Hitler's Fatal Error In Underestimating The US | Battlezone | War Stories

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[@minutemanhomestead7214]

the hidden army of america is not its women though many men will say hold her beer its the fact that most of us are chill till you kick our bees nest then men not even fit to serve are doing whatever they can to kill the enemy even if its falsifying records to go in at 16 or falsifying records for med..... point is you kick the bee hive and you get Hiroshima and Nagasaki.... people should pay heed to pushing the american people too far god help us all when this giant reawakens

[@elysianfields6350]

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[@jefferyboyce2262]

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[@lawrencemay8671]

Conveniently left out it was George Patten that was invasion commander of North Africa.

[@colliswilliams8992]

"I like Netflix for history" said the sheep, on his way to the slaughter.

[@philipfreeman2863]

When I became sick in Vietnam. The nurses who took care of me were great. I often think about them. And I owe them a debt that I can every repay or acknowledge properly. And thank you will never or could acknowledge the gratitude I'll always owe to these ladies of compassion. Hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful life. Once again thank you very much. And youll always have a admire in me. Thanks.

[@jadenhiggins7167]

What year did u go 2 Vietnam?

[@philipfreeman2863]

@@jadenhiggins7167 I was there in late 70 to seventy one.

[@Pointman-yf6or]

@ Philip Freeman, it was our medics for me. Several of them were contientious objectors. Our unit asked for them. They were the real hero’s if there were any at all. I was severely wounded at a place about 15 miles south and west of danang feb 6 1968. We called it lz hardcore. In the first25 days of feb we lost 40 Kia and 150 wia in our infantry battalion. There are a bunch of us that would not have survived if not for our medics care. They were the very best. Peace, and welcome home brother

[@zabranjenakojasko6833]

@@jadenhiggins7167 yeah good question 🤔 but first of all why ?

[@zabranjenakojasko6833]

@@philipfreeman2863 I wish you took care of your own business

[@CurtisDrew1]

I was born in 1951. I remember my Grandfather still had his Victory Garden going. Everytime we visited he would send us home with bushel baskets full of fresh corn, peas and beans. My Dad was Career Military and fought in Europe. In fact my Dad's Brother was also a Soldier (A Marine) and was in the 1st wave of Iwo Jima. They both survived the War and during that war my Grandfather fed much of their small town from his Victory Garden. He was a strong burly man who worked for the Railroad. He was proud of it and we were always thrilled to have so much fresh vegetables to eat. We looked forward to our annual visits from our Station. We could only get leave to visit once a year because our Military Bases we were stationed, at were often halfway across the country. I now live only 20 miles from my Grandfathers old house and have driven by there many time. I often think I should stop and tell the people living there how much their home meant to me as a child. I wonder if they know their back yard had the best soil for growing vegetables?

[@jelena7604]

What a wonderful tribute to our unsung heros... the women who served as nurses or supported our troops through war production.

[@tomortale2333]

YES ANNN YES

[@ElmerSpuda]

I love this, my grandmother Verna dropped out of Seattle University and joined the WAVs. Vivien tested out of high school at 16 in rural Idaho so she could join the war effort in San Francisco as a seamstress. Two larger than life people I will never forget.

[@tomortale2333]

WOW ALL THE WAY FROM RURAL IDAHO TO SAN FRAN TO HELP OUT NOW THERS REAL HERO;S ..SOO MANY UNTOLD HERO'S WHO HELPED DURING WAR TIME

[@tomortale2333]

WOOW SPECIAL LADYS G.B.THEM ALLL

[@johnindo6771]

Who was Vivian?

[@maryrafuse3851]

Germany underestimated the countries that make up the commonwealth as well. They did not understand the integration between the US & Canada. How Lancaster Bombers & Mosquito Fighter Bombers, made in Canada, could be fitted with Packard Merlin's trucked from across the boarder. Once the US was in this was fast and easy. Interesting the Germans did not study the movement of people between Winsor & Detroit, a clue to integration between the 2 countries.

[@keitht24]

Not at all. Without the Germans turning their attention to Russia & declaring war on America. The British would've easily been defeated.

[@papanutt1327]

@@keitht24 Thats literally an impossible outcome

[@keitht24]

@@papanutt1327 Which part?

[@laner989]

The Commonwealth countries were like a flea on an elephants but. Germany had 100 tanks in Africa but had 16000 tanks in USSR. The only contribution the Western Allies made to WW2 was to prevent USSR from taking all of Europe.

[@keitht24]

@@laner989 They had way more than 100 tanks in North Africa. Since you like numbers so much, look what the Americans gave the Russians in war materials.

[@jefferynelson]

Thanks to those involved in preserving historical films.

[@ThePhoenix109]

Thank you

[@danaustin3885]

Thanks for those brave Americans.

[@mariericart1687]

My mother worked as a physicians assistant in California during the war. She told me that after work, she and her friends would go to the local hospital and assist the nurses by bathing patients as there was a nursing shortage.

[@johnindo6771]

I worked as a nurse (RN) for about 45 years here in Houston and South Texas. There was a constant nursing shortage during all those some 45 years. There has ALWAYS been a nursing shortage , and there will always be a nursing shortage as long as there are mammals walking on 2 feet (humans) on this earth!!!

[@wezacker6482]

IMHO Germany's biggest mistakes: 3) Allowing British army at Dunkirk to escape. 2) Switching targets from RAF facilities to civilian targets during the Battle of Britain 1) (by a MILE) Operation Barbarossa. All of it.

