D-Day 78 Special - Forgotten Normandy Tank Graveyard
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Tucked away in a quiet corner of Normandy are a group of abandoned WW2 US armoured vehicles, including Sherman tanks. How did they get there and why haven't they been recovered?
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Very Epic
Hi Mark, I've gotten rather addicted to playing the new Sniper Elite 5. It's indeed more difficult that any of the previous in the franchise. Thank You for the good work as usual.
Big win for us!
Mark, this is awesome. You should do a video on the Dukla Pass battle. Amazing.
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My Aunts sweetheart died on Omaha in the first wave. She remained a spinster then her entire life. Even when I was a kid in the 70’s she spoke of him often.
Omg...I heard of that on the German side once...very sad love connected once and then never again.
I had a great aunt whose sweetheart died in WW1. The problem was that he left her pregnant. It was a big family secret. She never married, but lived with her two bachelor brothers. My Grandfather made up for them. He had 7 living children, my father being the youngest, now 92 years old.
From my family to yours, thank you for your family's service
God bless that woman and her sweetheart and their souls. They will meet again, as the song goes.
My aunt loss her sweet heart on the USS Houston when it was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, March 1942.
Tanks for da memories.
My father literally drove the 3rd tank onto Omaha beach on d-day. He said that they were delayed by 3 hours from driving onto the beach cause they collectively refused to drive over the dead American soldiers that littered the beach. Yet whenever anyone acknowledged his efforts, he'd always said that the real hero's never made it home.
What company was your father with? My dad was a tracked vehicle mechanic with the 4th Armored Division.
According to many people's fathers they probably were on one of the first three tanks on the beach, some might not have even been there, and others too busy driving to really know.
Resting Relics
We had two M4 Sherman's on display at 1st Tank Battalion, Camp Pendleton, CA. The one out front as you come in used to be used in parades and other functions but the transmission went out in 1979 and has been sitting ever scene. The other is setting in front of the Headquarters building, they both had been rescued from ranges. Thanks again for the history.👍👍👍👍👍♥️🇺🇸
@Kenny Sherrill; I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in 1975-'76. Motor "T" H&S Co. 1st Thank Bn. 41 Area. I remember the static display Sherman out front. Semper Fi.
@@motorTranz SEMPER FIDELIS brother, I was there in July of 78 to June 79, again August 82 to July 85. I was with TOW Company, very glad to hear from a fellow Marine. 😀
@DV8 *** Yes I'm very aware, not really sure if it was right or not just yet. The U.S. retired the Battleship but brought them back in the 80s. Yes new technology is always being developed, who knows what tomorrow my bring, many of us, Marines, keep up on whats going on. I was an Anti-Tank Missile man, my job was in destroying Tanks or what ever was in the way. If you ever see a Tank coming at you it's very intimidating, the Corps has a long History, we have high ideals but not everyone who joins has the Corps best interest at heart. Semper Fi my friend.
@@motorTranz Los Flores?
@DV8 *** trenches are back again as well... Who knows ..
Just melt them down.
I regularly walk a part of the South West Coastal Path walk between North Hill, Minehead, Somerset and the small village of Bossington.
During WW2 North Hill was used by American forces for live-firing practice prior to D-Day.
In 2015 I noticed some rusting metal objects that I believe are bogie wheels and suspension parts of am M4 Sherman tank. I took some photos and when walking recently they were still there.
I did a bit a research and found out that the Americans used to drive the tanks up to the top of North Hill because the roads were too narrow for the tank transporters. They obviously left some parts behind. Rumours have it that rather than take them home, a couple of Sherman's were buried somewhere on the hill 🤔
In the 2010's, when I worked in the police as an Authorised Firearms Officer, I got tasked to make a weapon safe that had been recovered from Galmington stream, Taunton, Somerset.
To my surprise I found the weapon in question was an M1 Carbine, it had lain in the water since WW2. Although the metal was a bit rusty and some of the butt was missing and the remainder waterlogged, the action still cocked with surprisingly little effort.
