Artillery! A WW2 Special

Great video. I enjoyed that.

"INCONCEIVABLE!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

A sabot are you fucking stupid you dumb fuck the 88 didn’t have a sabot round my god you are a fucking joke

You sound a little drunk

Fighter planes need a video to!

What this guy keeps reaching for on his right bothers me for some odd reason... At first I thought it was a leg itch, but, seriously. Stop reaching man !

“At least if timeghost made a video about artillery, I could make a favorable reference to ISP in the comment section”

Very nice Video. Thaky everyone

The 26 pounder wasn't a 75mm gun, it was 88mm (87.6mm to be precise).

Would be nice if you mentioned which Soviet guns were still in u
Se in Ukraine in 2024, assessment could go either way

Proximity fuse?

And
Cannon go boom

"we could talk for hours about......." If so I will be there thank you Indy.

Shoutout to my grandfather James Franklin Paden thank you for your service ‼️S.I.P.🕊️🕊️🕊️

My favorite artillery is the Flak 88 because it was the hardest thing to beat in the Call of Duty WaW mission where you have to play as a tank

WW1 and WW2 tallied the identical casualty rates by weapon system- 75% of all casualties in both wars were the result of artillery.

Deadliest killer on the battlefield- the artillery forward observer! Gawd, I loved my job but I hated working for a$$holes in the Army.

Allied 105mm Howitzer is still in wide use. That says it all.

CCCP lost the armament and ammunition deposits, because they were placed in 21 June 1941 exactly on the border of Finland, Germany, Slovakia and Romania. Sometime like in 50 meter from the demarcation line. CCCP did NOT rebuild anything, factories, gulags were already in the Ural Mountains, fully operational with millions of slave workers. Try to be more accurate next time! Was no factory transfered from the West of CCCP to the East of CCCP. All soviet factories were in full war mode since May 1939, Big daddy Stalin signed the papers. CCCP was so unprepared for war he had 300 divisions fully operationals with fresh tanks and artillery. Next to the Western border they build 20 flight academies, 1931-1936 !

Such great and interesting info thank you sub!

The Japanese efforts at Port Moresby....should have been noted by the French.

Slight correction: Although it was Montgomery who enacted the doctrine, it was Churchill who was the driving force. I remember reading in The Grand Alliance when he said he reminded his field commanders that “Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield”

I could talk about artillery all day .

I’ve always called WW1 as the GW since their first series

Thank you!
Dad was an officer in a 105mm platoon (Pacific). In his final days with us, as his mind dimmed, he would still hum the classic a The Caissons Go Rolling Along:

“Then it's hi! hi! hee!
In the field artillery,
Shout out your numbers loud and strong,
For where'er you go,
You will always know
That the Caissons go rolling along.”

What about the Chinese ? You failed to cover that

"We could talk for hours about artillery"

Please do. 👀👀👀

As anyone can tell you, the deadliest vehicle in BF1 was that asshole in the Art Truck.

Artillery ammunition is ~90% of logistics during active operations. Tons/day/division stats by year and nationality are revealing. From memory (can't find the source) there is huge difference from WW1 to early WW2, but an order of magnitude increase by late WW2 allied mechanised divisions, and another order of magnitude by 1991 (~3k tons/d/US Armoured div). And accuracy and C3 improved.

WW2? Hope this is the start of a new show.

James Holland argues that like the 88mm, the 3.7 inch anti aircraft gun would have made an excellent anti tank weapon, especially in North Africa.

I remember a geologist saying once during a archaeological dig in no man's land for world war I the iron shot by artillery is now a geological deposit.

APCBC is not a discharging sabot type

So the mark of a british artillerieman is six aimed rounds in a minute ;)