[@loganholmberg2295]

Militarily yes but there real problems was basing their economy on war production with no limits on spending which created shortages with a socialist economy and hardships on the civilian population even before the war and not securing natural resources like oil before even thinking of going to war. By far the thing that was always hurting them was lack of oil. From the North Afica campaign all the way to the battle of the Buldge lack of fuel ALWAYS limited German actions.

[@eq1373]

Barbarossa would have been successful if they had enlisted the Ukrainians aid instead of persecuting them.

[@user6008]

Germany's biggest and worst mistake was failing to put a bullet in the little Austrian corporal prior to 1933.

[@wezacker6482]

@@user6008 Good point. I can't argue with that!

[@dougwilson6778]

Agreed 100 percent

[@patrioticjustice9040]

During the Africa campaign, Rommel contacted Reichsmarshall Goering letting them know he was being pushed back by British forces using US war arms. Goering was appalled by this, believing the only good thing America made was shaving razors. Rommel responded back, "We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshall."

[@OMartinez91]

What makes things funnier on a somewhat broader scale, most of Japan thought America was only good for making cars and movies and that Pearl Harbor would be making the US beg for amendments. Only Yamamoto knew they screwed up but no one listened to him

[@houstontexas9463]

@@OMartinez91 yamamoto predicted the outcome of the war before it began. He knew he'd lose but he wanted to win for a few months. He use to live in America, he knew their capabilities.

[@stischer47]

@@houstontexas9463 He said that he could run wild, winning every battle for 6 months. After that, he could not guarantee Japan would survive. Sure enough, almost exactly six months later was Midway - after which the Japanese went on the defensive until they surrendered.

[@stark1987]

lmfao, i randomly jumped to the part where theres jsut a table full of babies and i had an out loud exasperation of "jesus, thats a table full of babies"

[@bigdaddylightning4965]

HAHA!! Me too! i was like ...OMG!! its just a huge pile of kickin babies!!!!

[@richardsmith8342]

I'm proud to say my grandmother was a WAC. She flew unarmed combat planes and bombers into theater staging areas while my grandfather served on a LST.

[@MomMom4Cubs]

Mine was a WAV, a pharmacist's mate.

[@arsenioalba443]

They also underestimate Russia...whom they thought might muster '180 divisions'....but wehrmact identified 300 plus divisions..

[@jetpigeon8758]

It was the allied bombing that helped the Soviets, if it hadn't been for the British and Americans bombing Germany the Soviets would have lost badly.

[@bobgriffith1810]

Russian divisions where downsized to between 6-9 thousand men post 41

[@KillerNetDog]

@@jetpigeon8758 It was also helped by the millions of tons of war supplies the U.S. sent to Russia in fuel, ammunition, trucks, planes, food etc..

[@argr]

@@jetpigeon8758 Incorrect! The Germans were already defeated and forced to retreat before the bomb offensive.

[@KillerNetDog]

@GodBAINS Yt . 6.1M views Even then they didn't estimate right, Adolph stopped his advance and directly went against everything his generals were proposing. He was way too careful and hesitant as he badly overestimated allies resistance in Belgium and France. Wonder if that played into him underestimating allied forces from that point forward?

[@jerrycole1530]

My father served in Sicily and Italy in the Army while my mother was in defense work.

[@grouchyoldman5348]

My father was in North Africa and then in the Italy campaign. He worked in the army hospital as a tec Sargent of surgery.

[@novak7970]

The war was won on the Eastern Front not the Western Front. Germany underestimated the Soviets.

[@doug814]

Yep. Russia won the European theater.

[@jetpigeon8758]

@@doug814 The only reason that the Russians defeated the Nazis was that the Germans were running very low on spare parts and equipment, and supplies in general, this was due to British and American bombers destroying their factories and smashing their cities, without the help of allied bombing raids Germany would have easily defeated the Soviets.

[@michaelwilson9849]

I think the more accurate statement is that Germany lost because Hilter stupidly decided to fight a war on two fronts at once. Was Russia’s contribution to the defeat of Germany significant? Absolutely! Would it have been as significant if Germany hadn’t had to divide men & resources to two fronts? Could Germany’s outcomes on the eastern front been different? What if Germany could have concentrated on only one enemy, Russia? With no assistance or supplies from England or the United States…would your suggestion that Russia won WWII still be valid?

[@Fallopia5150]

And their massive production line of T34s!

[@KillerNetDog]

It was won on both fronts, and the millions of tons of war supplies and equipment sent to the USSR by the U.S. to help their war effort. The equivalent of 180 billion dollars in today's money. Including 400,000 trucks and jeeps, 14,000 planes, 13,000 tanks, 8,000 tractors, 15 million pairs of boots, 2.7 millions tons of fuel, 4.5 million tons of food etc... Without which things might have turned out differently.

[@macroman52]

You rarely see a nurse these days help a patient in a hospital bed smoke a cigarette. How times how changed.

[@aldenunion]

"Helping him live" I noticed that as well.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Their arrogance caused a series of mistakes, thank goodness.

[@parallaxcontinuum7898]

Better ,Their best general's advice was repeatedly ignored or overridden by the willfulness of an insane ,syphilitic mind.They were doomed from the outset.

[@nofrackingzone7479]

The US fought a three front war, the Pacific Theater, the European Theater and supplying the allies with the tools and logistics needed to fight. The US was the largest economy from 1890 forward.

[@victoriapruitt1209]

And the air war over Europe that people keep misunderstanding the importance of in bringing victory. Without the daily/nightly air war over Germany Russia wouldn't have had a chance to win.

[@nofrackingzone7479]

@@victoriapruitt1209 Agreed. Without the US, Germany would have fought Russia to a stalemate and the UK would have to sue for armistice.

