He should have been fired early on, any man that can*t control his temper and because of this slaps a couple of soldiers is*nt much of a General; he would have been better running the Postal Corps!
If they're gonna do an re-enactment, at least make sure that they have the historical details correct. Like the part where you see American soldiers wielding British Lee-Enfield rifles.
I remember this series. It was a good one to watch if you didn't know what you were looking at! So many flubs with weapons, uniforms, equipments, you name it. But it told the story pretty well.
I had 5 Great Uncles take part in this. One was MIA and survived behind enemy lines and made it back to our side alive. They had sent a letter to my Great grandmother telling her he was dead but, was not. Another Great Uncle who was my god father was a Medic on Omaha beach, he received A Purple Heart and a Silver Star that day. This same uncle told me about the water at Omaha, He said the water was so red from the American blood shed there.
Meat hooks are usually a bad thing when it comes to being taken out of power... And it must be understood and remembered how the Italian people rejected Mussolini on their own. I think the Italians did quite a good job of "voicing their oppinions".
That is not called continuity problem. It's just wrong historical details. Continuity problem is when there is a discrepancy from one shot or scene to another.
@@carr16k Thank you for your more informed clarification. There's no doubt that GIs would not have carried those sorts of weapons, & Hitler certainly would have been wearing German "Generalstab" (General Staff) insignia -- unless he'd had some unique insignia made for himself alone.
If a topic in military history interests me as strongly as this period in history, it benefits me to first hear it from General McChrystal. Well done, sir.
Yes I agree....they captured the psychopathy of Hitler as well as Patton's psychopathy. It shows them as as the unstable people they really were inside.
The costumer should be reprimanded though. By 1943 Hitler was not wearing the brown Party uniform, but field grey which he promised to wear until the fighting was over. He was not wearing the party armband either, but a national eagle and swastika on his sleeve.
No one was required to wear a tie in combat. Look at historical video taken at the time of the battle.. no one was wearing a tie, not even Patton. As far as shaving that wasn't worried about for 2 reasons. one they're in combat and the second the bigger of the 2 reasons was the heat of the Sicilian summer. water was as valuable to the soldiers as bullets. They were not going to waste on shaving when it was going to be needed for drinking.
His handling of the Lorraine campaign was extremely poor. He failed to concentrate his forces properly and failed to get out of the Lorraine and get through the Siegfried Line in four months of trying. The biggest allied failure of autumn 1944. Nearly 55,000 combat casualties.
@@tomheiss9920 I don’t think that was a problem for my grandfather. He would serve in the Army for another 17 years, seeing combat in Korea and Vietnam. 🤷♀️
This documentary got MUCH military equipment wrong, but man did it play a significant role in my interest in military history, technologies, tactics and leadership lessons at a younger age.
@@stephenmccartneyst3ph3nm85You mean how the Rothschild's committed mass genocide against their own people? These... Ashkenaz Khazars sure like to eat their own.
2:40 Nice trophy T-34 Patton got there. It's his personal one, he rolled on it around base when they wouldnt give him his gas for his next tank breakthrough
Patton, an egoistical American general, letting his troops use the British SMLE Mk III rifle. Ok History Channel. Ok. Continue chasing aliens. That might be more accurate for you.
When he says that Patton personally dedicated himself to building up the tank corps, he wasn't kidding. Patton (the richest man in the Army) spent a fortune on tank research and development between the wars. He also bought the parts he needed to maintain the tanks under his command at the start of WWII.
Jog my memory please! was this the Rolling Stones issue? I remember there being a story like a decade ago. it was McCrystal right? (PS, I could watch Patton videos all day)
@@danm3047Gen. McChrystal was removed from his command in Afganistan after questioning President Obama's judgement in a Rolling Stone interview. He also made this comment about the Taliban, "We did alot of killing over there." The Taliban feared General McChrystal and the Special Operation Forces under his command. Years later the Taliban negotiated a fraudulent peace agreement with Pres. Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. All for what?
For the History channel, I would of expected a lot of the easily noticeable historical inaccuracies to not be in this. There's a T34 firing at the 2:40 minute mark, a pair of M47 tanks at 2:43, GIs carrying Lee Enfield rifles, and so much more. Disappointing. The narration deserved better visual aide.
