Battle of Normandy (D-Day) in 1 minute using Google Earth
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The Battle of Normandy from start to finish.
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It's a shame that the combat units of the other nations involved on the allies' side were not shown. Because as far as I know there were also combat units from Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Greece took part in the fighting. Poland, for example, had about half as many fallen soldiers as Canada.
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@@Averroes9 You sure? I'm pretty sure those are the units because there weren't 16,000 allied soldiers on the beaches at the end of the day.
The fact that the allies had 125k men on the beaches at lunch time is incredible. The planning and coordination it took to pull off Dday is mind bending.
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@@emmanueljim5414you'll be smokin' I'll be pokin ~ Nazi Germany
It was incredibly effective. It set the stage and pace for the entirety of the campaign in France. Allied planners had estimated it would take 2-4 years to liberate France and they did it in just a few months. It all happened so fast and ahead of schedule that the allies had no real plan in place to cross over into Germany once they got to that point, hence why Market Garden was so hastily put together.
@@Horible4, any source for that allied planner claim? I've been reading, watching and listening to WW2 history for decades and I've literally never heard this claim. Sure progress was faster than expected, the Germans collapsed after Falaise and that was unexpected, but 2-4 years?
@@enbeeyo Have to apologize, as I can't seem to find the source at the moment (i'll do a more thorough search through my search history this weekend). But if I recall, it was mentioned in a broadcast. It's not really an unexpected estimate. When we talk about it now, it sounds ridiculous, but a lot had to go right for the allies to pull off what they did. When you consider the allies weren't sure how weakened the Germany army was from the Eastern front, unknowing that their deception tactics worked for the best possible scenario, and supply trouble hindering logistical operations for the German troops in France, it was completely reasonable to expect a harder fought battle than anticipated. Wars up until that point had been slow moving and liberating entire countries within a year just wasn't something that happened. When you also consider how the armies for the allies reacted to the situation during the Battle of the Bulge, I fully believe the source is correct.
Logistical hubs were pretty undersupplied, and what we do know is that Eisenhower didn't seriously expect Market Garden to work and didn't commit any considerable amount of resources to the operation. When the Germans did counterattack, we saw entire divisions along the front lacking supply. The front lines were simply moving too quickly for logistical routes to be properly implemented and the allies were caught unprepared. I know it sounds like I'm just making it up when i say it like this, and again I apologize for not having the source on hand, but an approximated 1946 year to reach the rhineland was probably optimistic by allied planners pre-invasion.
The German unit that appears from the east at about 3 PM is the 21st Panzer division. It wasn't until mid/late afternoon that Hitler and the high command were convinced that this was the real deal (as opposed to a large diversionary raid) and authorized the release of the Panzer units. The reason they weren't convinced prior is because a) they didn't know of the scale of the invasion force on and off shore (lines of communication had been disrupted so well), and b) they knew the real invasion would have to target a port. They did not conceive the possibility that the Allies could bring their own ports (the Mulberry harbours) to buy time to capture a French port (Mulberry B at Gold Beach was used for 10 months!), and the bombardment and sabotage at Utah had been so effective that German high command didn't even _hear about_ a landing there until mid/late afternoon! Learning about Utah completely changed their perspective. Unlike the other four beaches it was on the Cotentin Peninsula and that meant there was a port being targeted: Cherbourg.
The 21st counter attacked and reached the coast. Thankfully they didn’t have support on their flanks. Things may of turned out very differently if they had more armour committed at the same time as apose to one by one..
The Allies maintained the pretense of FUSAG (First United States Army Group) and other forces threatening Pas-de-Calais for some considerable time after D-Day, possibly even as late as September 1944. Hitler was so convinced of the existence of this ghost army that he refused to send reinforcements to the Normandy area for seven weeks. So no, late afternoon on the 6th of June German High command did NOT believe the invasion had begun for real.
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I disagree that they realised by mid7late afternoon on 6th June, I believe it was several days later.
Yes, you're right about the Mulberries and the scale of the invasion force, but you're not taking into account the enormous Allied deception plan, Operation Fortitude, which was precisely designed to keep the Panzers waiting up in the Pas de Calais.
The ghost army of FUSAG was supposedly stationed near the east coast of England, complete with Disney designed dummy tanks to dupe the occasional Luftwaffe recce flight, jeeps with radio operators driving around like they were tank columns on the move, Patton on a very ostentatious visit, and Garbo, the start of the show who was a double agent.
All of this and more keep the Germans waiting around uselessly for that strike further north, IMHO for at least a couple of weeks.
@@guyspearing4608 You are thinking of Operation Husky - the Allied invasion of Sicily. That one had the German high command fooled for a couple of days and Hitler for most of the week. The Allies had convinced them that there would be a diversionary raid on Sicily prior to a major amphibious invasion of the Balkans, so when they got word of an attack on Sicily they immediately started sending reinforcements to the Balkans.
"They're murdering us here. Let's move inland and get murdered."
--Colonel Charles D. Canham, 116th Infantry Regiment commander, on Omaha Beach
“Soldiers! Face to the enemy! Let’s go & get killed.”
French Colonel at the Battle of Borodino during Napoléon’s invasion of Russia.