[@yoinks9907]

Yea but the us only inflicted 217 thousand German casualties Soviet Union inflicted 5.5 million

[@zabranjenakojasko6833]

@@victoriapruitt1209 sure 👍 without you the world would be completely different place

[@_Hluxe]

Don’t forget about the African front as well

[@davidroyer8512]

My mother during the war had collected nylons and tin for the war effort. My grandfatger was a welder in the butler shipyards in superior wisconsin, while my mother in law was a welder if the frasier shipyards in superior wisconsin. My mother in law is 96 now and doesnt know her own children, but the pictures of her welding is PRICELESS.

[@digitaltroublemaker4851]

I think underestimating Russia was a bigger mistake. He did not think they had the industrial power to turn this many tanks, guns and planes out of their factories

[@eq1373]

They didn't. They had American aid.

[@trololoev]

@@eq1373 80% of all american aid goes into Britain.

[@dennisyoung4631]

That, and the Russians were able to design “reasonably” effective weapons that they could produce and then operate in truly *large* numbers…

[@trololoev]

@@dennisyoung4631 "reasinable"? PPS was best machinegun, t-34 was best middle tank, su-122 was best tank destroyer, is-2 was best heavy tank etc. Also big number was on both sides, if you doesn't know.

[@dennisyoung4631]

@@trololoev the early T-34 supposedly had serious issues (e.g. with the transmission supposedly needing a mallet to shift) - and the fit and finish (in general) often was somewhat lacking. Still, though - they did work “passably”, and were able to be made and operated by the Russians of that era. You must use the people you have, especially when the situation is dire and needs *desperation measures* - which was definitely the case up until Bagration. By that time, the T-34 was a decent tank by any standards - turret had enough room for three, bigger gun, transmission worked for a reasonable period…. Oh, and the Russians could make diesel fuel far more readily than high octane gasoline. (Mostly just distill crude oil and filter, rather than extensive processing needed then and now for gas.) Logistics is a big deal in wartime - you need to make and then operate the gear. (“Better is the enemy of good enough.” Supposedly said by J.S.)

[@daleshelden8394]

His other mistake was underestimating the spirit of freedom.

[@captainjack8823]

Best answer! 'Lest We Forget" - NEVER!

[@yomommaahotoo264]

Freedom is a relative term...and it's nowadays more of an illusion here in Merica.

[@ChuckHickl]

Can it and put your mask on and BTW, I need to see your VAC card.

[@toserveman9317]

Psalm tone chant, saying nothing.

[@nightruler666]

@@yomommaahotoo264 You are free to move to china or north korea

[@dkcorderoyximenez3382]

A great catalog of reasons why I will never forget the debt of gratitude I owe to those who went before me so that my life could become what it is...

[@denniswalsh8476]

No doubt...

[@onlyweknow2]

America is so powerful that we could afford to send a soldier a freshly baked cake his Mother made to the front lines of Germany...You can't defeat an Army like that!

[@inspectaslime]

When you enemies are literally sitting across the trenches from you eating 5 star meals compared to yours then you know you've lost.

[@marioposeidon2186]

No one would win one on one with Germany on that time

[@dougraddi908]

America isn't powerful. They jumped in the war in Europe late and took credit for ending the war. Bs. They waited until Germany was weakened.

[@ayrplanes]

A moot point now. Now there would be no ground war, no need for manufacturing, just radioactive craters.

[@douglasstrother6584]

Agreed. The Axis underestimated the material and technical prowess of the United States once we got rolling: food, fuel, ammo, tanks, trucks, aircraft & ships to transport these all around the globe.

[@piercepayumo4212]

Germany: *Declares war on the USA* America: *Rallies the Titans of industry to supply them and their allies the weapons, vehicles, and armaments for war.*

[@lolofblitz6468]

Hmmm if Germany didn't invaded Soviets Imagine FULL german army vs usa I think USA wouldn't step in France lol

[@dreamsofsnow6521]

@@lolofblitz6468 ...... Imagine the U.S. not fighting Japan and putting their full might against Germany.

[@anglo-nord126]

@@dreamsofsnow6521 hahaha we'd still get smoked, da fuq.

[@dreamsofsnow6521]

@@anglo-nord126 ..... Oh since since you put it that way ok lol hahaha da fuq.

[@johnnyjarrett8166]

@@anglo-nord126 The U S had like 20 carriers that were eviscerating the "worlds best navy" in the Pacific...Germany barely had battleships...much less aircraft carriers....u boats weren't going to win a naval war.....aircraft carriers win on the water...wouldn't even had been able to reach North America...much less invade....lets just be glad that freedom trumped tyranny

[@jaymclean4403]

They under estimated all the allies, especially Russia.....

[@ReySchultz121]

*THE RED HORDE BE LIKE*

[@eq1373]

No they didn't. If they had not treated the Ukrainians the same way the Soviets did.....

[@daleburrell6273]

@@eq1373 ...AND IF MY AUNT HAD BALLS- SHE'D BE MY UNCLE!!!

[@morenofranco9235]

Jimmy Stewart's narrative is compelling. As an Army Flight Lieutenant I wrote personally, to parents or wives, that fateful letter. "the Secretary of the Army regrets to inform you..."

[@kim79710]

Jimmy Stewart was a WW2 bomber pilot

[@morenofranco9235]

@@kim79710 WWII was a "white mans war". Does not change the fact that war is FUTILE. And in 100 years? Who will care? War is terrible. I have seen it. You can be any color you like. You will be just as damaged, scarred and dead.

