KNOW YOUR ENEMY: GERMAN EQUIPMENT WWII FILM 77324

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This World War II training film KNOW YOUR ENEMY: GERMAN EQUIPMENT was originally made by the British Paramount News for the Ministry of Information. The film attempts to educate soldiers, tankers and other combatants about the material resources and equipment of the German Wehrmacht, and discusses how to defeat tanks and other weapons with small arms and anti-personnel weapons.
"To know your enemy, know his weakness and his strength, gives you edge over him." Here we have more examples of German equipment which gives you edge over them. At mark 1:15, we have a vehicle drawing a 3.7cm gun together with the ammunition carriage. The Germans are always told that the gun is on offensive not a defensive.
Winter changes to spring and here’s still the same gun being used at mark 2:05. Their weight is 800 weights and can be easily concealed; 3.75cm, 1.45 inch for the best range of 400 yards with 12 rounds per minute. At mark 2:35, we have the Type 1 German tank with 5 small regular wheel bogies, 2 light machine guns, head-on direct fire should be directed on both slits, periscopes, and the joints between turrets and hull. At mark 3:37, we have the type2, 5 regular wheel boogies, it is armed with one light and one heavy machine gun, again, head-on fire can be effective. At mark 4:50, we have the type3; it has 5 to 6 or 8 regular small bogie wheels and with same features. It has a large door on each sides and a small round tunnit at the rear. Ammos consist of a 3.7cm or 1.45inch gun and 2 light machine guns.
At mark 6:20, we have the type4 with regular small bogie wheels. Kind of similar to the type3, again with doors on both sides and the rear. It has a 7.5cm or 2.95 inch gun and 2 light machine guns. It has telescopes on two sides. And the same joint between the tunnit and the whole. For its heavy armor it’s very fast. You can distinguish all this by their bogie wheels. At mark 8:15, we have the 4wheeled light armored car. It has a very small tunnit with no roof to it and its crew consists of 2or3. It has one heavy machine gun mounted in the tunnit and one light ione mounted just behind.
At mark 9:02, we have the 6 wheeled armored car, with metal guard covering the 2 back wheels, a very long sleeping front with a grill radiatior and a gradalio. It has one heavy machine gun and one light one. Ap and saa at both slit and the join between the tunnit and the whole. At mark 10:04, here is its big brother, a heavy 8wheeled armored car. It has 2 large metal guards covering its two wheels and gradilio. One light and one heavy machine gun, A crew of 4 or 5 and a maximum speed of 50miles an hour.At mark 11:00, we have all the tank types and the armored cars shown.
At mark 12:50, we have a 7.5cm or 2.95 inch clear support infiltrate gun, easily manhandled into position. It is a handy weapon with a range of 4000yds and can fire 20 rounds a minute. Another infiltrate weapon is a type of mortar with 5cm or 2inch. Max range 500yards with 10rounds within 20seconds. At mark 14:15, we have a boat which helps to transport the troops. We also have at mark 14:24, a type of fire weapon. It can on be thrown 25 yards and can only last for 1 minute and is harmless unless directed straight at you. At mark 14:56, we also have pole charges which are like torpedoes. They are made of TNT attached to the poles. At mark 15:23, we have the German motorcycle troops which are completely mobile every cycle carries its mg-34. Also at mark 16:00, we have the cycle squadrons, with mg-34 strapped to their vehicle. They are also highly mobile.
At mark 16:28, we have the mg-34 being used. It has an accurate range of 3800yards. After firing shots first, crews carry the tool and move to another spot thereby avoiding been detected. It can be extended and can reach a range of 3000fts. They have to be changed after firing shots. They have devastating effects on crafts if been handled properly. At mark 17:42, we have the Ju-52, the German cargo plane. It has low speed and has to come down low to drop its paratroops. At mark 18:30, we have the troops with their parachute. The landing troops also carry their heavy artilleries with them at mark 19:38. These guns are reassembled and can be transported by crafts.
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[@TBreezy17]

Reminds me of the old American training film where they talk about the MG-42 and state ‘don’t worry boys, it’s bark is worse than it’s bite’

[@lucasc5622]

a bullet is a bullet, no matter how it sounds!

[@TBreezy17]

Lucas C couldn’t agree more!

[@Sturminfantrist]

@@lucasc5622 but the old 42 with 7.92x57 fires nearly 25 rounds per sec., we had the MG 3 in service during my servicetime and it was a recalibered MG42 with NATO 7.62x51 and it fired up to 20 shots per sec, being hit by 1 or 3,4 or more rounds makes the difference of life or death for you because the chance that you recived a fatal hit at a vital organ is higher

[@WesleyKwong]

@@Sturminfantrist I couldn't say much better (poor English)

[@elliotoliver123]

Haha I've seem that one also

[@mrc4910]

The 'periscopes' on upper turret corners are actually lifting hooks. If you don't know, then make it up. :)

[@Eckoolt]

Hmm, why they do that?lol

[@luvirini]

Because they assumed that the German tanks were more advanced than they were, so they looked at the tanks trying to spot the periscopes visually. And failed as the German tanks did not have such at that stage of the war.

