Easy Company's Forgotten Market Garden Battle - DigitalBattlefieldTours

[@SkyFlaks]

This series isnt getting the views it deserves, fantastic work!

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thanks!

[@TangieTown81]

​@@DigitalBattlefieldTours Absolutely agree, I would love to see you continue to follow Easy Company but that will only happen with MORE VIEWS! Excellent research.....would love to see you do Crossroads next.....

[@sumivescent]

Amazing work. You did great at showing the reality of war at grunt level and flow of small tactical engagements while also showing clearly the bigger, divisional or army wide context. It's funny how rarely do you hear about the flanking British corps in the general narratives of M-G. The production and amount of detail is also very impressive, it must have taken a lot of effort. Thank you, hope the channel grows.

[@760Piper]

Very well done. One of the best presentations of a small unit action during Market Garden. Great job!!!!

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@TimmieVD]

Once again: very interesting. You did a great job mapping out the battles, combining it with the other sources.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@trekanbelluvitsh]

One of the best series about WW2 on YT I have ever seen. Covering the personal experience, telling the context on tactical and operational level and also being critical about what's been said and wrote, trying to find out what really happend. Never forgetting the dead. Thank you very much.

[@paulpsyche42]

I just followed your entire videos on location for the 80th anniversary. Thank you so very much. I said my prayers and paid respects.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

That's great to hear! I'm also visiting the battlefields right now and can see many people are doing the same. Despite being 80 years ago the events are still commemorated with great passion and enthusiasm.

[@nicolascarvacho4998]

this was awesome, thank you so much

[@franslepelaars2649]

hartelijk dank, voor de vooral duidelijke rustige audio en beelden. Thanks for great easy way to watch images/video en audio, together with my grandchildren i've enjoyed it.

[@twocandles1108]

More like this. This was awesome

[@dtm7533]

Having read Webster’s book a few years ago, this series was a fantastic addition. I drove Hell’s Highway in May and passed many of the sights featured in the video. The detailed work that went into researching and portraying Webster’s adventures are outstanding. Thanks to everyone involved, a real credit to your team.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you very much! I don't really have a team, however. A friend helped me carry equipment and recorded the parts where I'm in frame. Other than that its all me. Having more people would certainly make things easier, but I enjoy the freedom of doing things on my own. Its one of the reasons I started this channel.

[@dtm7533]

The fact you’re almost a one man band makes the series even more remarkable. I’ll certainly look out for your future projects.

[@twocandles1108]

I love documentaries like this. Battle maps. Youre amazing. Thank you so much for this i really enjoyed all of it.

[@christianjanssen3254]

Real good work! Waiting for more.

[@AndyRoss-z3t]

The 2 lane Hell's Highway .....a literal small path North across the centre of Holland towards Arnhem is the small path directly behind the presenter. Much of the old "road" has been developed over and much of it remains today, a pedestrians and bike pathway in a nation per captia with some of the largest users of bicycles in the world.

[@chriscookesuffolk]

Fantastic series. You really can't beat boots on the ground. Looking forward to the next project.

[@KR-rs3sj]

These long form, detailed videos that anyone can make are what make KZbin really special but generally go underappreciated, so thank you for making this. I'm sure cross referencing locations while editing was a nightmare.

[@matseriksson3262]

Thees 3 episodes were great!!

[@walthanas]

Wederom een fraaie video, met zoveel details, kaarten en beelden van de huidige situatie aldaar. Ik kan deze video's in het bijzonder waarderen omdat ik zo mijn kinderen en mijn vriendin, die vlakbij Veghel woont, kan laten zien wat er hier in de buurt in 1944 allemaal gebeurd is. Heel erg bedankt voor deze serie, Ivo!

[@OffFiring]

Criminal the lack of views on these videos. They’re so good

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thanks!

[@rjhodgen2380]

Fantastic series, thank you for the hard work. I will watch all 3 many times! I visited North Brabant/Gelderland for the first time in September '23 for a tour of the locations, i will definitely be back, ny 3 days only scratched the surface.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Glad you liked it!

[@sanderhoefsloot6852]

You have a new fan in Sint Oedenrode!

[@BarryPennock]

Great narrating and lots of detail.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@stockarboy]

Another great video. Your detailed coverage combined with area maps, and present day visuals is amazing! Thank you very much.

[@RolandPeteur]

Nice man, I live in Belgium so I visited all those battlefields. 🇧🇪🇳🇱 leuk kanaal Ivo!

[@patrickyoung3503]

Congratulations for producing a full story of opperation market garden . Honour & Respect . Lest we forget .

[@rickytarr8585]

So good. Third time watching all three episodes!

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

That's great to hear! Thanks!

[@rickytarr8585]

@@DigitalBattlefieldTours May I ask where you found the information about Webster in combat near Vierville? I have read his book but he seems to only speak about the first night of D-Day before skipping ahead to Market Garden. How can I find out more about his experience in France?

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

His recollections of Normandy are a bit disorganized and presumably he was still working on those parts of the manuscript. In my Dell mass market paperback from 2008 the Vierville action is described on pages 63-67.

