Ask Me Anything and What's Coming Up

Ask Me Anything and What's Coming Up
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I'll look back on the Arnhem, Brittany and Paris shows and talk about some of the things I have learned and also let you know what's coming up in October and beyond.
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[@cameronsimpson-ld8nk]

Another great discussion Paul. Got to love WW2TV.

[@thehistoryexplorer]

Great to hear views are on the up Paul! Rewards for your excellent content

[@WW2TV]

Yep, riding a little surge right now. Hopefully things will push on

[@mikemerritt1443]

I agree Woody. People are so entitled and have their only misguided opinion. They seem to think that they have to comment using their ignorant background.

[@garyaugust1953]

This programme epitomises what Woody and his channel is all about. Clear and concise answers, a respect for his audience, and ( he will subdue this), his excellent historical knowledge of the subject.

[@WW2TV]

I know a bit

[@galloian]

Appreciate you Paul and all you have done for the WW2 community. Glad you mentioned the WW2TV facebook group. Just joined as I finished this episode.

[@rich_john]

Fantastic show as always....keep up the great work

[@DaveGordon-up5ln]

Thanks Paul! Love the AMAs

[@prof_kaos9341]

On Japanese treatment of POWs. My father & 4 brothers fought in WW2. The only one of them to not live past 80, passing at 53, had been captured at Singapore. My father said of this, it was being starved as a POW but he went on to say that the Japanese lower ranks did not eat much better than the POWs. Logistics. In the West the Germans were best at tactics, the Allies best at strategy which includes logistics.

[@TerryDowne]

I really enjoy these Ask segments. This one was a lot of fun, thanks.

[@jefsantamonica641]

Great show! Thank you!

[@ianpunter4486]

Thanks for this. So much common sense!

[@donrussell1394]

Thanks for all you do, friend!

[@davidk7324]

Thanks Paul. Your show, your rules. There will always be boorish commenters and those who go well beyond. Click.

[@herb79]

Great AMA as always and have fun at the tour. Hope to join one some day! See you at the Damned in London, haha!

[@brianyee5504]

Always good time with these sessions.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

A project idea for the future Woody, John Buckley - Major Pip Roberts and the 11th Armoured division. I think it would make for an interesting video, especially for those of us WW2 fans who love anything to do with armoured warfare.

[@britishmuzzleloaders]

Jason Geroux will be a great speaker on the urban front!.. I sense plenty of Ortona anecdotes..... 😀

[@lisakurkowski9131]

Great stuff

[@KrisV385]

love these shows where Woody is just talking about stuff! Mucking out the stables just needs to be done glad you knocked it out Woody.

[@thehistoryexplorer]

Any space for a show of WW2 FOOs and FACs before Christmas?

[@WW2TV]

Absolutely

[@britishmuzzleloaders]

@@WW2TV Don't know how nerdy you want to get, but I'd love a really 'in tight' examination of WWII Commonwealth gun drill/fire discipline..... Zero lines, charge bags, stonks, UNCLE targets, and link shoots!

[@K-Nyne]

I'll really be looking forwards to the episode on the Walcheren causeway. Especially since the movie the Forgotten Battle got it so horribly wrong

[@MagiciansApprentice1]

love these Q&A sessions, listening to them in bits before work next day .. maybe have a Q&A for a theme eg - Normandy, the last months programmes etc. Please can we have a LIVE BROADCAST or pics of your tour .. it's the busiest week of the year at the Uni Of Essex so I sadly couldn't come

[@WW2TV]

Every time I do a tour, I try and find time to make some little videos, but I am always so busy on them. I will see what I can do

[@frankanderson5012]

A great episode. Like you, I started my military interest making Airfix models and loved the BBC series World at War and the Great War. I was also lucky my parents had a bookshelf full of military and history books. Ever since I’ve been fascinated by military history especially 20th century. I’m still learning but am no expert, just reasonably knowledgeable. What conclusion I have come up with is that military warfare is full of ‘what ifs’ and luck. Arnhem is a good example of that. People in comment sections who claim they know best are only fooling themselves, the best we can do from history is to learn from it.

