Who was The Most Feared Tank Commanders Of WWII? | Greatest Tank Battles | War Stories
In WWII tank commanders were king. And the likes of Patton, Rommel, Montgomery and Michael Wittmann were among the best. From North Africa and the campaigns at Tobruk, El Alamein, and Kasserine Pass to the fields of Northern France after D-Day, this extended cut of Greatest Tank Battles takes us on a journey through WWII and how these fearsome tank commanders succeeded and defeated one another.
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00:00 - Start
00:01 - Rommel vs Montgomery
46:26 - Patton vs Rommel
01:30:48 - Michael Wittmann
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Are you a queen...be honest I am a serious left winger....I am not predjudest
Montgomery and Fearsome Tank Commander makes me laughing. You should quote Patton on this😂😂
What quote would that be?
38:20 .....
@@nemiw4429 What quote from Patton is at 38 mins, 20 seconds?
I think you are correct. Monty was the supreme all arms army commander and not a one trick pony like Patton
you should judge resources vs strategic objective, it was a disctraction from germany nothing more!, uk had a victory and made much of it but 4 years until they ivaded euope!
Monty fought a traditional attrition battle,”By the Book” he only moved when he knew he could win. Rommel on the other hand was an instinctive, but risk taker. Both great generals. As with all wars, the side that produces more than the other usually wins.
Actualy Monty never move i not understand his reputation like good tank comander. Tanks are for moving :D
Jumping out of a knocked out tank hit by a German 88 and landing a stride a teller mine then surviving the rest of world war II is an incredible feat growing old and gray-haired on top of it is yet another accomplishment of this man's intriguing life.
He's a main character
I hope he thanked his guardian angel everyday of his life.
This episode was worth the rest at 1:44 am... Tanks make men as heroes yet men make tanks fearsomely dangerous in the hearts of they opponents...
As a boy I would religiously watch the weekly episode of Rat Patrol. It brought real war to my living room, but it was obviously a low-budget series. At my age, much fun, nonetheless!
Me too I loved it especially the beginning when that jeep jumps the sand dune and comes down with big 50 opening up man it was so cool the song hella cool too .
Opening scene definitely the best part, loved it as a kid just for that
@@freefall9832 dude i used to count the hours till 3pm after school .i made sure to be in front of our antenna tv for the opening the two jeeps with the big 50s and the music just too cool but it was mandatory to watch the very begining .those were the best days .
I had the Lunch Box and a Aussie hat.
true story: in '75 through tennis i made a friend who played a German soldier on that show, a non speaking minor role--a German fellow 20 years older than myself as i was 24--one day while going to a tennis court 'Eric' starts driving agressively, i ask him what's happening he says this is a stolen car and the owner is following us! it was a 1975 Cougar xr-7, i look behind and it's another "75 xr-7, so he's making evasive evasive maneuvers somewhere in Beverly Hills, but the amazing thing was that the driver behind us was a very familiar face, an actor you see a lot but don't know the name---he was the actor that always played the bad guy mastermind in shows like Mission Impossible, Mannix, and others--i couldn't believe that we were being chased by THAT guy! ultimately he evaded and we got away, needless to say our relationship slowly faded it was really unbelievable
I guess they've never heard of the Wehrmacht renegade Kurt Knispel. 168 kills but died late April 1945 as commander of a Tiger II. His remains were recovered in 2013 and he was reburied in the Central Brno Military Cemetery in Brno a city in the Czech Republic.
he got medal rejected many times because he spoke up to some officiers how they treated pows. Good man
@@yaboyflvckor456dude was literally a german version of oddball from kelly's heroes......dude was awesome.
I met with a guy yesterday that actually worked on masters of the air as a professional model maker and he showed the photos of the B17 front section that was mounted on a truck and the full size B17 with electric motors! Absolutely incredible and fascinating to see how they did it ! And I’m honoured to know a B17 left waist gunner who is 99 years young ! Casey Bukowski! He is an amazing man and a inspiration to many!
Hey, he didn't have an alcoholic writer brother called Charles Bukowski 😁??? Nice to of seen those models. Wish they'd do a series from the Luftwaffe side, even a Hans Joachim Marseille film.