[@Eckoolt]

@@luvirini Thanks, great answer

[@Bialy_1]

@@Eckoolt Germans and Bolsheviks copied Polish periscope after they invaded Poland in 1939 and captured Polish 7TP... "The Gundlach Periscope, usually known under its British designation as Vickers Tank Periscope MK.IV, was a revolutionary invention by Polish engineer Rudolf Gundlach, manufactured for Polish 7TP tanks since end of 1935 and patented in 1936 as Gundlach Peryskop obrotowy. It was the first device to allow the tank commander to have a 360-degree view from his turret with a single periscope." And they are showing here pictures from Polish invasion not to mention MG42 invented in? Yep, you guessed it 1942... So dont thank him for misinformation.

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

and those weird cones with flat bases on the top of early panzers are metallic environmentally friendly reusable ice cream cones

[@awol1561]

"Flamethrowers are harmless unless pointed straight at you" - LOL propaganda, those poor boys!

[@Rays_K]

Flamethrowers alone can heavily damage the troops morale, you can't have the narrator damage their morale even further haha.

[@PalleRasmussen]

He is not wrong though. But against a bunker... That is another matter.

[@awol1561]

@@jonasgrumby4393 REALLY?

[@aaronendo8150]

That shit back then was straight napalm lmao that just being around you is bad asf for your body as a whole

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

i mean unless you're in a jungle or within say 30 degrees of it you might be okay

[@88porpoise]

I like the advice on dealing with the pole bombs, “shoot up the bloke with the pole” classic

[@davidabbott1951]

Right up there with "stick 'em with the pointy end."

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

"Know your enemy: Italian equipment" is the same film played in the opposite direction at 2x speed.

[@Alan_Connor]

"Remember chaps, Italian tanks have 4 x reverse gears and 1 x forward gear in case they're attacked from behind" (Copyright Stan Boardman 1972)

[@ad220588]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kevinc8387]

Surplus Italian rifles for sale. Never fired only dropped once.

[@jacketrussell]

Don't you mean 'played in the opposite direction at twice the speed'?

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

@@jacketrussell thanks...I was half awake when I wrote that. I'm also half Italian....

[@notreallydavid]

'The cooperation of the OKW in the making of this film is gratefully acknowledged.'

[@mebeasensei]

Yeah, I was wondering why they let the British camera crews in on the action. Did they lend their cameras or offer to do processing for the Brits too?

[@matthewmoore5698]

We are so lucky because we are watching as enthusiasts and not up against them

[@Cyd99]

I can just picture the GI’s all packed into some room with this on a big projector in front of them… getting close to 100 years ago now

[@ericferguson9989]

"The Luftwaffe: The pride of that very large field marshal..." Understated fat shaming as only the Brits could muster.

[@nonnobissolum]

"If they're unevenly spaced, then they're definitely British..." But enough about British teeth....

[@gavinhudson5251]

Funny.

[@zeghetti595]

I’m dead

[@Calvbread]

Lol

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

British teeth are statistically better than US teeth actually, due to the fact they have a humane healthcare system.

[@JohnyG29]

Moron.

[@briandamage5677]

It looks like the Panzer III is actually another Panzer IV in the video. Oops.

[@andrealves2630]

Yes. They mistook the Panzer III for a Panzer IV ausf F

[@coachhannah2403]

Brian Damage - Si! Pz III = 3 pairs of bogeys, Pz IV = 4 pairs of bogies. Pz VI = Large bogies.

[@Sturminfantrist]

it is a early PzIV but late in the Film they showed a Pz III with 3.7 gun on move

[@yareyare_dechi]

could have been a III/IV

[@coachhannah2403]

CipiRipi00 - I was speaking of the visuals: 8 road wheels = Panzer 4; 6 road wheels = Panzer 3. 8/2=4; 6/2=3. Yes, the term “bogies” was technically incorrect, “pairs” would have been a better word. Sorry for the confusion. Small-batch variants don’t make the newsreels often enough. I am more of a forest guy, not a tree guy... But, a quick visual shows the III/IV/VIe all to be from the same plan, and V/VIb/Maus from the next plan. For all their technical finicity, Germans were not functionally that creative.

