I have had the opportunity to visit the Juno Beach area on two occasions. I do appreciate the opportunity to revisit this part of France a walk our Army fought in 1944. You have done a wonderful job telling their story.
Great video! My grandfather and 2 great uncles were in the Queens own rifles of Canada which saw heavy combat out of the gates , all 3 survived the war and the 4th brother served in the RCN he survived as well.
@@WalkingDday no problem! Its interesting to see the area they would have been fighting in. They talked about the war but not the fighting part of it with the family.
I just stumbled across this video, and enjoyed it thoroughly. BGen Radley-Walters, two other Canadian Veterans, and one ex-12th SS Division (Hitler Jugend) Officer accompanied our group of about sixty junior Officers on a three-day battlefield tour from the beaches to Falaise, with a side-trip to Dieppe, in May 1992. We ate lunch in the town square in Buron (seen at 22:14) - almost-impossible-to-chew baguettes provided by our hotel in Caen, softened slightly with wine - on one of those days. Two old men coming out of an alley saw us sitting around in uniform, turned around and disappeared, then returned a little later with two folding tables which they loaded up with snack foods, soft drinks, and juice boxes for us, purchased with their own money. They said that, had they known that we were coming, the whole village would have been out to greet us and a feast would have been laid on. I'll be watching your other videos as well. One nit-pick - the correct abbreviation for Private in Commonwealth Armies is "Pte", not the American "Pvt".
I'm a Jerseyman and so know the Cotentin and Normandy fairly well especially the western part of the penisnsula. My grandparents lived through the German occupation and over the years I've gathered a collection of books and literature on D-Day and following events in 1944 _ i've used google maps to get an idea of exact areas but your videos are hugely valuable and interesting to better visualise what happened back then. Thanks and congrats on your hard work - I really appreciate it.
Your fans here in America just love this website military historians especially I think next you should do a series perhaps following general Patton from the D-Day beaches to VE Day or maybe general Maurice Rose of the third armored division from their landing to his death enjoy your series very much
I’m currently doing a big project on the Battle of Norrey-En-Bessin on June 9th 1944 between the Regina Rifles and 3 Kompanie 1st Battalion SS Panzer Regiment 12 and the 15recon Kompanie of SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 25. It was after this battle that the famous photos of the unit were taken south of Rots near the Highway. I would love to see a walkthrough of these locations to better serve my diorama construction. Thabks!
@@WalkingDday That is excellent to hear, and no problem brother. You do a great job and provide a lot of excellent material for those of us abroad and otherwise unable to visit. Cheers.
Such wonderful depth of information. For me, the numerous Subscribe overlays were distracting. The battle audio was often louder than your words. Great stuff.
Thank you for this greatly detailed and educational video. It really made the events come alive, especially with the stories from my grandpa in mind (who served in the 12th Waffen-SS). The Canadians were valiant, tough and brave soldiers and respected for that by my grandpa and his comrades. And believe me, they were not easy to impress lads. Because of the high regards with which they viewed the Canadians and the rather easy-going dealing with Canadian prisoners he had seen, he always had a hard time to believe the story of the atrocities against Canadian prisoners. He could not comprehend how and why people he knew would act against their standards especially with an enemy they viewed as honorable and equal. (for instance, they had much much less respect for the white American soldier)
With the « right » kind of influence normal people can do terrible things. There was an experiment in an American university. They had a group of people they split into two. There were the jailers and prisoners. In a few days some of the jailers became really sadistic towards the prisoners. With four years of Make America great again, a variant of « make Germany great again » in the 30s, we’ve seen a similar phenomena.
I thought you had more intelligence. That's leftist propaganda. If you examine the news carefully the last several years it's 99+% groups like Antifa (the new Fascists) and BLM and some other's with Communist links that are attacking other people because of their race and beliefs. They openly spout that position and claim it's part of some new "wokeism". Trump mainly was taking leadership of a movement to restore Constitutional rule, fight Corporate Globalism and bring industrial jobs back to America along with similiar goals. His opponents focused almost entirely on his personality and never debated the merits of his program. Instead they demonize, carry out violence and looting and try to intimidate people. Their approach is a negative one of emphasizing differences instead of focusing on our common humanity. I'm really disappointed that you could be so off base.