That’s a very sad quote! 😢
Poor Omaha Beach.. They suffered the heaviest casualties. That's why their line didn't move. There was at least 1,000 hardened, experienced German soldiers that had been stationed there just prior to the invasion. Their casualties were heavy. All the other beaches casualties were light.
Nice try rewriting history. Typical when you watch Hollywood. The Americans at omaha almost failed because the US airforce failed to bomb its designated targets. The Canadians and British faced SS panzer divisions and still succeeded.
My great grandfather was Gold beach, then captured by the Canadians/Brits/Polish
I am not against the American soldier's heroism, but its tiresome to see everyone take pity on the Americans because they suffered on one of the beachhead. There were 5 beaches
@@jackundmarija20VA4 I learned what I said from a historical documentary.
And with all due respect, your grandfather wasn't at Omaha beach. So how could he know what it was like there?
Last, a lot of people's grandfather's were at Normandy. Just because yours was too doesn't make you an expert.
@@pepperVenge it's documented by German veterans that the fields behind omaha were heavily bombed and the defenses untouched thus omaha was costly, thinking of Heinrich Severloh. I'm trying say indirectly my great grandfather was among them SS divisions, not a good thing but at least the allies put their landing craft tanks out later in time to face them and not sink otherwise the Canadians would have been annihilated. No disrespect to the Americans, but they self-inflicted these faults and then portrayed themselves as the ultimate hero of 1944 because they fought on 2 of 5 beaches.
@@jackundmarija20VA4the airforce failed and most of the coastal bombardments from the navy failed to destroy many bunkers
@@jackundmarija20VA4 I'll try this again.. I'll omit my sources as that seems to have gotten the comment deleted.
Just because the Allies failed to bomb the defenses at Omaha doesn't mean the Americans are at fault for anything.. The Royal Air Force was the Dominate Allied Air Force at that time, so if it was anyone's fault, it was the British.
But you can't just throw blame like that. It was a time before Satellites, before GPS. Bomber's missing their targets was common.
But I find it very distasteful that you would dunk on the Americans as much as you're doing. You're acting like the massive casualties suffered by the Americans is some kind of fault, but how is that so??
The reason Omaha is so popular is because that's the beach that took the most casualties. Of all the Fatalities of the Normandy invasion on June 6th, America suffered the most; 2,500 at Omaha alone.
The British only lost 630 at Sword Beach, and 413 at Gold Beach.
Total fatalities of the Normandy Invasion as a whole were 29,000 for the US, 11,000 for the British.
The reason is because America faced actual resistance. The German soldiers at Omaha were not Rookies or raw recruits like you make it seem. They were hardened soldiers with years of experience who likely helped in the Blitzkrieg.
But if it strokes your ego to act like Americans were just a bunch of pussies, fine. Maybe you'd like it better if the USA just stay's out of the next big war, and leaves Europe to its fate.
Honestly, you'd think the UK would be appreciative of the US's involvement. In Fact, I know most are. Guess you're the odd one out.
The animations keep getting better and better Keep it up man!
Pretty awesome, but the battle of Normandy isn't just D-Day, it lasted around 3 months
@@user-po7sj8rr8z operation bagration was june 22nd to august 19th, while overlord lasted from june 6 to august 30th
But the title says the battle of Normandy (D-DAY) so it is the d-day operation
@T C No, Bagration began after the Battle of Normandy started, and ended before the Battle of Normandy ended.
@T C You are literally misunderstanding the point here. I went to Uni to study history, I'm well aware of the groundbreaking achievements of Bagration, the Courland pocket, the liberation of Belarus, and the testament to the progress of Soviet military strategy that was operation Bagration. The point here is that you said that The Battle of Normandy 'lasted til Bagration,' all anyone else was trying to say was that it didn't just last til Bagration, it lasted til after it as well. Jesus fucking Christ.
@T C actually, the attack was planned by both side of the allies, in which stalin request the west to open up a sinificant front,(that the italian front failed to do so) to draw off german reserve from the east, so the soviet could launch their own attack and destroy the army group center
I massively respect all the men who died fighting
Great animation, must've took so much effort
My great grandmother’s kid brother, aged 18, died on Sword Beach fighting in the British Army, June 6th 1944.
Yep, on both sides. What a complete waste of life. Who really benefitted?
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@@2200Stinger a lot of people considering they stopped the murder of millions more from what they already had killed
@@tomben6180 damn bro you must be proud of him. such a young age to die, what a brave man who died fighting
Almost no one mention the Canadians, those guys were like Space Marines the whole ww2.
Complete badasses
Now the canadian military is mostly obese
The Canadians were as professional and respected as other Allied soldiers, but you do overestimate them by saying stuff like that. I realise them not getting the credit they deserve has lead to this idea that they were actually superhuman, but they were as good or as bad as any other soldier.
u mean the ones applauding nazi in the parlament? complete badasses for sure
Canada's contribution to WW2 was practically nothing. No white nation really did much since white people as a whole are not the brightest in the bunch.
Though they did carry a reputation of being brutal towards their enemies in both WW1 and WW2. As well as being just as benevolent to their allies. Canada still receives a large amount of flowers each year in thanks for their role in WW2. (I can’t remember exactly but I think it is Denmark that sends them).
