EISENHOWER | His Emotional Return To The D-Day Beaches | WW2 Normandy
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- The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II.
Two decades after D-Day, former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was Supreme Commander in charge of the operation, returned to Normandy. Eisenhower talked with CBS News' Walter Cronkite about his experiences in June 1944, the tactical decisions behind Operation Overlord, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talked out of joining the invading forces. Eisenhower and Cronkite visited the Allies' war room on England's southern coast; the coast of France, including Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach; and the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-on-the-Sea. This special broadcast of "CBS Reports," featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964.
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This is a non-monetised, ad free showing of the CBS documentary where Eisenhower returned to Normandy in 1964. I just want to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it. Rob
Thank you, Rob, for posting this excellent interview/reminiscence-style documentary. Very touching to see again after 60 years. 1964 was an election year and I was quite excited to be able to vote for the first time (you had to be 21 to vote in those days). 2024 finds us in another election year and the U.S. is involved in several war zones around the world. Humans still haven't learned how to be peaceful.
Really...really appreciate for posting this. Thank you!
Nice one rob, thank you for this 🙂
Danke!
@@moniquedeitz4356
Be for democracy. The Republicans are not! PLEASE!!!🇩🇪
My father, a British Commando, landed on Sword Beach. He survived the war and had six children. He met my mother, a French woman, in Normandy. I pay tribute to him and all those who landed and fought. I also recognise that Gen. Eisenhower was an exceptional man and I salute him.
Wow what a story. You must be very proud of his legacy
To Frank knight. God bless your family and your father's service to his country.
GOD BLESS your Father & Your Family ! IKE was a GREAT Man, he was a GREAT People Person ! as D. MacArthur Said, The BEST DAMN FILE CLERK in the ARMY ! IKE was NOT a Battlefield commander, but IKE WAS PERFECT for the JOB he did do ! We all should Thank GOD such Men do exist ! Men Like G.S. Patton JR. & BRADLEY, IKE, Cunningham, Bomber Harris ! People who were THANKFULLY in the right place at the RIGHT TIME !
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Wow
General Eisenhower. What a man.
Agreed!
This is when CBS was Phenomenal!
This is when there were journalists and journalists were a respected part of a democracy.
It’s a fantastic show isn’t it
This is when the 3 major networks were all Phenomenal and told the truth. Now you have Fox, OAN and other garbage networks that lie daily to you.
And there were only Three network news channels in America, and they all broke the same news story for their lead on the six o'clock evening news.
I was fortunate to live in Detroit where we could get CKLW (CBN) out of Ontario, Canada, so I had another perspective besides Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley, and Frank Reynolds.
They were all good back then and I also liked Peter Jennings, but as for Dan Rather?
I'd Rather not.
I remember. The only news I ever watched. God Bless Walter Cronkite.
The brave soldiers that fought and died so 20 years later the locals could swim, sunbath free on those beaches. Never forget the sacrifice on DDAY. Thank you for sharing this very important history today. The General and President Eisenhower speech the end needs to be remembered everyday in the world we live in today. Evil men will always try to steal free countries with war.
Well said
Now, 80 years later, I read about 1944 ,6 June, again!!❤❤
Eisenhower more than ready to take the blame if it all failed. What a great great man and leader.
My thoughts too
He could not fail.
He took heed of information whether he liked it or not.
@@wisconsinfarmer4742 Disagree. When you think you can't fail, you do. He knew it was possible, just look at history.
Thankyou for adding this video. Great to hear the general in his own words.👍
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed it
May all those heros who lost their life may rest in Peace light will shine on them for ever
Many of them are back in for another tour.
Yes we do return to serve what is decent.
Wow amazing video !! Thx! Salute to all our Veterans who served. God Bless !
This is incredible to see.
Glad you enjoyed it
This has been on youtube for quite sometime. I remember watching it for the 75th anniversary
I’m sure it has but in years of researching Normandy I’ve never seen it until now. Astonishing really. RUclips discovery algorithm must be terrible!
Eisenhower (at the wheel) driving down that empty beach, parallel to the abandoned German fortifications, blows my mind to no end. Is it haunting? Is it poetic? I cannot articulate an adequate response. Thank you for this video History Explorer.
