Stalingrad, Stalingrad, Stalingrad, No Retreat! (Patreon)

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2021-10-13 16:50:30

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2023-06

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This week at TimeGhost we have a bad case of Stalingrad fever as the battle in the city really begins to heat up. Much of our mapping and editing has until recently focused on large swaths of land and even entire continents, but now so much of it is focused on just this one city. This means that, like the Soviet and German generals, we too have had to learn how to grapple with building-by-building fighting, and it has provided us a great deal of lessons which we hope will make the documentaries even better in the future.

Many of you often email or message us here on Patreon sharing artifacts/accounts you have found from your family and loved ones who experienced the war. For a long time there was not much we could do with this, but it felt like a shame to not make use of it in some way.

So this week we wanted to share something sent in by TimeGhost Army member Ted, the great grandson of US LTG Edward H Brooks, commander of the 2nd Armored Division. Ted digitized this recording of his great grandfather recalling what the 2nd Armored Division was doing from March to October 1944.

https://youtu.be/H3BzB39DwwA?t=468

That recording is a little far ahead of our timeline, but if you have any family artifacts or recordings you would like to share with us that are relevant to our point in the timeline, Autumn 1942, please do message us here on Patreon! If you have things to send in that are from beyond 1942, it's much more likely we'll share them if you send them in closer to corresponding date on our timeline.

Thank you all for your extraordinarily generous support, and for helping us bring history to life!

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164 - Stalingrad, Stalingrad, Stalingrad, No Retreat! - WW2 - October 16, 1942

The Americans win a naval victory off Guadalcanal and even manage to reinforce the Marines there with the first Army units to arrive, but as the week ends the Japanese launch a major offensive on the island. Meanwhile far across the globe, Adolf Hitler orders that all German offensive operations except those at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus cease. There is plenty to do in Stalingrad, though, because this week all hell breaks loose there. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv/signup/ Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Director: Wieke Kapteijns Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Written by: Indy Neidell Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Map animations by: Daniel Weiss Map research by: Markus Linke Sound design by: Marek Kamiński Colorizations by: - Mikołaj Uchman - Daniel Weiss - Julius Jääskeläinen - https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/ - Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/ - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ - Dememorabilia - https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/ Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com Image sources: - IWM: HU 5163 - Bundesarchiv: Bild_146-1971-016-25, Bild_183-J20513, Bild_183-B22478 Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound: - Easy Target - Rannar Sillard - Dragon King - Jo Wandrini - Death And Glory 3 - Johannes Bornlöf - Spellbound - Edward Karl Hanson - On the Edge of Change - Brightarm Orchestra - At the Front - Phoenix Tail - Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen - The Beast - Dream Cave - It's Not a Game - Philip Ayers - To War! - Jo Wandrini A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.