Also.. the German soldiers nicknamed the Canadians as stormtroopers because of their brutal ferocity. I’m not saying they tipped the scales or anything but they did have a rep of being soldiers of excellent quality.
Excellent, the flow of the animation is very good
*proceeds to ignore the paratrooper landing*
This. Most important part of the landings were supposed to be the airborne troops ahead of time to secure bridgeheads behind enemy lines to stop enemy reinforcements/make allied advances faster.
Would have been a pretty scattered and clustered map. I understand the difficulty of trying to portray that.
They were too scattered and disbursed to really show up. They also didn’t really “hold” much territory. They were all about rapid movement as opposed to establishing anything inland
@@ryanm4013British paras & glider troops took and held the Pegasus Bridge over the Orne River.
They could have been mentioned with a flag or two, also they did take objectives big enough to be a dot on this map.
i great grandfather was a tank commander in this battle. lived to fight all over Africa and made it home . truly awesome men
Great animation, I love these! A total casualty counter would be nice on these animations tho
No one knows that statistic especially by the minute/hour. People were just being killed left and right and the front lines were being pushed forward. Some battalions were completely killed, others didn’t count their losses, bodies were left on the beach, many of which the tide pulled into the ocean again. What you’re asking for was impossible to have back then let alone now after everyone who was in this conflict is long gone
Everyone talks about how hard Omaha was but the further east you go the more Germans and panzer divisions there was, the Germans expected the allies to land at Calais so the British and Canadians faced heavier resistance after D-Day which is why America was able to steam through the west of France.
Contrary to all the war movies the Americans didnt face Tigers or Panthers on dday or in the days/weeks following the landings. As you said, the British and Canadians faced all the heavy armour.
The Americans faced around 150 tanks, while the British and Canadians encountered nearly 600. This was the result of the deception made by the SIS, as nearly every German tank division stationed at Calais was routed to meet the allied landings at Normandy.
And the Canadians were the only forces that met their first-day objectives on D-Day. That included scaling a sea wall that was twice as high as the one at Omaha beach. They also penetrated further onto the continent than any other force that first day. And yes, that includes facing the majority of Germany's heaviest tanks.
If you're in a fight, you want Canadians in there with you.
It wasnt abt more germans it was about the americans missing their targets and not landing their tanks .
The Americans fought in the hedgerows which were heavily defended and impossible to move armor through. It took a massive airstrike to finally punch through them. It was no easier to fight through than the armor battles further north. When Montgomery encountered hedgerows near Caen he encountered the same conditions that the Americans fought through and was stalled in taking the city. You must be from the United Kingdom to write the way you do. America didn't steam through France as if it was unopposed while Britain and Canada fought their way through. Is this what they teach you over there?
This was insane! 150k soldiers landed on enemy territory in a bunch of hours!
thats why logistics win wars
American logistics and equipment made that possible
@@CesarGarcia-nd5xz That and British Deception towards Pas de Calais.
@@CesarGarcia-nd5xz British shipping made up 80% of the nearly 7000 ships involved in D-Day!
@@CesarGarcia-nd5xz Stop trying to disregard Britain, both countries helped each other to make this invasion possible
Everyone forgetting the reason Omaha struggled wasn't because of elite German defenders it was because the American commanders at Omaha launched their tanks too early and 27 out of 29 swimming tanks drowned because they had to swim 3 miles to shore.
Meanwhile at Utah 27 out of 28 tanks reached the beach only having to swim 1000 yards to shore.
It was also unwilling terrain!
Elite Germans where also a factor
@@Talos-tn2ht Fortress troops are the opposite of elite.
@@foehawk-od4cc what?
@@Talos-tn2ht thats a common myth. The problem in Omaha was simply that the allies(the americans specifically) did not bomb out german defenses cause they totally missed them, therefore Omaha was still full of Bunkers, had Artillery to fire back and plenty of Mg-42 gunners protected by their bunkers. Very few "elite" troops were in Normandy, less than 2% of the german troops were veterans.
Crazy how insanely good the german army was, a bunch of 16yo and 50yo mobilized to man the Atlantikwall totally shitted on an enemy that had way more superior forces.
Thanks to Operation Bagration, which totally destroyef army group center, the allies were able to break out of the standstill in normandy, where german forces outnumbered 3 to 1 were managing to succesfully block the allied advance.
Bagration forced the germans to move troops from normandy to Poland Fast and quick cause the whole eastern front collapsed.
75% of the american deaths in the war were done by the hands of the germans, despite the US fighting Germany for less than a year.
300000 americans lost their lives fighting wehrmacht in the western front, and the fact that they were fighting the least experienced soldiers, while at the same time having a massivr number advantage, puts into perspective how terrifyingly efficient the Wehrmacht was.
When the germans pulled back to the sigfriedo defense line, the allies had well over 3.5 milion soldiers on the german border, + a milion in italy stalled at the Gothic line.
The germans had less than 300000 in italy, aided by 150000 italians loyal to Mussolini, and 600000 to 800000 in the siegfrido line defending the Rhineland.
