My mother in law met my father in law at the VE parade in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. He had flown as a bombardier over North Africa, was shot down, taken prisoner and escaped. He was one of the lucky ones to make it home... she died just 2 years ago at 99. He died in his 30s from cancer. They had 3 children.
my mother live through war 2 in Italy she Rember the bombings they didn't like Mussolini Italian people they remove him very happy when the American came.
Interesting how allied soldiers from all over the world fought and died together to liberate Africa, Italy, western Europe, Asia from the axis, but their grandchildren can't acknowledge the sacrifice without squabbling over who did more.
@donrobertdon4940 unfortunately that's the way this world is 😢. They call it hindsight but really they miss the point. On the day, that is D-day and the fight through all of Europe, it didn't matter your nationality they all had the same goal to remove Hitler from power. End of.
And their grandchildren threw everything away that they bled and died for and all for nothing. Liberalism is a cancer. All one has to do is look at all the western nations currently governed by this poison. We're an absolute disgrace to the "greatest generation".😪
All gave some and some gave all still best sums it up for me it was a worldwide effort as you rightly say and shouldn't be a competition by people who weren't even there.
@@Nochancet.v Check your History bud, in WW1 the Scots lost more Men per head of population than any other UK Country and punched above their weight in WW2, just saying. 😎🇬🇧
The Americans great effort was in the minority, compared to the Canadians and the British added together. The latter included Irish citizens of the Free State, Poles, Czechoslovaks, Free French, The West Indies and even the Newfoundlanders who didn't become Canadians until the late 1940s . Respect to all of them, especially the volunteers fighting against Fascism and Nazism following on from the Spanish Civil war and the Japanese invasion of China
What's nazism? You do realize that Germany was a democratic nation that had elections. They vote for party and the party who wins chooses who sits in which chair. They were also capitalist up until they were forced to accept sanctions after ww1, they had no choice but to be Nationalist because they couldn't import/export. They were impoverished until the workers party a.k.a. the Nazi party won elections based on their plan to tax rhe fuck out of the rich people, mostly bovarians that lost the election, and use the money to jump start the economy. Basically they created welfare, public housing and subsidies and in a few years they became a world economic giant. They still were under sanctions so they were considered a democracy government with a nationalist socialist economic system, but it wasn't by choice. So what the fuck is nazism? That's not at all a thing and Germany was and still is till this day a Democracy.
Says the guy who totally doesn't invest his self worth in his national identity and is very secure.... Hitler would own your ahh if it wasn't for America. Gimme a break.
There’s an interview on RUclips of Eisenhower by Walter Cronkite on the 20th anniversary of D Day. They are at the Normandy landing beaches in 1964 as IKE explains in his own words how he planned and executed the invasion. It’s very fascinating!
My father landed on Juno Beach during the night of 6th/ 7th June 1944 as a member of a Royal Air Force Forward Air Control unit attached to the Canadian forces, providing close air support for the ground troops. On leave in Paris in late 1944, he met a nice French girl who flirted with him - until her French boyfriend turned up with a revolver and chased my Dad through the streets of Paris ! Luckily for my Dad, and me, he didn't catch my father who was a fast runner in his youth - he was 19 in 1944.
My grandfather was in world War 2 in the army the paratrooper division and he came back alive he went every anniversary to the day he died when he was was 99 he was very patriotic he was buried at Arlington he was so strong about idea of freedom
Growler...you are totally correct in saying that Irishmen died in WW1...My Great gran uncle was one...there was no conscription in Ireland....they were all Volunteers...Fred Bateman Lance Corporal with the Welsh Guards based in Kilkenny Ireland....and there is a monument in Kilkenny to all that lost their lives in that war to end all wars.
Agreed. Ways to ruin an otherwise educational and fine video: 1.) Blur images. 2.) Video in vertical. 3.) Background effects/music louder than the narrator. 4.) Make it woke/politically correct.