I noticed the T34C also. It's budget constraints. I doubt History can do anything about that. With all the cord cutting, TV is probably making even less now than 4 years ago. Don't expect high budget productions anymore. BTW, The Imitation Game was even WORSE, if that's possible, and that was a full production movie. There was no "blackmail" scene, no punching scene and a lot of other stuff. The Imitation Game was so bad it made me stop watching, and paying for, movie "docudramas."
My Dad was there for most of or , if not all, as part of the 45th Infantry Division. Though I have his medals , he NEVER said a word. It took me 35-40 years after he died to find out what he did. 3 amphibous landings in Italy, wounded at the Anzio beach head then shipped to France for the 4th amphibous landing. at one point, 88 days straight in active combat and wound up near Dachau. 4 battle stars and and a bronze star. All this while his brother served in the 82nd airbourne as a medic landing behind enemy lines before D Day started , earned the silver star in Holland for saving the lives of 14 men, dragging them them out of a field one by one tending their wounds and held off Germans for 50 hours before help arrived. He should have gotten the medal of honor for this but he survived it all. I only wish my Dad had written it all down.
They should have got more into Patton's research into tanks at Fort Irwin, California. Patton did a lot to develop the Sherman tank - short of desiging it.
Is that really a documentary? Because the level of "detail" and errors in just 6 minutes are everywhere ... false scenes, wrong chronological orders, the british don't exist, Roosevelt instead of Churchill, the capture of Palermo leading to the fall of Sicily ... I hope nobody will actually take it seriously
The unshaven private (right next to Patton {lol rly? wtf}) with the Lee Enfield at 2:23 randomly having his (British) weapon in the high ready, looking around dazed and confused after he realized he just looked straight at the camera... x'D That just ruined the whole thing for me (in a funny way, to be fair). That's just way too much wrongs in a 10 second time span. Common History Channel. You're better than that (I'd hope).
I would also like to add they should have kept the voice actor who did the Dogfights and Greatest Tank Battles series. He had a great voice that added excitement and intensity. This guy's voice is too bland and boring.
Much of the canonization of Patton is due to the movie. Believe me, my dad and two of my uncles served under Patton in Nort Africa and France, including the relief of Bastogne. Their opinion of Patton was very different than the comments of the movie buffs here.
My late American brother-in-law's father was on the HQ staff of one of the divisions in the Third Army. I have a feeling his opinion of Patton would also conflict with the movie buffs.
There's a fair body of evidence to support the notion that Patton was an utter incompetent whose rise through the ranks was primarily due to his money.
@@MagpieOz Does that evidence get a mention in either Ladislas Farago's or Carlo D'Este's biographies of him ? I've read both and still have the latter - must give it another read.
@@MagpieOz Preposterous While no Allied General was a match for their German counter parts Patton was more than a capable commander if for no other reason getting his troops to do what other Generals wouldn't even ask their men to do
I know that my late father served in Patton's 3rd Army and was no fan of the man. He preferred Bradley. I on the other hand, didn't serve, didn't serve in combat and loved the movie so I am a fan of Patton.
Patton was instrumental in holding off a Soviet controlled Europe, and he was beyond irate when the leadership didn’t take his advice to keep driving against the Soviets
The Germans were under no illusions re: any possibility of holding the island. Their presence was understood to be a short stay and hopefully withdraw as an intact force, to the mainland. That they were able to do so is why some writers refer to their evacuation to Italy as a German version of Dunkirk.
The dead man dressed as a Marine was washed up on a Spanish beach with paper work relating to an attack on Greece not Sicily... it fooled the germans enough to make them move a number of troops.
Most of the American GIs portrayed here were armed with Lee-Enfield rifles -- which is totally wrong. Those were exclusively used by British and Canadian forces.
The Sherman's are nice touch...the soldiers are carrying British Enfield Rifles, Brens and wearing British web gear and canteens on. Patton didn't go on direct attacks with Frontline units as in this Documentary he was alot smarter than that he was in command of Army around 100,000 men. That was small unit commander's job ...from Lts. To Captain's..Sometimes a Major. In addition the uniforms worn the M1943s weren't started to be issued until Normandy a year later on Follow on waves on Newer units to come from England. Later all Frontline units would have them by the FALL of '44. Either the Jacket by itself or Pants and Jacket. The terrain of the reenactment looks like England not Mediterranean Sicily.