Walter Model, one of the most underrated military geniuses of the german reich, in my opinion of the same military genius category as Von Manstein, and superior to Rommel and Guderian, he succesfully fought the allies for months before eventually collapsing. Once encircled he decided to inflict upon himself a military death, and shot himself in the head rather than getting captured by the allies and Hanged like a pig
Fair play to the Canadians they did some damage at Juno, payback for Dieppe
The Canadiens were pitted vs the most elite German units all throughout the Normandy campaign as well. If you ever want a good read look up what the Canadiens did in Italy prior to d day, pretty intense combat to say the least. Remember reading that they were the first western army to meet the panther tank in combat (in Italy) .
@@Neptunewakes the Canadian contribution on liberation Caen, Belgium and Nedherland was massively underrated. Too much American propaganda 'american single-handedly won the war"
@@trollpenguin6713 Something far less known is they also played a role in the liberation of Denmark, and straight up roadblocking the Soviet army to keep them from possibly turning it into another Soviet Puppet State.
They also got farther inland than any other units. This incorrectly shows British troops making the most progress.
@@NeptunewakesMy father's cousin was killed in Italy, three weeks after his brother was shot down over France. My mom's cousins, brothers, were captured at Dieppe and spent the rest of the war in stalags in Poland. It is nice that the creator of the animation recognized Juno Beach with the Red Ensign, many others use the Union Jack.
The Wehrmacht was completely overwhelmed. Since the end of 1942, they had been fighting a war that could no longer be won, I just can recommend the reading of the book "Death of the Wehrmacht" by Robert M. Citino.
This shows that Germans fought for their country but the west for their leaders.
After the Battle of Stalingrad.
It was over for the germans
Edit: Ok the war was over when Britain decided not to surrender and Mr Mustache Man attacked The USSR
No he’s right it was all over after Stalingrad, probably even sooner. After Barbarossa failed they were done for. By the time the battle of the bulge happened that was literally a desperate attempt with 0% chance of winning. Germany and the Nazis were doomed already in 1941-42.
@Azril Iskandar ?? lol the war was clearly over WAY before the battle of the bulge...
@Azril Iskandar once things went awry with Barbarossa, it's over for the Germans
Do not forget the free French forces which are attached to the royal marine commando
It would have been good to see more of this!!
80 years…
I can imagine the stress of a German soldier at Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno. If you can’t keep on killing Allies with your machine gun, then it’s basically all over.
It's crazy how you landed 150k men in a single day on hostile territory.
Awesome animation and nice to see the British and Canadians getting credit considering they made up the majority of the soldiers that landed! (Not disparaging the bravery and sacrifice of the US soldiers just a lot of the time in media it’s portrayed solely as a US operation)
True but largely because Omaha Beach was such a near disaster.
In addition to these, there were also forces from other countries involved. Free French forces and troops from several other nations also took part in various capacities. These include: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, ..
The nations listed contributed smaller numbers of troops and/or support in other forms, such as naval and air support.
Well if to be fair the British and Canadian forces received minimal resistance. 85% of the entire Normandy defense was on Omaha beach. When the British landed on their beaches they received barely any enemy fire
@@Frostbite_001 massively incorrect :)
The British forces also faced all of the elite dangerous German units, US forces only fought ragtag and second rate units. Such as at Omaha was 352 Infantry Division and 716 infantry division, largely made up of men previously deemed too old or unfit to fight, few tanks or vehicles, even Romanian conscripts. The British meanwhile faced the largest most elite concentration of German forces in all the war.
Never forget.
God bless you, Grandpa.
REALLY REALLY COOL. Fantastic job...Would love to see a longer and more comprehensive video covering maybe the first week or month of the landing and push inland.
Check out a channel called 'D-Day 24 Hours'. These guys did an amazing job detailing the battle hour by hour. Also they have another channel called 'World War Two'. That covers the entire war week to week. 1 hour episodes for each week since Sept 1 1939. It'll make your head spin!
You should do a timelapse from google earth of the Gallipoli landings in ww1 1915. There’s a really detailed and interesting book about it called “Gallipoli 1915 day one plus, Anzac landings” it’s a red book, you can use it for information if you do make that vid, thanks
Knowing what happen from the history books and hearing and seeing this brings tears and huge punch to the heart.
Never forget the Russian sabre rattling and jingoism that caused ww1, the outcome of which caused ww2. 100 years later and....
WW2 was utterly insane, such a huge scale of man power and machinery. Now we play video games based on it for fun. I truly wonder how the deceased would feel.
You can view Ukraine conflict if you feel like we are lacking such conflict in todays times. (Still not as big as WWII but still close)
they are bad ass soldiers and they would love it and laugh at it. Check out VeteransTV
They would feel far worse at the general state of the societies they and their forefathers built than they would be kids playing WW2 themed games. In case you forgot, they also played war re-enactments as kids. As there were no computers, they would throw tomatoes and things at each other.
@@2200Stinger Perhaps, guess we'll never know.
@@frankmercury2833 Oh no, we know.
It amazes me that while all this was going on, the US 5th fleet was just days away from its own major landing in the Marianas. The amount of manpower and shipping deployed for both operations is staggering.