Next to the stream is Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset which was originally built by the Americans as a military hospital.
Although almost fully re-developed over the last few decades there are a few of the original brick structures remaining.
It's surprising how much remains from the war. Oh, and the M1, although fitted with a magazine was empty of rounds!
Sad to see tanks rust away.
I swear, whenever I see those videos of the troops leaving the landing craft all those years ago I always end with the same conclusion: Each and every single one of them had balls of steel. Heroes, one and all.
Them tanks rusting!
You do not need to build roads to move the tanks if you dismantle them in the field and sling load the parts out by air..
You could use a CH-47 Chinook to move the tank parts.
You could also use a Sikorsky CH-54.
I could see it happen. The helicopters would have to stay stationary for quite some time to attach the tanks though, but more difficult lifting operations have been done.
I thought that too, although the issue would be weight. The CH-47 payload is about 10 tons and the M4 is 30 tons or more, unless the tanks could be stripped down massively I don't think airlifting would work. Pity.
Yes, also the highest lifting capacity of a cargo helicopter is around 26 tons. M1 Sherman weights 33 tons complete, so you could probably lift the turret and hull separately without issue.
I didn't know this graveyard exist
More historical GOLD from Mark Felton Productions .
Thank-you professor .
The tanks shown are early M4A1s, with the rounded, cast hulls. Later M4s had angled, sheet-metal, welded hulls.
When I get sick of RUclipss constant BS, I can always turn to Mark Felton Productions for good, high-quality videos, never fails. Good work Mark, keep it up!
He actually gets a lot of stuff wrong , it if you don’t know it quite entertaining.
@@guaporeturns9472 What, precisely, does Mark Felton get wrong?
@@skwalka6372 well , for one his video about the Lancasters on standby that we’re ready at a moments notice to replace the B-29s for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. “Greg’s Airplanes and Automobiles” did a vid about it. Check his channel for good stuff. There are plenty of others as well.. do some of your own searching around and you’ll see.
@@guaporeturns9472 There are a few issues here and there, but for the most part Mark Felton is accurate. My problem with his channel this is not "history", but reporting. There is no historical analysis or critical interpretation anywhere, any good historian will notice this.
@@skwalka6372 I don’t mind “fact” reports so I can form my own conclusions but I like analysis as well. Both have their place to me but his facts are often suspect.
That's quite sad to see.
I knew a friend of the family's, when I was growing up, who had taken part in the Gallipoli Landing in 1915 - thankfully some of the costly lessons learned from that disaster nearly 30 years earlier had at least helped to ensure the success of the Normandy Landings.Most people are still unaware of the meticulous planning and the vast amount of intelligence gathering that took place before the landings.
Never heard about the Gallipoli experience being used in the planning for D-Day but the combined US - Australian amphibious + land + airborne attack on Lae (New Guinea) in September 1943 certainly was. In this operation, Australia provided the ground forces (in a pincer movement combining the amphibious landing and overland from the Markham Valley) whilst USA provided the airborne forces (including air transport for the Australian artillery and supplies on the overland attack), most of the naval vessels and much of the equipment. The attack commenced with the US 503rd Airborne parachuting into the Nadzab airfield, holding it and accumulating supplies whilst the Australian overland forces arrived later the same day after having previously been airlifted into a new, secret & temporary airfield near Bulolo. Once the airstrip was secured and prepared, a massive airlift of US equipment and additional Australian troops from Port Moresby began, allowing the inland attack on Lae to commence. Meanwhile, the US Navy successfully landed Australian troops just east of Lae for a frontal assault but this became bogged down due mainly to the unforeseen swampy ground and a swift flowing river that needed to be crossed before the seaward attack could commence with the logistical support it needed. The operation was a resounding success but being the first of its kind in WW2, mistakes were made and the lessons learned (particularly with respect to logistical planning, breakdown of equipment for airborne transport, organisation of supplies, the need for quality pre-landing scout reconnaissance, etc) were well documented, giving Eisenhower valuable planning experience that was incorporated into Operation Overlord.