I have always thought that if you look at the post-war as far as involved in the Canadians they got the shaft, they were not even given a zone of occupation even though they contributed so much more than the French did. And if you read Marshall Montgomery's famous book, he tends to marginalize the contributions that the Canadian military did to final victory. And if you look at the transcripts of the record of the trials of the SS that killed the Canadian soldiers, the Canadian government was not even given a voice in the trial not even a voice when it was made the decision to release many of the perpetrators very early from their imposed prison terms. If you carefully review the history of Canadian military there were absolutely no reason that they should not have been allowed to fight under Canadian leadership instead of British leadership. Same as the valiant Australian army in the Southwest along with the Canadians they had a very solid leadership core that was in place way before the war, and I'm quite sure the Australian government was very happy to relieve their soldiers out from under general Montgomery's overall command and sent them to the campaign in new Zealand, you should have covered in more detail what happened in the village square were the Canadians were trying to refill your water bottles and got ambushed by the Germans s s, a&d horrific atrocities of driving their tanks back and forth over the dying Canadians and wounded Canadian, and The valor of many of the French civilians that attempted to drag the wounded Canadians out of the road that were round up and shot by the s s. There is no need to sugarcoat a story just for your German fans. History is history no one can change history I am sure the French people get very offended by their lack of mentioned and many of the virus actions were they laid down their lives protecting Americans and Canadian British soldiers.
A friend of mine was Ox&Bucks/Airlanding Brigade, Comm Driver. They got 'stuck' at Benouville with 12 SS HJ entrenched over at Ranville, they were causing sniping bother at snap and ablution time, routed them in good time, finding one of their snipers tied into his position up a tree.
How did you find out about Kurt Meyer covering in a hole from the shelling with a Canadian after falling off his motorcycle? I believe it but don’t know where to find the story about that. Could it be in his autobiography?
I got most of the info from Mark Zuehkles Holding Juno. It's a trilogy on the canadians in Normandy. Taking Juno, Holding Juno and Inland from Juno Haven't had time to find the reference but it must be that.
In von Lucks book, Panzer Commander, he says it took a couple of weeks for the young Germans to realise the propaganda was a load of crap. The Allies had massive air power.
I commend your French pronunciation of most place names [I'm British but speak French quite well]. However, is Buron pronounced like you are doing it? /'bju:rɒn/? Anyway - just a nitpick. Loved this video and have subscribed.
You should do the two villages that the 12th SS move to after murdering the Canadian soldier. The the village of Rowe were they stopped for the photo opportunity and there is a marker there with the pictures of the young SS soldiers. And then on to the village of bretvill where they put there heads in the Canadian buzz saw, I do not think it is the correct pronunciation of the names of The villages but my French is very poor and I might hurt myself trying to say them..
They’re on my todo list. It’s Rots (pronounced Row) and Bretteville l’orgoilleuse. There are two other Bretteville in Normandy . B sur Laize and B sur Odon. And Bretteville le Rabat, that makes four in total. Rots comes from the growing of Hemp and Linen. Hemp for sacks, not smoking. The plants are pulled out the ground when ripe and left for two weeks to start fermenting , or rotting. Linen and Hemp cloth is made from the stalk fibers.
My grandfather, Aimée DeVillers, was in Le Régiment de la chaudière. He told me about how the 12th S.S murdered many Canadian soldiers at Abbaye D'Ardenne. He said that when they later met the 12th S.S. at the battle of Carpiquet airfield, the Chauds took no prisoners
The 54th (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment arrived in normandy a week after d-day. They took part in Goodwood. They were with the canadians from October.
