In reply to nortex97 If you haven't watched The Operations Room and it's sister channel The Intel Room check those out also. He's been doing a Battle of the Bulge series plus the Pacific Island campaign. Great channel.

Well....that's not a link to click if you have something to do that day.

Talk about a rabbit hole.

In reply to Stupe Sorry about that. Here's a bit…funnier historian video.



This one is very dry. Mark Felton is great but not a lot of footage, more of an audio podcast on a subject that has been of interest to me (Japanese brutality in WW2):

Very long, but great series on Byzantium.

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Here is a nice one (this particular one is about a unit in the battle of the bulge). They do a nice job with very modern visuals/context, imho.

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Notable soldier in this video is fellow Texas Aggie, CPL Samuel Jenkins who was awarded a Bronze Star with Valor device for Heroism (along with 8 others).

Here is a 90 minute interview with Jenkins: https://www.ww2online.org/view/samuel-jenkins

At 13:30, he talks about how some of his platoon members tried to shoot down V-1 rockets heading for England with their M1 rifles. Someone actually shot one down and it veered off and nearly killed their own men.

Interesting channel/video.

In reply to nortex97 James Holland and comedian Al Murray do a great WW2 history podcast called "We Have Ways of Making you Talk".

Al Murray **NSFW**

A good one, focused on Roman stuff;

Hippy-looking guy does a pretty good job here, imho.

nortex97, thanks for posting that. The guy mentions the Menin Gate and it shows the daily ceremony conducted there. Everyone with any interest in the Great War should visit the Menin Gate and the In Flanders Field Museum. It was, and is, hard to wrap my head around 89,000 dead with no known grave.

I did not visit a cemetery with 8 to 16 in each grave nor any mass cemetery, did visit one with two per grave.

One thing he mentioned that I had sort of not thought about since I was over there, and that is his comment about seeing so many children on school trips and how the folks take it seriously. I found that to be the case. We were there during August, so there were no Belgium kids or French kids on school trips, but you would see parents out on day trips with their kids. We did run into a bunch of school kids from Australia on a tour. I'd guess those kids were 14 to 16, and were in something similar to an ROTC program back home.

The monuments the French have put up over there are amazing. I am considering taking another tour over there this year. This video might well push me over the edge to do so, lol.