Let's get real. Montgomery was no tank commander or a tank tactician. Good old Monty was a numbers man. If Rommel could have replaced his losses like Monty did, he would have defeated old Monty.
Nope
Rommel was a big loser haha, he somehow was always missing from the big battles
Rommel had more numbers at Alam el Halfa, but Montgomery won.
@@freefall9832 Rommel, a big loser? Is that why the Brits called him "The Desert Fox"?
@@grantsmythe8625 Rommel in North Africa was a sideshow that did nothing for the german war effort but drain resources. His career was a failure.
Monty was a prima Donna who presided over some colossal military debacles like market garden where he was responsible for the drowning deaths of scores of allied soldiers. He greedily demanded priority in supply provisions and attempted to bring as many allied troops as possible under his command. Why he is by some considered a hero is beyond belief.
He was mediocre at best.
It was Alan Brooks' plan. Montgomery was tasked with carrying it out. Turns out he ended up carrying the can. Still, why bother with facts when you can bash an excellent field commander. Typical wereboo. Probably a yank too. Ffs
What 'colossal military debacles'?
@@thevillaaston7811 Market Garden.
@@thevillaaston7811 if Germany wasn't fighting on eastern front,then they would of walk all over england....Caen was a mess ... market garden was a mess....Monty was a puff
Fun Fact. Rommel is still celebrated even today. Unlike most other WW2 German officers his memory has escaped vilification.
Same with Michael Whitman
Saw something that during the invasion of Iraq we copied his tactic's and one captured Iraqi solider got in the back of a Bradley which had a picture of him in it and he was confused to why the American's had a picture of an enemy in their vehicle, ur comment made me think of that!
@@kendallfach7020 The aftermath of 73 Easting.
@@ultrajd yessir!!!
BLETCHLEY PARK.. code breakers, were reading the German military codes and passing on the info to Montgomery. So Montgomery had the upper hand. 👍🏻
No one feared Monty like the Allies did. He was Germany's greatest commander. Nobody could stop the Allies like Monty.
@ScarInstinct11 Think MarketGarden, the Scheld, Caen, most of his N France operations, Sicily etc etc. Not only were these miserable but they very effectively halted the Allies as a whole.
Monty swept Rommels slate in North Africa haha rommel eventually suicides over it haha
Montgomery won Alam el Halfa, Alamein, Mareth, Sicily, Normandy, the Scheldt, the Northern half of the Bulge, the Reichswald and the Rhine. Eisenhower stoped the allies by his failure to concentrate resources in North Africa, Italy and at the Rhine.
@@freefall9832 Wow, you sure don't know history, do you?
@ Sam Radowick That is not fair. I rarely defend Monty, but the criticisms on the posts here are way overdone. It is true that Mobty was cautious. I agree too cautious which may have slowed the Allied advance. But the Allies could not lose in any protracted struggle of attrition. But over-aggressive campaigns could bring defeats. And simply put, the Germans were better at war than either the British or Americans. It is why Ike cg=hosde a broad-front campaign. One not often mentioned issue.: Monty did not have an endless pool of manpower back home to replace losses like the Soviets and Americans.
One of the great tank commanders of the war was Pip Roberts who lead the 11th Armoured Division. Which played prominent roles in British operations in France 1944, and even captured a German general after a lightning advance through Belgium of 60 miles in one day; amongst their other achievements.
This is way better than any war film, thanks you for posting.
What wins battles and wars are men, materials and supplies. The Allies had those advantages. All Rommel had for his part was dwindling supplies, materials and men. The Allied favorable outcome was inevitable.
North africa and yugoslavia and greece drained material and men from the main effort in ussr, germany made the fatal error of engaging ina multi front war with inadequate resources and manpower for the task, war was a possible win if uk had entered into a deal with germany in1940 and if stalin had been deposed in 1941, big ifs in each case neither occurred, , stalemate at best for germany after the usa lend lease program suppport for uk and ussr, defeat inevitable after usa entered war. Had grrmany negotiated a deal with uk and ussr in early 1942 ussr wou ld have rebuilt its military but not been materially strong enough to attack germany. Uneasy likely short term truce until germany had rebuilt enough to attack ussr again with uk material support and manpower for an anti communist crusade?