Most of this information is from No Retreating Footsteps by Will R. Bird, who wrote the regimental history of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, from the memories of men who came home and shared these events with Bird in the late 1940s and early 50s. I met some of these men as a kid as my father was there.
I got most of the information from Mark Zuehkle’s book « Holding Juno » then the Battle zone book on Juno beach. Will Bird is one of the 90 authors Zuehkle cites, as well as unpublished works, and interviews with veterans.
You need to read Kurt Meyers book to get the other side of the story, the Canadians weren’t angles and this may have been revenge on the Germans part and the number is debatable, and the people who fought hard for him were Canadian Army officers!
Ever hear of the Normandy Massacres? One of the worst war crimes in Canadian history occurred in June, 1944, during the Battle of Normandy, following the D-Day landings of the Second World War. 156 Canadian soldiers, taken prisoner by 12th SS Panzer Division were executed by their captors during various incidents in the Normandy countryside
THE 12TH SS INFLICTED 18,000 CASUALTIES ON THE CANADIANS BETWEEN JUNE 6TH AND AUG. WHEN HOSTILITIES WERE CONCLUDED, A LOT MORE THAN THE 156 YOU QUOTE. THEY CONTINUED A FIGHTING RETREAT EVEN HOLDING OPEN THE NORTH SIDE OF THE FILAISE GAP IN ORDER FOR THE REMNANTS OF 19 GERMAN DIVISIONS TO ESCAPE ENCIRCLEMENT. MY UNCLE, AN AMERICAN SERGEANT, WAS ON OMAHA BEACH, HE SAID THE 12TH SS KICKED THE CRAP OUT OF THE CANADIANS AT NORMANDY. STILL A SORE SPOT FOR THE CANNUCKS TO THIS DAY.
@@joangratzer2101 There is no need to shout. The reference was specifically to 156 Canadian prisoners who were murdered by 12th SS Panzer Division, not overall casualties. "Kicked the crap out of"? No. The Canadian assault forces penetrated the German defences further than any other contingent. Casualties were high, but who ultimately prevailed? Hint: It wasn't 12th SS Panzer Division. And there is no such "sore spot".
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The Canadians got their ass handed to them by a small group of german youth with no air cover.Mostly due to poor leadership.I am in no way blaming the brave soldiers though
I have had the opportunity to visit the Juno Beach area on two occasions. I do appreciate the opportunity to revisit this part of France a walk our Army fought in 1944. You have done a wonderful job telling their story.
Thanks
Great video! My grandfather and 2 great uncles were in the Queens own rifles of Canada which saw heavy combat out of the gates , all 3 survived the war and the 4th brother served in the RCN he survived as well.
Thanks for that feedback.
@@WalkingDday no problem! Its interesting to see the area they would have been fighting in. They talked about the war but not the fighting part of it with the family.
That's so great. A miracle. Three of my Great Uncles and Father law served and all came back home safe.
I just stumbled across this video, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
BGen Radley-Walters, two other Canadian Veterans, and one ex-12th SS Division (Hitler Jugend) Officer accompanied our group of about sixty junior Officers on a three-day battlefield tour from the beaches to Falaise, with a side-trip to Dieppe, in May 1992.
We ate lunch in the town square in Buron (seen at 22:14) - almost-impossible-to-chew baguettes provided by our hotel in Caen, softened slightly with wine - on one of those days.
Two old men coming out of an alley saw us sitting around in uniform, turned around and disappeared, then returned a little later with two folding tables which they loaded up with snack foods, soft drinks, and juice boxes for us, purchased with their own money. They said that, had they known that we were coming, the whole village would have been out to greet us and a feast would have been laid on.
I'll be watching your other videos as well.
One nit-pick - the correct abbreviation for Private in Commonwealth Armies is "Pte", not the American "Pvt".
Thanks for the story.