Peter V-- I think it was in that Lae battle, but I could be confusing it with another PNG battle, that some Australian artillery troops actually jumped with the US Airborne unit you mentioned. I think some artillery pieces were dropped with them, with other pieces being flown in once the airfield was secured. They had absolutely no jump experience, and had to have some hasty lessons from the Americans.
Excellent video! Very interesting and a pleasure to watch.
Well done!
It is good to hear in the English language a recognition of the valiant fighting of the French after the 1940 German victory.
There is plenty of 'English' words on the subject, if you search them out.
I would dare say more in English than in French.
The resistance was substantially supported by Britain, was it not? Actions speak louder ,,,,
My own view is that De Gaulle had a personality that did little to help his country, didn't play well with the others.
The brave French resistance and British trained members are an iconic force, never to be forgotten.
The good Dr has burned their memories forever in historical minds through video and his excellent books, as well.
@@als1023, that low-life DeGaulle showed his thanks for the Allies not once but TWICE having to bail France out a mess they were in with the Germans by throwing the UN Forces out of France in the 60's. What a self serving, ungrateful bastard he turned out to be! Maybe the Allies should have let Germany keep France then we'd get so see how that ungrateful bastard would have felt!
@@als1023 The French resistance is a myth
If you don't already know of it you might like to read the book "Comme des Lions" by Dominique Lormier. It's heavy going but of interest.
@@ruthlesstruth8639 Your comment intrigued me, i genuinely want to know more, can you explain?
Díky!
my great grand uncle fought as a nco in the 12th SS on and around that area - even destroyed two tanks with grenades
Is he dead?
Many people have a forefather's brother in the family.
Such a sad end to such vehicle's. Wouldn't cost that much to recover them if you wanted too. Chinnock and straight up no need for roads.
Dday had been forgotten, they don't teach kids anymore, glad your one of them tjat keeps putting it out there
WW2 armor with street art is certainly an aesthetic.
My uncle landed on the fourth wave on Normandy . He was with a mine clearing unit and was wounded twice from mines other people had tripped. As a result he stayed behind for several weeks to help gather mines while his wounds healed. During the mine clearing truck loads of mine were gathered in areas west of the main beaches and tossed onto huge ever growing piles along a remote beach. In time these were blasted as a way of cleaning them up. I do remember him showing us a photo of one such huge pile of mines that were being stacked from 6x6 trucks. These pile were way west of the on going landing areas so as to not cause issues with landing operations.
A old friend on ours also landed on Normandy and never got his feet wet. He was assigned to drive a 6x6 truck that was first loaded with gas cans.. late on the first day of June 6 this truck and himself were lowered onto a landing craft and brought to shore. At no point did he leave the trucks seat until he reached shore. After reaching shore they dropped him of on the wrong beach and he did nothing but make his way along the beach’s for a really extend period of time until he found his unit.
This truck was a brand new truck and all he did for the next months was to drive from the beach area to near the front dropping off supplies. This truck was his home for many many months. In the end he told me this truck had 67000 miles on it. He said that low tide he would drive right up to ships that had beached themselves. Trucks would drive right up to be loaded with cargo and then they would drive off to the front. Most of the time he was loaded from ever growing supply piles.
Over the summer he built a metal grill around the exhaust system to capture engine heat that could be directed into the cab. When winter came this heated him. In addition he trade with sailors for warm clothing. It was this that kept him from freezing later on. All the time he and this truck never parted company.
The only time he did not go to the beach was when a engineering unit loaded a power unit into his box and they used hydraulic powered chain saws to clear huge trees that were cut down to block the roads.
Always interesting, thank you.
Exactly what my mothers father said when he was involved with D day as one of those soldiers. The amount of soldiers with sea sickness was unbelievable!
Those dunes are likely riddled with live ordinance as well. The artillery range on Fort Ord, California had to be cleared of unexploded ordinance before it could be used by the public. Much of which is now set aside as a preserve now.