The United States truly was the Arsenal of Democracy. While the Germans were hand building overly-complicated tanks that frequently broke down, the Americans were cranking out tanks by the tens of thousands. As were the Soviets, with the T-34. Those same Soviets enjoyed a hundred thousand trucks sent by the Americans, as well as other supplies.
The start of " the battle of Normandy" indeed. Nice impression.
Then when it gets into the Normandy countryside British and Canadians are facing nearly all of the armoured Panzer divisions.
They did well to beat them
Would have been better if the Airborne forces were included.
Great!
Brilliant! Have you done a video of the days following?
Wish there were movies about the assault on Gold beach. British and Canadians pretty much got overshadowed by Hollywood.
There might have been some in the 50s but that's been done by directors who actually fought.
How do you make these videos? They are so good
Adobe After Effects (or similar program)
You see the 21st panzer div counter attack. They actually did split the British and Canadians and got to the coast with their mark 4s. They had no support on either flank and had to pull back. The only panzer division to counter attack on June 6…
Amazing little one minute film.🎉
And they also say that the USSR fought in numbers and did not spare soldiers.
Everyone here seems to be forgetting that a major reason Omaha was so bad was because they drifted and attacked at the wrong point, the decision was made to push on there anyway. That's why the defences weren't bombed as much as they should have been, because the defences were bombed at the planned attack point, not the actual attack point.
They also had a tough time because they had no armoured support. The plan to get duplex-drive Shermans ashore involved launching them 2 miles from shore. On Gold, Juno and Sword, the RN and RCN realized the seas were too choppy and ordered the LSTs to get as close as they could before opening their gates. Some even grounded. Most of their Shermans made it ashore. The USN stuck to the plan and some tanks were even sent off farther than 2 miles out. Every one sank, with their crews.
@@JohnCampbell-rn8rzhow could they launch so far out, surely it's not wading depth?
@@DeepakKumar-lv4te The duplex-drive tanks were designed to float, albeit only temporarily. They had a canvas skirt around them and they were called duplex-drive because they had a propeller at the rear that could propel them slowly through the water. But a floating 30+ ton tank can't deal with very choppy water. The storm that made the weather so bad the Germans didn't think the Allies would invade then also made the English Channel very rough and the RN and RCN decided to abandon the original plan and order their LCTs to get as close to shore as possible before launching, to give their tanks the best chance of getting ashore.
@@JohnCampbell-rn8rz Thanks for that John. it's fascinating to hear all of this.
Do you know if it was true that the Omaha landings had drifted away from their intended destination and so met heavy resistance that hadn't been bombed prior to the landing attempt? It's a horrible story but i guess in war things like this would happen.
@@DeepakKumar-lv4teYes. Many of the Omaha landing craft were hundreds of yards off target and bunched up by the weather and sea conditions. That just added to the misery created by the fact that the German defences were essentially intact, despite intense bombing and shelling in advance.
Fun fact: only about 10,000 Allied soldiers died in the initial landing, and most of the allies landed with ease.
"only"
@@Dassilon I said "only" because most people imagine 100k+ dying in one day.
10000 includes wounded less than 4500 confirmed dead
I thought those 10,000 were overall casualties which included the wounded.
Awesome video
So basically the alies poured more men than the other side can sufficiently kill. Your maps give a different perspective. Nice.
Montgomery and staff planned all aspects of the invasion, land, sea and Air. He worked very hard to get his 5 to 1 manpower advantage that he believed was necessary for offensive operations.
As a french I will say it: Thanks
You’re welcome
Don't capitulate next time
@@rezo6212 don't worry we changed our major state since
gold sword juno and utah: *progress
omaha: heelppp plsss
116th regiment: *dead*
115th regiment: oh god please no
to sum up the comment:
brits and canadians: HURRY UP OR ELSE THE SOVIETS WILL TAKE BERLIN
The allies had 28000 airborne and paratroops inland way before the landings on the beaches occurred. The first on the ground were the British Ox and Bucks Light Infantry who landed at Pegasus Bridge at 0015hrs on DDay. Within 4 hours there were thousands of allied airborne troops on the ground blocking the German routes into the beaches.
Amazing
I know it'd be a challenge considering how scattered they were, but you haven't included any of the airborne landings
Damn, could you please do an tutorial for it.. This is currently the best style of mapping I've ever experienced lad.
I agree!
as of about an hour ago that tutorial has been made
I know these videos are enjoyable but dude this is extremely basic. Casualties aren’t even broken up by groups in each video. This guy is making $$ bank with a 1:00 minute video why doing bare minimum. Raise your standards.
@@andrewavila4433It's not like you can do a animation like this.
You don't know how long it actually takes to outline and keyframe something.
Can you do the same video but over the course of a week or 2 weeks?
What about the airborne landings and the battle of Pointe du Hoc?
I couldn't imagine being on Omaha beach that day. Truly the bravest generation
The sand and the sea turned red on that beach on D-Day. The first company to land there got completely annihilated, maybe 5 men out of original 150 survived. The soldiers also probably knew they are the forlorn hope, just because somebody gotta die first. How did they find to courage to get on those boats I cannot imagine.
