First Wave D-Day Veteran Remembers Storming Utah Beach | Remember WWII

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  • Опубликовано: 17 дек 2024

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  • @motaman8074
    @motaman8074 Год назад +36

    One of the original Seals.

  • @markmorgan3091
    @markmorgan3091 Год назад +21

    Being in both theaters of WW2 is kinda rare😮

  • @XC797
    @XC797 Год назад +34

    R.I.P. to those that paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
    Thank you for your service .

    • @truthtriumphant
      @truthtriumphant Год назад +4

      Yessiree!! Thank you to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice with their precious, young lives!!!Your great service, courage, bravery and selflessness are definitely NOT FORGOTTEN!!! Thank you also to these amazing, American heroes’ families!!! 🙏👏💪🇺🇸🥰💝💗💕🔥🫡!!!

  • @macmccollum6064
    @macmccollum6064 Год назад +7

    Great interview. Very interesting. Thanks for your service.
    My Dad's Battalion landed on Utah Beach, he came in on Omaha Beach. He refused to talk about it much until I finally convinced him to return to Europe in 1994. Took several years and several trips, but we retracted his journey from Normandy to near Leipzig, Germany at the end of the war. Those trips finally got him to talk, and he answered questions I had been asking for over 30 years. Probably getting him to retrace his time in combat was the greatest experience we had together. That's saying a lot, we had decades of other great times together.

  • @treadheadpete4770
    @treadheadpete4770 Год назад +16

    Thank you for your service!

  • @curly__3
    @curly__3 Год назад +14

    An amazing story from an amazing person. Thanks for your service, sir.

  • @richmr.krabbs2577
    @richmr.krabbs2577 Год назад +11

    Thank you for your service

  • @robertlustig8794
    @robertlustig8794 Год назад +8

    Thank you, sir

  • @johnforeman634
    @johnforeman634 Год назад +2

    These men deserve our utmost respect for the balance of their lives. We tend to take this relatively cushy way of life in the west for granted. We shouldn’t. Thank you sir!

  • @XHollisWood
    @XHollisWood Год назад +5

    God Bless you Sir ❤for your courage, sacrifice and service for freedom 🇺🇸

  • @wesinman2312
    @wesinman2312 Год назад +2

    Such a humble man, thank you for your service Sir.

  • @truthtriumphant
    @truthtriumphant Год назад +6

    Thank you Sir for your service!!! You are an American hero!!! God bless you!!!🇺🇸🙏💪👏💗💯🔥💝

  • @trevorminer3413
    @trevorminer3413 Год назад +3

    Thank you, Sir!

  • @johndilday1846
    @johndilday1846 Год назад +1

    Thank you for your service. God bless you.

  • @nommadd5758
    @nommadd5758 Год назад +3

    Thank you for your service! Much respect to a real Navy Frogman!!

  • @TheRealNorthleaf
    @TheRealNorthleaf 11 месяцев назад

    A very kind and courageous man doing more for the rest of us then than we can comprehend today

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha Год назад +1

    He was who they liked as a Sapper demolitions combat ground GI:
    (In this case, the Naval Amphibious Invasion Landing Rating):
    Compact, quick on his legs and feet, do-not-ponder nor pause, athletic, brave, trained and knowledgeable, high scores in his Rating (MOS) ; aced his test,
    ready and dedicated and just knew how ro do what he was tasked to do.
    These are the Guys who did it.
    Let us remember alas, that he says he prays that there will be *no* *more* *war*

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha Год назад +1

    15:31.
    15:36
    *15:40* ...
    *16:05*
    The man was his *good* *friend* ;
    "When I'm married I want you to be *my* *best* *man* "
    16:35....... I wiped it out of my mind.
    I *didn't* *want* *to* *remember* .

  • @hoiyeeau1240
    @hoiyeeau1240 Год назад

    Thank you Jerry for your service! ❤️ Thank you Rishi for interviewing him!

