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The Germans are up to something in the USSR (Patreon)

Published:
2021-03-17 16:03:39
Imported:
2023-06

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This week the dust is somewhat begging to settle in South East Asia as Japan tries to figure out just how to administer the huge swath of territory it has captured, while Allied commanders give up the Philippines while in Burma they dig in.

However, dust is about to be kicked up in the Soviet Union, or at least that's what British intelligence suggests. Enigma intercepts and reconnaissance show that German forces are planning some kind of offensive in the south, perhaps as early as May. The British are not just looking at other's offensives this week, but planning an unusual balloon attack of their own. 

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Crap Tactics in the Pacific - Shall MacArthur Return? - March 20, 1942

MacArthur makes one of the most iconic remarks of the whole war, but considering the fact that the Philippines seem unsalvageable, it's pretty unclear just how he'll do it, especially since even though ever more American soldiers are arriving in Australia, the Japanese threat to Australia grows daily. Bill Slim arrives in Burma to take command of I Burma Corps, and Joe Stilwell has taken over two Chinese Nationalist armies, so the defense of Burma looks like it might go on a while longer, though the Allies are at a serious disadvantage after losing Rangoon. The Japanese, for their part, are trying to figure out how the heck they're going to administer all the territory they've taken this year and bring natural resources to Japan itself. There is still scattered fighting in the USSR, but the spring muds have put pad to any major offensives for the time being. As for the British, they launch Operation Outward, a hydrogen balloon campaign over Germany. Yep, you read that right. What a week. 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 - Daniel Weiss - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ - Adrien Fillon - https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colorisation - Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/ Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: - Rannar Sillard - Easy Target - Jo Wandrini - Dragon King - Wendel Scherer - Time to Face Them - Howard Harper-Barnes - London - Philip Ayers - The Unexplored - Farrell Wooten - Duels - Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning - Craft Case - Secret Cargo - Johannes Bornlöf - The Inspector 4 Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Looks like the Caucasus oilfields are ripe for the taking for the next major German offensive during the 1942 summer. Something big is definitely in the works...

Anonymous

Y'all are as always fantastic. Being in the US Navy myself, it's fascinating to see in better detail than ever all of the operations we've studied for years. 1942 is especially interesting in American naval tradition.

Anonymous

Thank you for that very succinct explanation of how China had learned to fight Japan.

Anonymous

One thing you forgot to mentoin is that Field Marshall Erwin von Witzleben resigned OB west and Gerd von Rundstedt was brought back to replace him

Anonymous

Again.. great episode!!!

Anonymous

Let's hope the Japanese do all these things AND together with the local populations indeed. They came up with the concept of the "Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere" after all!

Anonymous

MacArthur throwing a hissy fit about the plane he's escaping a literal war zone on? Yeah I can see him pulling that stunt. (Sidenote, I utterly despise the man)

Stéphane Adam
>>55807033

It's amazing how much better the Axis could have performed if it had been bit less... Ya know... ouright evil. Both Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia were quite fed up with their current overlords...

Anonymous
>>55816258

MacArthur had some serious Presidential ambitions, losing to Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican convention. Say what you will about Eisenhower, but thank goodness he wasn't MacArthur.

Anonymous

The baloon thing is quite creative.

Anonymous

The balloon campaign was so successful, the British approved plans for "Operation Ring-Hitler's-Doorbell-and-Run."

Anonymous
>>55786213

Generally, yes, he was not good at his job and had no respect for his commanding officers and no understanding of the troops under his command. He, more than any other, did a lot to poison the relationship between the US and the ROC which had devastating consequences for the world.

Anonymous

Well done Indi, you pronounced Melbourne 99% correct! Beauty Mate!

Anonymous

Again both Indy and all of the Timeghost Team have done a great job! I am very proud to be a member of the Timeghost Army and I call upon all history loving people to join us so, together we can build the largest and most influential history channel to educate the young so we never forget! Also check out Astrid on her first solo performance, which was a sight for sore eyes and excellent! Looking forward to more additions on that series!