[@mikemerritt1443]

Excellent presentation.

[@nickdanger3802]

Mulberry Harbours "We found that the waves at the American harbour were significantly larger than those at the British Mulberry - although both experienced waves larger than they were designed to withstand. This goes a long way to explain why the American harbour failed whilst the British one narrowly survived. We also found that a storm of the severity of the 1944 storm would only be expected to occur during the summer once in every 40 years. The Allies were clearly very unlucky to experience a storm this severe only a couple of weeks after D-Day." University of Oxford The storm that struck the Mulberry Harbours page

[@WW2TV]

It was the seabed too - firmer on Gold, softer on Omaha. Plus, the American engineers who built Mulberry A were less familiar with the tech

[@nickdanger3802]

@@WW2TV Just FYI "Undismayed by the destruction of their artificial harbour, the Americans applied to the development of the Omaha and Utah anchorages their tremendous talent for invention and organization. In defiance of orthodox opinion they beached coasters (LST's) and unloaded them direct into Army lorries at low tide... during July the Americans here handled more than twice the tonnage which passed through the British Mulberry." Chester, Wilmot , The Struggle for Europe page 387 "At the end of the year, looking back on its experience over 'Mulberry', the Ministry of Supply had to report that 'a great deal of work which had to be carried out to meet these programmes was only found possible by the granting of a real overriding priority which was used in some cases ruthlessly'. The report goes on to say that, by any ordinary methods, the task could not have been met and the deliveries to arranged dates could not have been achieved. No wonder other production had to be sacrificed, even if the industrial effort as a whole as not in any way set back. The war-stores which suffered most were gun carriages, tanks, jerricans, steam-boilers, ammunition boxes, and, above all, Bailey bridges. At one time the making of the floating-bridge units for the piers represented as much as fifty percent of the total production of military bridging. In addition, the fabrication of the pier-heads led to some --283-- delay in ship construction and repair, although no interference in landing craft was permitted. That these losses did no harm is perhaps due to the healthy condition of British supplies and stocks on the even of D-day; that the losses were no greater is evidence of the efficiency and elasticity of British war production in the fifth year of war." Hyperwar From Pearl Harbor to victory in Europe II the ebb and flow of munitions "The cost of the Mulberry Harbour which was built for the use of the U.S. Forces will be estimated and included in our Reciprocal Aid records. The costs of developing and producing the Pluto undersea pipeline and the fog-dispelling device have not been included in these records, since they were used jointly by the British and American Forces. Where, however, expenditure in connection with the use of these devices clearly arises out of American requirements, such expenditure is charged as Reciprocal Aid." Hansard Lend-Lease And Reciprocal Aid 23 October 45

[@richardbennett1856]

Jerry's hijinks in leaving every harbor trashed and boobytraped made Mulberries essential to continue operations. Mother Nature is still undefeated.

[@nickdanger3802]

@@WW2TV Name escapes me but a retired RN battleship was used as a block ship at A, it was broken in two by the storm.

[@nickdanger3802]

@@WW2TV CGI, in French Reconstitution en images de synthèse du port d'Arromanches en 1944 Pierrick Auger kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ_XgoWQj9eFg5Y

[@K-Nyne]

33:25 one great example of this was described by lt. Spalding. A machinegunner caused several casualties to his group as they ascended the bluffs on Omaha. Seconds later he threw up his hands and surrendered, he turned out to be Polish. The only reason they let him live was because Spalding wanted to question him. Everyone else was ready to shoot him immediately.

[@PerfidiousPaul]

paul❤

[@jimwalsh1958space]

A very warm welcome to us from from WW2TV. I love listening to woody talk and learn so very much and i'm very grateful.

[@richardbennett1856]

99% of your subscribers love your Pub History style, with liberal doses of accomplished authors and military guests. Seth Paridin and you are kindred spirits. Keep up the great work, Sir.

[@scorcher67]

Donnie Edwards was a favorite of mine being an NFL fan .

[@WW2TV]

Donnie is a great mate and does amazing work with veterans

[@markrunnalls7215]

With regards to Arnham Paul .. I think Al Murray, and his book black Tuesday is pretty much the holy grail...