Hello Mark, the Clip of the marching soldier’s at 3:13 was made in the City of Oldenburg in the North Western Part of Germany, in the Back you can see the characteristic Cäcilienbrücke (Cäcilienbridge) wich was taken out of Service in 2020, i’m from Oldenburg and I’ve never ever seen a video document from the second worldwar of Oldenburg before. Oldenburg was liberated by British and Canadian troops. It hasn’t suffered big air rades during the war. Near by was a big airfield in the small village of Bad Zwischenahn, where the nazis tested the Me163, called „Erprobungskommandos 16“ after the Bombing „Operation Hyro“ on Peenemünde. The airfield is even today visible from google maps with its characteristic triangle shape.
During the war two Luftwaffe aircrafts collided and crashed into the Bad Zwischenahner Meer
One Ju88 with its crew is still in the Mud of the lake. The wrack of the other one appears to be in there too, but its crew was rescued.
It would be very interesting for me learning to know more about this Airfield and its history. I even got one original aerial picture from the Allied forces where you can see a lot of the field, surrounding buildings and hangers heavily damaged closely before the end of the war.
Thank you for your great Work, i love you videos. Best regards from Oldenburg 👋🏼
Thank you!
There are also a couple wrecked Panhard EBRs at the Dunes de Beville from what I can see on Google Maps
Dunes de Biville. J'ai joué dans ces dunes et autour de ces tanks.
Very interesting
Biville ! I use to spend a lot of my weekend playing war with my brother and hiding inside the Shermans.
Cheers Mark
As always Dr. Felton never disappoints with fascinating WWII history! Many thanks!
Could prep thos to move then use a heavy lift chopper
Approx 80% of French evacuated at Dunkirk opted to be returned to occupied France.
The trouble to take them accross and then they go back to their german friends and report everything they saw in England.First thing is why did those bigmouth frogs make such a dangerous trip,the brits should have made them pay the two way trip and put them in camps for the duration.
No sure what this has to do with the video, but I'll bite.
tl;dr: don't judge too quickly, context is everything.
So you mean before or after the Armistice on June 24? The ones who did before certainly didn't opt out, they went back there to keep fighting as they were ordered to do so.
French soldiers and Poles under french command who had already fought through Belgium and northern France or Norway then were sent back to fight in the Somme, the Aisne, in Normandy, Brittany, the Paris area, the Loire and further south until the fighting ended weeks after Dunkirk.
As for those who were still in Britain, I would like for you to put yourself in their shoes: there were those who were still recovering and being refitted after the grueling fighting in the north and the evacuation, and those few members of the returning expeditionary corps from Norway that hadn't shipped yet.
Among them all were professional soldiers who had taken an oath of loyalty to the army, so deciding to stay and fight was a very powerful moral decision, because that would be desertion to join De Gaulle, a rebellious, newly-minted and almost unknown general.
Others were conscripts who mostly just wanted to be discharged and return home.
Few believed that Britain could last very long after losing such a large portion of its army and all its equipment and would sue for peace, thankfully Churchill managed to sway or isolate those in his cabinet and parliament who would've tried for it during the darkest hour.
So, many felt the war was now over after the Armistice and the only sensical thing to do was to return and rebuild, and hoping the Germans would be reasonable and leave soon so that another 'revenge war' could be prepared just like after 1871. Not enough realised that this war was different and that the then leaders of Germany were not 'reasonable'.
In those few days of summer 1940 it took a whole lot a courage, foresight, hope and perhaps a bit of madness for a common soldier to believe that the enemy could be defeated eventually.
Those who stayed, however few there were, formed the core of the Free French Forces and would be sent to Africa to begin rallying french colonies back to the allies and taking the fight to the italians in Libya and Eritrea.
You saw some of those very soldiers in this video, as part of them joined Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division that fought in Normandy, in Paris, eastern France and all the way to the Berghof, as mentioned by Mark Felton.
@@chrisd8866 - bite away. I believe the '80%' to be reasonably accurate. *by 'believe', I mean 'think-'.
@@chrisd8866 Well said.