Correct me if I'm mistaken but I think attacking Sicily was Churchill's idea hit their soft underbelly but Americans wanted a direct attack on France against the Germans but because of Churchill the first attack again in Sicily working its way through Italy thereafter
That is correct. Churchill thought it’d be quicker to go through Italy into Europe, but the hills and mountains of Italy bogged the allies down and then were stuck with fighting for yards rather than quick moving units. (Edited grammar)
@@brianperry That is true, however it served a purpose in chewing up men and machines of the German land forces and Luftwaffe that the German's really couldn't afford to lose.
In my opinion, the US Army considers General Patton to be the most important general in the US Army because almost all US main battle tanks' names are related to General Patton.
3:07 who can tell me the soundtrack from where this is from? Also, I swear to you, I've heard this one before but extended and on another documentary. Please, tell me. I'd even be happier if the history channel themselves can tell me where I can find this. I absolutely like this soundtrack.
In the United States, Patton and Eisenhower seem to be very popular, but MacArthur, who is also a general of the army, is not so popular or not so well known, I felt. In Japan, he is regarded as a "benefactor"
They lost me when the U.S. troops were depicted wearing British canteens and carrying Short Magazine Lee Enfields - and not even No.4 pattern Lee Enfields. Considering that it was Patton himself who dubbed the M-1 Garand the finest battle implement ever devised, one would think the History Channel would get that much right.
I fired alot of rounds through a Lee Enfield...its a bombastic rifle..I broke a Boulder in half with one of those rounds I couldn't imagine the damage to a fleshy body taking one of those hits.
I get the gist but Patton did walk into Palermo with the troops. He was a three star general. He lead the battle from elsewhere and rode into the city once it was taken by elements of the 7th Army. Also he didn’t carry a .45 auto in a GI standard holster. Also the Americans carried Garands, Thompson’s and BARs. I know these seem like little things but cmon it’s the history channel.
Wow I love it when history television gets it wrong it was Winston Churchill decided to go into Sicily not Roosevelt Roosevelt was pretty relaxed with Stalin it was Truman that saw Stalin and the red army as a threat
American troops with SMLEs and Pattern 37 webbing too… major yikes from a historical accuracy standpoint (which should be the whole point of a series like this)
where is the evidence for that statement rr German fear in fact thorough research by an American historian reveals that they regarded him as a good tank general but no better than theirs
It was actually Churchill who wanted/motivated an attack on Sicily . Roosevelt an the american staff wanted to go to Sardinia first and then Sicily. Only with the success of the Sicily campaign that the americans started to like the Italian continental campaign (as a way to divert german divisions from the northern french boarder).
It's great to see History Channel comes back to actual history.
My post on here expands on that a tiny bit. I don’t watch that channel anymore because it isn’t actually about history anymore … and it sucks.
@@amytprincessamygaming6022 unfortunately it has become the old junk and ripoff channel now
This show came out close to a decade now. I remember watching it when it first came out. So not recent at all lol
@@davidticzon1926You answered the question and who was the production guy that set up actor Patton and his uniform?
if by history you mean becoming the "WW2 channel" again...
Everyone has a friend like Patten. Loyal, dependable, but doesn’t know when to shut up.
👌
He should have been fired early on, any man that can*t control his temper and because of this slaps a couple of soldiers is*nt much of a General; he would have been better running the Postal Corps!
I'm that friend..
Facts👌
Nothing wrong with being outspoken if for the right reasons.
I remember watching this The World Wars miniseries back in my middle school days, ah the nostalgia is real here
same bro
Me too
Same haha
Just watched...
If they're gonna do an re-enactment, at least make sure that they have the historical details correct.
Like the part where you see American soldiers wielding British Lee-Enfield rifles.
I remember this series. It was a good one to watch if you didn't know what you were looking at! So many flubs with weapons, uniforms, equipments, you name it.
But it told the story pretty well.