[@kim79710]

@@morenofranco9235 My father fought in WW2, my brother was killed in Vietnam, and my most recent was Iraq 2003-08, we have seen it as well

[@stevek8829]

@@morenofranco9235 you should tell the Chinese, SE Asians, Japanese, Filipinos, Ethiopians, Pacific Islanders and etc this revelation.

[@Valicroix]

Honestly, I think underestimating the Soviet Union was a bigger mistake.

[@eq1373]

Not really. Their biggest mistake was treating the Ukrainians the same way the Soviets did.

[@watchingthehawks355]

Fact.

[@alanle1471]

US supplied the USSR with warm clothes, military uniforms, jeeps, arms, refined fuel, trucks and food without which the Russians could not have mounted such an incredible comeback.

[@toffanful]

@@alanle1471 Nonsense. Total allied assistance to Soviet Union constituted just under 5% of total Soviet war expenditures. The aid helped after 1943 - motorizing 20 rifle divisions and supplying "spam in the can" daily nutrition for Soviet field troops, but the Soviets would have defeated Germany anyway. It might have taken a bit longer and cost more blood, but the end was inevitable. If anything, Russia saved capitalism and certainly saved the British from inevitable defeat.

[@Valicroix]

@@alanle1471 Lend Lease may have helped shorten the war but most of it didn't arrive in the Soviet Union until after the battle of Stalingrad. The Soviets built over 35,000 T-34 tanks. At the battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 the Russians fielded 2,500,000 men and over 7,000 tanks.

[@essaboselin5252]

Fun fact: Prior to the war, there wasn't much of a market for home power tools. The manufacturers didn't think men would pay for a power saw or drill when they had a cheaper manual version. During the war, they realized women were borrowing the tools to do maintenance or DIY projects at home themselves. When the war ended, the companies started making home versions of their power tools, and the rest is history.

[@MIXMASTERBJB1]

Sure... They dangled the carrot all thru north Philadelphia and then hit em with the stick by sending all the jobs to China.. go figure

[@angelocappella3397]

23:10 "In her there is the tenderness of all women" this is so true. Its pretty sad seeing the opposite in today's military. These statements are being made without the blinds of political correctness. It recognises that men and women are indeed different, yet equal. The tender touch of a woman after a man was wounded in combat is a genius and moral boosting move for those guys. Its seems to be opposite in today's military.

[@alcoholfree6381]

This is so true!! Thank God, we are made different. As a father I could never do what my wife was so adept at. She’s an RN and I’m a doctor in reality. Her role is as vital as mine. Thanks for you great points!

[@jamesdykes517]

The idea today is that a woman or man shouldn't be restricted to abstract ideas of gender identity because you miss out on the potential for them to perform other tasks than what their gender role was. That's literally the point of this video, women didn't have these jobs because of a preconceived notion of gender roles, yet that role was changed when needed. There's a reason Rosie the riveter is dressed masculine while striking a traditional male pose for strength. I have dated plenty of old crows who think a gentle touch is choking something to death.

[@RobTheNotary]

The wind beneath the wings

[@Steve-gc5nt]

America, no army. No navy. America. Hold my Bud.

[@alanlowther4369]

The influence of the English speaking world should never be underestimated.

[@montysearancke4657]

@John Beige can I put any on

[@papanutt1327]

@AMAZING SRILANKA how?

[@forcesightknight]

If being able to communicate to organize proper defenses, assaults, and disrupting the enemies forward progress, English has it. Sheer numbers of non English-speaking people though, pretty sure English is waukesha out numbered. Semper fi Earthlings

[@thegreenbird795]

The sun never sets on the British Empire....

[@edwardschmitt5710]

@@forcesightknight Like China? They sure did nothing in WWII. Historically the English and the Dutch tamed the world and set it up for the mostly peace and prosperity we have today. China feeds off the English speaking world with their exports, what would they be without that?

[@douglasstrother6584]

Look up "Soviet Storm" by Star Media for a contemporary (2011) take on The Great Patriotic War. The magnitude of the Eastern Front is amazing.

[@edlawrence6553]

Back in 2008, I went to Moscow on business. The customer manager and I had different personalities; he seemed a bit cold toward me. The first time he smiled at me was on the Friday (at the end of the week). He took me to lunch; started telling me how Americans did not appreciate Russia’s contributions during the great patriotic war. Fortunately, I am a bit of a history buff. I reminded him of Kursk. “You know about Kursk?!” He beamed. I’ve heard that more pieces of military equipment were used at Kursk than on the entire western front during the entire war. It’s well known how the bulk of the Wehrmacht was deployed on the eastern front. And it wasn’t just a war; it was a war to utterly destroy the other side.

[@douglasstrother6584]

@@edlawrence6553 That's a neat account! The magnitude and savagery of that front is under-appreciated, unless you're a WW II geek. Comparing the geographic distances on the Eastern Front to a map of the US highlights the vastness of that conflict. The East was the Land War, and the West was the Naval and Air War.

[@IamDoogy]

I know… The scale (and savagery) of that war I think, is beyond my comprehension.

[@tomortale2333]

RUSSIA IS AMAZING I MEAN WHEN GERMANY WAS AT STALINGRAD....IT LOOKED ALLL OVER FOR THEM...WOOO .....WHAT A COMEBACK,,,, G.B. RUSSIA.

[@AwakenedOne-qu]

He attacked Russia before he took England, big mistake.

[@garyschultz7768]

yeah it was a mad mans mistake invading Russia ...but only bcuz of the USA...had america not been involved A.H. could have beaten both at the same time...both were on the ropes....

