I had a similar experience at Pearl Harbor...I was 25 years old..still a young punk...and I was overwhelmed with emotion, it was an amazing experience!!
the spirit of the men then was amazing,my granddad fought in Holland Belguim and he got shot in the elbow,it ricocheted down his arm and came out his hand,they saved his arm but he was out of action,they were going to send him back to England but he insisted on staying and started practising how to shoot with one arm in a sling,he proved he could shoot well enough and he took part in a further 2 battles shooting one armed before he was eventually told he needed to be sent back from the frontlines to recuperate,he regained most of the use of his arm and hand and ended up in N Africa fighting Rommel in the desert,top men,heart of lions.
A story about going to Omaha Beach AND a side note about Bill Hicks? This is amazing. Also the place Bill couldn't remember the name of was probably Pointe Du Hoc.
Yeah I’ve been over to Normandy and I can visualize pretty much all of what he’s describing: Pointe du Hoc was this massive cliff jutting out over the beaches that the allies would be landing at. The Germans had a bunch of artillery set up there, and so the Rangers had to climb up the cliff and take out the guns the night before the landing. Not an easy job. But it’s incredible to go there today because it’s been left as is, with massive craters and bunkers all over the place
The overwhelming part is the realization that nobody would make that kind of sacrifice today. That's why they call them the Greatest Generation. They believed in something and were willing to fight for it. And that's why Bill was so humbled. He realized it even if he couldn't put it into words
my great uncle was a pilot in WW II. He flew the Catalina in port morseby, papua new guinea (im Australian), before that he worked as a rail way constructor/maintenance and he and his co workers wrote their experiences in the world war. it was quite moving reading the stories and what each person went through
That would have been terrifying being there on D-Day. Those MG42 machine guns have a rate of fire of about 1200 rounds/minute. They have a distinct, loud cloth-tearing/buzz saw sound. And when the barrel would get too hot, and you were trained, could take you about 6 seconds to change it out. MG42s are fucking badass machine guns! It was ahead of its time. But you do not want to be going against MG42s.
DaFan86 Russia had it in the bag. D-Day was more of a distraction than anything; all we had to do was hold the line and Russia would have taken care of it, but it wouldn't have gone well politically if we just let Russia grab all the Nazi-occupied land.
@@Paladin1983PL exactly. They signed a pact with Germany and took Poland together. Rotten. But like others pointed out, they took most of the heat to beat Germany.
You'll never see this comment but interesting fact. From what I've read most of the Axis troops who manned the "Atlantic Wall" were not German. They were mixed Ukranians, Russian deserters, French Nazi supporters. Even famously- a Korean - who had fought for all sides and been a prisoner of war and soldier multiple times throughout world war 2.
One German machine gunner and his lieutenant killed or wounded well over 1,000 Americans on D - Day. The Lt. kept running for more ammo. They were using an MG 42, that had an incredible rate of fire. Both were captured later and kept quiet about what they had done the day before. There was a documentary about it.
People talk crap about the French but one of the reasons why the US didn't enter the war was because the US military was terribly small and outdated. And of course public opinion prior to Pearl Harbor was against it.
J C. Exactly. France wasn’t ready, so was nobody else actually. Also they Applied outdated tactics from ww1. The maginot line was supposed to stop the German advances but the Germans took a different route (through Belgium) and applied blitzkrieg speedy advances. Also the Germans had put the most r&d into weapons at the start of the war.
Another point about the French. Before WW1 was, they had hundreds of years of military tradition, loads of successful brutal battles and they were proud of they'r military, They as a united collective, wanted to keep showing that they could bring it. Then WW1 came and they were decimated. Old tactics combined with unrelenting fervor and pride clashed with new class of weaponry. Losses were terrifying. It got so bad they were mostly cured out of war (or just killed, still not accepting defeat, just sending in more guys). General mindset after the war got be that submission will be less bad than any war can be. They threw they'r military tradition, history and capability to the wind thinking that it was worthless, looking back to WW1. And then WW2 came. And they were proven wrong once again, that one has to take out some assholes anyway, no matter the cost. And this will be how they are remembered now, soon 100 years after. Forgetting the hundreds of years before. Tragedy, really. That is my general understanding of the French and war, anyway.