The Americans had the MK 1 a 9mm rifle of questionable effectiveness
I would have believe if it was the Marines using Bolt action rifles and using British light machine guns but the army no way.
Not to mention the British canteens as well
Some did, use British guns at the beginning......
I had 5 Great Uncles take part in this. One was MIA and survived behind enemy lines and made it back to our side alive. They had sent a letter to my Great grandmother telling her he was dead but, was not. Another Great Uncle who was my god father was a Medic on Omaha beach, he received A Purple Heart and a Silver Star that day. This same uncle told me about the water at Omaha, He said the water was so red from the American blood shed there.
What happened to Mussolini is a tad bit worse than overthrown and disgraced🤣
That came later. When he was first overthrown, Mussolini was merely imprisoned.
Meat hooks are usually a bad thing when it comes to being taken out of power... And it must be understood and remembered how the Italian people rejected Mussolini on their own. I think the Italians did quite a good job of "voicing their oppinions".
flogged and dragged
His grand daughter is now running for office...
@@tube1062 Rachele Mussolini currently holds office.
continuity problems. Did not know GI's carried Lee-Enfield's and Bren Guns. Hitler is wearing a Gestapo armband.
Agent Hitler FBI lmao
Excellent catch, Mr Williford!
That is not called continuity problem. It's just wrong historical details. Continuity problem is when there is a discrepancy from one shot or scene to another.
@@carr16k Thank you for your more informed clarification. There's no doubt that GIs would not have carried those sorts of weapons, & Hitler certainly would have been wearing German "Generalstab" (General Staff) insignia -- unless he'd had some unique insignia made for himself alone.
Or americans using T34/85s
"We're fighting the wrong enemy": General Patton.. Nice to see History Channel doing some history again.
If a topic in military history interests me as strongly as this period in history, it benefits me to first hear it from General McChrystal.
Well done, sir.
I'm wrapping my head at the idea of Hitler yelling at Mussolini in English.
"We're fighting the wrong enemy": General Patton.
Patton was right. the real enemy was the Soviets. we learned that the hard way.
@@blahblah-rn4ed and we have them, soviets, all over America now disguised in various forms.
@@blahblah-rn4ed Did not matter they were our allies THEN
@@blahblah-rn4ed Patton was wrong, Stalin would of ruled an Empire of blood. Hitler would of ruled an Empire of Ash.
@@blahblah-rn4edno. It was the Jews. And still is. That’s what enemy he meant.
This documentary has the best Hitler re enactor ever. Looks just like little mustache guy. The Patton guy looked pretty good too
Yes I agree....they captured the psychopathy of Hitler as well as Patton's psychopathy. It shows them as as the unstable people they really were inside.
I can agree that the Mussolini actor was kind of looks like the real Mussolini with the hat on
The costumer should be reprimanded though. By 1943 Hitler was not wearing the brown Party uniform, but field grey which he promised to wear until the fighting was over. He was not wearing the party armband either, but a national eagle and swastika on his sleeve.
The uniforms and everything else are horrid, however.
Hitler looks like he is high on Pervitin, the German pharmaceutical version of crystal meth, which he often was.
Well, now, I just want to watch the movie, Patton, again.
Old blood and guts
Indeed. Farago's hagiography, on which the ludicrous movie was based, was much more amusing than reading about the facts
You wouldn't have seen an unshaven soldier not wearing a tie within a 20 miles of Patton. Get it right History channel.
Well they show ice road truckers or ancient aliens on the daily I don’t remember the last time I saw anything history related on the channel
A tie on the front line would be asinine
@@jeremya.695 Patton TRIED to enforce it. Most guys didn't.
@@jeremya.695respectfully you are wrong. Everyone dies at some point so you might as well go out with style.
No one was required to wear a tie in combat. Look at historical video taken at the time of the battle.. no one was wearing a tie, not even Patton. As far as shaving that wasn't worried about for 2 reasons. one they're in combat and the second the bigger of the 2 reasons was the heat of the Sicilian summer. water was as valuable to the soldiers as bullets. They were not going to waste on shaving when it was going to be needed for drinking.
Germany and Japan poured their sweat and blood in fighting the Allies while Italy ate pizza and watched from the sidelines.
