Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How effective were German U-Boats in WW2? What is the Blitzkrieg? And what was the ‘bat bomb’ project in WW2? Answers to these questions and many more await on WIRED Revolution Support.
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00:00 – World War II Support
00:24 – The scale of war
00:54 – WW2 timeline
02:55 – Nazis doping?
04:04 – Historically accurate WW2 movies
05:25 – The WW2 Ghost Army
06:20 – Why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
07:56 – December 11, 1941
08:09 – German U-Boats
09:07 – Cracking the Enigma Code
10:45 – The roots of WW2
11:35 – WW2: A global war
12:59 – The invasion of Normandy
14:07 – Hedgerow busting
15:22 – The Axis Powers vs Allies
16:36 – What is the Blitzkrieg?
17:30 – The WW2 Bat Bomb Project
18:36 – The significance of Iwo Jima
19:46 – The Night Witches
20:42 – The real reason Germany, Italy and Japan allied
21:36 – War without GPS
22:35 – How Churchill inspired a nation
23:37 – Downfall: The last days of Adolf Hitler
25:52 – The turning point of WW2
26:40 – Combat XP
27:41 – George S. Patton, the outspoken combat general
28:57 – Knowledge of concentration camps
30:39 – Why Eisenhower?
31:52 – Was America’s mainland bombed or attacked in WW2?
32:33 – The impact of the atomic bomb
*Credits:*
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Paul Tael; Richard Trammell
Expert: Dr. Peter Knight
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Paola Esquivel-Oliveros
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Additional Editor: Sam DiVito
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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This has a very American slant. Could you invite a non-American historian to speak about WW2 as well, please?
Whats the difference?
This man is knowledgable but biased towards america.. if one couldn’t already tell by his tie
How on Earth an Army Historian is not aware of the Flag Code??!! You are not supposed to turn the US flag into pieces of apparel…🤔
Former military intelligence yet still called Navy personnel soldiers… crazy
What a spectacular 34 Minute History Lesson that everyone should know. Great job Peter Knight!
US propaganda at it’s finest, pushing that the US ended WW2, when in fact, they did not do much
33:37 The US made over 1.5 million Purple Heart medals during WW2, most in preparation for the invasion of the Japanese islands. Since that never happened, the medals were saved for later use. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were still receiving some of those WW2 medals, and more new medals only started being made in the late 2000s.
I keep a few gummi-poopin’ out in the field to scare off the birds
Can we also be absolutely clear, war brings no winners. Usually I’m always here to be informed but this one seems a little too biased to the US.
Also most of these leaders/politicians back then were comitting atrocities left and right and we need to be very clear that none of them deserve to be seen as inspirational. (lol especially not Churchill)
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STARTING OFF STRONG WITH PEE PEE POOPOO MAN
Did this clown actually say Alan Turing was American?!
It wasn’t just the Germans and Americans on drugs. My father was offered some when he was in the RN somewhere north of the USSR in order to stay awake, took up smoking instead. Drugs might have been better.
This is the Jon gruden of ww2
This is definitely propaganda.
peepeepoopoo
Sounds like an intellectual John Grudon
he sounds like the nice version of jon gruden
Sorry, but it annoyed me how he pronounced “material”.
3 civilians dead for every combatant. Twice as many US covid dead as WW2 US combatants. 12 times more murdered Jews.