Chiang Kai-Shek is demanding his Chinese troops back from Burma, but this doesn’t fit well with Mountbatten’s plans for the region. In Burma, Bill Slim’s forces liberate Mandalay this week and make plans to head south for Rangoon. There’s also friction elsewhere in Allied command- between the Soviets and the Western Allies- over Italy. In the field in Europe, the Soviets advance all along the eastern front, and in the west, the Allies secure another Rhine crossing, and they also launch a double operation to send even more men across the river in force.
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0:00 Intro
0:53 Recap
1:20 Iwo Jima
2:15 Plans for Okinawa
3:53 Mandalay liberated and plans for Burma
08:19 Allied Machinations about Italy
10:25 Soviet advances all along the Eastern Front
16:55 Plans for Operation Grapeshot
17:45 Four Allied Operations in the west
23:25 Summary + Conclusion
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The Korean War by Indy Neidell, coming June 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/@KoreanWarbyIndyNeidell
Imagine sacrificing your life for this kind of future for your children… yikes allies soldiers have been trick.
fantastic thumbnail, i’ve never seen a mountbattenjak before!
After Operation Market Garden I would have been very skeptical of giving Montgomery access to any airborne units. Then there is the fact that if you already have a bridge head the risk might not be worth it becuase there will be people that are injured and killed just from the jump or glider landing.
Kolberg was taken by Polish after 11 days of fierce fighting.
The war is hopelessly lost. There is no chance the German army will ever go on the offensive again. The Allies have crossed the Rhine in the west and in the east the Prussian exclave has all but fallen. Soviet troops are now beginning to enter the heart of Germany.
Guderian “I would like to retire”
"…and like it or not, they are in it for themselves."
Perfect end note.
In short: nations don't have friends, they have interests; and global policy is an international poker game where everyone's cheating.
You guys are simply incredible ❤
i thought that after stalingrad the 6th was never reorganised
At the end the Ludendorf bridge was useless for the Rhine crossing since it collapsed and the allied advanced on other bridgeheads
Thanks!
Hitler not wanting trees cut down for an airstrip= the helipad in the US embassy at the fall of Saigon-look it up
Thank you for yet another fascinating and informative presentation. I'm looking forward to The Korean War. My father saw duty in Korea and Vietnam.
Prighozin was a rat bastard but he sure as hell made last year more interesting
its almost like both sides just reach in to a hat or a bingo ball rumbler to pick out names for operations hahaha
Every time I am amazed about the content … well researched and excellently put together in an informative post … keep up the good work… with the deepest respects and best regards… MT
Thanks for the high level of detail about the European theater in the final weeks. This was a portion that I'd heard little about previously, except for the Remagen bridge and brief mentions of Monty crossing the Rhine. Germany totally falling apart. Thanks also for the CBI coverage.
13:51 wait can somebody explain that? I see two six numbers but do they mean the sixth army surrounded?
Bruh that thumbnail 😂
SHOIGUUUU
So what happened between Mountbatten and Peanut. How did it resolve?
german 6th army just cant resist being surrounded cant they?
Nice introduction
The Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed, in what may have been a similar disaster.
8:19 GLADIO peaking its head out, nbd
I think you misspoke Indy. Its not Operation Varsity-Plunder. Its Operation Varsity-Blunder.
So many mistake and wrong information about Burma. At first, Sun Liren is the commander of X-force not Y force. X Force was the name given to the portion of the National Revolutionary Army's Chinese Expeditionary Force that retreated from Burma into British India in 1942. Sun Li-Jen was the commander of the New Ist Army in X force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Force_(Chinese_Expeditionary_Force)
Y Force was the South East Asia Command designation given to Chinese National Revolutionary Army forces that re-entered Burma from Yunnan in 1944 The commander-in-chief of Y force is Wei Lihuang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Force
Mountbatten, Chiang, Slim, and wedermeyer already agreed in December to withdraw the Chinese after the fall of Lashio which happened two weeks ago. it was agreed that Chinese troops wouldn't operate south of Mandalay in any case. They aren't needed for the Rangoon operation.
I hope this doesn't get lost in the ether…
Over the last six weeks I have listened to every main series episode back to back from the outbreak of the great war in 1914 up to today March 26. My goal was to catch up and then buy my commission in the time ghost army to honour my great grandfather Nick Solohub; who crossed Juno Beach on D-day and was saved by a chicken in Holland (I'd be happy to share this story some time in the future along with some photos and discharge papers) and my wife's great grandfather Clarence Thompson who was taken prisoner after the Canadians surrendered at Hong Kong. However due to the birth of my daughter funds are a bit tight for the foreseeable future and the time ghost army will need to wait… For now.
Anyhow; keep up the amazing work. I eagerly await the Korean war series and each individual episode until this war ends.
On Chichi Jima, the command that Kuribayashi radioed ritualistically ate several Allied POWs. It's also the island group that George H. W. Bush's Avenger crashed off of.
My father was in the British Pacific Fleet – nice to see it mentioned because it's often totally ignored in American accounts. I can't remember you mentioning the fact that the Brits also lent the US a carrier in late 1942 though. HMS Victorious, known then as USS Robin. I might be wrong though, I'm old and I forget a lot.😁
19:26 This shows Koblenz fotographed from above the Mosel estuary (Deutsches Eck) looking roughly westwards. The top bridge got rebuild as the Europabrücke (part of the B9 that runs along the western side of the rhine). The center rail bridge got repaired and is still in use today as was the bottom one (Balduinbrücke, built in 1429!). This foto can be found on the wikipedia page of the last bridge. See that little castle thingy at the bottom? Great irish pub in there.
It's amazing that the German Army would even consider following the commands of Hitler at this stage of the war. I can understand the SS would.
But the regular german army?
Watching an episode about a major bridge collapse the day after what happened in Baltimore is weird and sad.