General Guderian of the German Army was the architect of Tank Warfare. He was the first to use tanks as an offensive weapon than a supporting one. He al so firmed the Panzer Division.
Actually, Patton led the first tank attack in WW1. Granted, Guderian built on his experiments and benefitted from intrawar technological advances, but the origins of blitzkrieg came from cavaliers who didn't lose their faith in mobility over defense during WW1
@@theomnisthour6400 You are in fact both wrong. The first major tank attack of WWI occurred before any American troops even entered the European Theatre of Operations, the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. Patton was neither unique, nor the first to recognise the *potential* for a tank to be an offensive weapon, however the technology at the time in WWI did not allow it. Early tanks were slow and unreliable in the extreme. A tank battalion could expect to lose approximately 20% of their tanks per day through mechanical breakdown. That's *without* losses to enemy action. This is illustrated by the Battle of Amiens in 1918 where over 400 tanks started the battle, by day four there were 35 running. And no, Americans were not involved in the Battle of Amiens either.... The only person claiming that Guderian invented Tank Warfare was Guderian himself in his autobiography. That he was somewhat blowing his own trumpet is putting it mildly. While he *did* have some influence, especially in the development of half tracks for the movement of infantry alongside the tanks, he was by no means the sole architect of German Armoured Doctrine he claimed he was.
@alganhar1 As a descendant of Maarten Harpertzoon Tromp, I know better than most how silly these "who was first" nonsense arguments are. Truth is, both Patton and Guderian will both be better known than whatever second rate genius first used them in an attack in WW1
@@alganhar1Guderian never claimed that he “invented tank warfare”. Actually, he gave cred to others such as Liddell Hart for influencing. His first experience with real tanks was in Sweden. What he did do was that he modernised the old military principe of penetration and “break through”. And to accomplish a brake through meant it necessary to concentrate not only tanks and armoured vehicles but also motorised infantry supported by artillery and close air support on one specific area in the enemy line, preferably where the enemy was weak and hopefully not expected an attack. Guderian considered a truck just as important as a tank. And in his military background as a cadet and later during ww1, he early recognised the huge importance of radio communications. Guderian didn’t “invent” very much at all. Instead he modernised and refined some ideas by others before him.
They missed all the great tank commanders. This is a list of popular generals most laymen have heard of... Patton is the only real tank commander on the list... bad history really...
I agree. You put it simply and correct
Similiarity in war and families: we give more honour to someone on the otherside who does well, than the failures of those on our own side.
1:06:00 Kasserine Pass. Recreation of this tank battle was first rate. Appreciated the contribution from the veteran tankers who fought in that engagement.
What good is a tank destroyer that can't destroy a tank? The amount of bravery in these men is why they will always be known as the greatest generation.
30:35 "An 88 millimeter five sick rounds and grew up five tanks" these automatic subtitles are hilarious
While deployed some of the tank units in Iraq had Rommel's picture in their Abrams. He was definitely one of the best tank commanders and tacticians in history. If dude had a way to replace his losses he would've cause us alot of problems.
I remember this. When asked why they had a picture of an old enemy. The reply was he was the best tactician in the German army.
It's not "alot" but "a lot." Similarly, it's "a bit" not "abit."
The one gentleman who sounds like John Wayne has me quite interested in how regional dialects have changed over time.
My Dad an Ex Royal Marine, wouldn't say much about his WW2 service. But, put the Parting in his Hair ( in the Middle) Down to the 88mm shell passing over his Head destroying the Tank behind him, about 500 yards away. His mate A few yards away from him was Sliced Wide open by The Shrapnel flying and Wizzing about..! He Said to his mate, "F**k this for a game of Soldiers, its Bleeding Murder..!" He confessed to 'Digging in' with more Enthusiasm after that..! He said you could see the Ground moving as the 88 flew over..! As a Kid I remember him Shouting out at night in his Sleep. "Archie, Archie..!" I was born in 1956 and even in the late 60's and 70's. It would still happen. I was never told about Archie..! But he would sit Drinking Coffee at 2 or 3am, shaking after waking us All up..! He wouldn't be able to go back to Sleep..! Coffee maybe, Nìghtmares more likely..! Cheers All, Great Doco..! P.S. And Dad always Said "Monty was Real Brave, with Other men's lives..!" Kim in Oz.😎
My Mum was a nurse (Theater sister} and when she came back from Burma after the war, she went home to her village in the Highlands (Ballater). She got an awful shock (!). Many of the boys she went to school with had been killed in N.Africa (51st Highland Div). Every time we passed the War Memorial, she would go very quiet and look at it. My Dad and Mum NEVER spoke of the war to the day they died.