You’re most welcome. I’ve never seen it before but this is just something else
Fantastic video, to hear 'from the horse's mouth' how the operation was planned and executed. This is History revisited!! Thanks for posting!! General Eisenhower. The man of all centuries!!
Couldn’t agree more 👍
how appropriate this is to this time of year and to this time in our history where our country is so divided I hope a lot of folks will take the time to watch and hear President Eisenhower thoughts and wishes for humanity!
Brilliant isn’t it
This is a great video! I saved it to my phone, so I can play it tomorrow for my two young teenage granddaughters!
Wonderful!
I'm doing the same
This is something else. I really enjoyed this. Brave soldiers to do that. God be with all of them!!
I’d never seen it before. It’s brilliant, so nostalgic
I seen this when it was made, truly incredible!
Never forget what our country did 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇦
💯
This was amazing to see. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Americans must fight the enemy that's within. So that the generations to come will have the same Freedoms as you 🙏🇺🇸
Let’s hope for peace, the future looks so turbulent at the moment
Yes,..the domestic enemies from within in so many nations who are a FIFTH COLUMN following orders of globalists pose a greater threat to humanity now than ever...and so many have no idea how to stop them as there are so many tentacles and people in high places following along...
You sound exactly like a Nazi. Because that's how they talked. You need to get yourself centered and confront the hate inside you.
Our poisonous culture must be dealt with. We are in the wrong and could be on the wrong side of history in ww2.
Fascinating document, thank you for sharing this treasure.
Glad you enjoyed it
Eisenhower visited those paratroopers because he was given casualty estimates of 1 in 3 would be KIA when dropped. Yet he still sent them. He believed he owed it to them to look them in the eye. When asked at the final briefing before June 6th by King George VI about the appalling casualty estimates if he was sure this was the time. Ike answered His Majesty, "I also ache at that thought your Majesty, but if we do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay in added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause." Thankfully through the grace of God, casualties were far less than the estimates. Never underestimate the 101st and 82nd Airborne. They did their jobs and saved countless lives on the beaches taking out the 88 caliber stationary German big guns one by one in bloody firefights and hand to hand combat. Without them, the landing very well may not have succeeded.
I can think of no more worthy a cause than freeing the world from the Tyranny of fascism.
God Bless the Supreme Allied Commander 5 star General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Well said 👍
@@thehistoryexplorer Thank you. I have long been an admirer of the General having had family fight and die at his command. No greater Commander has ever existed. He has done something and held power of command not even Alexander the Great has done or had. He is a hero of the ages.
Wow. Being driven by general Eisenhower on Omaha beach. A different age.
I wonder if he realised how special that moment was at the time
He was a former president by 1964. Boggles my mind its not even referenced. It's like he's with a tour guide.
Outstanding video
He’s brilliant isn’t he
A fact and truth my friend
What an awsome historically rich video. Thank you so much.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Back when journalists were journalists not propagandists.
Very true!
Propagandists? Like the one that had to pay $787,000,000 for their lies?
And they're not just simple propagandists, which would be bad enough,...they're NETWORKED propagandists.
They should be banned from being broadcast on the air or by cable, etc,..ALL of the "entertainers" on that network.
I remember when lying was still the wrong thing to do, especially by news reporters (re: W. Cronkite, et al)
lol. If you don’t recognize this narrator as propaganda.
My 1944 war town would consider Eisenhower a great American hero.
I believe he is
The US, UK, and Canada will always be brothers. Our bond is cemented by the blood shed by our grandfathers and great grandfathers. In my part of the US, we always pay respect to our brothers across the pond and to the north for their great sacrifices.
This man had responsibility of hundreds of thousands of lives and accepted that duty with resolve and selflessness determination.Our Prime minister couldn’t spend one afternoon there.
It, s stupid to compare current time to war time. Leaders of war time had to count on every day casulties. Totaly different times.
🙏😇.. Excellent Emotional Program .. Thank You for sharing this with us ..💙👍
Great isn’t it
Thank you for the video
You bet!
It's our turn to keep the peace by being ready and knowing our history 🇺🇸
Absolutely
YES YES but there are governors that want to limit knowledge of history.
