Britains Controversial Desert Campaign Desert Generals Timeline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Charles
El Alamein occurred before Stalingrad, & the incensed Adolf's order ''Win or die! '' made him divert more troops to North Africa instead of to Stalingrad. Moreover the encircled nazis at Stalingrad would have broken out and destroyed Zhukov's forces, were it not for the same tombstone-set order.
If the British had not held fast at Alamein, Rommel would have broken through to the Caucasus and joined hands with the German mountain troops who just conquered the Elbrus summit, and seized the Caspian Sea oil. For a reminder, while Stalingrad's was still in the balance, a Wehrmacht motorized raiding column reached Astrakhan setting aflame an oil refinery (Standard-Oil-built) and came back without encountering one Rus.
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El Alamein occurred before Stalingrad, & the incensed Adolf's order ''Win or die! '' made him divert more troops to North Africa instead of to Stalingrad. Moreover the encircled nazis at Stalingrad would have broken out and destroyed Zhukov's forces, were it not for the same tombstone-set order.
If the British had not held fast at Alamein, Rommel would have broken through to the Caucasus and joined hands with the German mountain troops who just conquered the Elbrus summit, and seized the Caspian Sea oil. For a reminder, while Stalingrad's was still in the balance, a Wehrmacht motorized raiding column reached Astrakhan setting aflame an oil refinery (Standard-Oil-built) and came back without encountering one Rus.
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Guy
The battle of Gazala - poor history: Bir Hirchem did not fall immediately. That's why the German supply lines were extended. The Germans rather formed a defensive position against the British minefields to the west. After the minefields were quickly cleared in their rear and supplies brought through them, the British attacked, perhaps in an uncoordinated fashion, and the Germans destroyed their armor while on the defensive. Resupplied and owning the battlefield, they broke out from the Cauldron and raced for Tobruk. How can one discuss the battle of Gazala without using the word Cauldron?
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The battle of Gazala - poor history: Bir Hirchem did not fall immediately. That's why the German supply lines were extended. The Germans rather formed a defensive position against the British minefields to the west. After the minefields were quickly cleared in their rear and supplies brought through them, the British attacked, perhaps in an uncoordinated fashion, and the Germans destroyed their armor while on the defensive. Resupplied and owning the battlefield, they broke out from the Cauldron and raced for Tobruk. How can one discuss the battle of Gazala without using the word Cauldron?
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Mickey
It's not exclusively that Rommel was a military genius and a FOX, but more importantly, he had a lot of military EXPERIENCE WHICH MADE THINGS A LOT EASIER for him. Also, Germans historically a combative culture, had accumulated throughout history great military insight, particularly against the Roman empire. Additionally, Germans had prepared his soldiers since infancy for military confrontation. Moreover, Germans had also accumulated, way ahead of time, a plethora of financial resources designed for future military endeavors.
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It's not exclusively that Rommel was a military genius and a FOX, but more importantly, he had a lot of military EXPERIENCE WHICH MADE THINGS A LOT EASIER for him. Also, Germans historically a combative culture, had accumulated throughout history great military insight, particularly against the Roman empire. Additionally, Germans had prepared his soldiers since infancy for military confrontation. Moreover, Germans had also accumulated, way ahead of time, a plethora of financial resources designed for future military endeavors.
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Mark
Yes the British sent the 4th. 7th and 22nd Arm-Brigades in different directions however each brig was equal in tank strength to the German and Italian tanks combined add in the RTR (Matildas) and the British tanks out numbered the Afrika Kore 4 to 1
While the 7th Arm-Brig was getting pummeled the 22nd Arm-Brig sat by licking it's wounds sustained by the Italian Arietta Div. the 4th had been beaten badly earlier, instead of massing their armor they allowed the Afrika Kore tp beat them one by one,
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Yes the British sent the 4th. 7th and 22nd Arm-Brigades in different directions however each brig was equal in tank strength to the German and Italian tanks combined add in the RTR (Matildas) and the British tanks out numbered the Afrika Kore 4 to 1
While the 7th Arm-Brig was getting pummeled the 22nd Arm-Brig sat by licking it's wounds sustained by the Italian Arietta Div. the 4th had been beaten badly earlier, instead of massing their armor they allowed the Afrika Kore tp beat them one by one,
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Bruce
Watching this is like watching the Britain I have known all my life, born in 1949, all my life Britain has been a nation that doesn't know if its coming or going, lurching from crisis to crisis right up until the present time, how it pays its way in the world is beyond me since they wiped out all their manufacturing in an orgy of Union Labor Socialist anarchy back in the 60's and 70's.
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Watching this is like watching the Britain I have known all my life, born in 1949, all my life Britain has been a nation that doesn't know if its coming or going, lurching from crisis to crisis right up until the present time, how it pays its way in the world is beyond me since they wiped out all their manufacturing in an orgy of Union Labor Socialist anarchy back in the 60's and 70's.
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education
Yeah. forget the eastern front where over 200 hundred german divisions were engaged at a time and remember the west where we faced no more than 9 divisions lol. WHAT A JOKE. I HATE OUR PROPAGANDA and seriously Africa was a pointless sideshow for the germans with little to no value compared to there other fronts.
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Yeah. forget the eastern front where over 200 hundred german divisions were engaged at a time and remember the west where we faced no more than 9 divisions lol. WHAT A JOKE. I HATE OUR PROPAGANDA and seriously Africa was a pointless sideshow for the germans with little to no value compared to there other fronts.