Appreciate the 1min video knowing that that’s my maximum attention span
Where did they get this numbers?
Great and realistic scene, make another similar videos with anothers battles : Invasion of Russia 1941, El alamein 1942.
You can tell which is Omaha
One of the toughest invasions that succeeded
Im pretty sure the 1942 dieppe raid was tougher
@@quan-uo5ws but it wasnt success
@@quan-uo5ws "One of"
The best line in the beginning of "The longest day " is from the Sargent looking at the ships filling the horizon. He' talking to hq and says "remember those 5 thousand ships the enemy doesn't have? Well, they're here ". Rommel's stop them at the beach plan was never going to work. Didn't work for the Japanese either.
BRO THE PART WHEN I HEARD “oh sneeze”💀
Germany could of repelled the invasion but at this point in the war most of the German military was engaged against the soviets to slow them down .
So they couldn't then
Look at those Canadians go... penetrated the furthest and landed more men and equipment per capita... and all volunteers.
My word it's not a competition grow up, let me guess you are Canadian and want to big yourself up?
Props to the Canadians, but they had the easy landings haha. They may have taken a lot of land but the overall war effort was done mostly by the Americans and Soviets.
@@RandomInternetGuy1011 Well the Soviets did chew up 80% of the German Army... but the crown goes to America for overall war effort... as Hitler didn't just give Henry Ford a medal for just his staunch and very public anti-Semitic stance... but rather for his efforts in helping to build up the Nazi war machine... and after the war both Ford and GM sued and won millions in reparation for the bombing of the factories in Germany... lets not forget the Nazi drove across Europe in Ford trucks and flew on GM motors... and also Americans didn't stop aiding the Nazis up until Oct '42 when finally the "Trading with the enemy act" was eventually passed... much to Bush's grand father's chagrin... and the raid on Dieppe happen when?
@@RandomInternetGuy1011 Actually the Canadians had the second hardest and had the second largest casualties by proportion
At Omaha beach the pill boxes were 200ft from the beach as Rommel ordered. 600 - 800ft at the others
How did you do the number change
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they deployed artifical floating pontons where they deployed their supplies
So 150 000 allies beaten 50 000 jerries. What a wondrous victory.
I mean, considering that you typically need at least 3 times more men to defeat an enemy on the defense, I’d say it was a wondrous victory.
@@seanmacguire6898 not if you got enough firepower.
@@jiridrapal7512
Firepower can only do so much against an entrenched enemy, just look at the western front during WW1. While firepower does help suppress the enemy, it doesn’t take away the fact that you still need a lot more men than they do, especially during an amphibious assault like d day where you can only land so many men at a time.
@@seanmacguire6898 did you have in wwi guided ammunition with non stop observation by drones? In real time? Thermobaric ammo that will boil defender alive even inside shelter?
@@seanmacguire6898 there is a reason why foreign volunteers and ukrainian veterans from bachmut said that many of their units suffered there up to 80 % casualty rate. 24th brigade got entirely destroyed rebuilt from fresh recruits anew.
Witch app is this
Should include the paratroopers just dotting the entire map
Wow. Three entire airborne divisions, and the land they liberated, are missing from this map.
I was thinking that too. Where are the paratroopers? They secured a LOT of land and even established a HQ at the time of the landings.
It's also missing a comprehensive map of mcdonalds available in France but that's understandable since this a map of the battle to capture the beaches
@@kewltony The text states, "The Battle of Normandy from start to finish." Does not state "beaches".
@@RealityOrganized yeah it's mislabeled because it's the beaches on dday and not the month long battle of normandy
While west front counts in thousands, east front counts in millions. And despite that little we know about east front. Amazing video by the way !
Great video by the way !
Read about the Eastern Front then. I feel no sympathy for the Soviets, who jointly annexed Polish territory and killed millions of their own people.
@@averagejoe8358 shitty leaders (stalin) where the ones ordering millions of deaths. in WW2, the germans killed tens of millions of civilians indiscriminately. The german invasion of Ukraine and Belarus should be considered part of the holocaust, because they essentially wiped about a quarter to a third of the villages there off the map. They would round up every person in a given village and murder them, whether they were jewish or not.
this is because of the german plan for russia. when they had conquered russia, they were to exterminate the 200 million or so people living there, and settle it all with germans. truly horrific stuff.
Because Soviet Union were so many countries maybe more than 20 united countries
@@averagejoe8358 I'm not praising any part, but amazed at the amount of lost human life in this front !
These were all men with families, friends, parents, who signed up to liberate Europe and Asia from the Nazis and Imperial Japanese. Words cannot express my gratefulness of these heroes. We live in a free world right now because of their bravery.
A lost fact of D-Day: 30 Sherman tanks tried to float to the beach wearing inflatable buoys. 29 of those tanks sank in the English Channel drowning the 5 man crews (145 men). Only one tank made the beach. If those tanks had not sank then Allied casualties would have been cut in half or even more.
You vastly overestimate the value of a tank on those beaches. If massive naval gunfire could not silence the German artillery, mortars, and machine guns, why would a few tanks?