It keeps the video from getting demonetized by RUclips. There's plenty of docs on here that don't blur violent images but generally the account owners are here to make money
British Soldiers, not English, my Uncle's from Glasgow fought in Normandy and they where Scottish, not forgetting the Welsh, Irish and others from the British Empire, just saying from Glasgow 💙😎🇬🇧👊
Not only that. As a Swede I strongly object to the claim that Greta Garbo was an american actor. She was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden and named Greta Lovisa Gustafsson and later moved to the US and changed her name to the catchier Greta Garbo and the rest is cinematic history.
Ultra was the brain child of Alan Turing. It was Alan Turing that designed and built Ultra. It was Alan Turing that was head of Bletchley Park, Hut 8 that broke the code. Give credit where credit is due. The film " The Imitation Game" covers Alan Turing and his contributions to cracking German codes.
Like hell he did.. It was the Polish that broke the code. And they fled to England where they gave the British the German cypher machine they built. As the British was so far behind in the technology. They had no clue how the German Cypher machine even worked.. So you better stop getting your education off movies. As they are not historical accounts..It's why they created Books.
@@WizzRacing The Poles gave the British a commercial Enigma machine. A far cry from the naval 4 rotor machine. The Germans were changing the codes daily, too. It wasn't just breaking codes; it was doing so fast enough to make a military difference. There was also the Lorenz code (called Tunny by the British), which caused even more difficulties. That's why Tommy Flowers built the electronic programmable computer ,Colossus.
@@adventussaxonum448 You seem ignorant. As everybody but the United States used Commercial Cypher machines of the time..As the United States government made export of their Cypher machines illegal.. And again. The British had no clue how the German Cypher machine worked. Hell you can go too the British Library and read the History of how the Polish broke the "Military" code machine in 1932 with the help of the French.. Now beat it. The Polish had already invented the cyclometer. Had Alan Turing not had this information. Their whole team would still be rubbing two stones to make fire.. Now go get an education..
@@WizzRacing, Within weeks of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical machine called the bombe, which could break Enigma more effectively than the Polish bomba kryptologiczna, from which its name was derived. The bombe, with an enhancement suggested by mathematician Gordon Welchman, became one of the primary tools, and the major automated one, used to attack Enigma-enciphered messages. The bombe searched for possible correct settings used for an Enigma message (i.e., rotor order, rotor settings and plugboard settings) using a suitable crib: a fragment of probable plaintext. For each possible setting of the rotors (which had on the order of 1019 states, or 1022 states for the four-rotor U-boat variant), the bombe performed a chain of logical deductions based on the crib, implemented electromechanically. The bombe detected when a contradiction had occurred and ruled out that setting, moving on to the next. Most of the possible settings would cause contradictions and be discarded, leaving only a few to be investigated in detail. A contradiction would occur when an enciphered letter would be turned back into the same plaintext letter, which was impossible with the Enigma. The first bombe was installed on 18 March 1940. Pretty arrogant and hypocritical of you to call anyone ignorant.