Yeah, the 88 was a BEAST
I worked with a Man in the 1980's. Who Survived the German 88's. He was wounded in Combat. Rommel was a Respected an feared Combat Leader by American GI's.
An interesting discussion was had between FM Montgomery & Russian FM Zhukov at one of the three party conferences. Montgomery bragged about defeating Rommel in N Africa. Zhukov asked how many divisions were fighting? When told, he told Montgomery that would have been a skirmish on the eastern front. It put North Africa in its proper perspective. Further the biggest thing about Rommel battles were he did not send coded Enigma messages to Berlin, so no one could read his mail. If the German’s thought he was so good, he would have been given a command on the eastern front. He was Hiler’s favorite and that was why he got all the press.
You hit the nail on the head! Couldn't have explained it any better myself!
If I could give your comment two likes then I would, but I can't so one shall do
@@rickyjones3754 Thku for your kind remarks.
@ Chuck Liebenauer Absolutely correct about the scale of the Eastern Front. But it is important to recognize that one reason that the Red Army prevailed in the Ost Krieg was that the Germans had to use much of their industrial effort to fight the War in the West. The great bulk of H=German MANPOWER was committed to the Ostkrieg, but German industrial production was primarily oriented toward the War in the West,.
@@dennisweidner288 You might be correct but the video was about military commanders and combat. Western production both German and Allies did not become a factor until the US entered the war. Germany did not go into wartime production until 1942 when it was already too late. 1943 was the killer year for the Wehrmacht. Starting with losing 250k at Stalingrad, 200k in N Africa and then the total failure of Zitadelle. All of those battle trained men and equipment was so great they could never recover but that would be for the next video to explain.
Anybody who fought alongside Rommel should be proud to have fought with one of the best Tank commanders of their time. The American forces in Iraq had pictures of Rommel inside their tanks.
Not really cause you lost and many of your comrades died 😂 so maybe they would want to be alongside Patton!
@@Architect1ful they lost but the casualties were funny considering yours haha
Rommel wasn't a tank commander. Rommel was an infantry general first and foremost.
Any greasy rat who fought with rommel should have been deeply ashamed of being part of the worst crimes that have ever been committed.
The British launched an assault with 40 tanks during the Somme offensive in mid-September 1916. Haig was critised for not delaying until more machines were available. A numerically larger tank asault at Cambrai in 1917 met with more success. Haig deserves credit for using the tank as a game changer on the Western front.
Agreed Monty (who saved my father from losing a leg in hospital when visiting New Zealand post war) would not move until he had literally overwhelming numbers in artillery, army, airforce, troops and logistics.
We should also mention that Germans had another legendary panzer commander, Hyacinth Von Strachwitz, a Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds holder, who dared to do things that others didn’t dare!
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The only man who was a Tank Comander was Michael Wittman. But really a great video. Really enjoyed the "tonue in cheek" German Panzer comanders. I dont see how Wittman lived as long as he did. Hes not human! Another thing..How did they film this thing!
It's a good thing Montgomery had an unlimited supply of men and machines.
'Montgomery had an unlimited supply of men and machines.' When did that happen?
The IDEA of a fearsome TANK commander makes my gut smile; there must B a proper term 4 what this conceptual overkill is.
Guderian has to be here.. Watch any German documentary where tank commanders talk about him, and they are beyond reverent.. Rommel was great, but Guderian was better. Patton absolutely deserves to be there, but Monty?? Yeah he was a good Field Commander, but he isn't better than many who were better.. What about the Russians? They had some true master Tank commanders that should be here as well..
@ Jbf53176 Absolutely correct. Of course, a lot of Red Army commanders are not mentioned because Stalin murdered large numbers of them in the Great Terror of the 1930s.
