Allied War Crimes, Latin American Troops, and Top-Secret Proximity Fuzes - WW2 - OOTF 033

Lobaned.......My father spent 21 days on Iwo Jima and many prisoners were shot. My late Uncle was assigned to the Marine Raiders in the Pacific and they DID NOT take prisoners. They shot everyone.

Puerto Rico send troops... Yet, they were scattered all over the Caribbean and the active fronts of the war. They served as security forces and substituted US forces in secondary roles. A company from the 65th Puerto Rican Infantry division did fight in Italy and in the Alpes-Maritimes in France where they took a couple of casualties. In either case, their baptism of fire will be in the snow covered hills of Korea.

I still call this chair the Chair of Wisdom from Out of the Trenches 🙂

The History Guy's channel covered the Mexican aviators.

The VT shells were crucial in the Pacific theater in repelling Japanese air attacks. Especially when the Kamikaze attacks began in October of 1944

Thank you for the lesson.

The fuzes were made by companies that manufactured Christmas lights.

The Real Engineering channel has an episode on Pozit fuses: “The Secret Weapon Which Changed WWII”. He dives into the engineering used to render delicate electronics both sturdy enough to fire out of artillery and safe enough to use (and, more importantly, store) en masse. Fascinating stuff.

LOL who thought FDR would want a human arm?? Know your audience, fam!

My grandfather worked in the USA under the bracero program. It might have been after the war but cool to finally have a personal connection to the war/channel videos.

-Oh, Hi Mark! :)

I miss the chair of invinite wisdome.

The quote from the American infantryman “Why don’t we have any secret weapons?” got me thinking. When did the average US infantrymen fighting in the Bulge realize that a new weapon, the proximity fuse, was being deployed against the Germans?

There is an interesting story about Colombia. Back in 1944, the Colombian Nay destroyer ARC Caldas attacked the U-154 submarine and reportedly sunk it near the coast of San Andres Islands. This was the revenge victory Colombia needed after German U-boats had sunk a couple of Colombian commercial ships in the Atlantic during the war.

People rejoiced, News were all over the world but in the end, the truth was that the U-154 escaped virtually unscratched, fooled the Colombian Destroyer with some oil decoys and ran away. It met is final end in Madeira a couple of months later at the hands of a US destroyer.

Thank you Chair of Infinite Knowledge! I do enjoy listening to all your wisdom.

Fury renowned on the internet as an historical accurate portreyal of the war...
Now that's the biggest bullshit i've ever heard of all 2024, yet

Do a show on American soldiers executed in England at Shepton Mallet prison during WW II. Rape was a capital offence for US soldiers serving in England at the time.

Have you heard about the American POW camps set aside for German youths in france? They were called baby camps. Might be worth a video.

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They eventually had to kick them all out via Operation Wetback.

Rape was a regular practice by the Russian amry. Superior officers did nothing to stop the widespread rape of German civilians. Stalin himself said in so many words, no mercy to the German. Leading to thousands of suicides by German woman.

Ironically, it is hard to surrender when your side acts like barbarians beforehand.

The carpet bombing of cities was a war crime committed by both sides. Unfortunately the Allies were much worse in this regard and surrendered forever their claim of morality. WW2 was evil vs extreme evil. The unnecessary destruction of Dresden is a prime example. I make no distinction between dropping a bomb deliberately on someone’s home and going into that home and shooting them dead. The allied bomber campaign and command was a complete disgrace to humanity and history. I’ve read that they even wanted to destroy Rome by terror bombing

the japanese still have not been faced by any justice or even being educated what evil deeds their grandparents did.... blissfully unaware

Also a German in the scene was wearing an American jacket after the Battle of the Bulge even high command order any enemy wearing American uniform was to be treated as a spy which supersceeds any War crime

Indy's tie today looks mystical

Brazilian troops and Air squadrons in Mediterranean North African Italian Front and in Pacific :Mexican fighting Mexican American bombing fb sg 201🇲🇽🇺🇸 aquilas Aztecas to Pacific

In the Pacific so many atrocities occured w USMC US Army... A terrible act of war, as well as violation and rape on both sides...😢

Mexican citizens served in US armed services don't forget ,braceros program and good neighbors saludos amigos y three caballeros, as noted by Walt Disney

Fury = WAR PORN!

The US 45th Infantry Division is in a series of well know photographs in the middle of commiting a war crime. Two German POW's have their hands raised everybody lying at there feet had just been machine gunned by the two soldiers in the foreground manning a 1919 .30 cal.

And what about the prison camp on the Rhine, where the Germans had to sleep in the open without eating. Not even the Red Cross was allowed there. more than 500k men died!?

I read about cases of allied troops shooting French women based on a false rumor of French women spotting for German snipers

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The "universal right to surrender" is debatable.

Hello team, how did the United States move supplies to the Eastern part of the Soviet Coast?? How did they do this under the nose of the Japanese military

Haven't been to TJ in long, long time but way back last century there were some streets near the Caliente stadium with names referencing the Mexican air squadron that flew in the Pacific theater.

You forgot the Brazilian Mountain troops who played a large p😢in Italy!

I live in a small Brazilian town that sent many troops to Italy. My street is named after an infamous merchant turned- soldier that rushed mine fields, on foot, to make sure they were safe for his friends. He came back alive but with serious PTSD.

I don't think you answered the context of the war crime question. Fury didn't take place in France, Italy or the Pacific. Unless I'm mistaken it was filmed in Oxford and Buckinghamshire. So how many war crimes took place in Oxford? because I also found that part of the movie unrealistic.

I've read or heard of at least one situation where American forces couldn't allow Germans to surrender due to logistical constraints. I can't remember specifics though.

The German soldier mentioned in Fury as shot was wearing an American jacket so was therefore not covered by POW laws.

germany is breaking every treaty made with them after ww1 - silence
germany is raising a new army even though they were asked extremely nicely not to for obvious reasons - silence
germany is expelling people from its country that it considers to be lower than human - silence
germany is invading its neighbours - omg noo you cant retaliate that would be war crimes against poor innocent german soldiers

I feel like a lot of "war crimes" are exagerated.

Yes if possible you should take prisoners, but if you can't take prisoners, and its kill them or release them where they'll go and rearm before attacking you again.... its not really a toigh choice is it?

This really isn't on the same level as mass rape, or the Holocaust etc.

I don’t think fury glorified the execution of the prisoner. The main character’s relative innocence and refusal to kill the prisoner is paralleled by the green German recruit who spares his life at the end of the movie.

I had thought flak 88 used proximity fuze when firing AA? I am confused rn.