@@WizzRacing Ultra was SO much more than Alan Turing. It's like saying that Wilbur and Orville Wright built Concord. Since 1932 the Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski & Jerzy Różycki worked within BS4 (the Polish general staff cipher Bureau focussed on German decryption & intelligence), and together with VITAL assistance given by the French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand (who had cultivated a German informant codenamed "Asché" who had provided French Intelligence with tons of vital data including a full nazi procedural manual for use of the enigma encryption device), had by the purchase of a commercial version of the early enigma device and LOTS of analysis eventually broken into German army and air force 3 rotor encryption networks, this was a fantastic achievement, but it is true to say that they at no time did they crack German Kriegsmarine encryption due to the additional layers of security employed by the German navy. In December 1938 the nazis introduced a further 2 interchangeable encryption rotors to the enigma system, which immediately brought the vast majority of Polish decryption efforts to a grinding halt, which is where it remained up until the outbreak of WW2. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of WW2 the Polish research work was passed to the French, who in the six months they had it in their possession added little to the accumulated knowledge, and to the UK where the British government seized it with both hands, and made its study top priority. So was instigated the British "ULTRA" project. Jerzy Różycki elected to stay behind and work in Vichy France where, unknown to the Germans he worked on a seperate secret encryption system, which bore no tangible fruit before his death in 1942. Marian Rejewski & Henryk Zygalski were, for security reasons, not included in the UK "ULTRA" project, and so took no further part in British decryption efforts. The British "ULTRA" project took the non working foundation research of the Polish decrypters and from there MASSIVELY expanded that research to once again break into nazi 3 rotor enigma, this was followed in 1942 by the cracking of the improved kriegsmarine M4 enigma (the 4 rotor enigma device, codenamed "SHARK"), as well as simultaneously breaking into the FAR more complex "lorenz" cipher device used by the German army & navy high commands (TUNNY), before finally cracking the "Geheimschreiber" encryption device used by both the Luftwaffe high command as well as the top level of the nazi government (STURGEON), on top of these British achievements another product of the ULTRA program was the building of the world's first programmable electronic computer (COLOSSUS) to speed up the breaking of German codes. This was designed and built by a British team led by Alan Turing and the telephone engineer Tommy Flowers, which transformed British decryption from a process which often only gave results days or even weeks after the message was eavesdropped on by the British, to a state of affairs towards the end of WW2 where the British were reading a LOT of top level communications at the same time as the intended German recipient. The early Polish codebreakers did indeed provide the "acorn" from which the British cultivated the "mighty oak" of ULTRA.
Agreed. What do you think the GREATEST generation would think about our SUPPORT for KIEVS REGIME? And the SNOTZEES we helped wage a coup? Do people get what caused the Cuban missile crisis!? That Russia did that bc we had our missiles in TURKEY..? Yet now, we're trying to put them in UKRAINE!?
What did the author mean when he used the word "declassified"? This is just another repeat of a story that's been told thousands if not millions of times.
Think we need to remember that it was ‘ Britain ‘ under attack and not just England or the ‘ English ‘ - Also monumental efforts were made by all the British empire , which isn’t just ‘English ‘ as portrayed here
Thank you for pointing that out. I am tired of listening to the 'Britain stood alone' nonsense, unless of course people mean 'alone except for Newfoundland, Canada, NZ, Australia, India, Kenya, Jamaica, etc., etc., etc.'
Credit to Alan Turing for creating that computer. Also some of the code breakers were people who had answered an ad in the newspaper about a crossword puzzle challenge. Some people just see things differently. Cheers to whoever realized that and found a way to round them up! Crossword puzzle challenge... who would have ever thought something so innocuous would lead to the highest top secret work of the war!?! The history is fascinating!
For decades I’ve asked and wondered where were the Spitfires, P51s, P47s giving those brave soldiers advancing on the beach some air cover. Strafing those machine gun nests Was it political? Or oversight ?
They where behind the landing beaches stopping the Germans from bring up reinforcements to the landing zones. Close coordination between air and attacking ground forces was in its infancy then and not really practical.
You can summarily dismiss oversight. It’s not like the whole lot of senior and very capable leaders and their staff forgot a thing so basic. My understanding is that they assigned to the Navy the job of softening up the heavily fortified pill boxed and gun bunkers because their battleships and destroyers could lay down far more metal than a fighter could even come close to. The planners also deliberately called for a short, but extremely intense bombardment alone with bomber support rather than a prolonged one because they wanted to get the troops on their objectives before the Germans could organize, react and repulse them with forces in the rear. And they had other plans to disrupt the forces in the rear. Not every aspect of the campaign was executed flawlessly. Some example of horrendous failures occurred. But there was nothing that was just forgotten.
Yes, they were craft. Weren't they? I urge you to look into Operation Mincemeat if you haven't already, probably have... I've seen several videos on Mincemeat and found it a crafty and very well planned out operation. Those guys were very clever!