Man the allies really took it to them. The invasion plan was brilliant, having so many beaches meant the Nazis couldn't focus on one landing site.
and also the commanders we're scared to send some troops from russian front because hitler was sleeping then
@@Bludthefatguyfromerlc Well Russians are nothing, why they really don't move their troops to defend against Americans?
They literally lost war cuz it.
It's a shame that the combat units of the other nations involved on the allies' side were not shown. Because as far as I know there were also combat units from Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Greece took part in the fighting. Poland, for example, had about half as many fallen soldiers as Canada.
And France ? France use 30 000-60 000 Soldiers
@@roisanglier34 I only mention them in connection with the betrayal of 1939 when it comes to World War II. In addition, only 209 Frenchmen as infantrymen took part in the Normandy landings. So what's the point of the absurd numbers of allegedly tens of thousands.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Cursed French Bashing
Well just as a reminder during the Normandy landings there were 30,000 French resistance fighters in Normandy who will save time for the Allied troops. Then there were 3,000 French soldiers who were in the American army, they were anti-Gaullist Giraudists. In addition to the 177 troops of the Kieffer commando. Then we also found 1,000 French paratroopers who were going to jump on Normandy and Brittany on June 5, 1944. Then we found two French cruisers of 500 men each, the Geroges Leyges and the Montcalm.
And without these without forgetting General Leclerc's second armored division of 17,000 soldiers.
So now stop swallowing American bullshit for 2 minutes and think for yourself
How did you use Google Earth for war's?
If this is accurate, the Germans were already outnumbered before eight in the morning, although their defensive fortifications partly nullified the Allied advantage.
Wow that is eye opening. My full respect to the Americans who headed into the face of certain death when you see their landing points. Absolute warriors and men of greater courage than anything that has been done since.
I mean did you miss the British and Canadian flags as well 😂
@@johnjohnson272 Yeah, this guy thinks America carried the entire war. Like what. 😂
@@ii_tfnwrmarmy7564 What's wrong with this? It's a true fact, America won this war solo(well British has given some impact, but it's nothing in compare to American one).
@@Leantenant Nothing? The Brits literally bore the brunt of the German armoured divisions in France 1944 ( 8 Panzer divisions, 7 infantry divisions and 3 Heavy tank battalions)
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Honremos a los que murieron por liberar a Francia
R.I.P a esos héroes que dieron su vida en ese desembarcó, siempre seran recordados cómo unos valientes ⚰️🙏
When attacking prepared defenders the rule is go three to one. With 37 divisions in the UK we went in against 57 divisions (in France) and finished it in under a year. (Those Canadians even managed an army hockey tournament ).
When is the video tutorial coming
What about the paratroopers?
To scattered to be put on the map probably. They did delay Nazi unit's from getting to the beaches
Nonesense. This is trash lazy production. 15000 men had been fighting for hours when this joke of a video says there were none.
Downvote.
Germany lost about 4,000 to 9,000 men KIA or WIA in 24 hours, Allies had around 5,000 KIA in 24 hours.
Germany did not have the sufficient reinforcements to withstand the landings. As you can see they lost about 1 division worth of soldiers and reinforced only with 3 divisions against a full on invasion force
It was a victory but not a special or surprising one. The Allies had a clear advantage in the number of soldiers and the armaments industry at that time. The Wehrmacht had massive losses in the east and was also in action in Italy.
With a fully functional Wehrmacht, the Allies would have had a bloody nose
@@rezo6212 the only way to stop the Allies was at the beach and the high command was fixated at Calais and wasn’t so well equipped for Normandy in comparison.
Not that the Normandy defences weren’t treacherous just that the reserve quick reaction forces just aren’t up to the standards across the entire coast lines in comparison to the Calais region
Nice animation, but where are the airborne troops? They played such a pivotal role
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✌ ovo znači kao "V" kao Victory
Had the allies known the future ahead of them those troops would have been reinforcements
@@bookworm3861 I'm right, but what does that even mean.
Crazy to think Britain could have very well have done D-day on its own. The USA just sped things up and gave the British the confidence
It would have possibly been able to establish beach heads but would not have been able to hold them and follow through into France. This would be the same condition for the USA. They all needed each other.
What it the name of this soundtrack
insane bro whats the song name
Why do the comment sections on these videos always break down into nazi apologia, bashing the US and a dick measuring contest between the allies?
Because Muscovites and their beloved neo-nazi "traditionalists" are dumb enough to think that if Hitler would won, then there would be no leftists, no gays, no feminists and basically no one they hate, completely ignoring fact how anti-traditionalist nazis actually were. Seriously, if nazis would have won probably half of European cultures would perish, Church would be destroyed and traditions would have been replaced with all the nazi shit pretending to be traditionalist.
But don't care about those idiots who don't even know how to tie a shoe.
Cause tankies and Nazis come here to scream and cry when they realize their country wasn’t invincible and/or the most moral.
Sorry looks like you have a brain you’re not allowed in this comment section
idk, as far as I've seen it's yahtzees saying the nono germans were the good guys, tankies saying that the soviets did 99.99% of the fighting, British nationalists downplaying the USA's effort, and Americans just saying "damn i feel so bad for those soldiers on omaha"
some people don't realize ww2 was a team effort
Rest in peace, all soldiers that died in WW2 ✌️☮️🕊️
You’re missing a category Australia, brought the air force in the battle of Omaha beach
Как сделать такую анимацию?