[@mithridateseupator3492]

Yes. Almost too much to cover for this period. But you’ve done well. I was just thinking that Oct 44 is when the liberation of Greece occurred. Which of course led to other events that presaged what would happen in Europe after the war.

[@MegaBloggs1]

id like to be mersservy or sommerville

[@OldWolflad]

I wonder if you have considered talking about Venray and Overloon, post MG Woody. An interesting period including Op Gatwick, Op Aintree and Op Constellation?

[@WW2TV]

Yep, we will get to that at some point I'm sure

[@markrunnalls7215]

Oh Aachen... That'll be good...

[@billyshakespeare17]

Any chance of having Drachinifel on and discuss the U-571 movie? It's brilliant and would be refreshing to hear the Brit take on the film.

[@nickdanger3802]

"I don't know why anyone complains because no-one had heard of this before the film" Sub Lt David Balme (Retired) BBC Capturing the real U-571 Has ! Not secure warning

[@HGmusiclist]

Views are up, good news :)

[@jeannekemp1737]

Do a vid on the focus group,if you have the bottle ❤❤❤❤

[@WW2TV]

I don't follow you, sorry?

[@maikelvane5185]

Great video again. As for OMG, i think it attracts so many discussions, is because it is a big (mad) operation. Which if succeeded would be such a bad ass achievement. As for the one who asked why the Germans kept fighting. You should ‘study’ the time between 1918/40. Those German boys had a hard time growing up with all the sanctions and hyperinflation period. Read: When money dies from Adam fergusson. And then there is the government(ns’dap) bringing you jobs and a future’. Raising a generation which went to school/h-jugend which got ‘indoctrinated’ into this believes.

[@angels2online]

This made for a fun evening. It's always surprising and joyous to find another Christopher Hitches fan 'in the wild'. I love your shirt.

[@WW2TV]

Hitchens was a legend. Some of his political views didn't align with mine, but his atheism stuff was fab

[@MegaBloggs1]

@@WW2TV hitchins was very articulate but his atheism was driven by bias and it makes me sick

[@WW2TV]

Bias? I don't know what you mean? Belief is not a choice

[@nickdanger3802]

In comments on MG I occasionally see something like; "I war gamed MG at Sandhurst and if only the 82nd had taken the bridge it would have worked". I also see comments they war gamed MG in the Netherlands military college and it failed almost 100% of the time. Do you know if either of these claims are factual ? Ta

[@nemiw4429]

34:05 the Serbians saved so many US pilots that bailed out in the Balkans, 50 years later the US send bombs down 1999. Even targeted a train traveling on a bridge. The US is a wonderful nation.

[@WW2TV]

Welcome to World history. Pretty much every nation has at one time been allied with a nation they have either fought previously or will fight in the future.

[@MegaBloggs1]

what do you consider the worst mistake of ww2-the non breaking of radio silence on june 3rd 1942 before midway-the refusal to accept casualties in an invasion of malta-the lack of fully exploiting the oilfields of polesti-the lack of activity of the japanese in the indian ocean-????? the murders by the ss-the inability of the luftwaffe to sink the ohio off malta-the non destruction of the radar towers in 1940???operation Barbarossa

[@WW2TV]

I'm not sure, I'll have to think about it

[@davidlavigne207]

Dearest Woody, I may not be a "Brigadier" level supporter, but I do support your channel and am a Patreon and KZbin member. I love your work and am friends with many of the live chat folks I hope. I always try to make positive and relevant comments based upon your excellent guests, and your insightful questions. I may not be a professional WW2 historian, but have been studying the subject for well over 50 years. I know you have seen my PowerPoint presentation about PC-564 and the Granville Raid. I am hoping that you are still considering having me on some time in the future and look forward to such an invitation. I have done this presentation on OTD Military History and felt that it went well. Please consider this if you can. I am in the process of writing a book on the subject, but it won't be ready for some time. I just need a bit of encouragement please. Your channel is very appreciated by me and so many others. Thanks for what you do.