[@hideshisface1886]

Note how they mix the footage of Panzer III and IV, or how they mistake a Panzer II autocannon for a heavy MG, or when it shows not existing periscopes on Panzer I Makes you think about the quality of intelligence back in the day and how it could cost good people their lives - not knowing the proper capabilities of enemy equipment and such. I mean, really - the autocannon on Panzer II had roughly the double penetrating power of an average heavy MG, so the cover useful against MG fire could be useless against it. Same with Panzer III and IV mistake - they were already quite similar to one another for an untrained eye. And mistaking the two would be lethal - given that early Panzer IV was a dedicated support vehicle with low velocity 75mm gun, posing far greater threat to infantry. Mistaking that stubby bastard for a 37 or 50mm gun could spell death. To be honest - Panzer III and IV were already tricky ones, given how Germans were constantly upgrading them throughout the war - often with very little visual distinction between the variants. Both tanks more than tripled their armour protection throughout the war. Say - British Boys AT rifle could penetrate the front armour of earliest Panzer III and IV variants, but even relatively early upgraded versions were pretty much immune to their fire from the front. Only sides and read would be viable, and later in war, even those would be too tough. Guys from the intelligence services had one hell of a nightmarish job to do, honestly.

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

Thats a good analysis on your part

[@scinto23]

Gotta say, I'm impressed how well that half track did in the snow.

[@seanmccann8368]

Half tracks were pretty good vehicles, especially the SdKfz250/251 series which had track braking to help with steering.

[@jerryjeromehawkins1712]

I'd love to see the Panzerspahwagen tackle some deep snow with its 8 wheel drive. 👍🏽 10:00

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 I think the "Road-Panzer" of Minute ~8 are handsome. How about going shopping at a walmart with that thing? Or driving throu New York inner city with that beast. Looks much better then a lousy USA-"Hummer" in my opinion... xD By the way - you can write ä, ü, ö as ae, ue, oe so - Panzerspaehwagen = Panzerspähwagen. Or Maerklin... (Märklin - but I think Gilbert Amercian Flyer S gauge Locos are better xD This gauge was called by Märklin as "H1" for half gauge 1, but they were only prototypes before the war 1939. My favorite gauge is O or 0 zero, simply the technics of AF trains are better.) Herzliche Grüße! Géréon

[@DavidMcMillan888]

I suppose driver motivated by Russian army on his tail out of Moscow.

[@ratscoot]

Reminds me when we had NBC training in the army, early nineties. They claimed biological weapons arn't dangerous as long as you only consumed army suplied food and water. Yeah right.

[@Sturminfantrist]

i served 79/80 they gave us decontamination Kits with soap (gel) to clean up all the C Typ kontaminations like Tabun Sarin VX or whatever, i woundered that is was so easy to clean up all this dangerous Stuff/substances. And then the Atropininjection in the Kit to save our lives after contamination with nerve gas, i think it was nothing more then a placebo. we had a gaschamber ( a lil barrack) to test the fit of the Gasmask it was filled with CS Gas and i remember well how long this stuff stuck in my uniform, nearly a half hour after i left the chamber i had tears in my eyes and i cough and retching, now imagine it was VX and not CS

[@ratscoot]

@@Sturminfantrist Indeed, we had a so called powder glove to wipe off all toxic chemicals. It was a giant glove covered with white powder that looked like talcum powder. The atropin kit was a metal container rod with a giant needle on it, glad we had to test that lol. The only equipment i woult trust was the full NBC suit but i can't imagine how you can eat or take a dump with that thing on.

[@enema6222]

ratscoot you wouldn’t need to do that if you had to use that equipment anyways

[@MentalParadox]

Hide under a desk to survive a nuclear blast.

[@Scott-gt6od]

68-70 phoniex program

[@randallwong7196]

Yeah don't worry about those flamethrowers too much, they're just to scare you.

[@Gravity_studioss]

The 8-wheel armored cars look so modern and out-of-place

[@oilers_fan_77]

I’m studying these videos, they’ll come in handy for 2039

[@funposting8912]

Opa’s gonna be pulling his MP40 out of the attic a hell of a lot earlier than that, I’m afraid

[@cuyohistoriador2858]

(O_O) *Glup*

[@DesolationAngel101]

"Aim for the vision slits hyear, and the periscope hyear."

[@Otokichi786]

Unleash the PIATs! (If you dare.)

[@electronicfarts5105]

Then we will Tally Ho and have some tea!

[@egomaniac247]

I read this in Eric Cartman's voice.

[@bill6735]

Oh .. with the bi-pod the range is ONLY 2000 yards.

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

yeah the devs made it so rounds disappear after 2,000 yards and you cant target anyone past that. they added it in the 1938 hotfix

[@clorox821]

@@JohnsonTheSecond i feel like i saw you on the original panzerlied song talking about the maus from war thunder

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

@@clorox821 i dunno but im not a wehraboo, if i was it was probably me smack talking it or maybe something about there being potentially maybe one being used in combat irl

[@fultonjohnsonaton5096]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKbZeJSLqrt_esU haha exactly !

[@rfletch62]

I feel safer already.

[@malkavianstr450]

No mention of the 38(t). Witch incidentally has the large, unevenly spaced road wheels described as identifying features of British tanks.