You have an ok generalized understanding but studying WWI history at Uni helps understanding French war haha, in WWI we were not 'Decimated', that would be a highly incorrect statement, that would be more like what happened in WWII, where it really was old, relatively imobile tactics against a highly mobile and mechanized German steamroller. In WWI all of the major Beligerents suffered massive 'decimating' casualties to their armies during most major battles, and it isn't like the French ever lost a Major Battle 5:1, were 'decimated' and a massive German breakthrough occurred, this never happened, the Germans usually had a slightly advantageous Ratio in battles (By like 10-15% give or take) during the first few years HOWEVER, what is often forgot is we repelled the Germans while they were in a prime position to take Paris, which they never did, we caught a major plank of theirs, the western front was then pushed east and remained in that general area until allied breakthrough, there was no French 'Decimation' as such, all sides lost abhorrent amounts of soldiers but just kept pouring more in, however the theater as a whole held. And eventually the French and English with American help scored a major breakthrough. At this point though the state of the German homefront was dire, the country was being run by the Military (Hindenburg & Ludendorff essentially) and unnecessarily excessive strain was being put on a country's industry to produce more military equipment that they needed by far, on top of that the British blockade meant hundreds of thousands if not millions were already starving. Furthermore their U-boat presence had been rendered relatively insignificant and their greatest Ally; Austria-Hungary's army had been trimmed down massively. The Germans would have most probably lost WWI wether the Americans had come or not (However their economic and industrial support was vital throught the war) and it would have been a French and British Victory, it is silly to say that France "Lost WWI" or was "Decimated", in the end, we had the most casualties, we fought on the German's most militarized front alongside the British and in the end we WON. Nothing can be said about world war 2 though, our military was not at the level of the Germans, old tactics and old veterans put all our forces into one static line and that could never have stopped the un-believable German Nazi war machine Hitler had built up.
+Rails646 I have not read your entire comment, so sorry for sounding ignorant, but I think the original comment implied that the French were "decimated" in WWI not in terms of overall strategic position, but in the terms of casualties, which correct me if I'm wrong but EVERYONE that participated in the Western Front for any lengthy period of time suffered horrific casualties.
americans did have one mass issued weapon in that battle that was superior-mainly because the german's mass issued rifle was a bolt action ww1 technology (the mauser 1998) and the u.s. issued the semiautomatic garand m1-designed by a former canadian who migrated to springfield armory. true though that virtually every other army weapon was superior on the german side. but america's unquestionable supremacy was in logistic supply, which coupled with british military intelligence made the war unwinnable for hitler. if america had backed germany instead of france and england, the soviet union could not have survived their single front war with germany.
+bademoxy the war was unwinable because germany didn't have a source of oil. They started the war because they only had what was stockpiled from WW1, bee-lined for the oilfields of southeastern europe, then did okay until the allied airforces managed to damage the oilfields at the right time for the armies to push back through the balkin states
It must be awesome going to real sites where people fought in the world wars or even where the weapons are stored. Closest I came to seeing anything like that was a old bunker/bomb shelter in Newfoundland they built in case the fighting made it over to North America. I'd love to visit one of the beaches from D-Day, especially Juno beach, the one that was stormed by Canadians.
In all fairness the Americans did have more dead and wounded on Omaha beach than any other of the 5 landing grounds on D-Day And although the Canadians & English did have far less costly success at their beaches that day, they also did attempt an invasion of mainland Europe prior to D-Day at Dieppe. But it was an failure and VERY costly. However, it did provide extremely valuable lessons on how to plan & execute Operation Overlord, and it isn't unreasonable to assume that without the sacrifice made by those brave commonwealth soldiers at Dieppe, D-Day would not have been the overwhelming success that it turned out to be.
Bill.... England didn't fight in ww2. England hasn't had an army of it's own in centuries. It was britain who went to war. England, Scotland, northern Ireland and wales together as Britain
The point you forgot the name about was probably Point du Hoc, where US Rangers climbed the cliffs and took out a well fortified gun battery at great cost.
Anyone who's well versed in history please correct me if I'm wrong, but when it comes to winners and winnings of WW11:-Material: America-Provided the greatest amount of material aid for the rest of the allies, including trucks, Shermans, and ammunition to even the Eastern Front-Casualties: USSR-The Soviet Union not only killed the greatest amount of Germans in the European theater and suffered the greatest amount of casualties at the hands of the Germans.-Politically: United States-Went from an isolationist Economically-depressed country into one of the world's 2 remaining superpowers after the war
He didn't just let Hitler talk Bill, he put on his noise cancelling Bose headphones. You have to listen to your podcast years before you recorded the thing.