@@margaretgaal937 interesting in an internet age that has living men from the beaches of Normandy. There is always the book burners about.
I watched this show on TV when I was 14 years old , wow it brings back many memories !!
Battleship Texas also was assigned and fired upon Point du Hoc. It wasn't just two destroyers. They wouldn't deem it so significant to use Army Rangers but use only tiny destroyer guns. Texas was slinging 14 inch 1,700lb monsters.
This is amazing. I’m sure Ike wasn’t so calm during this waiting on reports
Had the weight of the free world 🌎 on his shoulders. Incredible
He was under immense scrutiny and pressure, an impressive man
My Dad was there with the soldiers when they beached the shores in Normandy. Then after that he became a P O W .he was a P O W for almost a year .
That’s terrible. Sorry to hear that
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, football field, in an army, or in an office.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had it.
Ikes calming influence on key players was one of the reasons why the Western Front became a reality
Bang on. Well said
The greatest invasion of WW2
I think so!
Of history of the World
Rommel was sent to the Atlantic wall to assess the German defenses. He basically said, "We're screwed."
Pretty much. He knew the challenge he faced
and a man of his acumen did not take long to realize that truth.
Germany was screwed from the beginning.
Many of their soldiers cut many of ours a break on the field.
Eisenhower and Bradley who became Five Star Generals are part of the famous class of 1915 of the United States Military Academy - West Point known as the class the stars fell on. Someone mention that Eisenhower return because he did not arrived the first day. Hello. You are not going to have a four star general landing on the first day. He arrived the second day. Remember Eisenhower was in charge of Operation Overload..D Day. God bless all those troops
That Man, Eisenhower.
His soul was tested.
He sent thousands of Sons to perish.
He had had to.
It was tasked to do this.
How many of his fellow human beings can fathom the emotional pain he endured.
Vietnam was heating up when this 1st aired
Yes it was!
Wow I have never seen this before. What an amazing interview and piece of history.
" If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and moral, then it is not a political party; *it is merely a conspiracy to seize power* " ----- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wow that’s powerful
Most Americans have no idea that Eisenhower said that....
Yes! He also stated that “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, football field, in an army, or in an office.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had it.
As spoken repeatedly from all those who knew Ike during those war years, the depth of his humanity permeated all aspects of his leadership. One can see it fully throughout this interview. I hope this film remains available well in the future for those that study Ike and the D-Day campaign.
This was fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Never Forget
Love the video, it gives you a view you don't get to see from the positions of the higher ups and the things they had to do to prepare for the D-Day invasion. Thanks to the scarfice of these soldiers we got the peace and freedom of today. I found this video very informative and educational even it being 20 years after the invasion. I've spent a long time looking into WWII and learned a lot and gained even more from this video so thank you, you have gained a new subscriber.
It’s brilliant isn’t it? I never saw it until now
@@thehistoryexplorer It was well put together and brilliant without a doubt.
Merci pour ce documentaire !
Fantastic. A great piece of history.
My uncle Al was on Omaha Beach with his m 1 rifle 🇺🇸
You must be so very proud of his legacy
An amazing piece of history.
Sounds like a good project to show the book-very good! I heard about the book on Saint Javelin website.
I've read that almost all of the swimming Sherman tanks in the beginning went to the bottem with their crews. Because, the officer in charge of the landing boats refused to take them in closer to the beach. In my reading, the number of 27 our 28 sounds right. From what I read the crews were all lost. And, from what Eisenhour said here, he was made aware of this.
This is a D Day myth I’m afraid and I have a video coming up on it. All but two tanks made it ashore on the western end of Omaha beach. Conversely, all but two sank on the eastern end
General Patton did not get to return to see his successes!
Sadly not
Patton was murdered.
It’s an amazing place to visit.
I was 8 when I first heard the phrase D-Day: now it’s passed into common parlance. I recall then how fascinated I was reading a black and white newspaper supplement dedicated to the 20th anniversary. I didn’t know then that I’d still be equally fascinated 60 years later! We lived in the Isle of Wight, just south of which this amazing armada formed up.