Monty was a good commander but he wasn't A great tank commander. But because of Churchill his Exploits we're played up for propaganda purposes. Just Look at what happened at Remagen with the AIRBORNE ATTACK IN OPERATION MARKET GARDEN, WHERE HE HAD THEM JUMPING RITE INTO THE MIDDLE OF A GERMAN DIVISIONS REST AREA. IT WAS A COMPLETE AND UTTERLY UNNECESSARY WASTE OF MEN AND MATERIALS
@@bruceperkins7253 Why 'because of Churchill'. Every country made heroes out of major commanders. Britain did have many land victories. They needed a hero. We did the same, just look at MacArthur. I can assure you, it was;t because of Roosevelt or Marshall.
'Patton absolutely deserves to be there' How so?
BLETCHLEY PARK.. code breakers, were reading the German military codes and passing on the info to Montgomery. So Montgomery had the upper hand. 👍🏻
"We saw 600 British tanks approaching." Quote of a German tanker veteran at 2nd El Alamein. Operation Supercharge, the final breakthrough by the Allies. Three entire armour brigades participated.
I just love how the Germans call the m4, “the Sherman panzer” 😂
TRULY AMAZING STORIES FROM SURVIVORS PATTON BEAT THEM TUNISIA
Because he read his competitors book
Who did Patton beat?
This list has Rommel but omits Guderian? How about others such as Kurt Meyer, Kurt Knispel, etc.?
Guderian is far more a theoretician, but need to be here, as well as…? Others for sure, and Monti a grand commander ? Just successful by the weight of numbers, just the most skilful of the English commanders. Call one other famous British tank commander…Right…nobody…
@@dirkusmaximus9268 I raised my eyebrow at the inclusion of Monty as well. I would've included Soviet tank army commanders, such as Rotmistrov, Vatutin or Koniev over a highly overrated light-weight such as Monty.
But they have Monty on the list? HAHAHAHA
This is a list that's incomplete at best and a Bunch of b.s. at worst. But it Also sparks a healthy debate over who was and wasn't included in the video..
New here but I love your outlook on truth my friend 👊🦁👍
I don't understand why Guderian, inventor of the blitzkreig, was not included.
Thanks for uploading
Whitman's gunner should get a movie too .
Witman and his crew where not gemany top ace and crew, that goes to Kurt Knipsel, but because he was not with the ss and i believe strike a ss man he was not good for the german propaganda, and because Witman was with the ss he was perfect for the propaganda, dont get me wrong Witman was good, but Knipsel destroyt a lot of more enemy verhicles and tanks
Imagine if Rommel had the same supplies as allies he would have taken Africa easily
What about superior tanks ?
I haaaaaaaaate it in the desert! I can kinda feel their pain exept they never even had air conditioning!
Rommel had what two divisions? Rommel was really a genius that did more with less.
No.
15th and 21st panzer, 90th Leichte Division
Tanks! 💪
I would like to see the battles from the air. Are there any docu's that do that? The RAF hardly gets a mention.
I think the most fearsome tank commander of WW2 was Henry Ford and General motor
Detroit and the Great Lake freighters bringing iron ore down to Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania steel mills.....they don't get the recognition....but back then in United States, everyone contributed.
@@marysullivan3326 Yea, while in Britain, everyone just sat on their hands.
@@thevillaaston7811 i certainly have no idea where thats coming from. ...feeling unappreciated as a country?.....Remember "you" (no you PERSONALLY), but the country of Britain asked the US of A to join in the fight. Its truely the last war we ever should have been in.
@@marysullivan3326 'i certainly have no idea where thats coming from.' It just pours out of the USA on a conveyor belt...Films, TV programmes, books, lectures, KZhead comments...All full of America this, America that. Let us be absolutely clear, Britain was the only major power to fight from the first day, to the last day of the war. Britain fought in every major theatre of war, it was only country to fight Germany on its own. Britain was the only major power to go to war on behalf of another country (Poland) - all the others either attacked other countries, or were attacked by other countries. Britain out-mobilized every other country (even Russia). Relative to its circumstances, Britain out-produced every other country. On its own, Britain out-produced Germany. All this from a country that was uder air assault, a sea blockade, and for four years had the enemy 21 miles away. As far as who did what in the Second World War is concerned is concerned, we rule. 'Britain asked the US of A to join in the fight.' When did that happen?