[@WW2TV]

For the anniversary

[@davidlavigne207]

@@WW2TV Thanks Mate. I shall look forward to it and send a better presentation to you next year. Lovely.

[@jefsantamonica641]

I asked Dr. Caddick -Adams on Sunday afternoon (his evening) how did the surgery go with Mr. Bor. He said handled it well, but 10 days of complete rest and no movement. I haven't heard since then, but did you hear something Mon or Today?

[@WW2TV]

I forget which day it was but Mr Bor died overnight

[@jefsantamonica641]

Oh I'm so sorry for him. I checked his Twitter feed yesterday and he hadn't said anything.

[@WW2TV]

He definitely Tweeted about it

[@MegaBloggs1]

ALL who served on the arctic and atlantic convoys on the allied side deserved decorating and a pension-I have no idea how the crews of the open cockpit swordfish put up with flying in the atrocious weather of the Atlantic and the Arctic-let alone risking their necks when they land on those tiny escort carriers-there were lots of accidents-the avenger and hellcats were too heavy for the early escort carriers.I wonder why it took so long to incorporate escort carriers into atlantic convoys and building an airfield on greenland and building the paltry 70 long range variant of the liberator-god rest their souls

[@patrickschellen737]

Excellent show once again. I gave it some thought why MG is so triggering. There might be an element of nationalism to it. A famous podcast recently did a series on it and it gave me a really bad taste. I got the impression I was being fed a narrative that the Brits were heroes and Gavin and Americans are to blame. The story was constructed in such a way that everything south of Grave was left out or misrepresented, I was so disappointed. Tbh MG is the only operation I know civilian accounts of, so I don't know if other battles are misrepresented in the same way. Luckily you had Edwin Popken and his excellent presentation to counter that. But sadly celebrity status will often be believed over actual facts and those narratives are repeated.

[@prof_kaos9341]

IMO you learn more talking to someone you disagree with than those you agree with. Even if you just refine your original opinion thru the debate. Being polite gives best results.

[@WW2TV]

Exactly, but talking not arguing in a hostile manner

[@cheesenoodles8316]

I appreciate your judgement on who to restrict. I blame Ike for Market Gardens failure, he was the man in charge....it was not a good idea of Monties.

[@MegaBloggs1]

the broad front was a disaster

[@frankanderson5012]

The benefit of hindsight and 80 years.

[@WW2TV]

How can victory in 11 months from DDay to VE Day be a disaster? Sure some things could have gone better, but lots also went well.

[@MegaBloggs1]

@@WW2TV well you are always(rightly) emphasising the impact of logistics on the eto campaign -particularly the critical period of late august to early october 44-the broad front consumed lots of fuel

[@WW2TV]

Absolutely, as I said, I think things could have been better, but I disagree the period was a disaster

[@nickdanger3802]

Conversations with History: Brian Urquhart kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpfYe2eNYtykf5Y

[@davidlavigne207]

“A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” Mark 6:4 This is exactly how Brian Urquhart felt in September of 1944. He was not listened to and was punished for it as we know of history.

[@MegaBloggs1]

what about mad mike of the chindits ??

[@WW2TV]

Yep, he'd be an interesting subject

[@MegaBloggs1]

@@WW2TV I have his book and cd-he setup the commando school in oz before he went to burma-He was railroaded out of the chindits after injuring himself

[@MegaBloggs1]

what about interviewing TIK

[@WW2TV]

You are welcome to. I won't be, not now, not ever

[@jamesschofield6452]

@@WW2TV I have enjoyed most of his videos but some of them are bonkers. I has some very strange opinions and ideas about certain topics. Can I ask what your problem with him is or is that a private matter? I imagine he rubs a lot of people up the wrong way.

[@WW2TV]

Some of his history is very good. But his views on some matters are weird

[@MegaBloggs1]

People flip their beanie over arnhem because despite the heroism its a partial disaster and it was so badly planned and there are lots of what ifs

[@jeannekemp1737]

Nobody mentioned the radio f,up at Arnhem

[@nemiw4429]

Dude ur damaging ur channels algorithm with all these upcoming videos. For several reasons.

[@WW2TV]

Why do you think so?