The Germans were not afraid of Patton. They did not even know he was the commander of FUSAG until AFTER D-DAY. Patton's "inspection tours" around Kent did not attract attention. The Germans were more interested in what Eisenhower & Montgomery were up too. ~Henrik Bering (Hoover Institute) commenting on the book, "Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies" by Harry Yeide
Well Henrik Berdigs (or whatever his name) book was poorly researched. The Germans ABSOLUTELY knew whom Patton was. He had been Eisenhower's boss, his audacity in war was known to the world, and it was known that he had written the book on American tank doctrine. Having raced through both German and Italian divisions in both North Africa AND Sicily AND Italy, to say they didn't know or fear him is the height of ignorance. In FACT, the Germans pulled Rommel out of North Africa to allow him to save face when it was obvious that Patton had beat him. So no doubt the German Field Marshal in charge of the Atlantic wall (Irwin Rommel) knew who Patton was. Finally, Patton was the allied general most often mentioned in German dispatches. Everything I have stated is a known historical fact. The problem with revisionist history, is people like you that believe it.
@@rogerb3654Patton a Biography 2006; Axelrod, Alan Patton George S War as I Knew It 1947 Stephen Ambrose- Eisenhower: Soldier and President 2007 Bkumenson: the Patton Papers 1940-45
. German general Günther Blumentritt, a key planner of the invasions of France and Poland, wrote in a study for the U.S. Army after the war, “We regarded General Patton extremely highly as the most aggressive Panzer General of the Allies, a man of incredible initiative and lightning-like action…. His operations impressed us enormously, probably because he came closest to our own concept of the classical military commander.” Alfred Jodl, who served as Hitler’s chief of operations from 1940 until the end of the war, told American interrogators, “He was the American Guderian. He was very bold and preferred large movements. He took big risks and won big successes.” General Heinz Guderian himself, after Germany’s surrender, told his Allied captors, “From the standpoint of a tank specialist, I must congratulate him for his victory since he acted as I should have done had I been in his place.”
There's a blatant mistake at 14:55. Pierre-Alain Antoine is misquoted as saying that Patton was not the type of guy who went to brothels. He did not says "bordel", which is French for brothel or bordello. He said "il n'est pas du genre à les border le soir". Which translates to : "He is not the kind of guy who tucks them in at night."
patton was supposedly furious about this. it's been said that ike was punishing him for slapping a private scared of fighting. he'd already been taken away from fighting and bradley put in his place for having done this.
Patton couldn't be trusted Because of his performance in Sicily, not following plans and orders, assaulting sick troops, causing the worst Blue on Blue incident to date, trying to cover up massacres.... Ike wanted to send him back to the States, but had to settle for him being sidelined
‘ “A lot of us were killed…” At Utah Beach, 200 of John’s comrades were struck down by German bullets.’ A little misleading. Without wishing to diminish John Roman’s experience, the documentary has been edited to give a false impression. I’m not sure why. A total of 197 casualties, killed and wounded, were suffered by the troops of 4th Infantry Division landing on the beaches code-name ‘Utah.’ 8th & 22nd Infantry Regiments together suffered 12 killed. They encountered sporadic shelling and small arms fire, with losses from mines on the beach and offshore but the strongest defences had been sidestepped by a fortunate error. (The footage mostly shows landings at the more heavily defended ‘Omaha’ beach). By a grim irony, 4th Division had suffered far worse casualties when training exercises had gone terribly wrong. Over 800 alone died one night in April 1944, when German E-Boats raiders had chanced upon troops preparing to land on the Devon coast. They also suffered badly entering Germany later that year.
