Battlefield - The Battle Of Normandy
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2019
- Battlefield is an American documentary series that debuted in 1994 on PBS that explores the most important battles fought primarily during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. The series employs a novel approach in which history is described by detailed accounts of major battles together with background and contextual information. The sixth and final series of the program was broadcast in 2002.
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Written by: Dave Flitton
Directed by: Dave Flitton
Theme music composer: David Galbraith
Producers: Andy Aitken, Justin McCarthy
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I goto sleep everynight listening to this series!!
I just to do that to :) Love it
So you are bombed to sleep???😀
Me too!😂
This one is excellent!
Me too 😴😴😴
My grandpa was in the USAs 508 PIR 82nd A/B Div..He was a medic with rank of captain . From 6/6/1944 ( DDAY ) , to Holland in " Operation Market Garden " , to being wounded I'm the Ardennes ( " Battle of the Bulge " ) , and then , by early 3/1945 assisting assistants of USA Army Dr.s assisting concentration camp victims .
Grandpa palpable PSTD issues of a grim time in fighting in Europe . He said a few men he trained @ boot camp would never return .
Thanks for such an informative documentary!! It’s very balanced in giving honor where honor is due!!
R I P to the 60000 french civilians who died in the Normandy operation. 100 % illegal invasion.
The French capitulated in June 1940.
Interestingly informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilian resistance. Sharing personal information/combat experiences separating facts from fiction. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. When the allies cemented a solid foot hold on the beach/10 miles inland. German military forces didn’t have enough supplies/soldiers to do more than slow down the allied forces. Plus allied forces heading north from the Italian mainland.
Back when documentaries were good. Now they're generally over-done
Winston Churchill shook hands with the devil.
When and where did that happen?
@@thevillaaston7811 Yes, that’s a strange comment, because Churchill and all the experts knew America was Europe’s strongest alley! I’m sure Hitler wished America was his ally!😅 I’m so impressed how they kept Operation Overlord secret!
Winston Churchill war der Teufel und ein Kriegsverbrecher!!!
@@thevillaaston7811After Poland fell, Britain had no need to continue the war. What did the British gain? The DEATH of the British Empire, economic down turn and MASSIVE DEBT.
When I think the town of Albi was razed.
With respect sir, Albi is in the far South West of France,, I lived there for a while. It's now rated a UNESCO World Heritage town. As far as I know it survived the war untouched.
I keep thinking of Col. Hogan confusing Klink to delay deployment of the Pansers
The analysis of Sir Winston Churchill is utterly wrong. First of all, even if he had the power to do so, he never overruled his General and Admirals, once they had decided on a Strategy.
Second, he had a brilliant plan to take a solid stab at Hitler's "soft underbelly", and make the main thrust through Italy, the Balkans and Greece. This would have been a somewhat larger logistical undertaking, from bases established in Africa. Another point is that the "soft underbelly" of the Nazis' occupied area might have been slightly tougher than soft, BUT there was nothing comparable to the Atlantic Wall in the Mediterranean.
So, why was Winston so keen on attacking from the south?
Two reasons:
1) Hitler always believed that any attempt to retake land on the Continent would come from the Atlantic Side. That's the reason he spent an unknown million of man-hours, an enormous amount of precious building materials and enslaved large swaths of the conquered nations' manpower to build the impressive line of defenses from where I am up in Arctic Norway all the way down to Spain, supplied with trenches, pillboxes, machine guns all the way up to heavy coastal artillery inplacements.
The Mediterranean didn't have anything near these defenses, and a thrust from the Mediterranean would have struggled more with terrain than defenses.
2) The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill foresaw very early on that Stalin and his Red Army, given half a chance, would occupy and enslave Europe in exactly the same fashion that Hitler had done.
In the end, dear Winston was proven absolutely right.
What Churchill hadn't counted on, was being stabbed in the back by highly placed Communists in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Administration. FDR and his Progressive buddies in the so-called "Democratic" Party was cooperating closely with the Fascists in Italy and the Nazis in Germany. But FDR knew he had bet on the wrong horse, and that the Free World's opinion would soon turn against the Democrats. So, early in the War they got to work with one of History's biggest propaganda effort, trying to distance themselves from the fact that they had literally written the Racial Laws that the Nazis adopted in what became known as the Nuremberg Laws. The Democrats in America called them the Jim Crow Laws.