General Patton is one of my favorite General's. I wish we had more like Him.
We need to just clone him and Macarthur too...
@@philipthomas6808 macarthur is overrated af. Man was mentally unstable and incompetent.
@@philipthomas6808 That would be great but I do not know how a meeting in a room filled with Pattons would go lmao
His handling of the Lorraine campaign was extremely poor. He failed to concentrate his forces properly and failed to get out of the Lorraine and get through the Siegfried Line in four months of trying.
The biggest allied failure of autumn 1944. Nearly 55,000 combat casualties.
A man like him would be thrown out of today's military
My grandpa had a framed photo of Patton until he died, aged 91. He said he would have followed Patton into battle with a spoon.
Weil ihn Patton sonst erschossen hätte
@@tomheiss9920 I don’t think that was a problem for my grandfather. He would serve in the Army for another 17 years, seeing combat in Korea and Vietnam. 🤷♀️
Your grandpapi was an American hero Goddamnit
This documentary got MUCH military equipment wrong, but man did it play a significant role in my interest in military history, technologies, tactics and leadership lessons at a younger age.
General Patton: "We defeated the wrong enemy."
Yeah, which he said AFTER he'd seen the death camps... What a disgusting man.
They killed him months later. Because he knew the truth.
@@stephenmccartneyst3ph3nm85You mean how the Rothschild's committed mass genocide against their own people? These... Ashkenaz Khazars sure like to eat their own.
We need more leader's like Patton today!!!!!!!!!
No we dont
NOT A " POLITICIZED MILITARY " !!!
( 1 PARTY RULE ???? )
NO apostrophe to pluralize.
What poor history.
Lots of assertions.
Little evidence given.
Patton deserves better.
We deserve better.
2:40
Nice trophy T-34 Patton got there.
It's his personal one, he rolled on it around base when they wouldnt give him his gas for his next tank breakthrough
Nobody will notice if we don’t show the hull
The Bren gun too. I wasnt aware US troops were issued Brens.
History Channel should really invest in its reenactment scenes for videos like this
It's a historical fact that Patton never fought an armored battle against the Germans!
3:51 I can’t hear this without thinking about Amog
The loony general we have now as chief of staff is not worthy to shine Patton‘s shoes
The general we have now is a lowly pawn for the tyrannical traitors.
Hello Harold
He and Ike are BOTH rolling in their graves at the utter disgrace known as Milley.
Armchair generals
You and trump will be cell mates.
I enjoyed this series The world Wars , I can always keep on watching these
Patton, an egoistical American general, letting his troops use the British SMLE Mk III rifle.
Ok History Channel. Ok. Continue chasing aliens. That might be more accurate for you.
Yeah. I couldn't watch the whole show.because it was such low authenticity
They were using Brens too,
Yeah, how about his trophy T-34, her name is Big Olga
2:40
When he says that Patton personally dedicated himself to building up the tank corps, he wasn't kidding. Patton (the richest man in the Army) spent a fortune on tank research and development between the wars. He also bought the parts he needed to maintain the tanks under his command at the start of WWII.
We don't have Generals like this anymore!
We have one alive actually... And he's a president.
Who biden lol
And you do not want them
Image beginning at 3:02 is priceless. Excellent mix of history and drama. Just a *wee* bit better than “Pawn Stars.”
Thanks to Lucky Luciano! Did they forget that part?
Thanks can you please make all videos available in Canada. Lots im interested in isn't available in my country.
Given how he destroyed his own career, there is a lot of irony in McChrystal's reference to Patton's problem of talking too much.
Jog my memory please! was this the Rolling Stones issue? I remember there being a story like a decade ago. it was McCrystal right? (PS, I could watch Patton videos all day)
It was a fake story propagated by the Boomer Media Apparatus
I hope that he didn't get PAID for his "commentary".
B.S. He is probably the pioneer of cancel culture!
@@danm3047Gen. McChrystal was removed from his command in Afganistan after questioning President Obama's judgement in a Rolling Stone interview. He also made this comment about the Taliban, "We did alot of killing over there." The Taliban feared General McChrystal and the Special Operation Forces under his command. Years later the Taliban negotiated a fraudulent peace agreement with Pres. Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. All for what?