I'm a Jerseyman and so know the Cotentin and Normandy fairly well especially the western part of the penisnsula. My grandparents lived through the German occupation and over the years I've gathered a collection of books and literature on D-Day and following events in 1944 _ i've used google maps to get an idea of exact areas but your videos are hugely valuable and interesting to better visualise what happened back then. Thanks and congrats on your hard work - I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the feedback.
Love your channel, been binge watching them all! Keep it up
Your fans here in America just love this website military historians especially I think next you should do a series perhaps following general Patton from the D-Day beaches to VE Day or maybe general Maurice Rose of the third armored division from their landing to his death enjoy your series very much
Late reply, but Patton is on my list. Looking up General Rose.
Excellent this mate , thanks for your efforts here 👍
I’m currently doing a big project on the Battle of Norrey-En-Bessin on June 9th 1944 between the Regina Rifles and 3 Kompanie 1st Battalion SS Panzer Regiment 12 and the 15recon Kompanie of SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 25. It was after this battle that the famous photos of the unit were taken south of Rots near the Highway. I would love to see a walkthrough of these locations to better serve my diorama construction. Thabks!
Tye Canadian’s battles around Bretteville l’Orgeuilleuse , Norrey and Rots is in the Pipeline. Not sure when I’ll get round to it.
@@WalkingDday
That is excellent to hear, and no problem brother. You do a great job and provide a lot of excellent material for those of us abroad and otherwise unable to visit. Cheers.
Have you read "Stopping the Panzers" by Marc Milner? I have found it the best resource on this battle so far.
Such wonderful depth of information. For me, the numerous Subscribe overlays were distracting. The battle audio was often louder than
your words. Great stuff.
Great channel.Cheers from Canada!!
Great video, Mark - I have visited some of the sites you show- thanks for expanding my knowledge.
Are your going to do a video on Bretteville and Putot?
Yes it’s on my list of projects.
@@WalkingDday Super! My hometown regiment, The Royal Regina Rifles fought there and kicked the 12 SS in their butts! 👍
Love these films. Great work. I imagine covid has put your work on hold.
Looking forward to seeing more down the track.
Thank you for this greatly detailed and educational video. It really made the events come alive, especially with the stories from my grandpa in mind (who served in the 12th Waffen-SS). The Canadians were valiant, tough and brave soldiers and respected for that by my grandpa and his comrades. And believe me, they were not easy to impress lads. Because of the high regards with which they viewed the Canadians and the rather easy-going dealing with Canadian prisoners he had seen, he always had a hard time to believe the story of the atrocities against Canadian prisoners. He could not comprehend how and why people he knew would act against their standards especially with an enemy they viewed as honorable and equal. (for instance, they had much much less respect for the white American soldier)
With the « right » kind of influence normal people can do terrible things. There was an experiment in an American university. They had a group of people they split into two. There were the jailers and prisoners. In a few days some of the jailers became really sadistic towards the prisoners. With four years of Make America great again, a variant of « make Germany great again » in the 30s, we’ve seen a similar phenomena.
I thought you had more intelligence. That's leftist propaganda. If you examine the news carefully the last several years it's 99+% groups like Antifa (the new Fascists) and BLM and some other's with Communist links that are attacking other people because of their race and beliefs. They openly spout that position and claim it's part of some new "wokeism".
Trump mainly was taking leadership of a movement to restore Constitutional rule, fight Corporate Globalism and bring industrial jobs back to America along with similiar goals. His opponents focused almost entirely on his personality and never debated the merits of his program. Instead they demonize, carry out violence and looting and try to intimidate people. Their approach is a negative one of emphasizing differences instead of focusing on our common humanity. I'm really disappointed that you could be so off base.
@@douglasturner6153 I, too, was shocked to read that baseless claim. While I am sorely tempted to say more, I shall not.
@@WalkingDday You lose all credibility when you equate Trump to Naziism.