@@gitfoad8032 Oh, I wasn't contesting your 80% estimate, merely gave some context for it. ;-)
I don't know the exact numbers myself, at the top of my head I remember that among the 'happy few' were around 900 of the 1619 survivors of foreign legion troops that had fought in Norway and France before escaping back to Britain and chose to stay after being convinced by french officers. It's wasn't much, but beggars couldn't be choosers, and they would just be the beginning.
It's easy to make a broad statement with a striking number; politicians, journalists and activists alike do it all the time. Again, context is everything, you just got to give it a chance to put events in perspective, as I humbly try to do.
These are top class everyone brilliant
"For the very BEST in History programming, choose Dr. Mark Felton*" Nothing is forgotten with him around, I digress.
How did you digress? You didn't digress at all...
WHY WOULD YOU UNDRESS....?
I didn't know he has a PhD
SO SAD
My mother, Louise, welded those Sherman tanks together here in Detroit during the war. She was born in 1924.
Hello ,your comment caught my attention , I would like to learn more . Jon Australia .
@@johndamon9488 yes, during the war, everybody around detroit had a job doing war work. My dad made hydraulic lines for the bombers and fighters. His neighbor who was 70 worked 12 hour days six days a week. Detroit has alot of automotive plants, engineers, technicians, and machinist. It is a good place to convert over to war work. They did not build any cars for four years during the war.
Very cool
BTW , everyone that goes to normandy for the ww2 history MUST GO to Overlord museum. by far the best .
Went 2 times before COVID , went to all beaches,drop zones and point du hoc and all the graveyards. And most of the museums. Was definitely bucket list trips. Want to go back
I passed thru a french village two rows of houses and a cobbled street one end near a childrens park was a tank posdibly german.. It was near the german border..it looked perfect. . Spookey as anything like going back to the 30s 40s.....
Cool video, thank you many owe their life to the captain of the battle ship I can't remember witch one who disobeyed orders to move his ship closer to shore scrapping the bottom and nearly beaching the vessel so he could get closer and knock out pill boxes witch he successfully done.
USS Texas
Can you imagine being a Sherman tanker in Nazi Europe? Knowing any enemy tank you came upon could easily whoop you in a 1 on 1 fight. Not even having the firepower to penetrate the frontal armor of German tanks. Man those troops had big brass ones. Especially the black tankers. Knowing you were fighting for a country that basically saw you as a second class citizen yet still giving your all, willing to lay down your life if necessary. They definitely earned the greatest generation monicker. I was lucky enough to have met and known a great many veterans of the big one. From Navy that fought in the Pacific, to Airborne that dropped on D-Day, to a nurse that survived being a POW on the Philippines, to a pilot who flew supply missions over the Himalayas. Unfortunately, I was very young when my grandfather took me to his conventions and gatherings. I had no idea how privileged I was nor how special it was to be in a room surrounded by those men and women more times than i can remember. To know now what some of them went through (especially that nurse) yet seemed to go on to love normal fulfilling lives shows just how mentally tough they were back then. I have always wondered if it was growing up in the Depression that made them so tough or if it was a natural just get the job done mentality they all possessed.
Kilroy was here
As always you tell us things many didn't know of.
Dismantle and air lift them via chinooks
I love seeing wrecks like that, it’s an interesting reminder of the cyclical nature of life: we’re born from the Earth and one day the Earth will reclaim us.
Picture is a M4a1 Sherman tank.
Something they fail to mention is how sea sick those soldiers were when leaving those craft. They were riding in circles waiting for other landing craft. By the time they reached the shore the bottom of the craft was filled with slippery vomit. They couldn't wait to get off those boats. Anyone who's been seriously sea sick knows what I'm talking about.
geez good thought. Having been in small crafts close to the shore as well, absolutely the worst for motion sickness.
I've often wondered what it was like to feel the relief of the fresh air when the front ramp opened, to the hellish scene unfolding.
What a ghastly, unforgettable experience.
Slava Ukraine.
Been there packing guts out that is .lol
@@als1023 was the “Slava Ukraine” necessary?