[@luvirini]

The British had to mostly base their information before the attack to France on prewar things as not much info had made it back from the Polish campaign and the Fighting in Norway did not involve many armored vehicles.

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

38(t) was quite rare in its original form past 1941/2

[@repak05]

also not good to tell your soldiers enemy has another type of tank which would fight on your side if you wouldnt force your ally to surender without single shot...

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

@@repak05 how does somebody 'force an ally to surrender without firing a shot'? surely they have a mind of their own?

[@repak05]

@@Ukraineaissance2014 its easy... Just be sure your ally cant defend without your help, then sign the dictate which order him to surender his border areas where most of defensive positions is situated and without it, the defense againts much bigger army is impossible. Then force your ally to agree with it, just threat him he will be agressor if he reject and will fight. Your ally will have choice to ignore you, will be marked as agressor and guilty by start of war... Or he will just surender when nobody who promissed him help did not come and britain and france just let him fall...

[@tundralou]

Viewers are just too critical of mistakes-I just enjoy the information and the video.

[@electrolytics]

Exactly. Everybody is a flippin' expert.

[@TRUMP_WAS_RIGHT_ABOUT_EVRYTHNG]

But if it's wrong 🤔. It should be called out .

[@andersonrobotics5608]

some is wrong in hindsight and in a time where we no longer have to assure ourselves that these tanks hopefully wont kill us its a fun snapshot into how ww2 training was though

[@seanmccann8368]

Some are mistakes, some is just bullshit to make the Brit soldiers believe they could tackle the Germans at a huge advantage and walk over them. "Don't you know their equipment is just rubbish beside ours old chap? Just cheap foreign muck, not at all comparable to our excellent British weapons (some of which was licence produced foreign muck). There's a good chap, toddle over and teach Jerry some manners, cheerio!"

[@mliittsc63]

If you don't like the comments just ignore them. Criticism of mistakes is a good thing, that's how things improve. Praising incompetence encourages more incompetence. Nobody is trying to spoil your fun. We don't all have to agree.

[@worddunlap]

Harmless flame throwers...and they promise :)

[@redorchestra30]

I would worry more about those 34's than the flamethrowers, unless I was a japanese soldiers in a cave with no intentions to surrender

[@Steve_1999]

I'd be more scared wearing that flamethrower with those tanks strapped on my back.

[@roysterfutrell8889]

They were pretty effective against the Japanese in the Pacific.

[@knunyabeasewhacks8744]

@@Steve_1999 don't have to be a good aim with a flame thrower.

[@informitas0117]

"Harmless unless aimed straight at you" *me sitting in my bunker smirking and remembering what the movie said*

[@sirschebling]

That's interesting. Until now, I only knew that the Brits called the Pz.I, II etc "Mark I", II... Never heard the term "Type I" before...

[@TheAiurica]

This is an american movie, not a british one. And was made for americans GI training. So he's using yankee slang .. "Type I" instead of british slang "Mark I" :)

[@sirschebling]

No it isn't? The description specifically states it was made by the British Paramount News for the Ministry of Information..

[@TheAiurica]

They why he speak with such an american accent?

[@sirschebling]

That is not an American accent. Not at all. Infact, it's so obviously British, I'm staggered to hear you can't identify it...

[@robashton8606]

@Cipi Ripi "American accent"? Are you deaf, or is it simply that you don't know what you're talking about? The narrator's voice is about as British as it gets.

[@thomasconrad7998]

"Their weight is 800 weight"

[@stephendilks4507]

not 800 weight but 8 hundredweight, abbreviated 8 cwt. a cwt 112 pounds. cwt were an old imperial measurement for weight. 20 cwt = 1 imperial ton

[@jamesharding3459]

It’s actually 8 hundredweight, or about 800 lbs.

[@ARC--Fives-ro5hj]

I was looking for this comment

[@matthewwagner47]

"If your confused on where to aim or stick your bayonet? GUT HIM.! " Love it....

[@Nooziterp1]

As it showed a paratrooper falling as if shot, wasn't it 'got him'?

[@klausbinn777]

I think the narrator is, also, for comedic effect, suggesting you stick the chap in the jacksie. They don’t like it up’em!

[@myplane150]

I'm curious to when this was made as it is painfully wrong with many of the weapons, especially the tanks.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

myplane150 probably made before much German equipment had been captured and assessed.

[@PalleRasmussen]

@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 I estimate early 42, but can be late 41.

[@timothypalmer5846]

They didn't mention my 42, so it was early in war

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Late 1940. There are Battle of Britain scrap yards for Luftwaffe planes at end. The winter scenes are Battle of Norway (April 1940, before B of B).

[@quineloe]

@@DataWaveTaGo and all they had to work with what German propaganda snippets, as they had no opportunity to analyze any captured equipment yet.

[@randallwong7196]

The Luftwaffe....the pride of that very large field marshall.