For the History channel, I would of expected a lot of the easily noticeable historical inaccuracies to not be in this. There's a T34 firing at the 2:40 minute mark, a pair of M47 tanks at 2:43, GIs carrying Lee Enfield rifles, and so much more. Disappointing. The narration deserved better visual aide.
The weapons carries are also terrible, lots of modern hi-ready tactical stuff that no one was doing in 1943.
I noticed the T34C also. It's budget constraints. I doubt History can do anything about that. With all the cord cutting, TV is probably making even less now than 4 years ago. Don't expect high budget productions anymore. BTW, The Imitation Game was even WORSE, if that's possible, and that was a full production movie. There was no "blackmail" scene, no punching scene and a lot of other stuff. The Imitation Game was so bad it made me stop watching, and paying for, movie "docudramas."
*have
It think at 2:43 is a chaffe tank not a m47 but idk maybe they the same?
Nice to see History Channel doing some history again
I have watched History channel for years - What Have I learned ? Don't believe a word they say . Question everything.
It wasn't so misinformed
@@Ray19888 You got in the same trap I did - Now wake up
@@Ray19888 Thats what I thought.
I love how the Americans had PATTON tanks in Sicilly, don't you?
Both of my grandfathers were there in the 3rd Army. Of course, they didn’t know each other at the time. My father was in Vietnam.
Not taking anything away from Patton but the British had the hard slog to Palermo while Patton took the easy fast route.
We need a Patton instead of a pansie
instead we got Milley👎
Let's go Brandon
The whole DOD is infected with the enemy. I swear.
Patton? Secret??
You must be kidding.
Patton was many things -- but "secret" is not one of them.
Instead of watching this 'piffle' about WW2 , watch Mark Felton, a primary example of how WW2 documentaries should be made..
My grandfather served under Patton. He loved the man.
These types of history videos are very good.
My Dad was there for most of or , if not all, as part of the 45th Infantry Division. Though I have his medals , he NEVER said a word. It took me 35-40 years after he died to find out what he did. 3 amphibous landings in Italy, wounded at the Anzio beach head then shipped to France for the 4th amphibous landing. at one point, 88 days straight in active combat and wound up near Dachau. 4 battle stars and and a bronze star. All this while his brother served in the 82nd airbourne as a medic landing behind enemy lines before D Day started , earned the silver star in Holland for saving the lives of 14 men, dragging them them out of a field one by one tending their wounds and held off Germans for 50 hours before help arrived. He should have gotten the medal of honor for this but he survived it all. I only wish my Dad had written it all down.
Patton was certainly the right guy for the right job back then !!
They should have got more into Patton's research into tanks at Fort Irwin, California. Patton did a lot to develop the Sherman tank - short of desiging it.
This really helped on my social studies homework 😌
Thank you❤
I hope you passed as this is incorrect
Not gonna lie, I love how everyone here’s too busy dragging HC for the costume inaccuracies to realize the narrator is Jeremy Renner from Avengers
cos no one cares about an actor talking..
Cuz no one cares about some Marvel movie, we're here for History
Pretty decent performance by the actor who plays Hitler
Patton My favorite general of ww2…Rommel and Zhukov close seconds
I love the enfields. Next time get it right when you have a massive budget
"Mussolini was summoned"....yup, that's about the reality of it.
They used this music in so many WW2 shows lol
Abs it slaps every time it’s used lol
What is the song called?
What Is the Song called?
There was very hard resistance as the snipers were very tough to get through.
My dad was just a private in WWII but said he would have followed Patton anywhere.
Is that really a documentary? Because the level of "detail" and errors in just 6 minutes are everywhere ... false scenes, wrong chronological orders, the british don't exist, Roosevelt instead of Churchill, the capture of Palermo leading to the fall of Sicily ... I hope nobody will actually take it seriously
if you want facts read the comment section and stop whining
Patton rolling in his grave right now 🇺🇸
Yep
Patton would of gotten sniped by some sheep herder in Afghanistan along with his whole company. Warfare evolved, America didn't.
@@MrKajithecat 😂😂😂
@@MrKajithecat America is still and will continue to be the best country in the world until we decide we don’t want to be anymore
@@MrKajithecat how wrong you are. General Patton would have fought to win.
