Battle Of The Scheldt - 1944 | World War II: The Last Heroes | Full HD | Documentary Central

[@MrSebfrench76]

So "enjoyable" to learn from the Commonwealth part in this war. My city, Rouen, Normandy, was liberated by these guys, the place i was born in, Dieppe, is forever connected to Canada You will be always the most welcomed here.

[@maxtrein532]

I'm Dutch. My grandfather always said to me to never forget the heroes who liberated our country. They made the biggest sacrifice imaginable.

[@guycastonguay9633]

max trein The Canadian soldiers liberated Holland and even looked after your princess in Canada during the war.She had a baby there!

[@bearcatracing007]

​@guycastonguay9633 Along with the British, Americans, French and Polish...

[@guycastonguay9633]

Canadian troops marched in to Holland liberating it and Holland has never forgotten it! @@bearcatracing007

[@va3svd]

Thank you on behalf of my paternal grandfather. He fought in the Battle of the Scheldt and was wounded there. He lived to be 97, he was proud of the Canadian Army’s achievements and was always very appreciative of the love the Dutch people showed to our veterans. Please make sure succeeding generations understand what was lost, and take full advantage and fight to maintain your freedoms.

[@richardbinkhuysen8109]

Although this is a very good documentry, there is more to the liberation of the Scheldt that everybody knows. First of all this is about the Western Scheldt. The Battle for the Eastern-Scheldt lasted until the end of the war. The actions of the small Resistance my Granddad belonged to , influenced both. In particular for the Walcheren-Causeway. They came under command of 1st Canadian Army 3 days after the Battle for Woensdrecht and served 136 days on the front line until March 14 1945.

[@mad4tarmac]

these men are have me stuck for words....all of them,beyond brave.

[@flynn6737]

Mate if it came to us today….. we also would do and suffer the same. These men and women hopelessly show why whe shouldn’t.

[@TheMormonPower]

Superb Series !!!😊

[@basroos_snafu]

You're stating that Arnhem was on fire, or ablaze, or in ruins during Market Garden. But that was not the case at all. Only the area surrounding the bridgehead was heavily damaged, plus on the approaches to Arnhem from the drop and landing zones, mainly from Oosterbeek, west of Arnhem, to the outskirts. John Frost and his lot were the only one that managed to reach the bridge via the most southern route, one of the three approaches to the city, and all other attempts failed, except for a handful that managed to slip through the German defenses. And only after the Germans had taken the bridge, further destruction began, initially by the allies, who started bombing the city in order to take the bridge out. And most damage was done by the allies (again) before the liberation of Arnhem in April '45, shelling the city as a preparation to the direct assault, and the following events. These are important facts, and I understand why you're making this documentary, you're obviously fascinated with the demolition footage you shot, the interviews are of great value. But there's no need to exaggerate here, the events that took place were spectacular and dramatic enough. What is the purpose of showing footage of a building being blown up from the inside, while the para's were being shot at point blank by panzers from the outside? Shells were penetrating walls, exiting on the other side, house to house, thoroughly cleaning the blocks until there was nothing left. And for certain this did not happen in slow motion, but rather the other way around. I did watch it for the added value of the interviews, but please reconsider the term "documentary" in the video title, the men deserve their story to be told as it was.

[@mariussielcken]

Arnhem was the site of heavy street fighting

[@sony5244]

It was madness , pure madness.

[@billballbuster7186]

Market-Garden was a really risky plan, made worse by the lack of transport for the airborne element, especially Arnhem were the Para's were dropped 8 miles from the bridge. But instead of it being cancelled SHAEF insisted it go ahead as there was a chance it would help free the Scheldt by forcing the German defenders to evacuate.

[@guycastonguay9633]

@billbabuster7186 Montgomery planned it and it was a disaster.! He claimed it was a success! Shame on him! He was a glory hound and full of himself. He actually prolonged the war and was the cause of the deaths of thousands of soldiers! A real shame on Britain!

[@burkeherrick3580]

God bless every one of them

[@AUS_RACING]

Extraordinary

[@NoelG702]

40:16 "the troops landed randomly across Europe." No, they didn't. They all landed in Holland with the worst drop being 7 miles too far away. All the other drops were spot on.

[@basroos_snafu]

Not only that, he forgot to mention the landings of the US 82nd A/B near Groesbeek. And there are a lot of photographs that were taken at different locations and battles. There is a picture taken in the city of Zuthpen for example, where Arnhem was mentioned and another one taken in Arnhem, but during the liberation in April 1945, 7 months after Market Garden, the latter at timestamp 31'15". Note the Polar Bear patch on the second from left. These troops did not fight in the battle for the bridge. Nevertheless, the interviews with the veterans do shed some new light, in addition to the tears of these brave veterans, some of whom followed orders and plans that were just plainly absurd. I owe my freedom to them, R.I.P. heroes.

[@keithstudly6071]

The only justification for complaints of air drops being off was the supply drops made for the airborn troops holding out for reinforcements. Supplies were dropped for them but most of those supplies came down in German held areas.

[@alejandromichelena1656]

Wonderful, I'd really like the WW II stories, finest serie this one !!!👍

[@lollypop2413]

Father was already a retired soldier when recalled to palestine 1939 and didnt stop until 1946..Palistine France .NWEurope. British SAS Scots Guards regiment. He was 30yrs old. He was there but didnt tell his whole story...except locating belsen on recon....his experience mostly remains sealed

[@timoakes450]

22SAS Cpl Sam Smith.Liberated Bergen Belsen.