[@stevetheduck1425]

It took a four-engined airliner to move him and his drinks cabinet about Germany...

[@TheGor54]

Fire is harmless, unless your on fire...

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

xD

[@guidor.4161]

A very interesting early Spitfire MK 1 with 2-bladed Watts wooden prop in some of the footage. Also, did you catch the French MS 406 fighters at 21:08?

[@jayg1438]

some of this footage is great!

[@williamjc7195]

heavy machine gun? 20mm cannon?

[@robertanvilrm]

ya its still a machine gun just the same as 40mm bofors is the largest machine gun you can own in the states

[@luvirini]

The nomenclature around 20mm is quite varied. Mostly they are called autocannons, but not consistently by all forces. Sometimes there are even conflicting naming in the same period and same country. As example the German MG 151/20 (Maschinengewehr 151 in 20mm), and the 2 cm KwK 30(2 cm Kampfwagenkanone)..

[@ARC--Fives-ro5hj]

Robert McNeilage Bofors!!

[@geyotepilkington2892]

@Zorica Tasic no he didnt

[@shockwave6213]

Back then, the line between a cannon and machine gun wasn't so clear cut. From what I can tell, if it was what we refer to as an autocannon, then it may come down to its role.

[@notlikely4468]

That was the motto of the Medical Corps "Know your enema" In contrast to the Dental Corps "This is my rifle And these are my gums"

[@isaacg2886]

"remember, if it's not even, it's ours" lol that's comforting

[@IntyMichael]

Shoot the paratroopers when they landing...reminds me of Operation Market Garden.

[@pagansmc13]

paratroopers can be shot while in the air

[@Bialy_1]

@@pagansmc13 "Attacks on parachutists, as defined by the law of war, is when pilots, aircrews, and passengers are attacked while descending by parachute from disabled aircraft during wartime. This practice is considered by most militaries around the world to be inhumane, as the attacked personnel would eventually become POWs if parachuted over enemy territory. Attacking parachutists from aircraft in distress is a war crime under the Protocol I addition to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Firing on airborne forces who are descending by parachute is not prohibited."

[@PalleRasmussen]

Crete. And as mentioned, paras are legal targets.

[@v4enthusiast541]

Biały- This refers to airplane pilots/crew, that’s different from direct enemy combatants/paratroopers.

[@pagansmc13]

okay guys, let me break this down simply- if a combatant is USING A PARACHUTE TO SAVE HIS LIFE- U CANT SHOOT AT HIM TIL HE HITS THE GROUND.( pilots, etc) if he is using a parachute AS A MEANS TO GET TO THE BATTLEFIELD, U CAN SHOOT HIM IN THE AIR (paratroopers, etc)

[@jamesm.taylor6928]

This answer some questions I've been curious about for some time now. For one I noticed that I've never seen a German paratrooper with a reserve chute. Also their single point attachment point where all the parachute riders attach right in the middle of their back making the risers completely out of reach seems to going them around quite a bit and I was thinking of it didn't settle down that it would mean you could never know what position would be when you land. I would think that would lead to lots of landing injuries, broken equipment ect.. Well it said here the Germans would never drop above 300 or 400 feet specifically due to the weird harness. If they drop higher they would drift all over the place because they didn't even have the minimal control afforded to the allies when they manipulate their risers, located right in easy reach at their shoulders. So they are forced to drop that low for minimum wind and to try to keep them on target and concentrated. The German harness also caused their wild swinging and led to many injuries on landing because you couldn't tell the position you were going to hit. That's why no reserves because dropping so low there's no point. If the main has problems they're dead anyway. (To look at how many they're losing through failures like that just look at the film of the allies landing. Quite a few of them land under their reserves with the main chute all tangled around them (this was before they invented the cut always to completely release the main chute before deploying the reserve to avoid it tangling with and fouling the reserve chute that's trying to deploy through it, even when the reserve would deploy fine the tangled main could drown them if they land in water or cause other problems, better to get rid of it alltogather). These low drops also.made the transport aircraft very vulnerable to ground fire. The germans lost so.many extremely valuable transports, that they couldn't make any more of by that time, that they disbanded the paratrooper forces. The operations they undertook cost the Germans 40 percent of their transport aircraft, a loss that would prove devastating later when the Luftwaffe was trying to keep the army at Stalingrad supplied. Ironically the allies were very impressed with the results of the German paratroopers and quickly raised their own capability. With American resources behind it, and different methods and equip they were able to get much better results and could easily replace anything lost operationally where the Germans just could not. I will never understand, with the German mania to overengineer everything why it was they accepted something so obviously flawed and inferior. Yet they never even tried to change things. I guess that means they were never really all that not on the whole concept. In any case it was over and done with by forty one where the a!kids were just getting started.

[@sarkybugger5009]

When you're jumping at 400 feet, you don't get time to ditch your main and pull a reserve before the ground intervenes.

