Turning Points: The Key Battles That Turned The Tide Of WW2 | World War II In Colour

Explore the key moments that shifted the balance in World War 2. From the intense battles of the Pacific Theater to Mussolini's downfall, this detailed documentary dives deep into the strategies, failures, and turning points that shaped the outcome of the war. Witness the Eastern Front's brutality and the pivotal moments when the tide truly turned in one of the most devastating conflicts in history.

00:00 The Pacific Theater
52:00 Mussolini's Failure
01:43:20 Turning the Tide
02:34:35 The Eastern Front

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[frandsenphilip]

World War II in Colour was on Netflix for a long time, and it's too bad they took it out of their library. I watched it many, many times and think it is an excellent overview of World War II. It was a springboard for me to learn more about the war.

[antonioramirez-fhvl]

Who else falls asleep to these kind of documentaries?

[retromus]

Love these long videos, always great to sleep to.

[hiddengem-os]

There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.

[chipsawdust]

Sick of YouTube censoring - we're watching a WAR movie, there are going to be dead things. Stop treating us like children and we'll watch the whole thing, thank you very much.

[iShone]

dissrespecting the history with that kind of censorship! Shame on you yt on what you have become....

[Pootie_Tang]

Whatever I am falling asleep to, when I'm waking u; in the middle of the night or in the morning - this is the type of video playing, or sometimes some long video about cosmology =)

[edwinhernandez]

WWII 3+ hours are the documentaries of my dreams 😴😴😴

[noelenesteel]

for those who are interested, watch the documentary called 'Operation Mincemeat' it's excellent.

[benjaminprezza]

I'm so happy we had winston churchill as prime minister back then 😊

[khadorstrong]

putting into color is entirely important I think. It reminds people how real and how recent these awful events were

[stonebear]

*ahem*
Everybody always gets excited about the Mustang. The P-47 was on scene well before the combat-effective P51-B was, AND the *real* problem was the USAAF "Bomber Mafia" refusing to supply drop tanks to *any* American fighters, '51, '47, or '38, thinking that the Forts' own guns would be sufficient to get them through. Schweinfurt, of course, proved them wrong... and finally somebody got smart and gave Jimmy Doolittle, a genius six ways from Sunday as well as a heck of a pilot in his own right, command of the 8th Air Force.

Once Doolittle changed the USAAF's priority from destruction of infrastructure to that of logisitical superiority - first, seek out and destroy the Luftwaffe, and second, on the way back from a raid, hit anything that moved, then things got better. By 6 June the Luftwaffe had very little *left* to throw at the Normandy landings, and that which did show its face were summarily dealt with. Of course, blowing up all that infrastructure meant that the Allies had their own logistical problems to deal with... but at least they weren't usually ducking German air raids to do so. Can't say the same for Fritz himself.

[clinthowe]

But why? why would Britain, which vastly outnumbered the Japanese on Malaya be overwhelmed? did they lack sufficient artillery? airplanes? were they simply not expecting the Japanese army to be so tenacious? it must’ve been disheartening to the allies to have to fight them knowing this.

[zee.hunter]

Which is that background music during victories

[JamesJohnson-gvtv]

At Midway while the Japanese Naval pilot loses were severe actually the most severe loss was mechanics.

[BahreNeGash]

"Operation crusader in 1945", , , It's ironic to note that the Roman crusade took place over the same region of Mediterranean Sea 2000 years ago.
Furthermore, Italy was colonizing Libya, Eritrea & Somalia since the 1880s, before invading Abbysinia/Ethiopia in 1940.

[susanmercurio]

2:38:41 "Lebensraum" means "land room, " or something like "elbow room."

[stonebear]

once again Jean Laidlaw, WRNS, and her compatriots get ERASED. Black May (1943) was BEFORE the air gap was closed, and it never would've happened but for these women, and their boss, Captain Gilbert Roberts, who made Max Horton play the war game himself and lose 0-5 to Janet Okell using Laidlaw's tactics. (Also, ASDIC got erased too; this had been around for a couple of decades, and Johnnie Walker his own self put it to decent use... but Laidlaw studied Walker's BUTTERCUP tactics, figured out the fatal assumption - that a sub would attack from outside a convoy rather than sneaking INSIDE at night - and devised RASPBERRY as an initial counter, accounting for the fact that the one way out of the middle of a bunch of hostile ships was *down*, at which point the sub's slower underwater speed would force it aft relative the the convoy centre... and of course, the ladies didn't stop there; they developed several other tactics for use in various conditions.

It takes *both* tech *and* brains (and a bit of bloody-mindedness) to win a war... and a willingness to let whoever has good ideas run with them and be the person to teach others. No matter what their gender, or colour, or where they came from.

[novak]

So people what was your true turning point of WW2 - Stalingrad, D Day or some other battle. Let me know please on your thoughts.

[christopherkeefe]

I saw an interview of a German soldier, POW from North Africa, he stated that he knew Germany was going to lose the war when they marched him by a couple miles of Allied vehicles, and they were all sitting there, idling with nobody in them,