When Bill mentioned how mercedes doesnt send some of their cars to america cause they cant compete with american ones, than named honda and toyota both japanese companies haha im dying over here
I can’t stand the whole “USA won all of WW2” shit too but the USA would’ve curb stomped Germany. Germany beat France because: - France was still recovering from a devastated economy (most of WW1 was fought in French land. - France has a population of 42 mil versus Germany’s 70mil - France had a crappy manufacturing industry The US though had the worlds strongest economy, over 130mil people, and the beefiest manufacturing industry in the world. Germany invading a neighbouring USA would’ve went the same route as Barbarossa, except way worse since America wasn’t led by some homicidal idiot who killed or imprisoned his most competent leaders and strategists.
Yeah don't shit on carrot top. Look at the reviews for his show. Its still going and almost every review is possitive. My face was hurting from laughter and I listen to a lot of comedy. He's a funny guy for sure!
Some nerd outnerding the tour nerd. Priceless!
+wosterlee theres always one
I had a similar experience at Pearl Harbor...I was 25 years old..still a young punk...and I was overwhelmed with emotion, it was an amazing experience!!
the spirit of the men then was amazing,my granddad fought in Holland Belguim and he got shot in the elbow,it ricocheted down his arm and came out his hand,they saved his arm but he was out of action,they were going to send him back to England but he insisted on staying and started practising how to shoot with one arm in a sling,he proved he could shoot well enough and he took part in a further 2 battles shooting one armed before he was eventually told he needed to be sent back from the frontlines to recuperate,he regained most of the use of his arm and hand and ended up in N Africa fighting Rommel in the desert,top men,heart of lions.
Your granddad is a beast.
Wow what an absolute bad ass
A story about going to Omaha Beach AND a side note about Bill Hicks? This is amazing.
Also the place Bill couldn't remember the name of was probably Pointe Du Hoc.
Yeah I’ve been over to Normandy and I can visualize pretty much all of what he’s describing: Pointe du Hoc was this massive cliff jutting out over the beaches that the allies would be landing at. The Germans had a bunch of artillery set up there, and so the Rangers had to climb up the cliff and take out the guns the night before the landing. Not an easy job. But it’s incredible to go there today because it’s been left as is, with massive craters and bunkers all over the place
The overwhelming part is the realization that nobody would make that kind of sacrifice today. That's why they call them the Greatest Generation. They believed in something and were willing to fight for it. And that's why Bill was so humbled. He realized it even if he couldn't put it into words
my great uncle was a pilot in WW II. He flew the Catalina in port morseby, papua new guinea (im Australian), before that he worked as a rail way constructor/maintenance and he and his co workers wrote their experiences in the world war. it was quite moving reading the stories and what each person went through
I spent 30 years and five deployments overseas, and you did a really nice job on this episode.
That would have been terrifying being there on D-Day. Those MG42 machine guns have a rate of fire of about 1200 rounds/minute. They have a distinct, loud cloth-tearing/buzz saw sound. And when the barrel would get too hot, and you were trained, could take you about 6 seconds to change it out. MG42s are fucking badass machine guns! It was ahead of its time. But you do not want to be going against MG42s.
You forgot Russia's huge role in defeating the Germans.
All the allies are heroes for what they contributed.
DaFan86
Russia had it in the bag. D-Day was more of a distraction than anything; all we had to do was hold the line and Russia would have taken care of it, but it wouldn't have gone well politically if we just let Russia grab all the Nazi-occupied land.
+DaFan86 I don't consider USSR heroes. Those "liberators" did not leave my country until 1993.
Paladin1983PL
Granted.
D-Day was a plan to get a thumb into Europe so they can establish a 3rd front. So it wasn't really a distraction.
@@Paladin1983PL exactly. They signed a pact with Germany and took Poland together. Rotten. But like others pointed out, they took most of the heat to beat Germany.
Bull Hicks and Bull Burr, my two favorite comedians!
You'll never see this comment but interesting fact. From what I've read most of the Axis troops who manned the "Atlantic Wall" were not German. They were mixed Ukranians, Russian deserters, French Nazi supporters. Even famously- a Korean - who had fought for all sides and been a prisoner of war and soldier multiple times throughout world war 2.
lol dude got on yo ass
I was there a couple of years ago as well and I felt the same. Speechless
This is an amazing Podcast here...wonderful balance with serious experiences and comedy...
This segment is fantastic!
What those men did ( Eventhough a lot of them were 18 and younger) can never be forgotten!
That's one of the few places on my bucket list that I need to visit. Cool that he did it.
3:10 “Whatever the Americans are putting out” *names two Japanese car companies in Honda and Toyota* lol
it was the Canadians that organized the rescue of the hostages portrayed in "Argo"
Dalin Iverson it was a US/CA coordinated operation
But the movie said that the Canadians were given credit just to divert attention.
I thought the Canadian ambassador was a cia asset.