I think casualty percentages over emphasise the importance of artillery on the modern (WW2 on) battlefield. Often artillery simply isnt the decisive presence those casualty rates imply. Market Garden is an decent example of this I think. The Allies launch Market Garden, the allied paratroopers land in Holland and try to secure all the brides, the tanks try to exploit the bridgeheads... Within only a few days it became clear that the Allies plan wasnt going to succeed. That was the decisive moment and while artillery certainly played a part it wasnt a decisive part of the decisive moment. But then, after those few days, each side dug in, trained their guns, and spent the next few months shelling each other on a static line that almost began to resemble WW1 era combat. Thats when all those artillery casaulties occurred. Same thing during the Battle of the Bulge. An attempt at an isolated tank breakthrough that is exploited and becomes decisive. The breakthrough fails. Each side digs in, trains their guns, and spends the next months shelling each other. The war on the Eastern Front was a series of offenses that actually accomplished something followed by prolonged periods of more static war. During that static war there is going to be a lot of shelling and a lot of casualties from shelling. These lull periods last longer than the mobile periods and so a lot of men die during them. And many die from artillery. Of course any time there is a city assault and especially a city seige artillery is going to be doing most of the damage and causing the most casualties. But even getting into a seige situation is so often a foregone conclusion. Artillery reminds me of troop strength in this way. It looks more important on paper and in after action reports than in reality. In reality the French surrendered with just a ridiculous amount of artillery and millions of battle ready men. Much of that artillery and many of the men surrendered without having fired a single shot. Yet a decisive, focused, and quick breakthough of the Germans rendered those numbers meaningless. Rommel was outnumbered and outgunned wherever he went in North Africa but he remained mobile and took advantage of properly decisive moves. This WW1 style of warfare where you simply kill more of their men than they can kill yours didnt even work all that well in WW1 even with how so very static it was in the Western Front. I mean it wad extremely successful at killing millions of people but not so much at actually winnig the war. Even in that war the Allies eventually had to breakthrough and exploit their breakthroughs. Tanks obviously changed the face of warfare in this way. The Germans succeded in the West and the East not when they were killing more men but when they were cutting off entire armies and forcing others into full on retreat. Even with the superiorority in personal and logistics the Allies won the war through desisive strategical victories. Less so than by just grinding the Germans down until there werent any left. (Although of course after 5 years of war this obviously happened) Even the Soviets reputation for having done basically exactly that through waves of men thrown against the enemy is greatly exaggerated. I mean obviously many millions of Red Army soldiers died but you simply dont get anywhere in modern war with those types of numbers only tactics. 1 man with a machine gun in good cover can kill 50 charging men in the open. Obviously artillery is of vital importance but the "King" of modern war? Its certainly the king of the less mobile lull periods that often make up much of war. Its often the king of city sieges. But its not king of decisive breakthroughs. Mobile war is obviously not conducive to artillery. Its not the king of guerilla war or less than full scale war and occupation. So often we had to send men into the jungles of Vietnam and the streets of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to go out and find the enemy and kill them will small arms. Artillery isnt the king when it comes to technology. Dumb rounds are just that. I mean there are a ton of instances of modern war where artillery doesnt have much place. People point to the war in Ukraine as an example of how artillery has remained so important but you could use Ukraine to make the opposite point. When the people actually there talk about artillery they talk about how very undecisive it is. How the Russians just pull back and shell everything. How the war has ground to a halt and began to resemble WW1 era trench combat. Since artillery took over in Ukraine its proven how very much not decisive artillery combat can be. Although Ukraine once again proves the deadliness of artillery. You cant deny that...

You’re a character, I would enjoyed having you as a teacher. That said, I really enjoyed your video. Thanks.

Yes, yes, YES! Please do a long form vid, or a series, on artillery. My Dad was in the NJ National Guard from 1964-1984, and he retired as a Capt. "The Guards" always used hand-me-down equipment from the regular Army. His primary firearm was the M1 Garand, from basic training til he was commissioned as a 2Lt. As an officer, he carried the M1 Garand. I have ALWAYS been fascinated with artillery, and would love to see more videos, especially in your style!

Fascinating!!!!

Wasnt that a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, The Charge Of The Light Brigade.

Fun fact, one of the greatest artillery officer in history is Napoleon Bonaparte. Most people see him as a great strategist (which is true), but often forget that before he rose to prominence he was a trained artillery officer, and a good one at that. It just goes to show that artillery isn't the most popular weapon or service in wars, but it got the job done.

It's funny that you call a 25-year-old gun ancient when many of the tanks and artillery pieces we use today, as well as some of our planes, are nearly twice that old.

Great report. My family settled a few miles from Ft Sill, Oklahoma in 1880. On static display, nearly every piece of artillery used since WWI. Inside the museum artillery dating from the first used in China and Europe. My favorite artillery on display artillery General Knox capture at Ft Ticonderoga on display. Oh yes. My family fought in the US Army, USMC and US Navy since the Battle of Cowpens and Kings Mountain. This also included the crusades and Battle of Sterling Bridge, Scotland.

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Should do a dpecial on the usevof animals.. horses, mules in this format

My great uncle was artillery in WW2

thank you

What is your favourite piece of artillery?