[@justarandomtechpriest1578]

@@sarkybugger5009 that's what he said and 2 You don't have time to just deploy a reserve and not cut the main

[@sirllamaiii9708]

I'd reckon after Crete they decided to not improve or change it since they'd use them in very limited capacity from there on

[@davidhbrown9767]

@@sirllamaiii9708 They never used paratroopers to any great extent after Crete. Lucky for the Allies. The world was quite lucky Germany had Goering and Hitler in charge, really. Had they listened to their military commanders the world would be a very different place today. The German military was the most capable fighting force of its time. Hitler's qualifications were Corporal. Corporals don't make decisions about strategy and deployment, BUT Hitler did and he had the Gestapo to make sure the generals did what they were told. Any deviation would likely mean a swift death by firing squad, or a forced suicide by Luger.

[@mliittsc63]

US and UK often jumped at 400 feet, though supposedly by mistake; not sure how one makes that kind of mistake. Altitude doesn't really help with AA, unless you get above 20,000 feet, in which case your paratroops ore going to land in the neighboring country. The AA vulnerability is mostly due to the planes being very slow, but there is a limit to how fast you can drop paras. There seems to be mixed opinions as to whether low drops are good or bad. They keep the stick together, but increase 'chute deployment problems. The worst thing the Germans did was to jump without their rifles and machine guns. Those were dropped in a separate container. Truly and inexplicably moronic. That's what killed them on Crete. They landed with pistols only.

[@jerryjeromehawkins1712]

10:00... Panzerspahwagen. 8 wheel drive 8 wheel steering Front and rear driving compartments Fantastic vehicle.

[@scottleft3672]

I love how they equate it with hunting game. 18:58...LOL.

[@lancethompson6839]

Panzer IV misidentified as Panzer III, but otherwise great old training film.

[@djorgen104]

Always amused by the way British organization try to claim ownership and copyright of WW2-era video footage for which the crown copyright expired no later than 1995...

[@philup4947]

it is not video buy film

[@MisanthropicOcellus]

I love the phrasing "if you should come up against them" as if it wasnt guaranteed

[@jdisdetermined]

Those little mini tanks are adorable.. 😁

[@r.j.lombardi111]

Just don't feed them after midnight.

[@jdisdetermined]

@@r.j.lombardi111 Hahaha. 😁👌

[@r.j.lombardi111]

@@jdisdetermined they turn into Tigers...

[@jdisdetermined]

@@r.j.lombardi111 😲😲

[@Andernol]

19:00 "ladies and gentlemen, we got'im"

[@HFran05]

need to know how to deal with them germans in post scriptum XD

[@Mr_Fancypants]

I'l take one of those bycicles with a mg on it.

[@scjvz04d5]

Next time I am in ww2 again I know my enemy I love these videos

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@danielgreen3715]

What an excellent narration The Chap in his matter of fact way telling how best to Bring these Beasts down as if you were on the plains of Africa and Hunting Game!

[@jayg1438]

It's really quite simple old boy 😆

[@danielgreen3715]

@@jayg1438 oi Less o the 'old'!!😆😆

[@STROONZONY]

i always fire my SP1 at slits between turret and hull.

[@MrLotrecht]

"Visionschlitz" the best word.

[@CrownOfBloodOfficial]

Know your enemy “ ALLIED FORCES EQUIPMENTS WW2” Where do I get this 👆🏻!!!

[@dg7708]

The film reels were probably burned during the battle of Berlin.

[@martonlaszlo4002]

2:07 Their weight is 800 weight.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Private77459 1 hundredweight (1 cwt) is equal to 112 Imperial pounds.

[@mickk8519]

@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 yep, or 8 stone.

[@dasgesicht6000]

Seems a bit heavy though...

[@pennzilla57soviets]

15 hrs ago I stumbled upon this channel...now I know how to stop those damn Jerry's in their slimy tracks!

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

a north german here, great that you now found out how to do it xD !

[@rickhigson3881]

Thanks!

[@alexanderchenf1]

I guess those GIs that really got traced by MG42 all wanted to beat up the movie makers.

[@flitsertheo]

This is earlier war footage, with most Panzers still being dark grey. The British were still thinking the Pz IV was the largest threat they would meet. That didn't age well.

[@frostedbutts4340]

Brit intellegence was pretty good and they weren't dumb enough to think German tanks wouldn't improve.. but no need to tell the lads that

[@CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl]

The type 3 is actually an early Mark IV. The Mark III didn't have a short 75 mm gun till later in the war. Also the track was different.

[@fidziek]

funny film, I like that British sense of humour...

[@ldmitruk]

Imagine, the use of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance as background music :)

[@RichardKinch]

That piece was written to be a military theme, as in warrior pomp in the circumstance of victory.