Great story its sort of like Catch Me If You Can ha. My uncle was a navigator in WW2 and came back late from a date one night all the planes were ready to go so he missed the flight that plane got shot down no survivors never found he was thrown in the brig he married that lady who was WAAF my aunty. But he served from 1940-45 and was shot down twice 😅😮😊
The problem of rape absolutely has to be discussed as it is part of the history. Including both good and bad is correct. I am very happy to hear how Eisenhower handled the situation. Horrible that it ever happened. Here is one observation. By some reason ONLY rapes perpetrated by Americans were discussed. Evidently all the other soldiers from the many allies in the invasion were not human as not one item of misbehavior is recorded. I also noticed that the entire background of D-Day only involved the British. Again all the others allies involved, including the overall commander, must have sat on their hands during D-Day if this is believed. I understand that when one country writes its story there can be a tendency to overlook everyone else but this is ridiculous.
Most of the commonwealth nations come under British. Just makes it easier than stating every single nation. This video is a French production, with an English narrator.
Its hilarious hearing an american whining about someone understating american involvement. You guys forget the british even were there. 3 of the 5 beaches. British. The overall plan? Montgomery. The country it launched from? Ahem. Most of the naval support? RN. Most of the air support? RAF. The majority of troops on the day? British. The intelligence that allowed it to be done? Enigma intercepts (british). Watch a US war movie or read a us book on D day? There was noone else present. Gtfoh. Bet you think your lot won the nth african campaign too? There jussst long enough to claim credit. Wankers
28:50 So what has transpired thereafter when the Germans haven't come across this imaginary convoy that Pujol clearly made up? This event had to be countered with some kind of intervention by Pujol, right? I mean....the Germans would obviously ask questions after failing to intercept this "convoy".....
I always heard it was five housand ships. Now it's seven thousand. Now i can see some leeway here of a couple hundred. But 2000 is too much of a stretch without some proof.
but you don't mention Operation Mincemeat??? the body used in Operation Mincemeat... They agreed and signed a death certificate for Major William Martin for "asphyxiation through immersion in the sea"; the body was released by the Spanish and, as Major Martin, was buried in the San Marco section of Nuestra Señora cemetery in Huelva, with full military honours on 2 May etc.
Allow me: It’s the old joke. I guy walks into the military intelligence room and he is quickly challenged by one of the occupants: “What are you doing here”? The man replies “‘I’m waiting for someone with intelligence.” A lame joke that you had rendered inscrutable for want of literacy.
This was very well put together now. As an American. I am deeply disturbed that the women were raped. But what? I will say what Hitler did is far worse than what americand thank God. That the english people knew what to do and how to do it to end the war.But I'm deeply disturbed as I said about these women that were raped as an American.It's not right but what hitler did is far worse and it's disgusting and history repeats itself
France. The great capitulators and the great collaborators. Should have left them. They capitulated and collaborated to save their antique Paris while the Poms fought for them and had London destroyed.
If that's the truth, then so be it. But I hope that all remember w/o America finally entering WWII as an ally, France, definitely, and likely the rest of Europe, including England, would all be speaking German today. Let's not forget the magnitude of the sheer number of American GIs, especially those who perished, who fought in WWII. D-Day was but one battle (the largest) on the beaches of Normandy
I read little while ago that Canadian troops were attacked in Paris by French citizens shortly after the liberations. I always wondered if that was true and why. If anyone knows, it would be interesting to know more.
Huge numbers of rapes also occurred in areas under German occupation, such as France, Poland or regions of the Soviet Union. German soldiers were perpetrators there. There were also perpetrators among the Allied forces in post-war Germany.
Lets have a bit of ballance here please the American role on D Day was a junior partner to the Brits and Empire forces on land, in the air and most importantly at sea.
Thanks for actual LOL. Including airborne US made up almost half of land forces, well over half of the aircraft (not including Lend Lease) and the navy was a little busy on the other side of the world where the RN had not been since 1941. Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944.
@nickdanger3802 So, he's correct about Normandy, then? Anyway...... apart from the plan, the deception plan, the intelligence, the resupply through Mulberry and PLUTO, 80% of naval forces, 60% of air cover, and just over 50% of the landing forces......it was all US😅 I admit, 90% of the film coverage was American....and still is.😅
@@nickdanger3802 Look again at the airforce figures. Without the RN the Yanks would have had to swim to France, lol. The RN operated against the entire war. Btw the Americans were also the a Junior partner against the Japanese. Look at those figures again and thank the Chinese and Commonwealth forces.