I have always thought that if you look at the post-war as far as involved in the Canadians they got the shaft, they were not even given a zone of occupation even though they contributed so much more than the French did. And if you read Marshall Montgomery's famous book, he tends to marginalize the contributions that the Canadian military did to final victory. And if you look at the transcripts of the record of the trials of the SS that killed the Canadian soldiers, the Canadian government was not even given a voice in the trial not even a voice when it was made the decision to release many of the perpetrators very early from their imposed prison terms. If you carefully review the history of Canadian military there were absolutely no reason that they should not have been allowed to fight under Canadian leadership instead of British leadership. Same as the valiant Australian army in the Southwest along with the Canadians they had a very solid leadership core that was in place way before the war, and I'm quite sure the Australian government was very happy to relieve their soldiers out from under general Montgomery's overall command and sent them to the campaign in new Zealand, you should have covered in more detail what happened in the village square were the Canadians were trying to refill your water bottles and got ambushed by the Germans s s, a&d horrific atrocities of driving their tanks back and forth over the dying Canadians and wounded Canadian, and The valor of many of the French civilians that attempted to drag the wounded Canadians out of the road that were round up and shot by the s s. There is no need to sugarcoat a story just for your German fans. History is history no one can change history I am sure the French people get very offended by their lack of mentioned and many of the virus actions were they laid down their lives protecting Americans and Canadian British soldiers.
Some interesting points.
Thanks for posting
I’ve been to the abby courtyard and indeed it is a solemn place. Thank you for the video.
The abby is used by a Swiss organisation, EMEC, that stores books and documents.
Same here
So have I, in May 1992, and, yes, it is.
"Stopping the Panzers" by Marc Milner is the best resource on these battles I have read thus far.
Wonderful video thank you
Very interesting info. Looking forward to your future work. 👍
A friend of mine was Ox&Bucks/Airlanding Brigade, Comm Driver. They got 'stuck' at Benouville with 12 SS HJ entrenched over at Ranville, they were causing sniping bother at snap and ablution time, routed them in good time, finding one of their snipers tied into his position up a tree.
Very thorough. Enjoyed the video
Thanks for watching. Next video is on Operation Charnwood.
How did you find out about Kurt Meyer covering in a hole from the shelling with a Canadian after falling off his motorcycle? I believe it but don’t know where to find the story about that. Could it be in his autobiography?
I got most of the info from Mark Zuehkles Holding Juno. It's a trilogy on the canadians in Normandy. Taking Juno, Holding Juno and Inland from Juno Haven't had time to find the reference but it must be that.
@@WalkingDday brilliant, thanks for the info
In von Lucks book, Panzer Commander, he says it took a couple of weeks for the young Germans to realise the propaganda was a load of crap. The Allies had massive air power.
I commend your French pronunciation of most place names [I'm British but speak French quite well]. However, is Buron pronounced like you are doing it? /'bju:rɒn/? Anyway - just a nitpick. Loved this video and have subscribed.
My French wife confirms my prononciation .
My father was in the Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders of the 9th Canadian Brigade.
I enjoy your Canadian content. Your voice was difficult for me to hear at times.
What about learning what the 48 commandos did on Juno beach my uncle was one of them.
I’ve done it. ruclips.net/video/lgMbbdJge7Q/видео.html
Just watched it thank you.
You should do the two villages that the 12th SS move to after murdering the Canadian soldier. The the village of Rowe were they stopped for the photo opportunity and there is a marker there with the pictures of the young SS soldiers. And then on to the village of bretvill where they put there heads in the Canadian buzz saw, I do not think it is the correct pronunciation of the names of The villages but my French is very poor and I might hurt myself trying to say them..
They’re on my todo list. It’s Rots (pronounced Row) and Bretteville l’orgoilleuse. There are two other Bretteville in Normandy . B sur Laize and B sur Odon. And Bretteville le Rabat, that makes four in total.
Rots comes from the growing of Hemp and Linen. Hemp for sacks, not smoking. The plants are pulled out the ground when ripe and left for two weeks to start fermenting , or rotting. Linen and Hemp cloth is made from the stalk fibers.