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

As if he COULD take the UK. Remember the significantly more powerful Royal Navy? The RAF?

[@alexcarter8807]

The US was not going to let them take England. Plus the English had a not-so-secret weapon: Winston Churchill. The English aristocrats were ready to give up to Germany if they got to keep their wealth, but Churchill put the kibosh on that. His "We'll fight them on the beaches..." speech was a heads-up not just to the English people and to the Allies, but to the English aristocracy whom were really surprised by it.

[@garyschultz7768]

america saved Britain...

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

@@garyschultz7768 The Germans stopped all attempts at invasion before the US got involved.

[@brian5154]

COME ON !!!!!! If you read and understand just a little history, you will learn the Germans underestimated the Soviet Union. The war was lost in the east; the Soviets lost 25 million dead !!!!!!!!!

[@nickdanger3802]

When you play golf is the person with the highest score the winner?

[@EricFapton]

America produced munitions and supplies for Russians, Americans, and Brits.

[@MrRichardbryan]

Yep ,,, you need to read a little history. Why was the German Army marching to Stalingrad ? Why was there so much interest in the Volga ? Hum . How did the Soviet Army pursue the German Army over 1000 miles back to Berlin in such a fast paced manner,,,,, by horse ? Read my friend, you can lose millions of men by poor military decisions and not be the key to victory. The Germans would have slaughtered the Soviets without the Western front.

[@johnmorton1430]

There is no way Russia comes close to defeating Germany without the US. First, Two thirds of the Luftwaffe casualties were in the west. The Soviets had no victories while the Germans had air superiority. Second, the US provided the Russian Army with three quarters of its trucks half of its rolling stock half of its gun powder and explosives, half of its steel, most of its food all of its boots all of its aviation fuel etc etc etc. Without the US it would have been 1918 all over again which given that Russia effectively started WWII and was its biggest loser is poetic justice.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@MrRichardbryan ...I THINK THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION- THE GERMANS EXHAUSTED THEMSELVES OUTSIDE THE GATES OF MOSCOW!!! AND EVEN IF THE GERMANS HAD MANAGED TO CONQUER THE USSR- WHETHER THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HOLD ON TO IT- WAS ANOTHER MATTER...RUSSIA WAS JUST TOO DAM BIG- AND THERE WERE TOO MANY RUSSIANS- EVEN THE NAZIS COULD KILL THEM FAST ENOUGH!!!

[@ZeOneGuy]

It's the nurses' tenderness that helps them to live.

[@craigsinclair4419]

Too bad we can't have everyone on the same page these days. I genuinely missed my call in life.

[@RobTheNotary]

Today its every man for himself and woman for themselves It’s not about what I can contribute it’s about what I’m entitled to

[@at6686]

The price of diversity. People with nothing in common rarely agree to do things in common. The idea that a country full of people that are all different will be stronger is the great lie of the left.

[@trevor3013]

Individuality is a tenant of the US. Doesn't mean we won't unite in the face of a true adversary should one arise.

[@RockmasterVideos]

Excellent post.Only in unison can we win.

[@RobTheNotary]

All cylinders of the same machine working together in producing equally

[@phil20_20]

The biggest mistake was hoping England and then the U.S. would not enter the War after Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles.

[@Crashed131963]

Germany declared war on the US first.

[@mjp29]

The Treaty had nothing to do with it - the Japanese caused the U.S. to enter a war that they didn't want to enter.

[@tkyap2524]

"Underestimating America" - likewise, the Japanese thought the Americans cannot fight because they were fun-loving.

[@culturalliberator9425]

And soon we we're the ones they feared most. For nothing is hotter then lead blessed by American rage.

[@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677]

And they thought we were big and dumb

[@glennmcdonald2028]

Yamamoto said that after sinking the fleet at Pearl Harbor, he'd have 6 months to run wild before the US would begin to outproduce and overwhelm Japan...

[@aw7853]

@@glennmcdonald2028 thank goodness that Japan is an island 😂 if they had the same population, land mass and resources that Germany did the pacific theater would’ve been a lot harder to win.

[@RobTheNotary]

A friend of mine was telling me that somehow somewhere someway that I don’t know how true this is but that they have the jobs were threatened and Al Capone and a Saint Valentine’s Day massacre gang and all those types of people were the ones that were going to be sent to Japan and that scared them again I don’t know how true it is but it was going to be one pretty interesting marketing ploy for the war effort

[@MIXMASTERBJB1]

Grandmother worked at a vehicle Depot in new Jersey loading military vehicles on the ships, yards, etc... I learned to drive stick in my pre school year by shifting the pattern for her to and from the church school everyday in my uncle's then brand new rx-7 (1989). She said the jeeps we're all 3 speed. By 9 years old I could fluently drive the farm trucks on our property..my first car was a 5 speed mustang.. owed all to my grandmother and her efforts at that jeep depot so many years before ..

[@jeremypearson6852]

I wish that pride in the flag and country still existed today.

[@RobTheNotary]

I think a lot of the disdain for the flag of the country for which it stands can be found no further than our media in our politicians who can’t be trusted

[@RobTheNotary]

And that goes for both parties

[@grouchyoldman5348]

People still love the country, they just hate each other over differences. Just remember everyone has different wants needs and ideas. Respect

[@jake42ner]

It does, its the maga movement

[@a.p.3004]

Underestimating the USSR's army bring up new reserves all through course of ww2, continuously, and undisruptingly supplying it's fronts, and the determination not only to win, BUT to smash the enemy. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@RaysNewLife]

every russian marched in american made boots we supplied them everything. Stalin gave up russia to build up reserves...

