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Two Islands Under Attack, Two Pockets Encircled (Patreon)

Published:
2021-02-10 14:10:04
Imported:
2023-06

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In the battle for Singapore, Japaneese troops have broken through Allied lines and landed on the fortress island, they are now at the edges of the vital port city and threatening to capture it at any moment. Another island, Malta, is also under heavy attack this week and is becoming increasingly difficult to use as a naval base for Allied forces.

Speaking of islands, two islands of troops now exist in the Soviet Union. Close to 100,000 German forces are encircled at Demyansk, at the same time that huge Soviet forces are encircled at Rhzev. Both German and Soviet commanders are working desperately to break their troops out of encirclement, and to crush their opposing troops they've encircled. 

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The Germans are Surrounded! - WW2 - 129- February 13, 1942

The Soviet Red Army has managed to surround some 100,000 German soldiers in the Demyansk Pocket. The Allies are surrounded in Fortress Singapore and the Japanese spend the week breaking in. The Allies are also unable to supply Malta by ship because of continuous heavy Axis bombing of the island and its surroundings, which bodes ill for Allied operations in North Africa. The Germans also make a bold naval move this week- sending two capital ships right up the English Channel under British noses, making for German ports. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?sub_confirmation=1 Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day -https://www.instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: - Mikołaj Uchman - Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations/ - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ Sources: - National Portrait Gallery - IWM: FE 218, FE 312, A 9692, A 9694, HU 2765, A 9514, MH 4981, FE 222, FE 583 Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: - Rannar Sillard - Easy Target - Jo Wandrini - Dragon King - Andreas Jamsheree - Guilty Shadows 4 - Fabien Tell - Break Free - Fabien Tell - Weapon of Choice - Wendel Scherer - Growing Doubt - Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning - Gunnar Johnsen - Not Safe Yet - Wendel Scherer - Out the Window - Howard Harper-Barnes- Underlying Truth - Philip Ayers - Ominous - Johan Hynynen - One More Thought Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Great episode of the coverage of the battle of my country Singapore although it is understandably condensed due to time constraints. There were a few battles this week between the 8th and 13th: 1) The opening Battle of Sarimbun Beach on the 8th where the Japanese landed 2) The Battle of Kranji on the 9th to 10th near the Johore-Singapore Causeway 3) Battle of Bukit Timah on the 10th to 12th, where the Japanese captured the Pierce and MacRitchie Reservoirs 4) The Battle of Pasir Panjang which started on the 12th and is still ongoing. This is the battle where locally well known hero Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi and his Royal Malay Regiment are currently defending against the Japanese.

Anonymous

I think thats the first time you mentoined model

Anonymous

No one will ever convince me that Huntsinger wasn’t a nazis agent. No one could be that bad at their job accidentally.

Anonymous

"In the battle for Singapore, Japaneese (sp?) troops have broken through Allied lines" Japanese

Anonymous

The Incident with the Scharnhorst and Geniesenau sailing up the channel sent shock-waves through the British command, since their success was due to a near-complete failure of communications and organization between the different arms of defense. Radar didn't tell anyone what they saw, Air command didn't inform the navy, who ignored their own small boats, not believing the reports. The result of this was a complete review of communications and they made quite sure it could never happen again.

Anonymous

Ive been reading about ww2 for 42 years and this is the 1st time I have learnt that we had more inland facing artillery at Singapore than the Japanese. Always believed the tales of they all pointed out to sea. Mark of Indy and crew that its them I believe.

Anonymous
>>53349636

I agree, but you have to consider Trump in that statement lol

Anonymous

Great episode! I heard about the Channel Dash, but I've always thought it was somewhere in 1943... It's so nice to see how all these events are correlated in time, and this is one of the many added values of this channel... It is also nice to finally hear Indy utter the word "liberate" instead of "capture" in regard to the pre-war Soviet territory... Here, the Red Army really was a liberator, maybe not quite a good or true liberator (as many anti-Communists would argue), but still, it was indeed the liberator from the foreign yoke nonetheless... Thank you for all the awesome content!

Dan
>>53349636

really...bringing Trump in... clearly he has rented space in your head...at no cost ... which he loves...and will lead to future development...

Anonymous

I know you filmed this earlier... But you kind of left out Burma from the ongoing British crisis points. The loss of Moulmein and the disaster in Singapore finally convinces the British to let the Chinese come help.

Minion

#GordonBennettintensifies

Anonymous
>>53326821

One of these days I'm going to find time to read up on this battle. Any really good sources you'd recommend ? Sorry, English is the only language I have btw.

Anonymous
>>53349636

It was clumsy.... but I think he was going for Hanlon's razor here. "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."

Anonymous
>>53355331

Have you gone to visit the batteries at Labrador nature reserve... they very clearly say that they could and did fire inland.

Anonymous
>>53326821

The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II by Peter Thompson is a pretty decent source if you want to know an in-depth detail of the Malayan Campaign, including the Battle of Singapore. The Syonan Years: Singapore Under Japanese Rule, 1942-1945 by Lee Geok Boi gives a good understanding of the terrible experiences of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from the local perspective.

Anonymous

It's Feb 1942 the Avro Lancaster enters service.

Anonymous

Sure seems like a lot of high ranking casualties on the Axis side being caused by plane crashes - was there a particular cause (e.g. bad weather), or just bad luck?

Anonymous
>>53435321

Not sure if this has come into effect yet, but the whole using slave labor to build war machines thing didn't go too well for the Wehrmacht on the whole. Planes definitely saw an increase in accidents when they were being built by people who had every reason to want them to fall out of the sky.

Anonymous

Great episode team! It’s intense reading about the battle of Singapore and the incompetence of the commanders there as my grandfather was on a boat to reinforce the island at this time. He was with the Australian 2nd/3rd Machine gunners and was captured following the fall of Singapore. The way the series has covered the Japanese advance and the treatment of POW’s has made me really anxious for his safety, despite happening almost 80 years ago and knowing about his experiences. Thanks to the Timeghost team for making the series so engaging, it’s an awesome way to learn history. Keep it up!