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Call of Duty: WWII (2017)

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finntroll 1984 RAF TAKING OVER: LOW LANDS & TIRPITZ (FINN'S WAR TALES #47 WW II CODWWII)
In this video we focus on the role of the RAF after the liberation of Paris and also on the final days of Hitler's majestic megaship Tirpitz. After Paris had been liberated late August 1944, the Allies moved into Belgium and the Netherlands. The Belgian coastline and border with Germany were vital targets to regain control over the North Sea and to keep the momentum. However, the Brits had been ordered to destroy all the remaining V-2 installations in the Netherlands, seeing that Hitler started to launch his precious V-2 rockets in the beginning of September. The US troops guided by Omar Bradley made their way to the Belgian-German border to breach the Siegfried Line near the Belgian city of Liège, to attack German soil at Aachen. British second-in-command Montgomery took a mixed division into North Belgium to capture the vital port of Antwerp and to proceed to the Netherlands. The 2nd Canadian Division had marched into Belgium on September 2 and moved up to Antwerp but the Scheldt Estuary was still in German hands and was defended with great persistance. It took the Allied forces another month before the Battle of the Scheldt began on October 2 but it lasted until November 8! After that clash, it wasn't until November 29 that the port of Antwerp was safe enough to unload supplies. Before that, Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands had been launched mid September but was already terminated by September 25 due to a death toll between 15,000 and 17,000 Allied paratroopers! On September 17, many paratroopers had been shot down and captured because of a mistake in communication about a bridge near Arnhem that had not been conquered by the Allied ground forces yet! This giant failure turned the tide for the German occupiers and led in the Battle of Arnhem from September 17 until September 25, ending up in a German victory and a blockade. Dutch railroad workers went on a strike because of the unsafe working conditions, resulting in the notorious Hunger Winter of 1944-1945 with starving citizens and soldiers in North Holland. Ever since 1942 and the demise of the German battleship Bismarck, Tirpitz had been moved to Kafjord in Norway to guard the Arctic Route between Iceland and Murmansk. Winston Churchill feared this mighty battleship more than anything. Nicknamed 'The Beast', Tirpitz was attacked by 25 Lancaster planes carrying Tall Boy bombs on September 15 during Operation Paravane. The ship was badly wounded but it didn't sink. Smoke bombs coming from the Tirpitz' main deck had covered the entire valley in mist and made it very difficult for RAF pilots to drop their bombs on the correct position. German gunners were sitting on top of the hills with anti-aircraft equipment to counter-attack. After this attack, the supposably unsinkable Tirpitz was moved to Tromso to serve as bait and to guard the Atlantikwall. The cannons and guns, such as its eight 20mm cannons, were stripped from the deck and installed on top of the hills for the gunners. On November 12 of 1944, another attack was launched by the RAF and this time they succeeded! The very first Tall Boy was a direct hit, causing the Tirpitz to kapseize with 1,700 crew members aboard. Nearly 1,000 of them died from the explosion or the freezing water, only 87 men were rescued. Without major battleships and with a new type of submarine still under construction, the North Sea was now in the hands of the Allies. Hitler's wonder weapons such as subs, airplanes and an enormous tank called Maus were not delivered in time. finntroll 1984: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1sGYWwoOuJHhuNW0Jrrqwg

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