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Thrust East! (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-23 15:31:23
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2023-06

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This week, the Axis are thrusting east toward the Asian continent itself. Armies are facing each other along a front stretching from Murmansk in the Arctic Circle to Tobruk in the North African deserts. In the deserts, Rommel's forces begin an attack that could threaten all of British occupied Egypt itself. In the Soviet Union, the Germans advance across the river Don even deeper into the Southern USSR, and are moments away from launching Fall Blau, a plan which would see them Wehrmacht finally cripple the Soviet war machine.

Is there any hope for these upcoming offensives? Can the Axis truly conquer all of Eurasia? Will it just be the "Russian Winter" which stops them, or are there much more nuanced reasons the Soviets are still fighting the German invasion?

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148 - Fall Blau Starts...or Does it? - WW2 - June 27, 1942

Fall Blau, the huge Axis summer offensive in the Soviet Union, is supposed to being this, but is postponed to next. The smaller Operation Fridericus II does begin though, and what dos Josef Stalin make of that and the intelligence he's received? Meanwhile in North Africa, after the fall of Tobruk, the British 8th Army gets a leadership change, but Erwin Rommel is still on the move eastward into Egypt. Where will the Allies try to hold him? Half the world away, the Allies begin to establish a base at Milne Bay, New Guinea. It's a start, a small one, but a start. 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: Lucas Aimó Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) and Daniel Weiss Colorizations by: Lucas Aimó Sources: USHMM Australian War Memorial Open Beldeen Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen Not Safe Yet - Gunnar Johnsen Try and Catch Us Now - David Celeste Watchman - Yi Nantiro Weapon of Choice - Fabien Tell Warning Signal - Max Anson The Proving Grounds - Dragon Tamer To War! - Jo Wandrini Little Susie - Hampus Naeselius Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

That "6 day week" note, and simply living up to it... That's the good stuff.

Anonymous

The thing about the plans of Fall Blau and the soviet reaction is really unfortunate.

Anonymous

Looks like the battle of Milne bay is on its way and the Kokoda track is soon to be lit up by imperial Japanese forces and those giants among men in the 2nd AIF……. Hopefully Montgomery isn’t to far away from his fate in the desert.

Minion
>>62422649

Pah. Leave it to the Chocos, the *real* fighting's in North Africa 😉

Greenleader

Thank you for covering the build up in New Guinea. As the war progresses please continue to keep an eye on the Australian 2nd AIF and CMF.

Minion

Really like the tweaking to the graphics on the maps.

Anonymous

Will there be any more specials about the tanks in 42, like the ones with The Cheiftan?

Anonymous

I wonder just how much Col. Bonner Fellers' messages contributed to Rommel's victories ? " Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonner_Fellers

Anonymous

I don't think Aleksandr Vasilevsky has enough medals.

Anonymous

Love opening call Self propelled arty

Anonymous

That's some serious misinformation on the German side (@11:30). Is there any chance that the official Soviet sources and/or German estimations had the Soviet numbers exaggerated/underestimated for propaganda reasons?

Anonymous

I am happy to see you quoted Citino here. I have tried to find his book at a local library, but no luck. I posted a question in the OOTF forum, regarding a passage from his book, which i would like to repeat here: In the early stages of Fall Blau, 1st Panzer Army under von Kleist received orders and counter-orders, sending them north, south, east (and probably west). Citino calls it “what happened over the course of the next few days […] could be described as a comedy” (see here around the 29 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzr6dD8fvVY&t=1745s 1) I was wondering if you could tell us more about these orders - who gave them and why. And what von Kleist and the people around him thought of these orders.

Anonymous
>>62470660

I really want Chieftain to do a Japanese tank special. If you watch any of his stuff about the Sherman, he is very adamant about highlighting how important "ability to be shipped across the ocean" was to the design philosophy of the tank. With the Japanese, they had the exact same constraints with their tanks, but even more so, with the added proviso that their tanks had to be operable in the absolutely abysmal infrastructure in China. Too often, the size and thin armor of Japanese tanks is taken as a mark against them as if the Japanese were given a brief to "design medium tanks that can fight European medium tanks in a European style infra environment." In actuality, they were designing tanks in the late 30's to fight in China against an enemy who lacked more than a few dozen light tanks and the Japanese prioritized speed and ease of supply... which they were very good at. This portability is part of why the Japanese will have two tanks at the upcoming battle of Milne Bay while the Allies won't. The allies will have to develop their logistic capacity more before they can put their heavier tanks into action against Japan in the Pacific. The fact that Japanese infantry support tanks designed for 1937-39 operation in mainland China are not able to stand toe to toe with Shermans in 1943 isn't the harsh indictment of Japanese tank design that many think it is. The Japanese have the engineering know how to actually develop and build a few respectable medium tanks later in the war. But, by that point, their logistics and industrial capacity has to prioritized for other much more urgent needs than tanks.

Anonymous
>>62638801

I read "Death of the Wehrmacht" and "The Wehrmacht Retreats" early in the pandemic. Good luck finding them, they are great.