@@thevillaaston7811 Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.....or for you Brits, Tea.
Initially the Germans were tapping into the British communications giving Rommel a huge tactical advantage, but by pure chance Monty changed his plans at the last minute & this caught the Germans off guard & revealed British comms had been compromised.
Some of the comments seem to be directing criticisms directly at the War Stories the KZhead channel, these are just uploads of a TV show that came on the History channel and the Military channel back in the mid to late 2000's, no one at this KZhead channel has anything to do with the production.
How is it that the first Shermans are described as having a high velocity 75mm gun, but then in later episodes, its described as having a low velocity 75mm gun? The same 75mm gun!!
Probably talking about relative firepower. Guns that might have been effective at the beginning of the war became less affective against newer tanks with better armor
That would be because the narrator doesn't know the topic and was given a script that was in error, and no one during the editing process had the knowledge to pick it up and correct it. These documentaries aren't put together by historians, they're made by entertainers
@@roxYt346 Nothing to do with relative firepower, it was always a low velocity gun who ever wrote the script was wrong
"He might've been a hero to the Germans but not to me." Couldn't have said that better myself.
This is top notch!!!!!!! //Lars
I loved Combat, Rat Patrol and who could forget 12 O'Clock High?
I love the german language vocally interpeted instead of just captioning. The summaryies of the previous episodes are excellent also.
As a German: sey totally nailed it! Se next war we're going to start is against sis stupid "th"
Great show
Tell me about those Grants with the main gun on the port side. This show demonstrates such a fictional beast @ 10:50.
The experience of being part of a Tank crew out there on the empty and barren desert, must have been close to the unpleasant experience of being roasted alive. Brave and tough soldiers on both sides of the conflict. In post D Day France, the American Sherman tank, was referred to as a Ronson, because of its propensity to quickly burst into flames. I wonder which of the combatant nations in WW2 fielded the most superior battle Tank?
I believe Russia's T34 was the top tank .it had some of everything speed,maneuverability ,penetrating power,sloped armor, wide tracks .the tiger 1 was UNDERPOWERED ,had no sloping armor, had narrow tracks the worst for snow but when the king tiger came out it had a stronger engine sloped armor and extremely important had wide tracks but even so I believe the T34 is the pound for pound best tank of ww2.
Being part of a tank crew is an amazing experience. The bond between a crew is second to none. When you spent days at a time living on top of each other without touching dirt, there are no boundaries between you. As for the best tank, that's impossible to say. Apart from which period of the war you mean (the rate of development was astounding) each tank had strengths & weaknesses in mobility, fire-power, protection, range, reliability, cost, etc.
@@wfranceschi3606 Actually the tigers tracks were so wide they had to remove the outer road wheels and put special thin tracks on so the train would fit through tunnels. Same engine powered the Panther, Tiger I and II, The1st T 34's weren't all that good the transmission broke down, only 2 men in the turret and no radio during Barbarossa 100's were knocked out. The T 85 was much better 3 man turret.
The Ronson wasn't around until after the war.
The Sherman was known to the Germans as the Tommy Cooker.
This is a well-done documentary, especially the details about the various tanks. There is an obvious mistake. The narrator states that "more than a quarter-million Grman troops" surrendered in Tunisia. [1:28:46} This is a mistake. There never were a quarter-million German troops in North Africa. It was a quarter-million Axis troops that surrendered--but mostly Italians. And notice the German Lt who says that surrender was the worse thing that can happen to a soldier. That is a very telling mindset. I can think of a lot of worse things, to be killed or terribly wounded. Now to be captured by the Japanese might be the worse thing, but both the Americans and Germans treated POWs basically correctly. Living conditions in Allied POW camps were better than what was the case before they were captured. At least the Germans treated Western POWs relatively correctly. Their treatment of Soviet POWs was barbaric. The narrative mentions the German supplies destroyed by the British Desert Air Force. It should have been mentioned the Italian supplies ships were sunk by the Royal Navy and the importance of Malta. An important factor never mentioned in these videos is that even when tanks hit, most of the crews often survived.