[@dsrleader1563]

Great film

[@flitsertheo]

8:01 'you can tell ours by the large bogie wheels" . The Pz 38(t) had very similar wheels to this tank.

[@user-eq4fe7zu9b]

The Pz 38(t) was not a German tank.

[@flitsertheo]

@@user-eq4fe7zu9b No it was built in Czechia which was under German control since 1938. It was also the Germans who turned it into SP guns (Marder III) and tankhunters (Hetzer) once the tank itself had become obsolete.

[@dracmeister]

19:01 Got 'em

[@jakobmuller4197]

Thats not a Type 4! Das ist ein Panzerkampfwagen 4 Ausführung D

[@burnheretic3950]

Keep in mind these videos were made to inspire confidence in those watching. Not scare the shit out of them.

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Man them Dutchlanders had some interesting stuff back then, never knew, thought it was all windmills, canals and farms. Interesting. Thanks for sharing 👉👍

[@vinz4066]

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[@ledlabz7840]

Very interesting footage

[@jakartagamer6188]

can't believe they calling my brothers in the wrong names

[@dsrleader1563]

These vids are so great

[@mliittsc63]

It's a bad sign when your instructional films on tank identification identify the tanks incorrectly. Pretty lame to go through the trouble of having an arrow pointing at a "3.7 cm" cannon that is obviously quite a bit larger than 3.7 cm. I assume at some point somebody told the new guys to ignore this stuff.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The 3.7 centimetre tank gun is about the same as the British 2-pounder tank and anti-tank gun, and both were arguably useless by the beginning of WWII. The 'heavy machine gun' mentioned in the 'type 2' (Panzerkampfwagen II) is actually a 20mm automatic cannon using explosive rounds and quite useful even by the end of WWII, as it was standard in some vehicles and aircraft right to the end. The 'type 3' is not known to have had a number of different numbers of road wheels as mentioned in the vid, but the Panzer III or IV were from the same designer and had different lengths, and the Panzer III and IV were both up-gunned as the war went on; 37mm, 50mm and even 75mm.

[@trevormillar1576]

Sd kfz 244 reminds me of the SPV from Captain Scarlet.

[@autumnmissepic8498]

its fun looking at the difrences between the us training films and the british ones

[@peckelhaze6934]

How can you mistake liiifting hooks for periscopes? The PzKpfw III was a IV.

[@lisocampos8080]

So cordial. The enemy is attacking! Time for tea.

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

xD 4 o'clock cheerio! Big Ben is saying good night... (btw. a great grammophone disc 78rpm i have with that title, yes cordial - true)

[@G__Brtz]

who else uses this for and other training videos for sharp your videogame skills?

[@redorchestra30]

Actually I was surprised how little belittling and name calling of the enemy was present. But then it is training material and not pure propaganda for the masses of drones.

[@flitsertheo]

This was shot in the early stages of the war and the British were not exactly winning at that point so they had to restrain a little bit.

[@Hairysteed]

Did they not know the difference between PzIII and IV?

[@andrealves2630]

Intelligence is a complicated matter. It is difficult to obtain 100% accurate information, so mistakes like this happen all the time

[@LaVictoireEstLaVie]

there are panzer 3s with 5 6 and 8 wheels. This does make it confusing.

[@rabidlemur42]

When the narrator kept stating fire types he said SAA and AP. I'm assuming AP is armor piercing, is SAA Small Arms fire?

[@willievanhetkerkhof286]

What Brand are these dive bombers diving in the sea?? 20:40

[@AntonyThorburn]

a film to program..... as always.

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

rich are the poor in the spirit - Reich sind die Armen im Geiste = you are lucky if you are too stupid...

[@DCS_World_Japan]

"Their weight is 800 weight..." When was "weight" a unit of measurement and what exactly is it?

[@COIcultist]

Clutch. hundredweight or cwt. 112llb UK (100llb US & Canada) 50.802Kg, 20 cwt equals 1 imperial Ton.

[@BeingFireRetardant]

@Cw Sayre _____ I buy my milk in Imperial gallons, but weigh my girlfriends in stones. But I always have trouble between my quid and my pounds sterling... I'll just take my sixpence and see myself out.

[@mickk8519]

Clutch, it should be 8 "hundred weight." Hundred weight is a term for a particular weight, and 8 hundred weight is 8 times that weight. A 1 hundred weight is 112 pounds, or 8 stone (14 imperial pounds to the stone), therefore, 8 hundred weight is 896 pounds or 64 stone. Equivalent to 406.4 kilograms. Easy when you're an old fart like me that still remembers it lol.

[@georgeandlek]

8 hundredweight (112lbs) 896 pounds weight about 402.25 kilos

[@West_Coast_Gang]

20:16 DAMN

[@australianmade2659]

Maybe this is a silly questions but could you shoot Tyres on the cars or were they not reliant on air?

