John "Black Jack" Pershing - Famous Generals - The Big Picture

[@tiamatxvxianash9202]

As always, the historic movies tell the true tale. Thank you Mr. Matthau, and the narrator. Nevins and Commager were certainly proud of these productions.

[@krisvires]

it doesn't show it here, but for historical accuracy, the US 10th Cavalry were the famous "Buffalo Soldiers." That is to say, black troops with white officers. Unlike some other officers, Pershing was proud of the troops under his command, and once famously remarked "These men would follow me into hell, and I couldn't ask for better company." That is how he got the nickname "Black Jack"

[@HankWest-er8iw]

Kristopher Vires - I'm glad I checked here first, YOU noticed that this Army created film (intentionally) stole valor from Black Troops multiple times!. When I watched these as a kid, I had no idea I was being lied to. Now I understand why my parents discouraged my youthful military ambitions. Black Jack was the polite version, enemies used the vulgar "Ni88er Jack". His attitude to WW1 Black troops is more...complex...

[@yeathatsright1034]

Patton had to have looked up to this guy🐐

[@stretch2021]

Happy Birthday General Pershing! I am proud to be a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles! SCOONEY!

[@paparazzinotebook]

Gen. John Pershing is my great grandfather....he's the father of my grandfather, John Sr....We are from Mindanao Island in the Philippines---and direct descendants of Gen. Pershing.....

[@transws6am]

Turbo Jones What are you getting at?

[@akbarshoed]

+MissionSparta I wonder: if exploiting a superstition of the enemy to get a tactical advantage is acceptable warfare.

[@goodgamesir]

I'm told he is my great great great grandfather.....my grandfather is James Persing...I don't know where he is from, but our family (my mother's side) are from Southern New Jersey. I've been searching most of my life to find out the truth if this is just a rumor or if it's real. It's been a hard search so far, and there's been no evidence I've found yet to prove a truthful tie.

[@drone2u]

Telos he was known for being a womaniser and paid visits to whore houses...as you say from your mother side this could be true but tricky for you to get proof. ...

[@thetroof5525]

@@drone2u shots fired!

[@dougmoore5252]

What a great man, John J Pershing.

[@charlescanterbury9762]

A truly great military leader, refused to allow American Soldiers to be under the command of Leaders from other country's...American's led by American's, those damn French would have sacrificed American's

[@truejuggaloforlife]

He is my great great great great and so on grandfather

[@thedeadeyesniper3713]

I’ve been told the same thing lmao

[@JeffGR4]

@nuclearvault Thanks a million for this documentary on the venerable "Black Jack."

[@LJS01]

Thanks mate.

[@marksolarz3756]

A Great Man. Watched this many times! A lot of these,........are available on dvd.....with all kinds of lost documentary type movies,....many produced by the US military. WWI movies,....played at half speed,...seem more realistic.

[@javiergonzalez9077]

@ 6:57 You can't make this up, They said Pancho Villa was a bandit. There are pictures where Pancho villa and Gen. Pershing pose for the cameras shaking hands. Villa did raid Columbus, NM. but he was looking for the SOB that sold him bad ammunition that was part of the reason he lost his biggest battle at Celaya, Guanajuato.

[@davidknight1612]

Why ain't Patton on there!!

[@KingofDiamonds117]

I like how the filipinos when we lost the war everyone was like gg! We don't hold grudges, just hugs and drugs.

[@tertommy]

Nickname wasn't "Black "Jack kids, something else.

[@bobhayett2376]

He didn't believe in trench warfare. He believed in infantry movement. THAT helped break the trench warfare stalemate, and I'm not too sure that didn't have an influence on the future Nazi blitzkrieg, where rapid movement was spectacularly successful at the start of WWII.

[@davidknight1612]

Purple heart I think is the only medal he never received

[@onesmoothstone5680]

🇺🇸👏

[@craftpaint1644]

He should have said determined the destiny of America's enemies.

[@magicAlonso1414]

Why don't people from the 19th century get with the times? Hello Thaddeus! It's called an Auto-ma-car! Invented by Gerald Ford

[@andresmora5192]

John J. Pershing in due course, having been forced to withdraw from political considerations and before much larger events in Europe left the episode of the punitive expedition behind, admitted to having been "mocked and deceived at every turn by the Mexicans "and wrote:" After launching into Mexico with the intention of eating raw Mexicans, we returned to the first repulsion and now we are hiding at home, like a curd with our tails between our legs. "

[@aztecempire9970]

Pancho villa made him look like a fool amd go back home in defeat

[@craftpaint1644]

A cause I'm sure of Pershing's insisting on the best American preparedness before moving against the Germans. The ideal preparedness, not, but America didn't declare war in 1914.

[@HankWest-er8iw]

The 10th Cav magically transformed from Black troops into white troops in this film I see. Never get any credit despite spilling blood for your country when you are Black continues, only thugs are referenced, never patriots, from the revolution to today, it's always backbiting and insults to soldierly honor. The only film that ever got it close to correct was the "Rough Riders"...letterboxd.com/film/rough-riders/

[@TheSmithDorian]

Pershing was an honorable man but he was completely out of his depth as a Commander In Chief in WW1. Chasing Indians and Mexicans on horseback was no preparation for commanding millions of men facing gas, machine guns and overwhelming artillery fire. His insistence on American operating solely as an independent army and the ridiculously long time the US took to mobilize and train its troops meant that more than 12 months after it entered the war America had a single division in combat at the height of the German Spring Offensive with another 3 in training. In the end less than half the troops that America eventually mobilized actually saw combat. and America played only a minor role in the victory against Germany.

[@SecurityGuy42]

TheSmithDorian So you think what the French and British wanted to do was better? That US troops should have been used as replacements in their divisions?

[@TheSmithDorian]

SecurityGuy42 Forget the French - by the time the US Army began to arrive on the Western Front in any kind of numbers the French Army was a spent force. It was crippled by massive earlier casualties, mutinies and general low morale. It was hanging on in survival mode. In 1918 it was the British Army that was engaging the Germans on the critical sections of the line - both defensively (in the Spring) and offensively (in the Summer). The British did not want US troops "in their divisions". That would have been completely unworkable. What they wanted was US divisions fighting alongside British divisions in a combined operation. Pershing wanted US operations carried out solely by US troops. To be fair to him though, in the end he did realize the error of his ways and agreed to deploy some US divisions in combined operations. He just should have done it about 9 months earlier.

[@kentamitchell]

+TheSmithDorian RUBBISH!!! If Pershing had agreed to French & British requests for amalgamation, Germany would have ended the war on VERY favorable terms (look up Hindenburg's statement on that question) Of Allied Generals, only Petain was Pershing's near-equal. Haig was one of the great butchers of all-time. "Only a minor role"? The Germans repeatedly defeated the British & French (& Belgians, Russians, Italians, & Rumanians) The first Allied significant victory in the West (after 4 years of Allied futility) was St. Michael.

[@TheSmithDorian]

KentA Mitchell Ha ha .. that's priceless! You yanks live in a dream world. The 100 Days Offensive ended WW1 - that's what breached the Hindenberg Line and it was a largely British operation. St. Michael .. that's brilliant, very funny indeed.

[@kentamitchell]

+TheSmithDorian For anyone who is not a member of the Low Voltage Society, I recommend John Keegan's "The Face of Battle" (on the incredibly disproportionate Allied casualties at the Somme, and John Mosier's "The Myth of the Great War". Hmmm... Hindenburg's statement that w/o the US Army Germany would have made terms on "very favorable terms", was that a dream? I think NOT.