There are two questions that remain a puzzle to me:
1. Why was May 5th not chosen, as May was originally planned for at the Triangle Conference in 1943?
2. Why did US bombers not fly up and down the targeted beaches, instead of across them?
貴重な映像をありがとう御座いました✨
You are most welcome
The nun on the beach didn't realize who she just walked past.
Exactly! Ha!
One of our Great leaders Eisenhower ❤
I was there 15 years ago in May visited all the sites and cemeteries. Barack Obama turned up two weeks later, but of course at the time on the day sixth of June 1944 the general, and then President Eisenhower was the single most important person and he did a magnificent job, so calm so resolute and so effective.🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸👏
Well said 👍
Churchill forgot to say Canadian lives will be also lost and they were.
GENERAL Douglas MACARTHUR'S SPEECH at WEST POINT ! not the MOVIE VERSION, the real version, is also VERY VERY GOOD ! I HIGHLY recommend it
Yes I have seen that, I might upload it to share too
Then: in 1964 the children were playing on the beach...!!And now??
The children play on the beach now still
Children play on Florida beaches
A Danish friend told me that Burmeister and Wain built the Mulberry harbour at Arromanche. @ 1 hour.
Does that bunker they were inside still exist? - it was amazing that there were still strips of camouflage above the observation slit 20 years later.
Still there!
@@thehistoryexplorer Which Wiederstandnest (WN) number?
Just imagine 3k dead 5:52 American 🇺🇸 s on those beaches 😢🫡
He had as he should great respect for the British people.
Did he did it like an Ike we like?!
Wow!
One has to wonder what President General Dwight Eisenhower would think of today's worldwide sh!tshow.
Yes likely be horrified
Such a shame for the morning cloud bank. Otherwise that beach would have not been the same. The allies air would have destroyed every strong hold along that coast. The navy missed too initially😢
Amazing time. Amazing men
THE MAN
I think he is 👌
Realize this was filmed closer to D day than today is to the start of Gulf War 2 or Afghanistan.
Crazy isn’t it
Ike was the man!
What a message for today, yet we still seem to want to return to the state of the world as it was in the late 1920s and 1930s.
An Imperial power building in the Pacific, an unstable Europe, and a sleepy progressive American administration that was more about doing what they wanted for their party than for the citizens.
Well said
Praise God for these courageous men!❤❤❤
Unfortunately, humanity never learned from its dark past.
At the conclusion Eisenhower seems rather overwhelmed. I do think that If he had still been President that Vietnam would;d not have happened. To be sure. He would never launched the moon mission,. But Kennedy looked away as the coup against Diem was launched, How he would have reacted to the failure of the new regime is unknowable, But Ike, like Johnson knew how and when to use military power,. Once in, bother he and Ridgeway advised Johnson to go all in,. Johnson really lacked the nerve to finish what he started.
Why doesn't somebody improve the visual quality of this important/interesting film?
I’d love to use an AI software to improve it
@@thehistoryexplorer Good boy.
I'm being served ads on this video.
Not from me. I set no adverts. If you receive them it will be from YT I’m afraid
Is that dan rather opening narrator? BIH , remf
God bless those who gave and sacrificed for freedom! They would be embarrassed with how America is today! 😢🇺🇸🙏✝️
They created the good times
It was a different world
Its safe now sir you can step ashore!
Well you wouldn’t want him in the assaulting wave!
Theodore rooseveldt jnr
Did on utah beach
Maybe he was expendable
As were many others!
@angloaust.
Theodore Roosevelt wasn't supposed to be there either.
Read your history He had to get permission from his superiors to hit that beach.
He was the oldest assistant division commander on that beach and if you also remember he died about 6 weeks after D. day from a heart attack.
The Truman admn. Fired MacArthur because he (Truman) was still in the mode of following Former President Roosevelt invasion of Japan he knew if he let MacArthur have his way he (MacArthur) would successfully invade Japan and we we would not have the horror of Nagasaki and Heroshema today.
Invade Japan without any casulties?????
80 years later the French can’t stop a few amateurs coming the other way in dinghies - that’s gratitude for you get from the French next time they can swivel - brave lads respect ✊ ❤
Have you seen the size of France? How do you expect them to patrol the entire length of their coastline?