And it didn't take long before the Communists entrenched in FDR's Administration convinced him to become buddy with the two biggest Mass Murderers in Human History: Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao in China.
As a result of this, Churchill was voted down, and to smooth ruffled feathers and also learn how to orchestrate a larger sea born landing operation, the Allies invaded Sicily and then mainland Italy.
Had Churchill's original plan been followed, the Western Allied would presumably have charged up from the Mediterranean and cut Stalin off from his advance. The result of this would have been that most of the Nations that were overrun by the Red Army, would not have ended up behind the Iron Curtain and an enormous amount of suffering, surveillance, torture, slavery and death would have been avoided.
As it were, the Communist Criminals won that round by infiltrating the US Government. Not only was half of Europe lost to Communism, but FDR sent his new buddy an invaluable "package": Uranium and all the parts needed to start building the Atomic Bomb. The plans were obtained by spies like Fuchs, Greenglass, the Rosenbergs, Hall and others. Western experts was sure that a Soviet Bomb was 10-15 years away. But thanks to the 'American Betrayal' (also the title of a very noteworthy book by Diana West), the Soviets detonated their first Atomic Bomb in 1949, mereley 4 years after the Americans.
So, in Conclusion: The Analysis of Winston Churchill's prowess as a tactician in this documentary is completely wrong, unless one prefers to take the position of Communist Infiltrators in the Roosevelt Administration…!!!
Oh please. Stalin was no fool and loathed Churchill. Roosevelt played straight with the Soviets, who were bearing the brunt of the fighting. If you really are Norwegian you ought to move to the U.S. and join Trump's campaign. 😁
True about Communist infiltrators around FDR
Was England any different from Russia and China remember the saying the sun never sets on the British Empire you want to know why because the had colonies on almost every continent Africa South America India China you name it the British and France had colonies every where that's why England was fighting on so many fronts China Burma India Africa Arab countries Argentina Suez Canal Singapore Vietnam all were British or French territories not counting America colonies Hawaii wasn't a state then the Philippines and Puerto Rico French Guyana is self explanatory
Thankfully Hitler and his sycophants were not great military strategists. Barbarossa was the death knell for the Third Reich. Imagine if they were good strategists. The obvious thing would be to have the English channel carpeted with U boats and the surface mined to a great extent. Then factor in the men and equipment lost in the invasion of the USSR. I'm not suggesting that would be game over. But it certainly would have cost many more allies lives.
Agreed. Those who so often claim that it was the Red Army who "really" won WW2 in the European Theatre of Operations overlook some important details, namely that the Western Allies tied up so much of Hitler's men and material that if Stalin had had to face Hitler with no allies, Stalin would have lost. The ETO victory was a team effort.
@@grantsmythe8625 Definitely and I think that Stalin knew this. Or at least hoped that the allies would rally and relieve the pressure on the USSR. The war was won by allies in the ETO.
@@jerryoconnor-ps8bb It's been a long time but I think I read....perhaps in Anthony Beevor....that there were around 55,000 large caliber (88mm and up) antiaircraft guns fighting the Western Allies' bombers and fighters. And the Battle of the Atlantic? There would have been none without the Western Allies.
You know all this as much as I and I agree wholeheartedly with you: victory in the ETO was a Allied victory, not a USSR victory or a USA/UK victory. It was all of us.
I didn't realise that there was that amount of weaponry. The 88s were a devastating weapon. I must investigate this further. And yes, Doenitz's U boats were out on the western approaches. Stalin did not have to deal with the U boat menace.
The Battle of Britain was while Stalin and Hitler were still allies .
The Battle of Britain was the first step to invade Britain and it failed .
No control of the air no invasion of Britain Russia in the war or not .
Sleeep😂
And a bit too late . The Russians were well on their way to Berlin.
You are most definitely wrong about that. Stalin held off on Bagration until he saw that Normandy was successful.
The theme song is so catchy