One German machine gunner and his lieutenant killed or wounded well over 1,000 Americans on D - Day. The Lt. kept running for more ammo. They were using an MG 42, that had an incredible rate of fire. Both were captured later and kept quiet about what they had done the day before. There was a documentary about it.
The Beast of Omaha, of course he kept his mouth shut, he would've been murdered had he said anything about how well he did his duty at the beach.
What's the documentary name?
It was on the Canadian History Channel. I'm sorry I don't remember the title.
MG42 fires 20 Rounds a Second so 1200 a Minute
sounds cool
People talk crap about the French but one of the reasons why the US didn't enter the war was because the US military was terribly small and outdated. And of course public opinion prior to Pearl Harbor was against it.
Yeah, the French were beaten, but they fought hard. Nobody was really ready for all that.
J C. Exactly. France wasn’t ready, so was nobody else actually. Also they Applied outdated tactics from ww1. The maginot line was supposed to stop the German advances but the Germans took a different route (through Belgium) and applied blitzkrieg speedy advances. Also the Germans had put the most r&d into weapons at the start of the war.
English and Dutch ? For fuck's sake Bill, it was the English and the Canadians.
+Rob Mackenzie Actually it was the British (English, Scottish and Welsh) and Canadians.
+James Yorkshire Thanks Yorkshire Man. I stand corrected. There were probably a few North American natives in there too.
Rob Mackenzie
Yeah quite a few Irish joined the British too and were treated like traitors when they returned back to Ireland.
I believe the hedgerows are called "Bocage".
Another point about the French. Before WW1 was, they had hundreds of years of military tradition, loads of successful brutal battles and they were proud of they'r military, They as a united collective, wanted to keep showing that they could bring it. Then WW1 came and they were decimated. Old tactics combined with unrelenting fervor and pride clashed with new class of weaponry. Losses were terrifying. It got so bad they were mostly cured out of war (or just killed, still not accepting defeat, just sending in more guys). General mindset after the war got be that submission will be less bad than any war can be. They threw they'r military tradition, history and capability to the wind thinking that it was worthless, looking back to WW1. And then WW2 came. And they were proven wrong once again, that one has to take out some assholes anyway, no matter the cost. And this will be how they are remembered now, soon 100 years after. Forgetting the hundreds of years before. Tragedy, really. That is my general understanding of the French and war, anyway.
You have an ok generalized understanding but studying WWI history at Uni helps understanding French war haha, in WWI we were not 'Decimated', that would be a highly incorrect statement, that would be more like what happened in WWII, where it really was old, relatively imobile tactics against a highly mobile and mechanized German steamroller. In WWI all of the major Beligerents suffered massive 'decimating' casualties to their armies during most major battles, and it isn't like the French ever lost a Major Battle 5:1, were 'decimated' and a massive German breakthrough occurred, this never happened, the Germans usually had a slightly advantageous Ratio in battles (By like 10-15% give or take) during the first few years HOWEVER, what is often forgot is we repelled the Germans while they were in a prime position to take Paris, which they never did, we caught a major plank of theirs, the western front was then pushed east and remained in that general area until allied breakthrough, there was no French 'Decimation' as such, all sides lost abhorrent amounts of soldiers but just kept pouring more in, however the theater as a whole held. And eventually the French and English with American help scored a major breakthrough. At this point though the state of the German homefront was dire, the country was being run by the Military (Hindenburg & Ludendorff essentially) and unnecessarily excessive strain was being put on a country's industry to produce more military equipment that they needed by far, on top of that the British blockade meant hundreds of thousands if not millions were already starving. Furthermore their U-boat presence had been rendered relatively insignificant and their greatest Ally; Austria-Hungary's army had been trimmed down massively. The Germans would have most probably lost WWI wether the Americans had come or not (However their economic and industrial support was vital throught the war) and it would have been a French and British Victory, it is silly to say that France "Lost WWI" or was "Decimated", in the end, we had the most casualties, we fought on the German's most militarized front alongside the British and in the end we WON. Nothing can be said about world war 2 though, our military was not at the level of the Germans, old tactics and old veterans put all our forces into one static line and that could never have stopped the un-believable German Nazi war machine Hitler had built up.
+Rails646 I have not read your entire comment, so sorry for sounding ignorant, but I think the original comment implied that the French were "decimated" in WWI not in terms of overall strategic position, but in the terms of casualties, which correct me if I'm wrong but EVERYONE that participated in the Western Front for any lengthy period of time suffered horrific casualties.
americans did have one mass issued weapon in that battle that was superior-mainly because the german's mass issued rifle was a bolt action ww1 technology (the mauser 1998) and the u.s. issued the semiautomatic garand m1-designed by a former canadian who migrated to springfield armory.
true though that virtually every other army weapon was superior on the german side.
but america's unquestionable supremacy was in logistic supply, which coupled with british military intelligence made the war unwinnable for hitler.
if america had backed germany instead of france and england, the soviet union could not have survived their single front war with germany.