Its so well done that i hope they didnt pay the person that did the research.I turned off around 6:20 when they showed the German Mark 3 Special...
This show was originally aired on the History Channel back in 2010 and ended in 2013. I loved watching this show and Dogfights when I was younger.
@@benpurcell4935 That was when the History Channel still had an occasional program about history.
@@dennisweidner288 I know right.
I agree about the pows German and the west. However it should be mentioned that Stalin treated pows as bad or worse than the Germans. In the East.
lots of troops and tanks, wow
Good show
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Amateurs rave about tactics professionals understand logistics Monty understood logistics. He also cared about his men after experiences of ww1. Churchill pressured him to attack asap he waited till he was ready and Germans had lost first battle of Alamein. Proofs in the pudding he defeated Rommel
great strategist Rommel
@ the celt Rommel was not a great strategist. If he was, he would have: 1) focused on Malta and 2) not gone so deeply into Egypt. He was a brilliant tactician.
@@dennisweidner288 one mans strategist is another mans tactician . i think your splitting hairs mate lolz
@@thecelt4807 I suggest you open your dictionary. And mull over the fact that the Germans, including Rommel, won a lot of battles, in large measure because of brilliant battlefield tactics, but catastrophically lost the War. That is hardly splitting hairs.
I believe they had broke the American code and he was privy to that as well. Just like the Americans w Japan and the Allie’s later on w the German codes.
Yes thats what I, somehow, just learned recently: that Rommel had been privy to the Allies' communications in Africa and what a significant role that played in his appearance of superiority. Once we learned of this and stopped it he subsequently stopped winning battles. From what I remember anyways.
1:41:01 They've got the wrong gun on Wittman's StuG III. The short, howitzer version isn't capable of taking out a T-34, let alone dozens of them.
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Most Americans only know of Rommel because of the movie Patton, and therefore believe Rommel to have been Germany’s best general. And because that movie never mentioned Guderian nor Manstein the American public is largely ignorant of them. Which is sad because Manstein is one of the greatest strategists in the history of warfare.
The Invasion on France (Fall Gelb) in 1940 was his plan.
Manstien was a genius
well, once a British unit captured a German radio headquarters unit. The British found out that the Germans had all the British plans and where all the British units were located and what they were doing. It was a case of very poor intelligence control by the British and outstanding intelligence gathering by the Germans. Rommel always had a big advantage because he knew what the British were doing, and what they were going to do. .
55:24 you can tell that man thinks about faid a lot. poor guy, i hope he finds peace with it someday.
Amazing...age of person based on a partial plate
If the spectacular barrage was any good,the enemy should have been wiped out? What damage did it really do?
Whitmer fought on and for the wrong side, but his tactics and bravery makes him super elite.
Most of this is from the History Channel ?
Didn't Monty know how the Fox operated? He would draw the tanks onto his gun line every time! Either he flanked the Brits or drew them onto his 88's. It's not a sophisticated plan. Why didn't Monty use his airpower better? Hurcs with 37mm Canon would kill anything the Krauts had. Finish with 155mm arty. Don't send brave men into mine fields to be hammered by 88's! Poor General ship. Rommel was a great soldier. Brave and would take chances! Monty was slow and cautious. Relied on overwhelming kit. Even with Bletchley Monty was slow. Patton had balls!!
'Didn't Monty know how the Fox operated?' Who can say?... CRUSADE IN EUROPE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WILLIAM HEINEMANN LIMITED 1948 P282 ‘Knowing that his old antagonist of the desert, Rommel, was to be in charge of the defending forces, Montgomery predicted that enemy action would be characterized by constant assaults carried out with any force immediately available from division down to a battalion or even company size. He discounted the possibility that the enemy under Rommel would ever select a naturally strong defensive line and calmly and patiently go about the business of building up the greatest possible amount of force in order to launch one full-out offensive into our beach position. Montgomery’s predictions were fulfilled to the letter.’ 'He would draw the tanks onto his gun line every time! Either he flanked the Brits or drew them onto his 88's. It's not a sophisticated plan.' What should he have done instead? 'Why didn't Monty use his airpower better? Montgomery did not command any 'airpower' 'Don't send brave men into mine fields to be hammered by 88's! Poor General ship.' So, you send cowards there instead? 'Rommel was a great soldier. Brave and would take chances! Monty was slow and cautious. Relied on overwhelming kit.' Rommel got himself stuck at the end of an extended supply line. A mistake that Montgomerey did not make. 'Even with Bletchley Monty was slow.' what has Bletchley got to do with it? 'Patton had balls!!' No doubt, most males have them. Got any more gems for us?..