US GI carrying British SMLE @ 1:34 LOL
Thank you very cool
The unshaven private (right next to Patton {lol rly? wtf}) with the Lee Enfield at 2:23 randomly having his (British) weapon in the high ready, looking around dazed and confused after he realized he just looked straight at the camera... x'D That just ruined the whole thing for me (in a funny way, to be fair).
That's just way too much wrongs in a 10 second time span. Common History Channel. You're better than that (I'd hope).
I would also like to add they should have kept the voice actor who did the Dogfights and Greatest Tank Battles series. He had a great voice that added excitement and intensity. This guy's voice is too bland and boring.
Much of the canonization of Patton is due to the movie. Believe me, my dad and two of my uncles served under Patton in Nort Africa and France, including the relief of Bastogne. Their opinion of Patton was very different than the comments of the movie buffs here.
My late American brother-in-law's father was on the HQ staff of one of the divisions in the Third Army. I have a feeling his opinion of Patton would also conflict with the movie buffs.
There's a fair body of evidence to support the notion that Patton was an utter incompetent whose rise through the ranks was primarily due to his money.
@@MagpieOz Does that evidence get a mention in either Ladislas Farago's or Carlo D'Este's biographies of him ? I've read both and still have the latter - must give it another read.
@@MagpieOz Preposterous While no Allied General was a match for their German counter parts Patton was more than a capable commander if for no other reason getting his troops to do what other Generals wouldn't even ask their men to do
I know that my late father served in Patton's 3rd Army and was no fan of the man. He preferred Bradley. I on the other hand, didn't serve, didn't serve in combat and loved the movie so I am a fan of Patton.
Looks very interesting
Patton was instrumental in holding off a Soviet controlled Europe, and he was beyond irate when the leadership didn’t take his advice to keep driving against the Soviets
google operation Unthinkable
He realized later who our real enemies were and are today
yup.
The eternal enemy.
Marxism and Cultural Marxists have all but taken over the Western World
Ahhh but then the real enemy was Nazism
The Germans were under no illusions re: any possibility of holding the island. Their presence was understood to be a short stay and hopefully withdraw as an intact force, to the mainland. That they were able to do so is why some writers refer to their evacuation to Italy as a German version of Dunkirk.
The dead man dressed as a Marine was washed up on a Spanish beach with paper work relating to an attack on Greece not Sicily... it fooled the germans enough to make them move a number of troops.
Patton must be related to T rump.
Always remember his troops saying what a bullying coward he was, he's glory their guts...
Nice
Most of the American GIs portrayed here were armed with Lee-Enfield rifles -- which is totally wrong. Those were exclusively used by British and Canadian forces.
Many of them are also wearing the british ammo cases.
@@fredderf3207 All I can guess is budget issues. They used what they had for filming.
Obviously those are British soldiers who volunteered to fight under Patton because they where sick of turtle slow Monty
I love Americans in straight up British equipment
Patton number one
Hahahah
I know right
Hope you are having a blessed day there ???
160,000 American troops is can't be compared to the millions of troops the USSR deployed. Jukov had a much greater impact than Patton.
Some of us pine our lives away wishing we could be a quarter as great as Patton
George did not talk he squeaked
Question why is there a T34-85 at 2:40 and a Patton tank on 2:43
Also yanks with bren guns and I think I spotted a couple of SMLE.
Just your typical history channel lack of attention to detail.
@@jamesvalentine2845 They are famous for it.
Legend has it we are still waiting for Patton to get out of the Lorraine and get through the Siegfried Line.
Pretty sure FDR's wheelchair at least had a cushion on it. Not that torture device shown at the start of the film
The Sherman's are nice touch...the soldiers are carrying British Enfield Rifles, Brens and wearing British web gear and canteens on.
Patton didn't go on direct attacks with Frontline units as in this Documentary he was alot smarter than that he was in command of Army around 100,000 men. That was small unit commander's job ...from Lts. To Captain's..Sometimes a Major. In addition the uniforms worn the M1943s weren't started to be issued until Normandy a year later on Follow on waves on Newer units to come from England. Later all Frontline units would have them by the FALL of '44. Either the Jacket by itself or Pants and Jacket. The terrain of the reenactment looks like England not Mediterranean Sicily.
