COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 22

COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 22 - Department of Defense - PIN 20283 - YANKS IN GERMANY--THIRD AND SEVENTH ARMIES MEET--BRITISH TAKE ANTWERP--BUZZ BOMBS HALTED--NAZIS GIVE UP--AIRBORNE ARMY TAKE-OFF.

[@oliversmith9200]

These old films are a vision into our pasts. Dad used to say to himself radio talk from his 3rd Army tanker days. "What's your major malfunction? Over?". He'd end something he was saying with "Over?" sometimes. Like he was on a radio with someone. He was a crack operator. His superiors would stop him from volunteering for extra dangerous missions because they didn't want to lose him, although, he did go on the rescue of the Lipizzaner Stallions. He ended up a nationally valued cryptography and computerized communications expert, circa 1960's. From his top secret post, he saw the truth about the lies we were told about the Vietnam War, and by his oath could tell none. 'Drank himself to an early grave. Is that less than Yankee Doodle Dandy? Yeah, well. Let's be mature about this.

[@DaveSCameron]

INDEED YES, #OURHISTORY

[@maxasaurus3008]

Wow 😧

[@danielgreen3715]

General Ramke put up a Damn good Fight for Brest ..Tough as Nails the German Paras ..Sheer weight of firepower won that contest!

[@LCMNUNES1962]

ÓTIMO DOCUMENTÁRIO, BRASIL CONGRATULATIONs

[@maxasaurus3008]

Those horses might’ve looked far worse for a surrendering army.

[@jaggerjards7236]

Not sure, but is the airborne army take-off showing start of the "bridge too far" fiasco. So sad if it is so.

[@livingadreamlife1428]

Damn Montgomery.

[@soco13466]

That last was Market Garden, if I'm correct.

[@kawythowy867]

Poor horses. So many animals used and needed and kjnndnesv

[@Gavin.Smooth]

Anyone else notice the American MP got a little jumpy when the German Officer pulled out his pistol as a token of surrender to the American General? He was ready! It's at 4:13 top left.

[@hughmcinally907]

Astonishing how reliant the Germans were on horses and bicycles.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

It's a common misconception that the German forces were entirely mechanised, but in reality the infantry used horses to transport equipment while the field artillery was horse drawn. A friend's late father fought in Normandy and was present at the Falaise Pocket. I clearly remember him telling us that the roads were blocked by hundreds of dead horses, many of them driven until they fell by German troops trying to escape.

[@scottfirman]

My dad told me he used them every day as a supply person. He was supposed to be infantry but had too big of feet and the army couldnt supply him with boots. He went through basic training in street shoes. They landed him on Normandy beach that way. His CO was a dip shit. He was pulled when this new CO said he coul dnt march to Germany in street shoes. So they made him a security guard for a while at Normandy, then a driver and supply clerk for some General.

[@neilmanhard1341]

Just adding to some of the other comments: 1) The Dutch in 1940 fielded whole infantry battalions on bicycles. 2) German Infantry Divisions' recon battalions, throughout the war, often were bicycle or horse mounted. So was most of their artillery. Except for the anti-tank guns they were normally towed. 3) One German Calvary Division (I believe in Army Group Center) participated in the opening stages of Operation Barbarrosa. I think it was withdrawn and reconfigured as a panzergrenadier division in 1942. 4) The Japanese conquered Malaya and invaded Singapore Island by bicycle. 5) And, of course the North Vietnamese Army used bicycles as a principal means of supply. 6) The US 10th Mountain Div employed mules (or donkeys) in Italy. And, the US used horse cavalry in the defense of the Philippines. Just some examples of horse/bicycles use. There are plenty more.

[@SabraStiehl]

The video states that the V-1 fell when it ran out of fuel. That's incorrect. The bomb had a small propeller which after a certain number of revolutions shut off the fuel, which started it silently down with a 1980# payload.

[@scottfirman]

My dad watched them fly over him while he was on his way to Paris from Normandy.

[@DaveSCameron]

Same thing my friend

[@tech9auto223]

I bet hearing those sterling's and then all that equipment falling was a God send to French resistance fighter's and I'm sure they put em to good use against the HUN

[@justinhealey2408]

im sure you mean Sten guns the Sterling was just being completed, but what do i know? maybe they did drop a few to test out🤷

[@JohnEglick-oz6cd]

Evan though the Na,is fought bitterly , if the rest of the large amount of Nazis would of fought like the Japanese , the Allies would've suffered 3timrs more casualties on top of the large amount of Allied casualties already sustained .

[@tommc49]

I wonder how they fed all those prisoners.

[@michaelmacgeorge1082]

Well, the did bring quite a few horses with them.

[@oliversmith9200]

It was a real challenge, and there was camp food and supply shortage and mortality. 'But, considering the wreck of everything around, and how sick and wounded many soldiers were before they surrendered, the prisoners were done well for, and released a.s.a.p. BTW, the Neo-Nazi's have a starvation atrocity story going around about post surrender German prisoner abuse by the victors. It's just more "we're the victims" fascist bull shit not to buy into.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

@@oliversmith9200 yes the story of Nazi POWs being massacred has been debunked. It all stems from one person who is a self professed historian with no professional qualifications.

[@richmcintyre1178]

They should have made them surrender to the French and I'd be damned if I'd ever salute an enemy officer.

[@markjones2558]

Hell with French most turned collaborators

[@kaptainkaos1202]

Have you ever been in the military? I don’t think so by your post. Unless you had a really good reason not to, you would salute them. It’s a professional military courtesy. Although it’s an enemy you show military courtesy.

[@richmcintyre1178]

@@kaptainkaos1202 I was a Sargent in the USMC and I stand by my comment. Would you show courtesy to a mass murderer?

[@neilmanhard1341]

I disagree. France already surrendered in 1940 and was legally and technically out of the war. The French in 1944 were part of the US or British forces. In addition, an officer is an officer regardless of nationality. If you expect respect from them, then you have to also respect. It's a two-way street. And, its a mutual protocol practiced by all nations.

[@pwowakovalenko2770]

Good movie with a bad quality

[@michaelmacgeorge1082]

It was 1944. They didn't have 4k then.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

@@michaelmacgeorge1082 I think the bad quality referred to the Nazis rather than film resolution.