@@bfcyouthelement1986 Gotta poke at the Russians whenever you can I guess lol
Cool info !!!
graffiti on things normally bother me, especially on historical things like these tanks however I would say to graffiti artists go there and go wild! the graffiti is the one thing helping to preserve this past by covering up the metal and, also many spray paints for metal have a rust stop build in the mix stopping rust from further developing, and in the future, if these items finally go to a museum the paint can simply be removed with paint stripper.
Just makes you wanna cry
Mark, are you going to Tankfest this year? I’ll be there on the Saturday, would love to buy you a cup of tea & a sausage roll if you’re there…
Sup
May I ask, where abouts is Tankfest located?
@@michael-m Bovington
@@UncleJames95 Much appreciated, James 🙏🏼
Hi James nice to see your comment
Tankfest is a bucket list event of mine 😁😁😁
Every time I turn on history channel I keep expecting to hear Marks sounder……then I turn off history channel and go to his channel
Hi Mark, im a big fan of your channel. I learn alot history watching your videos
tanks for the memory
For all the "thinkers": NO, a CH-47 Chinook cannot lift these tanks. It has a sling load capacity of 26K pounds (11,800 kilos). Sherman tanks weigh between 66k - 86k pounds (30K Kilos).
I doubt any of the depicted vehicles now weigh anything close to that (not that it matters) or have a useful purpose. These unfortunate hulks have nothing to do with the 78th anniversary of D-Day and their current location is pure serendipity based on poor French decisions decades after the end of the war.
Aren't there heavy lift helicopters that lift a tank?
I recall De Gaulle, when France left NATO in the `60`s, telling the US secretary of state that all US sevicemen have to leave French soil. When informed President Johnson said "What? Even those who are buried there.
No, the soil where they were buried is considered American land. And the graves are constantly flowered, not only each 6th of June.
Can we station French soldiers on us soil ? You won't want the French soldiers that died freeing the us from the Brits leaving us soil surely eh ?
@@samdumaquis2033 you kidding me
@@methodeetrigueur1164 I think it was a joke, you know sarcasm.
@@maximusextreme3725 I find it disrespectful.
My dad was on Juno beach 🇨🇦sapper
Fascinating as always - thanks Mark.
Got me, I was sure it would be the swimming Hobart's funnies
These tanks will remain a reminder of the madness that became 1940's Europe and the sacrifices made by that brave generation of young men and women well after everyone living on earth today are long dead and gone. "Lest We Forget"
*slow claps*
A reminder that won't stop the next madness, which might already be unfolding.
Now european interesting to begin ww3... 😆😆
@@mulkanmulkan5620 No European is interested in starting WW3. It's the Russians that want WW3.
A madness we are about to see once again.
Could they air lift the tanks out?
If someone wants to get them they could be airlifted but that would be a whole different nightmare. Live them where they are. Added to future vacation list. Thanks for this Dr. Felton.
Airlift a Sherman hull? - with what - a Klingon Warbird? : )
No helicopter can lift 40 tons!
Leave them where they live?
@@nedludd7622 - Yeah I think that’s what’s going to happen.
@@nedludd7622 - They do have a fairly heavy case for long term 'squatter's rights' . . .
$1.25 a month is a good 👍 value for great 👍 content
I work for a tugboat company that runs a tug from 1943 currently named the SUSAN L. I believe it worked in the staging areas across the channel during the buildup and invasion.
Her original Enterprise DMG38 engine just came through a light overhaul this winter and is happily thumping away at 200 RPM to this day underway. We are still profiting and trusting machines built during this time and that makes me feel a living connection to history.
Thanks for another winner Mark!
There’s a website that lists known remaining engines . Might try to get on that list ?
Search for enterprise dmg38 , there’s a site enterprise foundry company , old Tacoma marine
Dr. FELTON, good one! Yes, I too(as another commenter referred to the graffiti), was not bothered by the graffiti. I didnt think about the preservative nature of the spray paint. That one tank almost looked
Camouflaged. All gave some...Some gave ALL. o7
Please do a video on French colonial troops fighting with the Allies in World War II. Thank you!