[@alexcarter8807]

Indeed. The USSR won the war against Germany. The US helped.

[@jrus690]

No, Germany underestimated their own requirement for maintaining their war machine. Germany was only outnumbered 3-1 by the USSR, and at the start they were taking out the Soviets at 5 or 10-1 ratios. Had the Germans simply not been so arrogant in their own abilities; had they produced more equipment every month, trained new troops at a continuous pace, and had proper top strategy, they would have won. They failed at all these things so they lost the war; the generals after the war used Adolf as a scapegoat, Adolf cost us the war by meddling in military affairs. Those generals did amazing things, almost impossible things, but it all came to nothing, because their top strategy was flawed, and the Soviets was superb.

[@grantbuchanan7295]

@@jrus690 very true, the Soviets had a similar problem with their political leadership as well

[@michaeladams9641]

If not for supplies from America they would have failed.

[@slip-n-slide4807]

To everyone talking about Russia, just remember that 2/3 of all Russian war equipment/vehicles were given to them by America

[@williampaz2092]

And half of the remaining, except for tanks and fighter aircraft, came from the UK.

[@kipdon]

Not "given".... Was sold to. Our government did not let them participate in the lend lease program that we gave to Britain and maybe France

[@lilmike2710]

The ones yelling about Russia mostly have no idea what they're talking about. They think they do though lol. But full of 💩.

[@renatovonschumacher3511]

I have never heard of this. Which way would they have shifted all the equipment to Russia ? By the North Sea ? By the Mediterranean ? No way. And most of the time Russia's harbours were locked by ice, anyway.

[@lilmike2710]

@@renatovonschumacher3511 Just because you never heard of sonething dosen't mean it isn't true. In this case, a well known FACT.. What, you think you know everything? .. *Ahem* The scope of the aid is detailed by Russia Beyond, an online publication of Russia’s state newspaper (Rossiyskaya Gazeta), and also by many historians, including U.S. policy analyst Albert L. Weeks in his 2004 book Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II. In the final tally, America sent its Russian ally the following military equipment: 400,000 jeeps and trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks And these supplies: More than 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks, and tanks) 4.5 million tons of food. Americans also sent guns, ammunition, explosives, copper, steel, aluminum, medicine, field radios, radar tools, books and other items. The U.S. even transported an entire Ford Company tire factory, which made tires for military vehicles, to the Soviet Union. From 1941 through 1945, the U.S. sent $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in 2016 dollars, in goods and services to the Soviets. In a November 1941 letter to Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin wrote: “Your decision, Mr. President, to give the Soviet Union an interest-free credit of $1 billion in the form of materiel supplies and raw materials has been accepted by the Soviet government with heartfelt gratitude as urgent aid to the Soviet Union in its enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy - bloodthirsty Hitlerism. At a dinner toast with Allied leaders during the Tehran Conference in December 1943, Stalin added: “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin’s assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.” Decades earlier, addressing the U.K. House of Commons shortly after Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill hailed the late president for ensuring the delivery of U.S. aid to the Allies during the largest armed conflict in human history. Now.. Is there anytning else that YOU DIDN'T KNOW that I can help you with?

[@billiehaoneohaokip8140]

It's good that they covered the story of the american women workforce. They contributed more than they have been given credit for.

[@johnthompson3664]

That is a true statement, but if you look further into the American woman's contribution to the war effort you will find in many instances women serving in a technical role as well. The U.S needed quick battlefield calculations, and they theorized about the use of the E.N.I.A.C computer ( developed by Klaus Van Neuman ) and it was originally classified as secretarial instead of engineering. These women made it work to the advantage of the U.S, but when the project showed potential it was reclassified as engineering.

[@edwardschmitt5710]

Not these days, that credit has been pointed out ad nauseam.

[@chazgurrero3090]

Thank you also to all the woman who assisted these brave men that gave there lives to sustain pour way of life.

[@bluefaery1865]

The nurse lights the wounded soldier's chesterfield.

[@FrederickTheGrt]

"Funny question... We're in a jam, aren't we?"

[@rogerbartlet5720]

My grandma made bullets in a factory converted for the war.

[@BenHopkins1000]

In the fight against the Axis, Russia may have been the muscle and Britain the brains, but America was the heart and soul

[@chicagoan81]

It was an understandable mistake for the axis to underestimate the USA. Japan had a much stronger Navy than the US in 1941 and the Germans had a much stronger Army and Air Force than the US. Also, the US was still in a depression.

[@Crashed131963]

But the US industrial capacity 3 times that of Germany and 6 times of Japan. Its was inevitable the US would have the largest Navy and Airforce no matter what.

[@chicagoan81]

@@Crashed131963 yes, but Germany and Japan had no way of knowing that. We had to build the factories and shipyards to manufacture tanks, planes and warships. I'm sure they were just as surprised as we were of our industrial output.

[@vivians9392]

WWII ended the depression.

[@vivians9392]

@@chicagoan81 They didn't consider the women in America stepping up to fill those jobs during the war!

[@Crashed131963]

@@vivians9392 The US still had 50 million more people than Germany in 1940 even if the women did not step in.

[@jameshutchins8965]

James Stewart monologue spoke with the soft power of America.

[@HarborLockRoad]

Yamamoto and Rommel were well aware of the fact that american industry would be decisive....Yamamoto gave japan 6 months after pearl harbor, Rommel said the war was all but over as soon as american equipment made its presence felt on the battlefield. There were, for example, at least 30 shermans( and t-34s ) for each 1 panzer. Multiply that in artillery, ships, and aircraft.......but then again, we fought a country the size of texas.

