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Darmstadt Germany
Destroyed the last days of the war.
The Russians would contest the statement that the invasion was the mightiest military campaign in history.
Other "documentaries" have extolled the Red Ball Express supply by truck as great and amazing. Maybe but Eisenhower said it hampered the military effort and they needed a port with RR transportation to really get the supplies. Antwerp for example. All you need to verify this is to look at the pictures of say 500 bombers dropping their loads of 5 to 10 thousand pounds of bombs Or look at pictures of the army shooting off salvo after salve of shells weighing 100 pounds or so. No a few two and a half ton truck driving on a single road to supply hundreds of thousands of men is ludicrous. They needed a port and railroads to supply the army adequately.Look at Part 5 of Crusade in Europe.
If you want to see how phony these documentaries are note the sound effects. Probably 99 percent of the film shot was with silent cameras. The sound had to be added later. Or set up a studio as was done occasionally so they could get voice on film. In Crusade in Europe all sound was dubbed in. In other words a lie. If you like to be duped then watch Crusade in Europe. Victory at Sea was worse as the producers just picked out the film they wanted without regard as to where it was shot in the battle the film was talking about.
In the part covering the air war it is obvious that the film was shot in a studio. Actual night photos shot from a bomber does not have enough light to show any detail but this problem is not a problem to the producers of these documentaries.
There is a lot of looking at guns shooting, looking at the bottom turret on a B17, So where did the camera sit except in a studio? You are looking straight into the eyes of the gunner inside the plane. Where was the camera? The cameraman had to be straddling the barrel! Nonsense. It didn't happen. Had to be made in a studio. Another picture shows a German fighter from the rear, obviously taken from a fighter which had shot it down.. But at this time according to the narrator these raids had no fighter escort. Then back to looking at a waist gunner from the outside. (Studio of course) So you will need to ask yourself if the producer lied about this part of film would they have any compulsion to tell the truth the rest of the time? So from now on forget the WW2 documentaries if you want history. Go to David Irving's web site. He wrote 30 books on WW2. .
In the section on R and R nothing was said about the Whore Houses set up for the troops entertainment. In France at least.
In the 80's my wife and I went to Europe on a trip and visited Anzio and the US Military cemetery there. I was amazed at the percentage of airmen buried there. Anzio was a disaster and American troops ( and other nationalities) were under siege for 3 months by the Germans. But a large part of the men buried there were airmen. In Crusade in Europe even though at times raids on Europe by the 8th Airforce lost close to 50 percent of the attacking planes . Shot down or damaged so much they were not usable. But except for a couple short scenes you would not know this by Crusade in Europe. These men were out there doing their job knowing they were going to die. That is the reason the Air Force put a 25 mission limit on how many missions they were required to make. But Crusade In Europe downplayed the danger by giving the impression that occasionally a plane was lost when actually they were lucky to get back alive.
The narrator talks about precision bombing when actually the Planes could miss the target by miles. Later they gave up all pretense of precision bombing because they dropped their bombs when the lead bomber let his go.
Have a nice day and take a look at Bill's War. Click on the link
Phone Take a look at Bills war. His widow created a story of his service with the 39th FA in WW2. Find it at Four years in the 3rd Inf in WW2
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