Modern heavy lift helicopter
Thanks Mr Felton for reminding us that France continued the fight after the armistice of 1940, 22th of June (4:00) :
- battle of Koufra (1941, 31st of January - 1st of March) ;
- battle of Bir-Hakeim (1942, 27th of May - 11th of June) ;
- Normandy - Niemen squadron in Russia (from 1942 to 1945) ;
- battle of Monte-Cassino (1944, 17th of January - 19th of May) ;
- liberation of Rome (1944, 4th and 5th of June) ;
- landing in Provence (1994, 15th of August) ;
- liberation of Paris (1944, 19th - 25 of August) ;
- liberation of Strasbourg (1994, 23rd or November) ;
- liberation of Colmar (1945, 20th of January - 9th of February) ;
And the French 2nd armored division (2è division blindée) was the first reaching the Berghof (1945, 4th of May).
.... last ones french SS Division ,, Charlemagne" in Berlin!
@@wolfgangemmerich7552 well... still proof that they fought valliantly even on the other side
In Syria and in Lebanon in 1941, the English and the free French fought against the French of Vichy (8th of June - 14th of July).
@@methodeetrigueur1164 While the western Alliied liberation of North Afrika the US & UK Troops walked throu the Vichy occupeyed Part and didn`t disarmed the Vichy Troops , the humilation of arabs and jewish peoples as 2Nd class peoples continued .....
And I forgot to mention the French resistance (sabotage, rescue of US and British bombers crews, underground press…)
my grandfather was @ juno beach Fort garry horse.
Now this is on my travel list.
Visit the french Tank Museum at SAUMUR if you want to see some WW2 Tanks in first class & moveabel condition!
Use a hover craft to recover them they won't mess up the land don't require a road
Hindsight is 20-20. Using perfectly good historical tanks for target practice that were worth no telling how much as running vehicles. Almost as bad as cutting the main gun. They should be fully functional and have public viewing of them firing sometimes. Like taking a Colt 45 of Wyat Earps and cutting the barrel. Just ruins a great piece of history.
Are you saying the world should have kept every one of the tens of thousands of tanks built for the war?
Before things become historical artifacts they have to survive the outdated junk stage. It can be pretty hard to justify having it take up space and require upkeep just so that some people in 50 years can look at it.
Rather a naive comment. Museum restoration and display are very expensive. Given the ravages of the post-war European economy, which had many more pressing needs, it’s a miracle there are so many examples of WW II vehicles remaining. I would suggest there are plenty. This is one example where removing the vehicles would cost more than they are worth, would cause significant environmental damage, and generate a lot of unnecessary controversy. Why bother? Leave them for the local kids to play on and tag. They’ll be iron oxide powder soon enough.
@@SMlFFY85
The historicaly significant ones, I went to a private museum with SP's, tanks of all kinds, Russian heavy truck, US trucks, etc. Non functional main guns.
Nobody is going to start a war with antiques.
If damaging the surrounding area is the problem, why not use a super heavy lift helicopter like a Chinook? It would be far less damaging to the surrounding terrain, and ironically might even be cheaper.
"Don't be ridiculous Pluskat, the Allies don't have that many ships."
Pluskat is named as an advisor for the movie The Longest Day. One interesting thing German Shepherd owners may find amusing is the scene where Pluskats dog goes sneaking away out of the bunker moments before Pluskat discovers the Allied armada emerging thru the mist.
"You know those ships you say they haven't got? Well , they got Em! "
Favorite line from the movie
@@MRVISTA-wz7vj It was the gas lighting of the time, declaring events they didn't like to be fake news or (lying press). There was one scene of a German soldier in Berlin calling an officer on the phone where he said: "You know those Red Army soldiers that aren't in Berlin ? Well they're shooting at us".
"Die Invasion. Sie kommen!"
I loved Hans Christian Blech's performance as Maj. Pluskat. So realistic in many ways. Being that Pluskat was an advisor on the film, and had been interviewed for the book, I often think that Blech must have spoken to him extensively to prepare for the role, and the Pluskat scenes must have been some of the most accurate.