Anonymous
>>55786213

One day a 80 year old Sparty will be doing a war against hummanity for everything the CCP is doing. Ive actually been writing an op-ed about it. I just questoin that Vinegar Joe was the cause of the rift

Anonymous
>>55792964

Witzleben will go into retirment and we will never hear from him ever again. Not even on July 20th, 1944

Anonymous
>>55807033

I always love their generals. Until I remeber all the evil shit they did

Anonymous
>>55786213

I saw a ranking somewhere of US WW2 theatre commanders and Stillwell came in dead last. Having read and believed Barbara Tuchman’s book about him, I was really surprised at the time. After reading the Stillwell critique and looking at other sources, I think he was a terrible choice for the job.

Anonymous
>>55786213

He most definitely was the lead author of the rift. He hated Chiang Kai Shek and he hated that he didn't receive the respect that was his "due" after losing two of China's best armies in a dumb plan that they should never have been asked to carry out. The KMT was battered in 1941. The basic problems were very visible to the Americans in Chongqing. That said, I'm sure that the American liason officer to the USSR didn't spend his time writing to the New York Times that Stalin was a murderous thug, Trotsky was right, and that this guy Zhukov would totally have the Germans licked if they just killed Stalin and put him in charge. That was Stilwell. He was publicly dismissive of his supposed commanding officer and the entire Chinese military establishment that had been forged at great cost and complexity over the past 30 years. Issues that were his own failures, such as the disastrous plan for an elastic forward defense and counter offensive in Burma conducted by troops from six nations who had never worked together before, were instead blamed on those perfidious Chinese. Chinese troops under Chinese command had won victories against Japan. The lack of tactical sophistication at the higher command staff was not a problem for the Chinese army. Almost all of them had cut their teeth in the wars of the warlord period and they knew what they were about. When Stilwell heard that Chinese troops wanted a 3 to 1 numerical advantage for a successful defense and a 5 to 1 advantage for an attack, he attributed it to cowardice instead of 4 years of hard won experience. What China needed was small arms, artillery, ammunition, radios, junior officers and food. But that wasn't what Stilwell wanted to give China, he wanted to be a theater commander leading mobile offensive operations. When Chinese officers told him, "Our troops are bad at that, and we know under what circumstances we can win," Stilwell didn't want to listen. He liked a story where he was the saviour of China against the machinations of a corrupt autocrat rather than the story where he was an assistant to a sovereign ally. Wedermeyer, who replaced Stilwell, was much less abrasive, but by then it was too late.

Anonymous
>>55786213

Tuchman's book is good.... but it has one huge flaw. It takes as a given that Stilwell was more competent than any of the Chinese (or British) commanders he worked with. The book actually doesn't show Stilwell's great generalship, it just tells you. It tells you about his training, his great personal courage, his trust from Marshall, but it is very thin on examples of Stilwell leading Chinese armies to victory. (Nor does Tuchman ever question the wisdom of Stilwell, China's "chief of staff" changing that role to "field commander of Chinese forces") The numerous setbacks in Burma are all blamed on the machinations of the Chinese with no analysis of the basic plan. This episode had William Slim asking a Chinese general how to fight Japan. When Stilwell had that same conversation, he didn't listen and Tuchman lauds him for it. Nowhere does she hint that maybe... just maybe... Stilwell erred in not listening Chiang Kai Shek when it came to using Chinese troops to fight Japan. After all Stilwell had an impressive resume... he was a combat, but not command, veteran in the first world war and had been a military attache to China for years. Obviously, he has nothing to learn from Chiang. Stilwell said Chiang Kai Shek didn't know how to fight Japan and that's good enough for Tuchman. Why would Tuchman mention that Chiang went to a military preparatory school in Japan and served in the Japanese army from 1909 to 1911? Why would a reader need to know that Chiang had led hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops to victory in the Northern Expedition and the Central Plains War? What possible utility would a reader find in looking at the tactics discussed at the meeting in early march in comparison to China's war record thus far? Naaaaww. Tuchman just quotes Stilwell as saying that Chiang Kai Shek gave "crap tactics" and that's good enough for her. Chiang Kai Shek was not a flawless general and his micromanagement caused real problems. He made many, many mistakes and bad calls. The problem with Tuchman's book is that all of Chiang's faults are his own... while also being to blame for most of Stilwell's faults. She accepts Stilwell's own explanations, where other people are to blame, uncritically and it hurts what is otherwise good scholarship.

Anonymous

It’s Brereton, Lewis Brereton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Brereton

Anonymous
>>55816258

One of my coworker's father served in the Pacific (for the entir\ety). When I asked her what he had thought of MacArthur, she immediately said that he hated him.