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Jose
What about the logistics for the Axis, two German divisions and six or seven Italians and three need to garrison the territory captured and how would the oil get back to Italy and Germany? As Britain commanded the seas? Lost the war, not the empire was at risk and thus Indian the jewel in the crown.
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What about the logistics for the Axis, two German divisions and six or seven Italians and three need to garrison the territory captured and how would the oil get back to Italy and Germany? As Britain commanded the seas? Lost the war, not the empire was at risk and thus Indian the jewel in the crown.
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Eddie
The turning point was not Stalingrad? In a battle with an army size four times the Afrika Korps? In a battle that could have ended up giving the Nazis a whole continent with more raw materials and resources than any other country? Who wrote the intro of this video? Apparently not an historian.
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The turning point was not Stalingrad? In a battle with an army size four times the Afrika Korps? In a battle that could have ended up giving the Nazis a whole continent with more raw materials and resources than any other country? Who wrote the intro of this video? Apparently not an historian.
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waz
This is a ghastly and woefully pro British chest beating documentary - much in the same vein it accuses Montgomery of being. Which is ironic. It dreadfully overlooks the key contributions of Commonwealth units. Australian troops under Lt General Leslie Morshead held Tobruk for almost six months.
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This is a ghastly and woefully pro British chest beating documentary - much in the same vein it accuses Montgomery of being. Which is ironic. It dreadfully overlooks the key contributions of Commonwealth units. Australian troops under Lt General Leslie Morshead held Tobruk for almost six months.
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Soizic
In any documentary about Rommel and his alleged formidable skills in the battlefield they always forget to mention that the Germans had broken the American embassys code and had advanced knowledge of British plans. Once the Americans fixed their error Rommel started losing again.
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In any documentary about Rommel and his alleged formidable skills in the battlefield they always forget to mention that the Germans had broken the American embassys code and had advanced knowledge of British plans. Once the Americans fixed their error Rommel started losing again.
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Gordon
This documentary is not very accurate - as most of the victorious British soldiers at El Alamein were not Irish but were in fact Liverpudlians and Scots. And neither Auchinleck nor Montgomery were Irish - Auchinleck was born in Hampshire - and Montgomery was born in Surrey.
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This documentary is not very accurate - as most of the victorious British soldiers at El Alamein were not Irish but were in fact Liverpudlians and Scots. And neither Auchinleck nor Montgomery were Irish - Auchinleck was born in Hampshire - and Montgomery was born in Surrey.
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Jacob
What a sorry documentary, told by a supposed colonel, that has the nerve to make comments like forget Stalingrad. If you want to see a truly gold standart of WW2 documentary, try The World At War. It's a BBC production from 1973, partly told by people who was actually there.
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What a sorry documentary, told by a supposed colonel, that has the nerve to make comments like forget Stalingrad. If you want to see a truly gold standart of WW2 documentary, try The World At War. It's a BBC production from 1973, partly told by people who was actually there.
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David
Good video, but having it narrated by an actual UK solider who has skin in the game detracts from it's reliability and value. Would you rely on the narrative provided by one of Rommel's staff to be accurate when describing Rommel's north African campaign?
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Good video, but having it narrated by an actual UK solider who has skin in the game detracts from it's reliability and value. Would you rely on the narrative provided by one of Rommel's staff to be accurate when describing Rommel's north African campaign?
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Thomas
Somehow Harold Alexander was left out of this pantheon of colorful Irish Protestent generals. Check out Captain Rick Jacobs Kasserine Pass video at 7: 21 to see Alexander in a GERMAN Landswehr uniform. Hey, wars are where you find them.
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Somehow Harold Alexander was left out of this pantheon of colorful Irish Protestent generals. Check out Captain Rick Jacobs Kasserine Pass video at 7: 21 to see Alexander in a GERMAN Landswehr uniform. Hey, wars are where you find them.
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Bruce
Today Britain is such a basket case that it relies on the Chinese and French to build their new nuclear plants, Germans to build their cars, Indians to resurrect their motorbike industry, a lazy slothful incompetant people.
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Today Britain is such a basket case that it relies on the Chinese and French to build their new nuclear plants, Germans to build their cars, Indians to resurrect their motorbike industry, a lazy slothful incompetant people.
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getredytagetredy
Fighting that Zionist land grab proxy war for the GHW Bush Criminal Cabal. to install a central Rothschild bsnk to bleed the resources of every Arab nation so Israel the terror monster can have its way.
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Fighting that Zionist land grab proxy war for the GHW Bush Criminal Cabal. to install a central Rothschild bsnk to bleed the resources of every Arab nation so Israel the terror monster can have its way.
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tonde
Okay I'll trye to watch the rest but. Forget about Stalingrad and the Ulstermen won WW2? Are you guys for real? I understand the concept of pampering your audience, but that's maybe a tiny bit over the line here.
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Okay I'll trye to watch the rest but. Forget about Stalingrad and the Ulstermen won WW2? Are you guys for real? I understand the concept of pampering your audience, but that's maybe a tiny bit over the line here.
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loafer
There was another Irishman who's contribution seems to have been completely overlooked in this historical narrative of the desert campaign. Lnc Corporal Terrence Spike Milligan.
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There was another Irishman who's contribution seems to have been completely overlooked in this historical narrative of the desert campaign. Lnc Corporal Terrence Spike Milligan.
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SuperJohn12354
Im so glad that the British won Africa, as an Australian, we were fortunate to be able to sit there with the New Zealanders and watch them single handedly win the war.
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Im so glad that the British won Africa, as an Australian, we were fortunate to be able to sit there with the New Zealanders and watch them single handedly win the war.
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