we saw where Patton pushed them I to the sea in Tunisia
Rommel pitching 250 v 500 tanks was actually a good bet because unlike the British using tanks as tank destroyers, the Afrika Korps used 88 mm (which despite being originally anti aircraft even could depress muzzles below zero degrees
Narrator: “Greatest tank battle” Kursk battle: leave a chat
There were larger tank engagements in 1941 during operation Barbarosa. Russian propaganda exaggerated the scale of Prokhorovka to boost morale.
The thing that bugs me the most about Nth African campaign is that Wavell & Auchinlech are written off as just predecessors to the comming of the great Montgomery. Churchill was always impatient & couldn't understand the actual circumstances on the ground.
Love the narrator
Think about this for a minute,"can take out a Sherman at a range of 2 KMS."...Mind boggling!
Patton was very successful, on the winning side helps.
If Rommel was so clever why did he advance further than his logistic supply, that's dumb. You need supplies to be a mobile force, without them you are static and be picked off?
GTB was an interesting show...honestly I wished the animated tank combat was a bit more realistic...seeing as they portray every tank exploding when hit..I actually think the first episode they had about desert storm was the most realistic as far as animation goes
Gotta give it to Rommel, his nickname was the “Desert Fox”. How can you not fear him??
oh look, it’s the 4 horsemen of tank warfare
Hermann Balck I think is considered the deadliest Commander of Armoured units of World War 2 ("Battle of Chir River") as Von Manstein didn't actually Command Armor until Operation Bustard Hunt and did so to stunning effect there granted. Rommel, Patton and BLH all great appliers of mechanized force. Tanks played a huge role for the USA in the Pacific Theater even bigger than Europe actually as Japan didn't really have any Tanks. The most famous for Europe was of course Heinz Guderian. Opposite of him also in the employ of the German Wehrmacht was Hermann Hoth who wrote a great book after World War 2. Southern Armored Group for Germany Commander Ewald Von Kleist was another beyond competent Commander of armored forces.
don't rly know if you can call Monty or Patton tank commanders, they where Army commanders.
In the Movie "Patton" They made it look like they caught the German's in the Kasserine Pass. According to this if true, Was the other way round. I never looked at previous comments, So I'm sure this was brought up maybe. But i think maybe they did catch them there, But not too the extent that movie let's on.
Kasserine Pass was before Patton, after Patton, well, that was all she wrote. Rommel or no Rommel, the German Army never stood a chance, because Patton was better at Blitzkreig than the Germans were. Patton's true enemies were IKE, Omar & Monty.
@@michaeltischuk7972 Not really...
I think Rommel was just using tactics that the German army was using already,France Poland ...low countries it not like he invented blitzkrieg.....he did very well considering he was outnumbered
Kasserine pass 1943
2nd Battle of El Alamein, Mate! 😮
Freidenhal should have been slapped by Eisenhower for his role at the pass
Rommel the Desert Fox was the man. Ukranians love him.
Romel and Patton on par, as a general Rommel never won a major tank battle and Patton never fought one
2:14:42 I as an ex-MBT crewman am confused by this guy saying his commander said 'advance driver' In reality he would not have said those words. I know.
Are you sure? I mean this was the first real tank war.
WOW!
Music needs to be louder.. can almost hear them talk..
They get everything wrong. Monty was a field Marshal. They get all the ranks confounded. The responsibilities change with rank der.
Neither Patton or Montgomery spent 5 minuets in a tank during the war!!! Fyodorvich, Wittman, Guderian, Hobart... men that slept and cooked in Tanks
2:04:21 Is that Sepp Dietrich?
The one with his turret pointed at you
LOL so Patton gets there after Rommel has to leave, No big showdown for him. Just imagine what would happen if Romo had the same resources as the allies