+bademoxy the war was unwinable because germany didn't have a source of oil. They started the war because they only had what was stockpiled from WW1, bee-lined for the oilfields of southeastern europe, then did okay until the allied airforces managed to damage the oilfields at the right time for the armies to push back through the balkin states
@@tabula_rosa this war was not about oil. More about resource dominance
beast of a comic bill hicks.
It must be awesome going to real sites where people fought in the world wars or even where the weapons are stored. Closest I came to seeing anything like that was a old bunker/bomb shelter in Newfoundland they built in case the fighting made it over to North America. I'd love to visit one of the beaches from D-Day, especially Juno beach, the one that was stormed by Canadians.
I love discussing ww2
I do too if you want to talk let me know we can swap contact info...
Gay
@@coolkidwithswag found the "cool kid with swag"
I put und shower... i did not have to do that
Hey Bill, the point is Pont du Hoc if it's anything, and the thorns are called hedgerows
In all fairness the Americans did have more dead and wounded on Omaha beach than any other of the 5 landing grounds on D-Day
And although the Canadians & English did have far less costly success at their beaches that day, they also did attempt an invasion of mainland Europe prior to D-Day at Dieppe. But it was an failure and VERY costly. However, it did provide extremely valuable lessons on how to plan & execute Operation Overlord, and it isn't unreasonable to assume that without the sacrifice made by those brave commonwealth soldiers at Dieppe, D-Day would not have been the overwhelming success that it turned out to be.
Americans don't fight wars, we bury our enemies under materiel
Don’t forget about the person who asks countless stupid questions...
Bill.... England didn't fight in ww2. England hasn't had an army of it's own in centuries. It was britain who went to war. England, Scotland, northern Ireland and wales together as Britain
The point you forgot the name about was probably Point du Hoc, where US Rangers climbed the cliffs and took out a well fortified gun battery at great cost.
Anyone who's well versed in history please correct me if I'm wrong, but when it comes to winners and winnings of WW11:-Material: America-Provided the greatest amount of material aid for the rest of the allies, including trucks, Shermans, and ammunition to even the Eastern Front-Casualties: USSR-The Soviet Union not only killed the greatest amount of Germans in the European theater and suffered the greatest amount of casualties at the hands of the Germans.-Politically: United States-Went from an isolationist Economically-depressed country into one of the world's 2 remaining superpowers after the war
.....yes.
You gave Al-qaeeda all that tasty 'material aid' to do your bidding, as well- how did that work out for ya?
Mercedes vans are in the US
He didn't just let Hitler talk Bill, he put on his noise cancelling Bose headphones. You have to listen to your podcast years before you recorded the thing.
We never shoulda fought that war
I've been to Omaha Beach and it is fucking huge!
6:04 Rolling my fuckin eyes- some people just aren't woke enough
Apparently Hitler was a big fan of showers
When Bill mentioned how mercedes doesnt send some of their cars to america cause they cant compete with american ones, than named honda and toyota both japanese companies haha im dying over here
+Will Kummer he said they don't send some of there low end stuff over here because that market is filled by those other brands.
He was doing what his handlers were ordering him to do
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God Bill's ignorance is astounding.
a division might be a bit much
True. Probably a company
I like Carrot Top
id rather visit the much more devistating scene of Stalingrad. )
I can’t stand the whole “USA won all of WW2” shit too but the USA would’ve curb stomped Germany.
Germany beat France because:
- France was still recovering from a devastated economy (most of WW1 was fought in French land.
- France has a population of 42 mil versus Germany’s 70mil
- France had a crappy manufacturing industry
The US though had the worlds strongest economy, over 130mil people, and the beefiest manufacturing industry in the world. Germany invading a neighbouring USA would’ve went the same route as Barbarossa, except way worse since America wasn’t led by some homicidal idiot who killed or imprisoned his most competent leaders and strategists.
I don't like bananas
Yeah don't shit on carrot top. Look at the reviews for his show. Its still going and almost every review is possitive. My face was hurting from laughter and I listen to a lot of comedy. He's a funny guy for sure!
Point du hoc
German Products are better but we need ask why they better and how we can make it more better.....BETTER EDUCATION
We wouldn’t have lost to the Germans. GTFO here.