Do you or anyone have any documentaries concerning the Regiment de la Chaudiere?
My grandfather, Aimée DeVillers, was in Le Régiment de la chaudière. He told me about how the 12th S.S murdered many Canadian soldiers at Abbaye D'Ardenne. He said that when they later met the 12th S.S. at the battle of Carpiquet airfield, the Chauds took no prisoners
Was the queen's own Glasgow yeomanry with the Canadians someone told me that they were can anyone tell me if that's right
The 54th (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment arrived in normandy a week after d-day. They took part in Goodwood. They were with the canadians from October.
Thank you for this information if you can tell me anymore about the regiment that would be fantastic thank you again much appreciated
@@micheal3230 Sorry, don’t have any more info on them.
Thank you for your time the only thing I do know that they ended up helping to liberate bergen-belsen but where they went from there I do not know
Most of this information is from No Retreating Footsteps by Will R. Bird, who wrote the regimental history of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, from the memories of men who came home and shared these events with Bird in the late 1940s and early 50s. I met some of these men as a kid as my father was there.
I got most of the information from Mark Zuehkle’s book « Holding Juno » then the Battle zone book on Juno beach.
Will Bird is one of the 90 authors Zuehkle cites, as well as unpublished works, and interviews with veterans.
editing could be less confusing and messy!
Anything in evrecy?
You need to read Kurt Meyers book to get the other side of the story, the Canadians weren’t angles and this may have been revenge on the Germans part and the number is debatable, and the people who fought hard for him were Canadian Army officers!
Whats his book called, i read in a canadian made book Kurt meyer lived in Canada after the war.
@@engineco.1494 Panzermeyer Grenadiere ist the name of his book
@@stefanvogel8255 thankyou!
Honneur et gloire aux Alliés de nous avoir débarrassé de 8000 blonds en Normandie.
Ever hear of the Normandy Massacres? One of the worst war crimes in Canadian history occurred in June, 1944, during the Battle of Normandy, following the D-Day landings of the Second World War. 156 Canadian soldiers, taken prisoner by 12th SS Panzer Division were executed by their captors during various incidents in the Normandy countryside
The massacres I mention in the video are part of that. There were also Canadians assassinated at the chateau D’Audrieu.
THE 12TH SS INFLICTED 18,000 CASUALTIES ON THE CANADIANS BETWEEN JUNE 6TH AND AUG. WHEN HOSTILITIES WERE CONCLUDED, A LOT MORE THAN THE 156 YOU QUOTE. THEY CONTINUED A FIGHTING RETREAT EVEN HOLDING OPEN THE NORTH SIDE OF THE FILAISE GAP IN ORDER FOR THE REMNANTS OF 19 GERMAN DIVISIONS TO ESCAPE ENCIRCLEMENT. MY UNCLE, AN AMERICAN SERGEANT, WAS ON OMAHA BEACH, HE SAID THE 12TH SS KICKED THE CRAP OUT OF THE CANADIANS AT NORMANDY. STILL A SORE SPOT FOR THE CANNUCKS TO THIS DAY.
@@joangratzer2101 There is no need to shout.
The reference was specifically to 156 Canadian prisoners who were murdered by 12th SS Panzer Division, not overall casualties.
"Kicked the crap out of"? No. The Canadian assault forces penetrated the German defences further than any other contingent. Casualties were high, but who ultimately prevailed? Hint: It wasn't 12th SS Panzer Division.
And there is no such "sore spot".
c est pas en francais dommage
Je travaille sur l’ajoute des sous titre en Français. Il faut d’abord verifier que les sous titres automatiques en Anglais ne sortent pas en petit chinois.
The Canadians got their ass handed to them by a small group of german youth with no air cover.Mostly due to poor leadership.I am in no way blaming the brave soldiers though
Seems they gave as good as they got, who do you think was without setbacks
As he says sitting on a couch