The War in the Desert 1940-1943 mapped

Why did the allies suffer such heavy losses in the early war despite a smaller axis offensive strength. Were the allies just incompetent, were they poorly led, was the quality of their tanks and equipment inferior to the germans.
Why did the British suffer defeat after defeat despite having a larger force even when on the defensive.

The whole north africa campaign was a waste for axis , for allies it was easy

Great video :D

God italy really sucked

Do ww1 eastern front

I would love to see a detailed map with commentary of the US Civil War.

It's a bad name for the weapon, but we'll always call them tanks: The name originates from WWI. "Tank" was coined by Bill Foster (a factory owner), because of an imagined similarity to steel water tanks; that became the codename for the weapon.

Cognitive dissonance. Both US/UK and the Nuzis have killed and tortured millions through history. This was like plague or cholera, but as long as they killed each other..

Now only italiano campaign remains to complete ww2 frontlines

I wonder what would happen if Rommel received enough reinforcements (for example close to 1 to 1 situaiton on tanks) I think African campaign was important and Hitler had underestimated importance of the campaign. It would be a major blow to allies if Axis had reached middle east they might even linkup with Iran and (maybe) attack from caucasus to Soviets. Plus Axis would theoratically threat British India

So this is what that Campaign for North Africa board game is really about for 1000 hours worth

Uma correção: o ataque alemão na Tunísia (ao sul e norte) não foi simultâneo. E as forças ao Sul não chegavam a 300 tanques. 200 no máximo, contra 350 a 400 americanos.

Great video!

Why did you not just show the normal armor symbol on the armor divisions, and instead showed an image of a tank and then the division logo?

Thank you.

I really appreciate this episode. Most of my reading is about aviation and although Christopher Shores excellent books discuss ground campaigns, I have always struggled with understanding the movements of ground forces in Africa.

Take a shot every time he says 'tanks'

The Middle Eastern part is not just lacking any important detail, but also the question of infrastructure, air power - the decisive combat arm there - and the most important resource: oil.

Well done.

Pls do Pacific War

Very good

Eastory special drinking game - Whenever he says "Tank", take a shot. You win if you survive.

Theme of the video: it costed them a lot of tanks

Being a HoI4 player changes everything

North africa not all desert. Northern Morocco and Algeria look more like California or French riviera than desert.

I'm honestly shocked to NOT have a World of Tanks ad interrupt this video...

Could you maybe add a scale in kilometres or something on the map whenever it zooms out or zooms in, because we lose all idea of how large the distances are

No Malta no suez.

So to sum up. LINES GO BRRRR TANKS GO BRRRRR. ALL LOST THEIR TANKS ALL WENT FORWARD AND BACK IN THE SQUIGGLY LINE THINGIES

Good video

As soon as I heard tanks tanks tanks I thought it was a setup for a world of tanks sponsorship 💀

Fun fact: during the final days of the north african campaign the germans got orders from hitler to fight till the last bullet. After getting the order the comanders had a discussion with each other and decided that he meant till the last TANK bullet. Wich just happened to have been fired already.

I love your videos!!! Thanks for the work you do!

Really good video

Everyone gangsta until Rommel joins the chat

Another great video and really shows how vital tanks were in north Africa

Tanks Eastory. Tanks.

Why couldn't the allies ignore the axis in north africa and go straight for Europe?

Enjoyed the video, BUT, very disappointed with the rainbow of colors depicting the map terrain. Reminds me of a young child's coloring book.

Drinking game idea: take a shot evertime eastory says "tanks".

A very good overview of the Western Desert Campaign. While both sided tended to wait until they had an advantage to go on the offensive. Both sides were still tied to their supply lines . All too often either side tended to go on the offensive before they had built up sufficient supplies to support it. Offensives were often only limited because of this, they would leap forward only to run out of the chains that tied them in place until more supplies were built up. Montgomery after initial advances of October 1942 ensured he continually built up his supply bases behind his offensive. This lead to short pauses in his advance but did not allow Axis forces to build up enough supplies to go on the offensive. This is one of the reasons for his slow pursuit of the Axis that he is often accused of being to slow with.

I didn’t realize how disastrous Tunisia was for the axis. 250,000 pows is insane. They got out played hard.

Benghazi on its way to change hands six times

Where did all the POW's go - seemed to be so many of them?

I simply love your detailed videos!

I understand tanks played a massive part but I thought the royal navy harassed the axis the entirety of the North African campaign?

Also, why did aviation not play a large role in this theatre?

tanks, tanks, tanks