Bletchley was not the headquarters of the English counter intelligence service. It the was the headquarters of the BRITISH counter intelligence. Yet again the rest of the UK is treated like sh1t.
A brilliant video if not for the gastly music, which spoilt the enjoyment, I'm sure the men in the battlefield couldn't hear music.As much as I wanted to watch it I had to switch off.
I'm glad they do not have to rely on geography to get around the UK. For one, Lake Windermere is simply called Windermere, and it is in Cumbria these days, which is definitely in England and not in Scotland.
The British and Canadians were fighting all of Germanys best troops in Caen and Normandy etc. 600 plus tanks and most Waffen SS divisions . USA only faced 150 tanks max
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend No combat experience. 21st Panzer Division (Heer) Formed 1943 with French trophy armour. German Tanks in the US sectors of the Bocage would have as useless as US tanks were until field modified into rhino tanks.
What I don't understand about D-day is why they didn't use battleships and shoot the crap out of the bunkers on the cliffs and then send in the troops afterwards. I mean come on guys this is common sense there would of been way less casualties
Absolutely amazing feat. The allies not only having the time to play around with cool ideas creating toy equipment and managing to present all this deception to the enemy thus achieving total battlefield surprise, seizing at least air superiority (nearing air supremacy), using merely 700 vessels, were able to deploy well trained and equipped troops on target location and succeeded in causing 6000 casualties on the axis side, suffering measly 4300 allied losses and claiming all this astonishing success despite being forced to resort to the unfortunate limitations of relying on a mere 30:1 advantage. Just wow! At the same time on the opposite, eastern front the soviets suffering monumental casualties and losses. Which comes as a no surprise really, considering their leaders failed to take their time to properly train their troops before sending them into battle (assuming of course they'd be skilled enough to do, which they never were). Also all the other things like inability to design, develop, produce and deliver any military tech that could come even close to be on par with what the axis were enjoying, let alone even the lowest arms of the allies. Not only on the ground, but neither in the air. All they could do was just keep feeding meat fodder into the axis grinder and then have the audacity to claim they helped win the war, when in truth they werent even able to make a dent. Twenty two million losses for nothing! 22 000 000! Even after all the economic and military help, delivered right to their feet. Hopeless. The US lost what? Barely 400K? And that, fighting and defeating both all the combined axis forces in the continents of Europe and Africa, AND fighting and defeating the forces of the Japanese Empire in Asia and Oceania. Practically all on their own without any assistance. Not even wanting to get involved in the first place. Shamefully attacked without having any knowledge or suspicions, minding their own business, unfairly accused of causing devastating damage to the entire world by allegedly allowing (knowingly and willfully) a tiny group of individuals playing games of wealth and power chasing the emasculating feel of holding the faiths of billions of souls in their grasp? Ridiculous! Provoking the japanese by suffocating them economically (and many other means), thus scattering away any potential ideas they may have of pride, ambition or level treatment? Absurd! Desire to join the war against Germany for the same reasons - to prevent a rise of another challenging power? Nonsense! Taking advantage of the critical situation Britain has found herself in, make her beg for help, humiliating her and exploit events to break up the hold of the current leader and replace it as the new dominating power? Laughable!
Brown ? What are you talking about ? Brown like the SA? Franco was, surely, bad, but 10 times worse than Hitler is not possible. Nevertheless, Francos crimes have not been highlighted enough, that is true.
@@geeache1891 You don't even know why ww1 happened, therfor you also don't know why ww2 happened and to say franco was not 10 times worse than hitler shows me you also have no idea what happened there. You are the joke I was talking about.