[@Blue-Agapanthus]

Bedankt

[@someoneinHolland]

Another amazing video! Being able to follow these brave men step-by-step throughout Operation Market Garden was a great learning experience. Thanks for making such in-depth videos with this much attention to the source material!

[@scottythedog8829]

Fascinating analysis and really clarifies a chaotic situation Thank you.

[@isasalaam5055]

This is a superb series and especially for any truth seekers for battles regarding Easy company and the 506th PIR. Webster's book Parachute Infantry, was indeed the original bases for Band of Brothers. Sadly David Webster died in a boating accident while still a young man and thanks to his memoirs, we had the wonderful series which showed the outstanding sacrifices these young men made with their lives. Thank you for this wonderful three part thoughtful series.

[@briancassidy6678]

Excellent work. Thank you.

[@Eddie.22]

Excellent mini series. Well done 👏 👏👏

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@jovanthournout9707]

Again, impressive. Keep up the good work!

[@bdrexjr]

This is truly phenomenal work and to quote a previous post is definitely not getting the views it deserves.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@basblijdorp6735]

Impressive series, very professional and well articulated!!

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@briancoleman971]

One of the best videos I have ever seen covering this type of action, and I have seen a lot. The detail and presentation were superb.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you very much!

[@TheSlazzer]

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it. Off topic: There's a really funny scene happening at 18:57 xD A man is running after a truck with the label "Koks" (in German "Cocaine") as if to shout "Wait! Stop! I want some! STOP!" - like a friggin' ice-cream-truck. lol

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

I noticed it while editing the footage and found it pretty funny even without knowing what it means in German. Thanks for sharing, it makes it even funnier.

[@peterheinzo515]

koks is not only cocaine but also a special type of coal for steel production

[@TheSlazzer]

​@@DigitalBattlefieldTours Haha nice. I was actually thinking "He must've seen this when editing it" nice little everyday-life-moment captured.

[@l.t.2668]

Ik heb het boek van Webster weer eens opgepakt, waarna ik je videos zag. Erg leuk om het boek te lezen en deze videos te zien. Goed gemaakt!

[@robertferguson3023]

Thank you David, and thank you Ivo.

[@aapje]

That was a great series!

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you!

[@acd-combatives]

Great video and great channel.

[@averagejoe7860]

Very impressive series. I thoroughly enjoyed it and appreciate the work that goes into making a great series like this

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you very much!

[@larsdejong7396]

That part with the artillery in Veghel was absolutely blood-curdling.

[@sacredcobra155]

Amazing work. The presentation and info is just about the best it gets. Your videos are so good.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you very much!

[@hoserrlol]

great video, views will come!!

[@paulpsyche42]

Amazing thank you visiting the area now 😊 wonderful country and people

[@MB-zf8hp]

Excellent work. I am actually surprised that you are not getting A LOT more views compared to a lot third rate drivel that is released on WWII this is almost scientific in nature but still exciting! What’s the next project? Would also be interested in some kind of behind the scenes showing how you research all of this.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you very much! Making well-researched yet accessible videos is exactly what I aim to do with this channel. There is a long list of potential projects for me to pick from now that the Webster trilogy is finally complete. There is one in particular that I'm eager to cover as it involves a very rare vehicle that is seldom discussed, and I'm in the fortunate position to cover both the vehicle itself and a battle it was in. There is still a lot to figure out first, however, so I'll hold back on the specifics until the project is further developed. Making a 'behind the scenes' could be a worthwhile side-project. Research is the most time-consuming part of every video, yet only a small part of it actually makes it into the final product, so it could be interesting to turn that process into its own video. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@rolfagten857]

Can you make a video about the battles in Overloon & Venray.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

I'm planning to make multiple videos on it. First there are some more Market Garden related projects I want to complete, but Overloon is definitely on my to-do list.

[@rolfagten857]

Allright, you do a good job! @@DigitalBattlefieldTours

[@juancamilobarberanduran5529]

Hello, would you be so kind as to tell me if you can share the full map of Operation Market Garden? Thank you, amazing work

[@juancamilobarberanduran5529]

www.loc.gov/resource/g6000m.gct00040/?sp=7&st=image&r=-0.13,-0.016,1.044,0.44,0

[@juancamilobarberanduran5529]

Found them! 55 maps awesome details

[@DerAbenteurer94]

Vielen Dank Ivo😃😎

[@onraymondhickey5149]

The movie was not based on Webster's book. It was based on the book BOB and the recollections of all the men from Easy Co. Webster was wounded and missed many battles before his return near the of the war.The series features Webster in an episode. Webster was a private.

[@paulpsyche42]

Unfortunately, he seemed to be not the best soldier and he was lost at sea. I fear he committed suicide. Maybe he was a shamed for not being a good soldier. He complained an awful lot about everything. He left fallen cameras behind, maybe he felt ashamed.

[@floydfanboy2948]

Great stuff! 👍😎

[@RolandPeteur]

Ever tought of doing something on Belgian and Dutch victories in may 40. Like Vinkt or Ypenburg? Also the Ardennes Hunters of Belgium had some victories in the Ardennes!

