From the History Guy Vaults, five episodes about armored vehicles. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy!
00:00 – Tiger 131 and the Battle at Guriat el Atach
13:26 – Oddball Tanks: Extemporized Armored Fighting Vehicles
26:40 – Mephisto and the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux
38:58 – The 1943 Battle of Thala, Tunisia
46:43 – Three Stories of the Dreaded “88”
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Longstop Hill, a certain L/Bdr T ( Spike) Milligan was there . 🙂 ( 56 Hy Regt , R.A)
My father was in North Africa from 39’ (19 years old) until the allied landing in Sicily , he had got his first stripe for being able to start and drive a Caterpillar D8 Bulldozer (many shipped from the states) he had been in all this melee, recruited into the Staffordshire regiment, and part of the RASC, I found sometime back a video of ‘Tiger 131’ on YouTube with a short clip included of her being towed after capture by a caterpillar D8, the Mighty Tiger (56 ton ) being led into captivity by a just as legendary ‘Cat’ D8 Dozer (about 20 ton) I sometimes wonder whether he had a hand in moving Tiger 131.
The best tank was, of course, the Renault FT.
I never knew there such varied armor during the first WW. Thank you for sharing.🙂🙂
I love watching the Jack-In-The-Box Russian tanks launching their turrets into orbit on all the latest videos coming out of Ukraine.
War is hell.
excellent explanation and story.Please allow me a small correction to the name of the battle. guriat el atach in arabic means the village of thirst, thus atach should be pronounced as el attach, which means thirst and also makes sense given the desert conditions.
Why do the British say Leftenant instead of Lieutenant the actual real word. There is no F in it at all. Granted no clue why we all call a Colonel Kernal when there is no R in it either.
Will somebody please point out to me the location of the "F" or even the "PH" in the word Lieutenant?
"Where men fought and died"…men who, if not for egomaniac world leaders, might have been friends under other circumstances. We will never know world peace until we stop listening to these lunatics and idiots that we elect.
I appreciate you, thank you for making content.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
I very much enjoy your retelling of lesser known battles. Your enthusiasm for history is appreciated. Thank you.
Off topic Q: As a YT Premium subscriber I don't get ads so how does the content creator get paid from this?
The equivalent of an Ad view?
I would love to see an episode of THG where he gives us all a tour of his study. There’s so many interesting looking objects behind him. I bet he could regale us with quite a few tales of what those artefacts are, and why he has chosen THEM to keep him company on his time travels.
Also……. where is History Cat?
It is unfortunate that when talking about war the conversation focuses on the armies and the individuals suffering the combat conditions while entire cities and the people, who might live peacefully regardless who formed the government, are killed or displaced. Wars fought to displace foreign tyrants.
Imagine looking out at the countryside and seeing tanks approaching with bad intent. Imagine. What would you do? What could you do? Imagine.
This is probably my favourite of your videos
how about a video about the "gun trucks" we used in Vietnam? they were successful
As a main infantry weapon, we had the M1 Gerand and Germany had bolt action rifles. That made the difference.
12:36 T-shirt and jeans? You look younger now and more dignified.
Love your videos.
A fine story teller is similar to a great painter. Both artists bring the picture to vivid life like reality. I truly appreciate your fine gift with words!
Tanks and submarines are fascinating…..but I would not want to serve in either. The possibilities of escape are somewhat limited.
Most people don't appreciate how rare this is. Tanks die hard when they die. "Brewing up" is how a hit that sets off fuel and ammo is referred to, and usually leaves a pile of scrap metal.
The only dude who correctly wears "the bow tie" and looks good and natural wearing one. Rare indeed. History without question on point and relevant to all, human stories.
I heard stories about the Aleutian campaign by the US Army of such individual feats of arms. Many of these American soldiers reportedly left the protection of foxholes to silence Japanese machine gun positions that were keeping the Americans in their foxholes. One story was an American army private got fed up being shot at by a Japanese machine guns. The private said he was tired of getting shot at and promptly left his foxhole ran into the mist and killed the Japanese soldiers manning the machine gun. No record of a the soldier name
Visit the Brisbane Science and Natural History Museum and stand next to Mephisto ! It is awesome. The battle damage is clearly evident. The tank stood out side for years but thankfully it’s indoors now. Thank you History Guy, another great show.
Another great video thank you History Guy for sharing this with us.
I always learn so much from you.
Thank you.
It is a PANZER VI not a panzer Mark VI.
I used to climb over Mephisto when it sat outside at the Old Queensland Museum on Bowen Bridge Rd., way back in the Seventies when I was a kid. My Father worked a short walk away, and during school holidays we’d go the The Museum, the hatches were welded up, never been inside. Now, fully restored, it’s behind glass in controlled atmospheric conditions, at the New Museum on The Southbank.
Great story, I have read stories of these battles for a long time. Thank you for bringing it to life.