@Desperado070 Considering your first somewhat incoherent reaction, I expected already a bit similar reaction on mine, but the extent still surprises me. Funny how much you think you know about me. But to the point, let's add some numbers. Hitler was responsible for the death of 6 million Jews and about the same number for non jew deaths, according to various sources. Correct me if wrong. In my reasoning, simple math, 10 times worse would mean Franco would be responsible for 120 million deaths. Let's say this number is orders of magnitude more than the 50,000 after and ca. 630,000 during the Spanish. As I said in bad in itself and largely forgotten, but not 10 times..
@@geeache1891 Read your own comment back and you expected to get something else?!? always funny people like you who point there finger towards others, just remember when you do that 4 fingers are pointing towards yourself. Look what a rant you wrote and at the same time once again you said nothing. 🤣 You really have no idea what you talking about that just shows off about what you saying, nothing is true of that. 😂
All this bickering, like this was facebook about who"s first. I will tell who was first. Fifth Field Company Combat Engineers, 3rd Canadian Division. Landed an hour and half before the first wave of assault troops. 'They cleared the way for those who followed.' Sappers, unarmed so to carry more explosives, blew up anything that impeded or imperiled the landing. Landed under heavy fire and continued to do their assigned duty under heavy fire. Some working in neck deep water to destroy obstacles. They were first unit on the beach and the last. After D Day who cleaned the beachs of unexploded ordinance and picked up the body parts? The sappers who were declared as wiped out by the planners. Those sappers rebuilt bridges and roads all the way to Germany.
it takes an incredible amount of machinery to achieve if effort victory. everything from logistics, procurement of resources, development of. the Heroes ofare ofthe aero Aces, Armor, Infantry. The real heroes are
On D-Day the British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, the Americans 57,500. As an indication of the weight of armoured forces the allies were facing after the D-Day landings here are the German armoured dispositions around the Normandy bridgehead by the middle of July 1944. British 2nd and Canadian 1st Armies facing Caen and the eastern portion of the Normandy bridgehead were opposed by: 1st SS Pz Div (Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler) 9th SS Pz Div (Hohenstaufen) 10th SS Pz Div (Frundsberg) 12th SS Pz Div (HitlerJugend) 21st Pz Div 116th Pz Div 101st Heavy SS Pz Abteilung 102nd Heavy SS Pz Abteilung 503rd Heavy Pz Abteilung The American 1st & 3rd Armies on the Contentin peninsular and in the western portion of the Normandy bridgehead were opposed by: 2nd SS Pz Div (Das Reich) 17th SS PzGr Div (Götz von Berlichingen) Pz Lehr Div While focussing as usual on US losses during the Normandy Landings, you should remember to say a respectful "Thank you" to the British and Canadians who took the brunt of the German defensive reaction, and far greater casualties AFTER D-Day & shielded you from the worst of the fighting while the yanks flailed about in the "Bocage" against mostly "stomach divisions" and were allowed to amass for "Cobra" in relative peace and quiet.
I am amused by the twisting of the effort. Beyond Caan was good tank country and therefore the bulk of armor from both sides were concentrated in this area. The Americans had to fight through hedgerow country which heavily favored the defense. Their primary goal was to capture Cherbourg and give the allies a working port. The initial plan called for the British and Canadians to break through in Caan. Instead they became the lightening rod and drew the bulk of German forces. Cobra was the key, but like all the initial operations were expensive in men and material. After the breakthrough casualties fell considerably until the Germans were able to establish defenses on their frontier area with France, Belgium, etc. There they gathered the last of their power to delay the inevitable.
@@billmoretz8718 I don't for one second question that "Cobra" was decisive, but it was the US "sword" to the British and Canadian "shield" that had taken the brunt of the German assaults for the first 2 months, a shield without which D-day would have been driven back into the English Channel.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I was simply stating that that was not according to the original plan. The original plan was for British and Canadian troops to break out in Caan. Cobra was made as a regional adjustment that lead to the liberation of France. Neither would have been likely without the other. And let's not forget about French resistance fighters that so disrupted the road and rail systems to stop Germans from reinforcing quickly. That also lead to the success.