@@thehistoryexplorer c’mon…if they wanted to with the same vigour that went into Overlord they could we have advanced tech now drones and satellites night vision etc. last time I looked the English and French navy were fighting a war… border force working cohesively plus breaking the root causal…the criminals down with special forces/ crack police forces
Ike gives credit to British general Morgan first.
I'd vote for him in a second. Ten times the man as Reagan
Et aujourd'hui, on peut dire que leurs prières ont été exaucées.
Watching these heroes march straight into enemy machine gun fire and falling bring tears to my eyes and pride swells my chest, a great feeling of comfort and security surrounds me still while these incredible heroes lie in far off European graves having never known the greatness of their sacrifice and that hardens my heart makes me resolute and gives me a great feeling that I must protect what they have sacrificed so much for. The gallantry on display numbs the mind. These were American Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, our Great Grand Fathers, Grand Fathers and Fathers, they were Uncles, brothers, cousins, friends. They are also almost all gone. They are The Greatest Generation and they will never be forgotten. Thank you so much to people who I never met but they gave their lives for me, God bless you and keep you always.
#NeverForget #fascismneveragain
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Thank you
Still the politician 20 years later.
Not even willing to criticize Montgomery as he did in 44...
He didn’t criticise Montgomery
@@thehistoryexplorer ,. Oh yes he did. Unabashedly, and frequently.
Especially about his inability to capture Caen. But, for many other reasons going back as far as N Africa.
The only reason he didn't relieve Montgomery was because of Churchill.
What you're hearing here is an interview given, shortly after leaving the WH, and just days before addressing the European Allies at the 20th commemoration of D-Day.
And, as is well known, Eisenhower was a master at avoiding saying anything controversial.
5 years from this interview he would be dead.
Not to be political, but the video was interrupted by a commercial featuring Kamala Harris appealing for funds for her presidential campaign. I was struck by the contrast of seeing Eisenhower’s face, the soldier, general, Supreme Commander of the allied troops, and finally President, and then seeing Harris’. That’s all I’ll say.
Ironically YT will place adds wherever it wants and will target adds based on your internet activity. For example, all my adds on YT seem to be about video editing or music samples for creators etc
I’ve never seen a political advert. But I understand the contrast you explain between these two people
my FAVORITE part,........... MacArthur Tells TRUMAN on Guam, YOU need not FEAR me running for President, It's IKE Eisenhower he is the one who is going to take your JOB ! & TRUMAN Laughs at him & says that EISENHOWER isn't capable of being PRESIDENT ! Well then TRUMAN'S packing his Bags & leaving the WHITE HOUSE so that " EISENHOWER " can move in !
Brilliant
Today we have politicians that want to end our Democratic Way of Life as obsolete. How soon we we forget.
Very true
Yeah they got the weather ok from two great Irish lighthouse owners in Ireland husband and wife to which we owe a debt they later received an honour for they’re expertise god bless them
Wait I was 3 😂sorry math 🧮 is not my best subject
General sosabowski only two years younger than ike
Jumped into arnhem!
Brave man!
@History explorer.
Again those generals had to get permission to go. And airborne generals are different breeds than any else.
I mean the fact you get somebody who's actually disparaging General Eisenhower who is the supreme allied commander for going not going on to Omaha beach is idiocy of the worst sort.
Personally I don't think either President Roosevelt or Prime Minister Churchill would have allowed him to do it anyway.
@historyexplorer.
Have you ever heard the story about Winston Churchill and how he wanted to be at D-Day. He was basically gonna be on 1 of the ships off-shore.
Will king George the 6th Heard about that and sent 2 letters to Churchill. Ⅱ 1 which was dated 4 days before the invasion sent point blank if you're going to be there then I am going to be there!
Churchill got the point Which was he had no business being there.
Another story
Monty says to churchill
I don't smoke or drink alcohol and I'm 100percent fit
Churchill.replies I smoke
And drink alcohol and I'm
150percent fit!
Times have changed
Even kings went into
Battle years ago
And more recent
Gordon at khartoum
Wolfe at quebec
Nelson at trafalgar!