Correct me if I'm mistaken but I think attacking Sicily was Churchill's idea hit their soft underbelly but Americans wanted a direct attack on France against the Germans but because of Churchill the first attack again in Sicily working its way through Italy thereafter
That is correct. Churchill thought it’d be quicker to go through Italy into Europe, but the hills and mountains of Italy bogged the allies down and then were stuck with fighting for yards rather than quick moving units. (Edited grammar)
The allies weren’t ready to invade France until June 44.
@@tannerbenally489 The soft underbelly turned out to be a tough old gut..!
@@brianperry That is true, however it served a purpose in chewing up men and machines of the German land forces and Luftwaffe that the German's really couldn't afford to lose.
And because of that Italy wasn't taken over by commies
In my opinion, the US Army considers General Patton to be the most important general in the US Army because almost all US main battle tanks' names are related to General Patton.
is there a full episode of this
Great video and information !
Why do you show U.S. troops carrying British SMLE rifles?
3:07 who can tell me the soundtrack from where this is from? Also, I swear to you, I've heard this one before but extended and on another documentary. Please, tell me. I'd even be happier if the history channel themselves can tell me where I can find this. I absolutely like this soundtrack.
He was absolutely on the Mark regarding the Russians
In the United States, Patton and Eisenhower seem to be very popular, but MacArthur, who is also a general of the army, is not so popular or not so well known, I felt. In Japan, he is regarded as a "benefactor"
MacAurthur and Patton were brilliant, Eisenhower was simply a politician and a mediocre general
@@clainmings7052 You may indeed be correct
They lost me when the U.S. troops were depicted wearing British canteens and carrying Short Magazine Lee Enfields - and not even No.4 pattern Lee Enfields. Considering that it was Patton himself who dubbed the M-1 Garand the finest battle implement ever devised, one would think the History Channel would get that much right.
I fired alot of rounds through a Lee Enfield...its a bombastic rifle..I broke a Boulder in half with one of those rounds I couldn't imagine the damage to a fleshy body taking one of those hits.
Interesting perspective. Wasn't there a British force on Sicily as well? One that was not under Patton's command
Funny seeing GI's using 303's and Bren's.
Wait is history channel actually posting history?
@I support... : I had to double check to make sure it wasn't any sensationalism stuff.
Not accurate history. They're rewriting history for the sake of an agenda.
I get the gist but Patton did walk into Palermo with the troops. He was a three star general. He lead the battle from elsewhere and rode into the city once it was taken by elements of the 7th Army. Also he didn’t carry a .45 auto in a GI standard holster. Also the Americans carried Garands, Thompson’s and BARs. I know these seem like little things but cmon it’s the history channel.
It's History Channel, they hardly get anything right.
Full documentary please...
Hahahah
I know right
Hope you are having a blessed day there ???
We want more series like the titans Who built america.
It’s all fun and games until Patton swims the Atlantic
Wow I love it when history television gets it wrong it was Winston Churchill decided to go into Sicily not Roosevelt
Roosevelt was pretty relaxed with Stalin it was Truman that saw Stalin and the red army as a threat
Gotta save FDR's image from being a Commie lover.
Take a shot every time there's something wrong with the extras and you'll be dead by minute four.
The Big Red 1 were in every major operations in the european theater!
WTF palermo attack footage... Bulldogs and t3485????!!!! My eyes are burning
American troops with SMLEs and Pattern 37 webbing too… major yikes from a historical accuracy standpoint (which should be the whole point of a series like this)
George Patton was one of the greatest American generals . He was a total warfare soldier first general whom the naszi’s feared more than the others
where is the evidence for that statement rr German fear
in fact thorough research by an American historian reveals that they regarded him as a good tank general but no better than theirs
I just can not see how Patton won all of those battles without his glasses
It was actually Churchill who wanted/motivated an attack on Sicily . Roosevelt an the american staff wanted to go to Sardinia first and then Sicily. Only with the success of the Sicily campaign that the americans started to like the Italian continental campaign (as a way to divert german divisions from the northern french boarder).