[@s.sestric9929]

The tanks had solid rubber tires on their wheels. This was to prevent excessive wear on the tracks.

[@LuisRamos-ou8zb]

Different armies had different types of tires. German vehicles had solid rubber tires, while American vehicle combat tires had a metal tire posed in such a way that if you blew the tire rubber part, the trucks and cannons using them would still be riding on the metal tire.

[@komabot5285]

On german side there was a "Tigerfibel" or "Pantherfibel",a little manual for the Tank crew. In it there is also described how to determinate if a specific ground is capable to drive through with the named tanks. sIMPLY PUT A COMRADE ON UR BACK AND STAND ON ONE FOOT: iF U DONT SINK IN U CAN DRIVE..oh, caps lock was on. Sry to shout at you.

[@midnightchannel4332]

was that a fat joke at 20:14

[@jameshoberg1609]

Thank you for your research

[@DavidMcMillan888]

There’s a tone of optimism thrown out in the narration but worryingly, a feeling our troops didn’t have loads of top equipment. “Use your rifle at the tank’s vision port.” Er, okay.

[@juliantheapostate8295]

The smarter recruits will be wondering why the video is so keen to stress how easy it is to handle enemy aircraft.....

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

It seems that hitting the treads of tracked vehicles is not mentioned--I would think that if the treads are damaged, the tank is immobilized

[@kirkstinson7316]

Yes if a heavy enough round is used. Here they are talking about rifle caliber ammunition and armour piercing ammo. The Boys anti tank gun could probably break a track link though

[@JB-rt4mx]

Where are the galley amd toilet parlour located ?

[@edtrine8692]

The 3.7cm was also called the door knocker lol

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

who's there? xD cheerio! Time for tea xD.

[@walkergargagliano142]

"shoot up the bloke with the pole". CLASSIC

[@randallbelstra7228]

MG 34 and MG 42's, unless set up in a bunker with multiple ammo boxes and multiple barrels, were no better than a Bren gun or BAR. 1300 rounds a minute meant five barrel changes and the infantry squad would be unarmed in 45 seconds.

[@kenoliver8913]

Clearly quite early in the war - Pk1s were not used except for training after 1940, and PK2s were always rare (with that light tank role being filled by the Czech T38). And the Tiger Mk1, Panther and 88 had not arrived.

[@quineloe]

8.8 flak was already deployed in France and shot down a fair number of Matilda II tanks. It's baffling it didn't make it into the video. Surely the British must have known by then...

[@feastguy101]

I think this predates May 1940. There is footage from Poland and Norway, but not France. Probably meant for the BEF… poor bastards. Edit: no, wait, it was after the Battle of Britain

[@88porpoise]

Panzer Is were used extensively through 1941. Panzer IIs were, by far, the most numerous tank in the invasion of France and it was still extremely common by the time of Barbarossa (certainly more common than the 38(t). And the 88 was used in Spain, although the dedicated AT gun version would be some time the Flask was absolutely designed to be used in that role. But, at the same time, your average infantryman probably won't need to worry about identifying one. The small guns featured in this video are ones that would be right on the front, an 88 should be further back than that.

[@PalleRasmussen]

Nice to see what the Brit's knew and told their troops in early 42.

[@flitsertheo]

And then the Tiger appeared.

[@PalleRasmussen]

@@flitsertheo look! I found the wehraboo!

[@trevormillar1576]

Actually the JU52 was originally designed as a civilian airliner, at the stsry of the war Hitler nationalised Lufthsnsa anf commsndeered theit aircraft, stripping out all thr fittings anf tutning thrm into paratroop and cargo transports.

[@paultw4670]

Interesting, below the UK Lion is the iron cross, makes you wonder how the cameramen got all the footage.

[@Konstantin-nl4pp]

19:01 God eem

[@ThunderBuddy]

Where did they get the footage of the German equipment to make the film in the first place.

[@frisianprideworldwide]

German propaganda i guess

[@nstl440]

They got it from blitztorrent

[@punkbloater]

19:00 Pop, Got’im! 😂

[@7isAnOddNumber]

8:07 Love it when the British admit how bad they are at engineering tanks

[@immortowelz]

Jesus Christ its Jason Bourne Sr! 1:03

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

I like how the German uniforms practically looked like suits

[@stephenarling1667]

Made those Germans look like Bosses.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

@@stephenarling1667 me and mein boys sitting in mein kamphy chair playing Meinkraft

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

@deee 327 yeah everybody gangsta till Fritz blows down the door in his Panzer III with the best drip

[@nstl440]

Hugo Boss helps them fight in style

[@vinnydaq13]

Imagine what U.S. uniforms made by J. Peterman would look like....puffy pirate shirts, anyone?

[@Lerch-zc3ww]

100 bucks says the narrator had and excellent mustache.

[@cosiDIVerso]

8:50 whats the name of that vehicle?

[@sarkybugger5009]

George.