  • @easyyog1185
    @easyyog1185 9 месяцев назад

    God Bless You. The Greatest Generation We can never Thank Enough for the Freedoms of so Many, and Future Generations. And the unending Generosity to share Your Stories. Thank You.

  • @arinamoon7319
    @arinamoon7319 6 месяцев назад

    This man was the Hero of that day on the Utah beach at Normandy.
    One of the Frogman pioneers, the frogman who landed on beach before anyone in DDay.
    Eisenhower appreciated him by shaking his hand during he salute Eisenhower, I don't know what kind of ceremony it was, but it must have been a big event and Eisenhower told his granddaughter about him, this man was famous at that time, I think there must be a reason behind it.
    It's quite difficult to dig out moments of heroism from him because what we call the heroic actions of this frogman, such as shooting enemies, exploding pillboxes, detonating mines, are all the scariest moments of World War 2 that he didn't want to remember anymore.
    One will always erase the scary moments in one's mind but one will always remember the happy moments in one's life.
    It's no wonder he still remembers the situations in Southern France and Japan where he didn't fire any bullets.
    This man was part of the contigency unit in World War 2.
    What I can get from this interview is:
    1. He and his unit had blown up several mines on the beach.
    2. Then his unit lands at the farmhouse, today it is a museum.
    3. He and his unit had surveyed the landscape of the German perimeter because he said he saw railroad tracks (the German perimeter had railroad tracks behind the pillboxes), tanks (I think they were howitzers, he mistakenly called them tanks), the pillboxes and etc.
    I think he saw it behind the German perimeter.
    Then he saw the landing force come under heavy fire from the Germans, I think he saw it well behind the German perimeter.
    4. As the landing force came under heavy fire, his unit command him to destroyed the German pillbox.
    5. After he blew up the pillbox, He and his unit had finished off anyone who came out of the pillbox because he said that he saw the woundeds and people?(soldiers) coming out of the pillbox.
    He didn't want to remember the shooting part that killed the enemy running from the pillbox.
    6. Then he and his unit had a massive firefight against the Germans around the perimeter, his friend was killed and he was shot. Then he woke up in the hospital the next morning.
    Correct me if I'm wrong about that.
    This man is a Hero.

  • @josephfullbright748
    @josephfullbright748 Год назад +1

    Geez, OG SEAL!😅

  • @jgonzalez101
    @jgonzalez101 Год назад +1

    I thank God Almighty for men like him and all who fought in WW2 on the side of America, and the Allies, against Germany, Japan and the Axis Powers.

  • @kevinkranz9156
    @kevinkranz9156 Год назад +4

    GOD. BLESS US SOLDIERS AND OUR ALLIES FOR SAVING THE WORLD AMEN 🙏

  • @fastjaydub
    @fastjaydub Год назад +3

    Sharp as a pin for his age when this was filned.

  • @pelonehedd7631
    @pelonehedd7631 11 месяцев назад +2

    Why do these interviews sound as though the interviewer is yelling from the street below. Or like He is in the bottom of a deep echo chamber.

    • @Lauren1989mc
      @Lauren1989mc 10 месяцев назад +1

      It sounds like Rishi is wearing a face mask in this one so is having to shout to make sure he can hear

  • @mikeblitzen
    @mikeblitzen Год назад +3

    would be intersecting to interview wives of vets and their husbands nightmares

  • @searchingforaway8494
    @searchingforaway8494 Год назад +1

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @chuckjames7101
    @chuckjames7101 Год назад +1

    I had a great uncle who was one of the GREATER GENERATION. He walked across Europe to fight the Nazi regime. He never spoke about his experience. I once asked if he was a war hero, and all that he said was that all the heroes had died. RIP Uncle Jim Walker. We all knew when he passed that he was our hero , among others.

  • @cb-ms1xt
    @cb-ms1xt 11 месяцев назад

    @JockoPodcastOfficial OG frog man

  • @joeymc5272
    @joeymc5272 9 месяцев назад +2

    It just makes me sick that these amazing men died for our freedom when the people today care about critical race theory and burn the flag. It angers me so much