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

There are so many potential videos just in the Benelux region alone. Late WWII, early WWII, WWI or even further back in time. I would like to cover it all at some point and eventually include France or maybe Italy. The thing is that these projects take a lot of time, especially the research, so I'm expanding the scope from the subject I'm most familiar with, which is late WWII. The next video will be Market Garden related and after that maybe something about Overloon or one of the September battles on the Belgian-Dutch border. Covering the early war is definitely on my list, however. Like you said there are plenty of interesting cases!

[@JelMain]

Not just by the Division, the Red Ball Line was the official name for the entire run from Normandy. A civil force had taken control of the rear areas, drawn from the UK Civil Service, purging all known Nazi placemen. Market Garden was in two parts, Market, the airborne forces, and Garden, the heavier land forces racing to catch up. There entire operation was hampered by the American doctrine of matériel, never moving until you had everything including the kitchen sink, which increasingly robbed the impetus of Horrock's XXX Corps, the Garden element, who discovered Eindhoven's bridge uncaptured and took it themselves. There simply was no élan in the Americans, and that delay doomed the entire thing. This is seen in this presentation, being more concerned with securing the flanks than doing the job. Contrast this with Agincourt. I wasn't just attached to 3 Para for a short while, but spent a year with the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, getting used to the need for pathfinder units to operate behind enemy lines: it turned out the SAS had their eyes on me, my mother having served in the SOE escorting downed aircrew from the Kempen to Brussels, where they'd lie up to recover before travelling down the Comet line to Gibraltar. That demonstrates the possibility for a unit to operate intensively for years behind enemy lines, as Russia is now discovering. It is very hard for the rear echelon to defend against them, because they're indistinguishable from refugees and other itinerants. Therefore, don't let your cutting edge be blunted by that concern. Later, it was realised a major fault was the idea of an established supply line from Normandy. Other ports were opening along the coast, Dieppe, Calais, Oostende, Zeebrugge (not as large then as now, it doubled in size in the 1970s, but still substantial), which should have ben used in addition to Avranches. The vulnerability of long supply lines had been established in North Africa, particularly by the SAS: you can't rely on them, so your baggage train is important, kept close and travelling with you: this is one of the lessons of Guderian's blitzkrieg. The Americans, unpracticed in war, had not learned the lessons of 1940, and were still stuck in the Col Blimp mindset we forced into retirement in 1941. It took until the Gulf War for them to catch up, and I doubt if they've even grasped the need for speed now: Trump doesn't understand the reversion of Clausewitz idiom. Essentially, persuade the enemy that as the continuation of policy by other means is simply a race to exhaustion of your resources, what's the point of trying when we've far more than you?

[@AbsorbedNastyBear]

If I can give the creator a piece of feedback for this wonderful piece of media they have created: 1) You need to keep rotating and updating your thumbnails - the current ones you use (although accurate) are not drawing in viewership. 2) I would recommend you reupload the entire series in one 3 hour long video (longer view time gives more viewership - and longer 2+ hour plus content does very well on KZbin and is often pushed on recommended videos between 4-6pm) probably the same view time you have most of your current views. 3) you need more engagement in the comment section and likes, to do this for your next video please copy Montemayer video series regarding the battle of midway - there he pauses the battle for the audiences perspective and asks the audience to consider what they would of done given the fog of war and information available to them at the time. This causes a flurry of comments and engagement further increasing your channels success. It's a shame as this video series has multiple instances to frame the audience into Webb's shoes on what they should, could and did do, to frame a narrative of audience engagement. I understand "what ifs" are controversial but they absolutely drive you more engagement and greater viewership and you can still have your factually correct narrative while entertaining a what if. Overall the effort put into this and the onsite locations is by far the best content I have seen on this platform in a long time - if you have a donation link I would love to contribute to help you continue as you are a rarity that needs to be rewarded for your excellence.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

Thank you very much for the advice. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to KZbin optimization. The problem is that the algorithm seems to change by the day. My Teaching Tactics videos didn't get much exposure at first either, but then they suddenly blew up. I believe the same will happen to this trilogy so I'd rather keep the videos (and thumbnails) as they are. Merging them into one big video is a possibility. I've actually been thinking about making an abridged version for next year's anniversary that merges all three parts into a single upload. Your support is very welcome. You can make a one-time donation through KZbin Super Thanks under a video of your choice, or you can sign-up for a Patreon membership and receive monthly bonus content here: patreon.com/digitalbattlefieldtours

[@Jan_Smuga]

There were Polish para at Arnhem too

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

I've made sure to explicitly mention the Polish contribution to Market Garden in the first episode and also included their brigade on the operational map when discussing the planning. From that point on I have omitted them to streamline the script and make room on the map.

[@DigitalBattlefieldTours]

I plan to cover the Arnhem sector of Market Garden in future battlefield tours. Those videos will of course include the actions of the Polish Brigade in detail. The focus of this series was on the experience of one man in the 101st Airborne. While I included updates on the bigger operational picture to place Webster's actions in the context of Market Garden, it was not within the scope of this project to exhaustively cover the operation and all the units that took part in it.

[@audi0]

👍

[@TheSlazzer]

26:48 Kampfgruppe "Chill" Hahahaha, you can't make this stuff up.