, leads to the capitulation of the originally attacking side.
Been looking forward to this episode ever since I caught up last Christmas - bring on the Hundred Days!
Will you be doing a Special on the Whippet Tank, particularly Musical Box, the Tank which caused havoc behind German lines on August 8th.
Hey Indy,
Last week we've seen the French stopping the Germans at 2nd Marne and counter attacking, pushing back the Germans and turning the tide
But i've read that the French also took part in the battle of Amiens, sending some divisions and taking half of allies casualties. But you don't talk much about them in this video.
What did they do exactly at Amiens ?
Rasputin then if it was mainly British, why the French sustained half of the casualties ? It means they had rather more than a supporting role ?
skiteufr
The British also took part in stopping the Germans at the 2nd Marne
"at 4:20 am" what a bunch of memesters those entente powers were
Aussies and Canucks on the attack together. That is scary.
I look forward to this every week! Great work Indie and Crew!
As always a great show and very informative. As we get closer to the end I hope you have a follow up show in the planning.
PS: Monash planned the operation to take place for 90minutes - it took 93
That was Hamel
There is an August 9th 1918 date on a Tombstone at Mt Hope Cemetery . Seeing this video was timely I have been wondering . Thank you
The August 1918 breakthrough was Australian planned and led, and it was the greatest defeat the Germans suffered, causing them to plead for an armistice.
Battle of Amiens.. the nations of "5 eyes" take the field for the first time together under a single command and engage in the battle that resulted i the end of WW1
The black day. Ludendorf realised Monash was doing the battle plans, not Haig. When he told the Kaiser, they both gave up. I can see a boxing kangaroo flying over the Reichstag soon!
Indiana Neidell tongue in cheek Indy!
Haven't watched every episode but you are great at keeping up every day. Great videos and interesting.
This is the episode I’ve been waiting for.
Pause at 5:20 you'll see a tank labelled fray Bentos. This must have been footage from earlier in the war, as she became famous at the battle of paschendaele in 1917
Get your facts right, it was Monash's plan from conception to operation. Rawlinson was little more than a theatre commander. Haig and King George were firmly fans of Monash and most things iin the planning that Rawlinson tried to change, were overruled by Haig in favour of Monash.
Indy is selling short two things. britain's airdefense was actually well desiged in detail with alternating AA ranges and aircraft patrol regions. once the alarm was given naything in the AA regions that flew was a valid target. ships that survived htis then went into the patrol zones with planes and excaping that enough flack belt. add on radar and you have the WW2 defenses. In amien serious credit must be given to the british artillery who earned their lone battle honor- Ubique. they had surprise because there was no test firing. all the opening volleys were worked out on paper with no test shots to warn the germans. the result was as the shells first came in, they were doingdamage from the first moment.
i like to think that when the German soldiers saw the tanks and airplanes and field guns coming at them,the bf1 theme started to play in their heads
Has Marina Yurlova been covered yet? The teenage girl who followed her father into battle and became a hero in her own right.
+1 for the correct "champing at the bit"
Hey Indy, the first world war is my inspiration for a sci-fi novel that I am currently writing. It's a futuristic 3ww very similar to the Great War. It's a little bit crazy the story so far, with Spain, Germany and Russia as allies against the US, France and Great Britain as the "axel".
Oh, and "arditi" soldiers.
Sounds interesting! Where it will be available to take a look?
José Manuel Aranda I would like to post it in a blog, but I believe is gonna take me this whole year to finish, because it's quite complex and I don't want to mess it all by hurring up.
Monash and many believed that if they didn't smash the Germans to the point of defeat very soon that Germany would have time to consolidate and prolong the war for peace treaties. Prolonging the war would of crushed moral of the soldiers no one wanted to fight for another year, as on Game of thrones "Winter is coming"
Lets push the bocce all the way to the Hindenburg Line! And then we will break that!
We will push the Germans out of France and liberate Belgium!
Push them to the Rhine and then to the Elbe and then Berlin!
For His Majesty the King, the Tricolour and the Stars and Stripes!
Onwards men!
James Tang This deserves all the likes. ALL of them!
Question for Out of the trenches:
After four years of war and horrific losses, do you think the allies, especially the British, would have been able to fight for this long without their colonies and dominions? There seem to have happened quite a lot of the important offensives using Canadian or ANZAC forces.
Hope TGW team had a great day at the tank museum yesterday, I was the fan who went the great British beer festival instead.
No victory parade at the Champs Elysee on the tunes of the Hohenfriedberger March and Preussens Gloria.
fire up those telegraph pole factories, Fritz. Reparation demands are coming
Interestingly, in 1953 the Germans agreed to complete reparation payments, on condition that Australia was singled out to receive nothing. Britain and France agreed. The Europeans are a treacherous lot eh?
"Soldiers,we've lost. It's a black day for the german army and the german empire. Gallantry and heroism,noble virtues destroyed by such basic conditions as hunger and exhaustion."
Real fan of what you do....keep up the great work! Obviously, unrelated to the video but ever since you mentioned Alexander Parvus I'm loosing my sleep over this sucker...could you maybe say a few things in "the Trenches", or do a special....or maybe a whole series on him? What an under-reported figure! Many thanks....Psycho Psyche
Today, August 9th, is also the 100th anniversary of the Flight over Vienna, a daring and successfull propaganda action led by the Italian Poet and war volunteer Gabriele D'Annunzio.
"Long live liberty!
Long live Italy!
Long live the entente!"
D'Annunzio had campaigned for this flight for quite some time, but originally with Caproni bombers--relatively slow and considered too valuable to risk on a propaganda stunt. Eventually the Italian military agreed to send a flight of Ansaldo SVA aircraft, single-seat fighters (some two-seaters) which were among the fastest planes of the war. D'Annunzio wrote the propaganda leaflets which the planes dropped over Vienna. They were in such florid Italian that they could not be properly translated into German; the delays in the mission and the incomprehensible message prompted one man to quip, "Poor, D'Annunzio, when he writes he cannot act, and when he acts he cannot write." However the sight of Italian aircraft over Vienna itself, and leaflets marked with the Italian colors, were enough to deliver an unmistakable message.
I waited for this episode for a long time
Incredibly interesting love this channel
Question for Out of the Trenches: I am an Australian. Growing up, the paintings and images of Australian troops in the Middle East and elsewhere that I saw in school, particularly the Light Horse, most often showed our troops wearing exclusively our slouch hats rather than any helmets. I see in some of the videos in the episode more helmets used. Was it more common for them to wear the hats or the helmets in combat? Is the frequency of the slouch hat just a part of our mythology?
Helmets were worn May 1916 on.
Erm, check almost every war memorial statue, it’s a bloke with a helmet on.
It should be pointed out that one American division was equal in size to two allied divisions. And given the terrific battles the allies had endured since spring, half strength divisions were not uncommon. Thus, in actual numbers a fresh full strength American division could equal the size of an allied army corps.
I always want to point that out too. A US Corps was about the size of a full Allied Army.
The Americans weren’t in the fight. Rawlinson wanted them pulled from the front, and Monash was simply furious at repeatedly having to lose men to save the Americans.
Combined forces attacks warm my heart ♥
Not a word of the 1st french army that took part in this battle with 12 divisions apart from the « the french took Montdidier »
Because the French followed. In the case of the Australian led attack, the French were two days behind them.
This is a fantastic channel. Well done.