215 – Could the Soviets Cut Off Crimea? – WW2 – October 8, 1943



The Germans booby-trapped Naples when they evacuated last week and local civilians now pay the price. In the Mediterranean, Kos falls to the Germans while Corsica is liberated by the French. There is action all along the Dnieper in the USSR, and the Australians advance in New Guinea, and the Japanese evacuate Vella Lavella in the Solomons.

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44 thoughts on “215 – Could the Soviets Cut Off Crimea? – WW2 – October 8, 1943”

  1. This channel has become so Sovietcentric it is losing my interest with increasing rapidity. Just so you aren't confused, watch the Kings and General channel's Pacific War series. The Australians, British, New Zealanders, and Americans are fighting too.

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  2. I remember my father telling me how the Nazis boobytrapped as much of Naples as they could. Pretty nasty stuff. You couldn't even go to the toilet without worrying about it being boobytrapped.

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  3. not that it would make the victims on Wake Island feel any better but the Naval Battle of Vella Lavella was the last Japanese victory of the war. Indy didn't mention that

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  4. It's Rather eerie seeing the same towns and villages being bombed and liberated. People hoping that a war would not come there again. Yet 79 years ago the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union were at similar places and also fighting to liberate Ukraine.

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  5. FYI, the 6 carriers in the Wake Island raid were the Essex class – Essex (CV-9), Lexington (CV-16) and Yorktown (CV-10), and the Independence class – Independence (CVL-22), Belleau Wood (CVL-24) and Cowpens (CVL-25). At that time this was the strongest task force in the Pacific.

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  6. For all the people pointing out the irony of the week by week almost be parallel with the current events in Ukraine just know that the Ukraine is one of the most contested stretches of land in history. People have and will continue to fight over it due to its location and many resources.

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  7. Any reason casualties are talked about a whole lot less in the WW2 week by week compared to the WW1 week by week? Heavy losses get mentioned but seems actual numbers are used way less these days.

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  8. @16:49 And hence the problem with Germany trying to take the Soviet Union.
    No long term strategic plan.
    Just take territory and keep going. That works for a while but not in the long run.
    Germany should have taken the Ukraine and then settled it like they said that they wanted in the beginning.
    Did Germany even try to renegotiate a peace settlement with the Soviet Union?

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  9. Operation Barbarossa was planned to take 4 months ending with the conquest of western and central Russia along the Baltic- Moscow- Caucauses north to south line.General Paulus(architect of Plan Barbarossa) and the overrated German General staff did not plan for what would happen if they did not conquer Russia and destroy the whole Russian army before winter,December 1941…when they failed ,that was the beginning of the end for Werhmacht.Russia also had some secret cards under the table….the divisions moved from the far east to Moscow,the T34 tank,Katyusha rockets and millions of men and women in the army reserves…read David Glantz,

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  10. My great-grandfather was a civilian construction worker on Wake Island when it was captured by the Japanese. He picked up a rifle and helped defend the island before it was captured and he was taken prisoner. He ended up keeping a diary that he hid from his captors that he used to keep a record of his time in the prison camp. It's amazing reading his story and how he was treated, how he made it through such a grueling situation. He survived through the end of the war and ended up returning to his home in Idaho.

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  11. Maybe this has been discussed in an earlier episode, but why do Indy refer to the Soviet reconquests in Ukraine as "liberation". It sounds a bit controversial to me. Especially since the the local population(the Ukrainians) was exposed to genocide just 10 years earlier by the Soviet regime.

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