The 96 Hour Nightmare That Destroyed Germany's Elite Panzer Division

Описание: July 25th, 1944. Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein commanded Panzer Lehr Division, Germany's elite demonstration unit, when Operation Cobra began. In 96 hours, American industrial power would reduce his division from 93 operational tanks to 7. This is the story of tactical excellence meeting industrial reality, told from the German perspective.

Chapters:
WW2 Timestamps: The Annihilation of Panzer Lehr Division
✅ [0:00] Prelude to Disaster: General Bayerlein and the Normandy Front
✅ [0:38] July 25th, 1944: The Morning Sky Breaks Over Panzer Lehr
✅ [1:04] General Bayerlein’s Precision vs. Allied Resource Superiority
✅ [1:35] The Disintegration of the Elite Panzer Lehr Division in Normandy
✅ [2:20] Operation Cobra: German Counterattack Hope vs. Reality
✅ [2:57] Relentless Allied Air Supremacy: P-47 Thunderbolts Strike
✅ [3:49] Annihilation From Above: Radio Reports of German Casualties & Tank Losses
✅ [4:54] The Luftwaffe Abandoned Normandy: No German Air Support
✅ [5:47] The Systemic Destruction of the German Division
✅ [6:31] Assessing the Damage: The Division Ceases to Exist as a Coherent Unit
✅ [7:55] Heavy Bomber Strikes: B-17 Flying Fortresses Target Everything
✅ [8:45] The Irrelevance of Tactics: Mathematics of Allied Air Supremacy
✅ [9:09] The Aftermath: 7 Operational Tanks Remain in the Panzer Lehr Division
✅ [9:53] The American Attack: Seventh Corps Pushes Through the Lunar Landscape
✅ [10:35] Panzer Superiority vs. Allied Industrial Might (Sherman Tanks)
✅ [11:37] American Advance: The Inexorable Logic of Industrial Warfare
✅ [12:28] The Mathematics of Defeat: Panther Production vs. Sherman Production
✅ [13:41] Panzer Lehr Withdrawn: The Division is Irrevocably Broken
✅ [14:50] The War Lost in the Factories: Bayerlein's Final Understanding of Modern War
✅ [16:40] Conclusion: Systems of Production Decided WW2
✅ [18:05] Subscribe & Next Steps: Forgotten Stories of World War II

Based on primary sources including Bayerlein's operational reports and U.S. Army historical records of Operation Cobra.

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