[@ht8520]

Anyone who says there military experience remains sealed is lying. I'm sorry. He probably served but he probably did t do all that.

[@ht8520]

We know the secret of the most secret weapons the were working on in WW2 on all sides. Those records are not sealed, so some bloke running around with a rifles records would not be kept secret. Again. Any person who says there military records are sealed are lying and most likely committing the crime of stolen valor. Navy seals records are not even sealed. We know every detail of the super secret bin laden raid

[@bigwoody4704]

Tony Hibbert was a good man pointing out Carrington stopping in lent and Monty later blaming the Poles

[@yannissakellarakis1798]

At 36:59 you say that ..." the Allies realized they'd had to swallow their pride..." what "Allies"? It was solely the English that were in Arnhem, sent by the 'genius' Montgomery!! Who, by the way, you never mentioned it even once!! Walcheren Island was opened by the Canadian troops.

[@bertmacdonald337]

Royal Marine Commandos had a large part in Walcheren. It`s one of our Corps Memorial Dates. Operation Infatuate, the Battle of Walcheren, refers.

[@pdevrin]

Great documentary but cut down on those slowmo shots please

[@csettles1841]

This battle never should have been fought. The great Monty, did nothing after reaching the port, except dream of grandiose things. Instead of doing the obvious

[@keithstudly6071]

That is something seldom discussed. Antwerp fell much faster than expected, Sept. 6. Market Garden was set to go on Sept. 17 and was using all the supplies on the whole front. The Allies needed the port facilities to relieve the shipping bottleneck of the Normandy beaches. The thing they should have done was cancel Market Garden and use all forces to open the Scheldt and the port of Antwerp. As it was the Port was not opened until Dec. 3, almost 2 months after Antwerp fell and long after Market Garden had failed. I think the army planners had very little understanding of the importance of the Scheldt and how that would keep the port at Antwerp closed. Every additional day the port of Antwerp was closed extended the war by the same amount. The final objective of the Nazi 'bulge' offensive in Dec. was Antwerp. That was how important they thought it was.

[@lollypop2413]

Hibbit and his men fought tanks on foot and won....brought me to tears. How brave. He loved his men i can tell.. the red hackle has revisited me not long ago.

[@msteen6407]

All the death, and suffering. Just to feed Montgomery's EGO

[@finallyfriday.]

Died for Monty's poor leadership.

[@bigwoody4704]

Exactly the jerk doesn't even show up for his own debacle gets 17000 soldiers killed/wounded/captured. But the British Press calls him FIELD MARSHALL, more like a failed marshmellow

[@finallyfriday.]

It made sense that Monty lost MarketGarden so well since he had practiced failing all across Europe. He was good at losing.

[@guycastonguay9633]

Quite right! He was full of himself , a gloryhound and even said that operation market garden was a successs when it was a complete disaster!

[@finallyfriday.]

@@guycastonguay9633 I laugh how they say Brits never won a battle until El Alemian and never lost a battle afterwards. They love their accomplishments in press but in real life they were horrible. They lost more than half of their operations. And Monty was in charge. Like the Nazis said: "Keep telling the lie until it becomes the truth." The Brits were worse than Hitler, political shenanigans.

[@jimwhalen5675]

Germans got bad beating there

[@dexculpepper-py1jr]

Monty's little idea got a bunch of American, British, and Canadians killed.

[@pirsensor1186]

😊If the 82e airborne was not that slow to take the bridge of nijmegen then monty's idea was a sucses because the nijmegen bridge was not good defending by germans in the beginning of market garden.

[@dexculpepper-py1jr]

@@pirsensor1186 keep telling yourself that

[@pirsensor1186]

@@dexculpepper-py1jr histroy telling that to oops.

[@dexculpepper-py1jr]

@@pirsensor1186 60 Corp stop and drank tea.

[@pirsensor1186]

@@dexculpepper-py1jr sure because gavin was to late to get the bridge in time thats why he let his men cross the waal river so he lost time with that and if you lost time the germans will regroup on the other side of the bridge so its useless to send 3 tanks with a hand full of men the german shoot them like sitting ducks thats why the go for the tea.

[@jorgecruzseda7551]

4/26/2023 THOSE WERE REAL MEN

[@nickdanger3802]

Antwerp "Montgomery later admitted that he was wrong to assume the Canadians could open the approaches to Antwerp while his forces tried to reach Germany. But his timing was off. The Canadians began fighting around Antwerp in early October, after Market Garden had ended. So, our original question prompts another: Why did it take to the middle of October for Montgomery to support the embattled Canadians and make Antwerp a priority?" Legion Should Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery have tried to clear the Scheldt Estuary in September 1944? page

[@hilldwler420]

A hand full of v2 rockets huh? Well we dropped 100’s of tons of flammable munitions on Cologne, Frankfurt and Berlin and those were civilians and pows. But hey I guess that’s a different story huh.

[@MrEric2cu]

Inventor of the V2 rocket, Wernher Von Braun should have been tried as a war criminal rather than becoming a hero for the united states.

[@valter0809]

Same as Lemay and Bomber Harris, the real killers of civilians

[@saltymonke3682]

Working for NASA is his punishment

[@READYENDDEADIMPACT]

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