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A video podcast on the greatest generals and battles of WWII.
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Battle of Manila: Hell in the Streets (1945) 🇺🇸🇵🇭
Colorized footage captures American forces fighting through the shattered streets of Manila during one of the fiercest and most destructive urban battles of the Pacific War.
M4 Sherman tanks provide direct fire support as infantry clear buildings room by room, while flamethrower teams blast entrenched Japanese strongpoints hidden deep inside the ruins.
Entire districts of the city were left in ruins during the fight to retake Manila.
The massive naval bombardment on D-Day to soften up the landings
D-Day in Color: Reinforcements Continue to Pour Into Normandy 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Allied troops wade ashore during the Normandy landings as more waves of infantry, vehicles, and supplies arrive behind the initial assault.
LCIs ferry fresh troops from transport ships while LSTs unload jeeps, trucks, and equipment onto smaller landing craft just offshore.
An endless flow of men and machinery that kept the invasion moving after the initial landings.
D-Day in Color! (Pt 3)
D-Day: Invasion of Normandy [Real Footage in Colour]
🚨New episode🚨- Napoleon's 1813 attack on Berlin! Special guest and author Michael Leggiere. Determined to regain the initiative, Napoleon ordered a bold offensive toward Berlin—the capital of Prussia. Napoleon entrusted the operation to 2 of his most aggressive marshals, Oudinot and Ney. https://t.co/OPX4LhGqyp
#napoleon #berlin #oudinot #MarshalNey #prussia
On this day in 1942, U.S. warships ambush a Japanese task force at Midway. Japan loses four carriers and nearly 250 warplanes in the ensuing battle. It's a turning point in the Pacific War.
American B-26 bombers strike German fortifications along the French coast in advance of the Allied invasion of Normandy. June, 1944.
#DidYouKnow about the phantom army used by the Allies to deceive the Germans before D-Day? #GhostArmy
This day in 1941, the German parachutists and glider-borne troops who led the invasion managed to secure the island of Crete, Greece. The battle ended with the evacuation to Egypt of the bulk of the Allied force. The remaining 5,000 defenders surrendered. #WW2
On this day in 1940, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force was told to abandon his army.
His name was John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. He held the Victoria Cross from the First World War, where in 1918 he had personally led a battalion across a canal under machine gun fire with a shattered arm. He was 53 years old. He had spent the last three weeks watching his army die on the road to Dunkirk.
Churchill's order was direct. Lord Gort was to leave Dunkirk that night by fast motor launch. The British government could not afford to let the Germans capture the commander of the British Army as a propaganda prize.
Gort tried to refuse. He was told it was not a suggestion.
He left in the dark from the East Mole on the evening of May 31, in a small naval vessel, having handed command of the rear party to Major General Harold Alexander. Witnesses on the boat said Gort was close to tears the entire way back to England.
That same 24 hours was the largest single-day evacuation in British military history.
68,014 men came off the beaches and the mole. Royal Navy destroyers ran shuttle runs across the Channel, each one loading 1,000 soldiers in twenty minutes and racing back through Stuka attacks and floating mines. The little ships of England ferried thousands more from the open sand out to the deeper water. By dawn on June 1, more than 250,000 British soldiers were home.
But Dunkirk did not save itself.
Eighty miles south, in a town called Lille, 35,000 French soldiers had been holding out for four days, completely surrounded by seven German divisions.
They were the rearguard of the French 1st Army. Their commander, General Jean-Baptiste Molinié, had been ordered to die in place to keep the road to Dunkirk open. He had done exactly that. By May 31 they had no artillery shells, almost no rifle ammunition, no food. They had eaten their cavalry horses on the 29th.
When Molinié finally laid down his arms, the German corps commander, General Kurt Waeger, was so stunned by what they had done with nothing that he refused to take their swords. He ordered his own men to present arms as the French marched out into captivity. He saluted Molinié in person on the road outside Lille.
It was the only time in 1940 that a defeated French army was granted the honors of war.
Most of the British soldiers who got home that night never knew the price.
Bad weather, limited technology, and conflicting reports complicated General Eisenhower's decision about when to launch the D-Day invasion. Ahead of the new film 'Pressure,' learn more about the weather forecasting that would shape the course of the war. https://t.co/JA0OCSwvYp
On this day in 1943, a thousand starving Japanese soldiers ran screaming out of the fog on a frozen Alaskan island, bayonets lashed to broken sticks, to die.
The island was Attu, the westernmost tip of the Aleutian chain. It was the only piece of North American soil the Japanese had captured in the entire war. The Americans had been trying to take it back for nineteen days in the worst conditions either side had ever fought in: freezing rain, knee-deep mud, fog so thick a man could not see his own rifle, and tundra that swallowed boots and never gave them back.
The Japanese garrison was down to 800 men. They had no food left. No medicine. No way off the island. They had been told no rescue was coming.
Their commander was Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki, a 51 year old career officer who had been on Attu for less than three weeks. On the night of May 28, he gathered every man who could still hold a weapon. This included his wounded. Those who could not walk were shot or given grenades. Those who could limp were given anything that could stab. Some had bayonets. Some had bayonets lashed to ski poles. Some had bayonets lashed to tent stakes.
Then he led them straight at the American line in the dark.
It was the largest banzai charge of the Pacific war up to that point.
They came through a gap in the fog at 3:30 AM, completely silent until they were inside the American positions. Then they screamed. They overran the front line in minutes. They overran the artillery batteries behind it. They reached the field hospital and butchered the wounded in their cots. They got within a hundred yards of the American command post before they were finally stopped by a scratch force of engineers, cooks, military police and walking wounded who fired at point blank range until their rifles were too hot to hold.
When the sun came up, the snow on the slope was carpeted with bodies.
The Americans counted 500 dead Japanese on the ground in front of them. Then they began finding the rest. Almost all of the remaining defenders had killed themselves with grenades held against their chests. American soldiers walking the field afterward described finding small groups of three or four men curled in a circle, their bodies folded around the same grenade.
Out of a Japanese garrison of nearly 2,900, the Americans took 28 prisoners.
It was the second highest American casualty rate of any battle in the Pacific war, after Iwo Jima.
Almost no one in the United States has heard of it.
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This looks really interesting, @GeneralsofWWII! The book exams 54 German & 140 Soviet commanders in total.
🚨New episode🚨- Mussolini has arrived on the scene. In this episode, special guest & author Ambrogio Caiani will explore the life, political rise, and downfall of Benito Mussolini, the founder of Fascism and leader of Italy during World War II.
https://t.co/wPZgfnMVL3
#italy
This day in 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk, began. Over the next 9 days, more than 338,000 British, French, and other Allied troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of French soldiers fought desperate delaying actions against advancing German divisions to hold the perimeter. #WW2
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