Why does America take credit for defeating Germany. It was Russia that did most of the fighting that defeated the German army.
Not Russia it was Soviet Union not Russia
@@qadarheero5013 It's the same.
Russia was allies with nazi Germany 😂
@@GenevasplaytimeА давно пакт о ненападении стал означать союз? Американская пропаганда
Taking credit doesn’t mean you did all the work. It means you contributed.
Just 40K German unit as opposition. When you compare it with eastern front of Millions,you see how much of a joke western front was.
The real reason why US,UK was able to land because,Germany was exhausted dealing with USSR with 75% of its forces and its logistics and war machines were already crumbling wayy before US landed.
In 1944,their supply lines were botched,no proper reinforcements. Most Panzer divisions & Luftwaffe was deployed east,whole army was disorganized and they were just told not to leave position no matter what,which led to huge encirclements and further loses.
Other than the Eastern front itself, what else did the SU do to rid the world of tbe Nazi regime?
By the way, some of your suggested German war asset dispersion claims are way off.
@@sanya7187What a stupid question. All the Nazis were destroyed there, after which England, the United States and others simply decided to share the victory.
@@FufuFufy-df8pk hi troll, you are full of shit and know nothing.
@@FufuFufy-df8pk come on smart guy, tell me what the Soviet union did anywhere else to help win the war other than on the Eastern front.
I am astounded. I admit that I didn't realized that D-DAY took place over such a vast area. I thought they were closer. Guess that's what you get from reading but not seeing.
I am trying to find information about the planning process prior to the actual landings.
We all know what actually happened, but what went into the planning of the logistics of men and supplies in the months before the invasion, and why certain decisions and assumptions were made.
Of particular interest to me (but certainly not the only thing) is the basis for the decision to invade Normandy rather than Calais.
As a former Project Manager, I always loved planning far more than execution. So, it doesn't get much more challenging than D-Day.
Imagine if USSR had fallen in 1942 or made in to scattered army in Siberia. 3 million German forces would have been available in Europe. Tons of resources and additional industrial might from Ussr combined. Probably millions of converted Soviet soldiers as well. Oil, steel, everything. This D-day thing would have been utterly impossible. Now, we would have lived in the super race world, excuse me, we wouldn't have lived. The Millennial Reich would have become a reality and Europe, Asia, Africa would have been their to drain of blood and everything. UK would have become nazi vassal. Totally dark world!
In 1945 the USA would have conducted D-Day behind 9 Atom bombs dropped on Axis positions on the front and a 2 million man invasion force, and followed that up by 9 Atom bombs dropped on the major cities of Germany, followed by nerve gas and fire bombing of all German military installations.
The Reich wouldn't have survived. The main thing that would have changed is that there wouldn't be a Germany today.
@@celebrim1 USA and UK had such plans about Ussr. They were called operation "Unthinkable". They concluded that defeat over Ussr was impossible - 1st off Ussr army was super capable and manoeuvrable, 2nd this war would have destroyed Europe completely. USA would have faced a stronger opponent if Reich won in 1942 or 1943. USA had ready nuclear bomb by 1945 and they didn't had them in big quantities. By that time the Nazis might have been getting closer to it. 9 atomic bombs would have done nothing to million army. The 2 dropped over japan caused the death of no more than 120k people... With 9 dropped over concrete cities (not wooden like Japanese ones), the they could do 500k at best! USA would have done shit in that situation, but negotiate peace and becoming nazis themselves later on.
The chances of Germany knocking out Britain is still quite low in that scenario. Either the British and Americans keep up the fight, which would mean war into the 50s at least, or they'd sign a fairly soft peace treaty to end the war
@@silverhost9782 Uk i a patch of land the size of one Soviet little region. The nazis would have had a so much available resources after the destruction of Ussr - man power, natural res, gold... UK sole benefit - not being continental country but an island will be diminished by that. They would have been defeated fairly easy or become vassal nazis, which was quite possible since UK was racist enough country back then.
@@atanasvasilev3228 The UK, despite its size, outproduced Germany in terms of aircraft, tanks and shipping in 1940 and 1941. The biggest reason for Barborossa in the first place was for Germany to take Soviet resources to use against the UK, because it was too powerful for the axis to defeat otherwise. When you consider that the Americans are also involved, it's extremely unlikely that the axis would be able to land in the UK and actually take the island. I can see that you're one of those people who doesn't appreciate how strong the UK and its commonwealth actually was during the war.
It would be considered just a skirmish on eastern front.
Respect to those who were lost though atleast 🙏
@@FriedShrimpYum You're right.
The hell you mean? The British intelligence services were collecting data from day 1 of the war, this was the most complex operation in history. Contrary to Soviet human wave attacks, the west had to think about how they would invade without a bloodbath.
A skirmish with 1000 ships, 11,000 aircraft, and 2 million men?
@@PotatoSalad614 2 million men? Cmon 😀
The Germans thought that it would come in Calais, so they held back reinforcements
Nice!