"Auf mich zu, direkt!"
@@_WillCAD_ I had heard that the beginning of that statement was "heilige Scheiße" .
Thank you.
My great grandfather was a B 24 Liberator pilot during the opening hours of the day. His plane was hit by a flak shell and his left leg was severely hit with shrapnel. He was a bomber/navigator, and was able to pilot the plane back to British airspace when the pilot was severely wounded. He won the purple heart and the Distinguished Bronze Star that day.
Protected dunes = can't remove tanks
Dunes are armored training ground = tanks used as targets
Classic
To all those who remembered The 78th Anniversary of DDAY and to all those who were there and those who didn’t come back , Lest We Forget
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Here is an interesting piece of information.
The DDay landings were supposed to happen Jume 5th
US Navy and British Commandos who were to mark obstacles and help guide in landing craft were dropped off before the operation was postponed due to bad weather.
They swam in to the beaches.
They spent the entire day laying extremely still at the edge of the water to keep from being spotted.
These were the first men on the beaches a full day before the lamdings.
Interesting. One photo showed a Sherman in French IndoChina. Little known fact is that Roosevelt was dead set against the French, and for that matter, the British reestablishing their "Colonial" empires after the war. When he died, and Truman took over, apparently, this fact was ignored. The French came to Truman in 1946 and told him they wanted to take their army back into "French IndoChina", so he GAVE THEM THE MERCHANT FLEET to let them do it! That single event, more so than any other factor is what led to the Vietnam war.
And thanks for the history lesson! Always enjoy your videos.
My Dad was a barber with lotsa customers with stories to tell. I remember one who had a bald spot on the side of his head despite having a full head of hair otherwise. He would wear it longer to cover the spot. Jim was a giant of a man who laughed easily and loud, but a gentle giant so to speak. When I asked him about it he revealed the cause. He was a 17 year old coal cracker from PA. Large for his age, he convinced his mother to sign for him to enter the service. He trained in England and was on his way to the shore in a landing craft when they got hit. He woke up in an English hospital after his eighteen birthday had passed. He was the sole survivor. He was lucky that somebody grabbed him out of the channel. Jim never saw battle afterwards and counted his blessings...as should we all...because of those who fought that day on June 6,1944.
Ladies. Love. Mark. Felton.
Only one level of brave forever, the front seat in one of those boats storming normandy, get ready for doors opening gentlemen.
Heavylift helo some prep and wala
But it's nice to hike to
The fact that the US gave France 600 tanks for free during WW2 speaks to the mind boggling American production capacity back then.
They weren't free.....just as the Ukrainians are "gifted" billions of $$$$$$$$$ worth of weapons by the peace loving west they are actually "lend lease" so they have to pay for them eventually....Poland "donated" T72's recently to the peace loving Ukrainians who secreted them in a garage......the garage was Kalibrated and denatzified last night....the peace loving Ukrainians still owe Poland many millions of €€€€€€€€€ for the burnt out hulks....
It has certain beauty; a field of tanks and bunkers that viscerally connects us to the death, destruction, material cost and physical and intellectual work that is required to assert force over others. Might inspire to think about ways to coexist positively productive at least as a way of avoiding that.
Love your stuff man
Mitsubishi commercials for Mark's videos. In 1945 they were trying to shoot down our airmen. I don't think I've ever driven in a Mitsubishi car?
Hey Mark, could you maybe discuss about the 2 (or 4) abandoned IS-2 heavy tanks stationed as bunkers in the pacific island(s) of Russia?
I didn't know that
The French didn't do much other than resistance.
Ah man, 230am here in the US, guess bedtime can wait
Sunday afternoon here in Oz.
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5:30 on the west coast, does morning tea get any better on a Sunday?
Thanks for psoting !
Slava Ukraine !!
@@als1023 everything is better on sunday!
a little polish and oil change and they are ready for use again
Grand Moff Felton back with a new video!!
Always very interesting. Thankyou. But please change the intro sound track.