[@jasonbell6234]

A country size of Texas with entire mainland Europe at its disposal

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Excellent....Thanks

[@maryrafuse3851]

The British and Commonwealth set the pace employing their women in industry. America smartly followed this example.

[@peterwhite2579]

The Soviet/German non-aggression pact was his biggest mistake. No pact = no ww2.

[@alainarchambault2331]

3:50 "How different than the German women" .... who wasn't utilized in German production until Germany was on its back heels.

[@IamDoogy]

German women didn't have to join the war effort because Germany had intentionally planned and followed through with a strategy to enslave Poland for farming/food production. There and elsewhere, they enslaved whole populations for war production.

[@jamesbetker6862]

In 1943 pennies were made of steel since all of the copper was being used to make brass for ammo for the war effort.

[@georgecoman5342]

Lady's of America I love you !!!

[@rfp313]

People say invading Russia was the mistake. He really had no choice. He needed the oil. People always leave that out.

[@tomortale2333]

N OO HE WAS GREEDY N DIDNT HAVE SENSE TO '''STAY IN UR OWN BACKYARD''

[@4079907]

And they leave out the fact that invading Russia was Hitler's ultimate goal..... ala Lebensraum

[@Homer4prez]

I had a laugh when they were talking about the nurse and how she helped the health of the men and the video was showing a nurse setting up an ashtray on a bracket so it could be right in front of the injured man in bed, she put a cigarette in it and lit it.

[@greyhound371]

Back then they did not know its affects so for all they knew they were making him happy (I think they did not know its affect I did not due research, so don't think as fact)

[@Homer4prez]

@@greyhound371 Yes, I know this but I still thought it was funny.

[@Wren7893]

Anyone else think the pile of babies at 3:53 was kinda shocking haha

[@ari4681]

Germanys biggest misstake was a guy named Adolf.

[@sammic9647]

Treaty of Versailles. “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.” General Ferdinand Foch

[@charlesstuart7290]

Actually the Germans resisted enlisting women into war production - opposite of what the film stated. They enlisted slave labor through conquered countries.

[@greorbowlfinder7078]

What was IBMs role in ww2?

[@michaelturner5919]

HAL or H.A.L. see if you can figure it out?!

[@tlt3921]

IBM provided the punch card and primitive computers which allowed Germany to run very efficient train schedules (the holocaust) before, during and after the war. Not making this up it is a fact. Look it up.

[@IamDoogy]

Just a guess but I know there were calculations made for firing solutions for torpedoes and artillery. The more accurate the calculations, the more accurate the munition.

[@greorbowlfinder7078]

@@IamDoogy what were the tattoos used for in concentration camps? How were they used? What did those tatoo numbers mean?

[@IamDoogy]

@@greorbowlfinder7078 I don't know.

[@jamesbetker6862]

Rosie the Riveter puts this whole charade to rest.

[@シーバックソーン]

Me as a slav: 😑 well ok...

[@ThePhoenix109]

You ukainian?

[@シーバックソーン]

@@ThePhoenix109 Nein, watachiva from Россия, friendo.

[@malcolml309]

Actually, the Navy, was in pretty good shape in 1939.

[@johnmurkwater1064]

We had less than 400 active surface ships in 1939, compared to 6,000+ by 1944.

[@Mike-fx1eu]

They underestimated everything.

[@spitfire4206]

Britain was underestimated also .

[@lynnwood7205]

Ah the good old propaganda of yesteryear. I miss it.

[@POPJack1717]

You still see it if you watch American mainstream media.

[@lynnwood7205]

@@POPJack1717 nah, what you describe is the propaganda of now. Not even as artistic.

[@willyD200]

Yesteryears propaganda àlways had a smidgen of truth behind it , now it's 100 % total lies , blatant lies that are or would be comical if they weren't so insidious. People are waking up to the malfeasance of todays agenda. We see the corporate elitists, puppet politicians and media clowns for what they are, parasitic fraudsters without a grain of integrity.

[@johnfarmer3506]

Underestimating americans. That was a bigger mistake than invading Russia

[@jleeblackmon5340]

"I was to heavy for the WAC" " my foreman told me I was worth my weight in gold" - big girl around 13min in Lol my lord imagine the backlash if a director told a female worker to say those lines now everybody would be up in arms tlkin abt their feelings

[@tomortale2333]

IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT SHE WEIGHS....JUST BEING THERE....WORTH EVERYTHING!!

[@RobTheNotary]

It’s because she looked at the positive side of things instead of dwelling on the negative which is what to many do today

[@rdalemd76]

It’s not the first time America was underestimated and won’t be the last.

[@lesleybartholomew2026]

We have underappreciated women.

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Too nice video from excellent historic channel...

[@seanzibonanzi64]

8/10 German casualties = occured on the Eastern front. War stories- GERMANY'S GREATEST MISTAKE=UNDERESTIMATED USA

[@victoriapruitt1209]

Without the UK & USA air war Russia would have never won on the ground. People often don't understand that.

[@alanle1471]

USSR needed American arms , food and trucks to turn the tide on the Eastern front.

[@trololoev]

@@victoriapruitt1209 without theyr allies Germany never won Russia on the ground as well.

[@seanzibonanzi64]

I'm just saying as far as mistakes go, underestimating the USSR was bigger. Germany thought it would be a cake walk and what they got was the bloodiest war in modern history.

[@trololoev]

@@seanzibonanzi64 yes, i agree. If title said "one of the big mistake" then it can be much better.

[@lloydwillacy6024]

God bless your 🇺🇸❤️🙏🏾

[@phillipwatson4441]

Attacking Russia, just like Napoleon did, was their biggest mistake.

[@LoveShaysloco]

My grandma lied about her birthday and became a army nurse at 15 in 1942 and was only discovered at wars end. But I think I might not be here typing this if she didn't. For my grandpa her husband got shrapnel in his shoulder from an unexploded bombs in the turret he was working on that was thought defused. She was on the surgical team and one look at her befor lights out said your hot and im going to marry you (there words to me). Well here I am

[@johncasciello4123]

REED HADLEY of course doing HIS fantastic NARRATION once again and helping out in the war effort for AMERICANS********HE also was the reporter talking with the SOLDIER,S at*** GUADALCANAL DIARY 1943*** also with RICHARD CONTE/ANTHONY QUINN/PRESTON FOSTET/WILLIAM BENDIX!

[@yomommaahotoo264]

His biggest mistake was discounting a nuclear weapons program early on.

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

They didn't have the industry, nor Heavy Bomber, required to create and use a nuclear weapon.

[@zachary9294]

The also way underestimated Russia!

[@averagetonker5952]

they got a horde of T-34 tanks

[@averagetonker5952]

@carlos bond well different timeline and commander but the same tactic I guess

[@robertmaxwell1016]

In 1938 the us military didnt have an Air Force. It was called the army air Corps

[@craigbeatty8565]

I thought the big German mistake was under estimating the Soviets. Despite losing 20m in the fighting, including 8.9m military, they killed 6.8m Germans. That’s where Germany lost the War.

[@johnmorton1430]

Russia never had a victory against Germany prior to the Battle of Kursk. The 1941 “victory” in front of Moscow was actually a consolidation of the German lines due to massive supply problems. Russian casualties in this battle were many times German casualties. In 1942 the Russian “victory” at Stalingrad was a case of two German Army groups being supplied over one rail bridge. Russian casualties at Stalingrad again were many times German casualties. At the same time as Stalingrad Russia suffered defeat after defeat after defeat in front of Moscow with staggering casualties. Even after Stalingrad Russia suffered a major defeat at Kharkov. Russia won at Kursk because of lend lease, and powerful German units being sent west to fight the Allies in Italy and the removal of aircraft and 88 mm flak units to defend Germany from Allied Air Forces. Twice as many German aircraft were lost in the west as in the east.

[@craigbeatty8565]

@@johnmorton1430 Stalingrad. It broke the Wehrmacht.

[@prabuddhabose9045]

Note to self: never ever clash with America and Americans, don't even think about it!

[@nonamegame9857]

Thank you. I enjoyed this movie. I shall say no more 😏

[@thereilneid2868]

What Doug Ohaver said...👌

[@nickdanger3802]

Churchill "Their very best tanks-the Shermans-were just coming out of the factories. The first batch had been newly placed in the hands of their divisions who had been waiting for them and looking forward to receiving them. The President took a large number of these tanks back from the troops to whom they had just been given. They were placed on board ship in the early days of July and they sailed direct to Suez under American escort for a considerable part of the voyage. 22 The President also sent us a large number of self-propelled 105 mm. guns, which are most useful weapons for contending with the 88 mm. high velocity guns, of which the Germans have made so much use. One ship in this convoy-this precious convoy-was sunk by a U-boat, but immediately, without being asked, the United States replaced it with another ship carrying an equal number of these weapons." The US Army had M3 mediums in North Africa. The M7 was the first modern purpose built self propelled gun in British service. Hansard Debate on the address 11 November 1942 on line

[@westpointsnell4167]

I m so proud to be an American

[@ReySchultz121]

Hidden enemy: exists SIG: dials the phone *UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WHAT'S YOUR EMERGENCY?*

[@maheshpatel3738]

Nice documentry

[@edstyer2566]

As a medic I took care of it lol of soldiers, airman and marines. As far as I know they s all made out of country.

[@craignedoff991]

These workshops produced the supply trucks the Soviets used to perfect the Deep Battle Doctrine that destroyed the Werhmacht on the Eastern Front. These men and women rock!

[@stevek8829]

Yea, a couple hundred thousand free trucks.

[@alanle1471]

Underestimating American production and military capacity was very short sighted given WW1.

[@williammacdonald9271]

Before WWII we had a tiny military and were committed to isolation ..we have been at war ever since ...

[@RichardL.1453]

Just like Yamamoto said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant". And boy did they. USA has now been the sole superpower in the world since ww2.

[@matthewcole9418]

Invading the Soviet Union or declaring war on the U.S. is pretty much a toss up to his biggest mistake. He lost his army invading the Soviet Union, but he lost his war industry when he declared war on the U.S.

[@shad6644]

Allowing Britain/Allies to escape at Dunkirk.

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

They didn't allow it. The Germans, at the time, were in no state to be charging headlong into an Urban area and Kill Zones. The German Divisions around Dunkirk had been fighting for 3 days without rest, had outrun Infantry and Artillery support and were suffering over 50% attrition rates for their Tanks. If they went into Dunkirk, the Germans would get mauled.

[@keitht24]

Dunkirk is irrelevant to the war's final outcome. The British would've lost the war if Germany doesn't declare war in Russia & America.

[@Ryan-zp2bc]

I love me some ww2 propaganda in the evening

[@davidroyer8512]

WE OWE SO MUCH TO THE WWII MEN AND WOMEN, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD

[@joemacdonnagh6750]

Underestimating Russia.

[@windypup8845]

Adolf not only underestimated America and Russia but also the British RAF that stopped his westward ambitions.