Я полностью согласен но ещё не нужно забывать что союзники используют своё полное превосходства в авиации и выражение ковровые бомбардировки произошло именно оттуда то как тысячи бомбардировщиков бомбили немцев перед Каэн, Котэнтан, и перед холмом Коттбус , без вашей бомбардировочной авиации немцы были бы очень рады повоевать ещё и потеряли бы вы намного больше...тем более что были полностью уничтожено дороги и железные дороги и немцы никакой возможности не имели перевезти помощь и танковые дивизии.А так да спасибо всем за помощь в этой войне. Из России с любовью.
Including airborne US made up almost half of land forces, well over half of the aircraft (not including Lend Lease) and the navy was a little busy on the other side of the world. Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944.
@@nickdanger3802 I’m not blaming the Americans for not stepping up, after all the British were also fighting the Japanese so I totally understand. Less than half the troops who landed (including airborne) were American (73k US v 83k). Moreover, Britain supplied 3/4 of the landing craft, twice as many sailors as the Americans (112k to 52k), 900 of the 1200 warships and 2/3 of the aircraft used. Not taking anything away from the Americans, I just wish history was reflected more accurately.
@@keithmitchell6548 D DAY AIR FORCES USAAF 7,800 RAF 5,175 Flight Journal May/June 2024 25,870 aircraft Lend leased to Britain by War (Army) Dept. 1,000 Landing Ship, Tank (LST) made in the USA, fewer than 80 by Britain and Canada. I understand Britain and Canada did not did the proper respect in The Longest Day. I suspect this had to do with increasing the role of France to secure their cooperation in production.
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My mother in law met my father in law at the VE parade in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. He had flown as a bombardier over North Africa, was shot down, taken prisoner and escaped. He was one of the lucky ones to make it home... she died just 2 years ago at 99. He died in his 30s from cancer. They had 3 children.
my mother live through war 2 in Italy she Rember the bombings they didn't like Mussolini Italian people they remove him very happy when the American came.
Interesting how allied soldiers from all over the world fought and died together to liberate Africa, Italy, western Europe, Asia from the axis, but their grandchildren can't acknowledge the sacrifice without squabbling over who did more.
Thank you for saying that, we noticed it too and were very unsettled..
@donrobertdon4940 unfortunately that's the way this world is 😢. They call it hindsight but really they miss the point. On the day, that is D-day and the fight through all of Europe, it didn't matter your nationality they all had the same goal to remove Hitler from power. End of.
And their grandchildren threw everything away that they bled and died for and all for nothing. Liberalism is a cancer. All one has to do is look at all the western nations currently governed by this poison. We're an absolute disgrace to the "greatest generation".😪
All gave some and some gave all still best sums it up for me it was a worldwide effort as you rightly say and shouldn't be a competition by people who weren't even there.
Team work and joint effort
"English"? They were not just English but British which includes Scots, Welsh and Irish
Yeah but they all wish they were English.
55 million english
5million scots
Come on
@@Nochancet.v Check your History bud, in WW1 the Scots lost more Men per head of population than any other UK Country and punched above their weight in WW2, just saying. 😎🇬🇧
@lyndoncmp5751 that's kinda funny 😁!
@@lyndoncmp5751This British Scotsman lolled
The Americans great effort was in the minority, compared to the Canadians and the British added together. The latter included Irish citizens of the Free State, Poles, Czechoslovaks, Free French, The West Indies and even the Newfoundlanders who didn't become Canadians until the late 1940s . Respect to all of them, especially the volunteers fighting against Fascism and Nazism following on from the Spanish Civil war and the Japanese invasion of China
Can you just quit with the compare and contrast of the different levels of sacrifice amongst the combatants? It’s unseemly and not necessary.
What's nazism? You do realize that Germany was a democratic nation that had elections. They vote for party and the party who wins chooses who sits in which chair. They were also capitalist up until they were forced to accept sanctions after ww1, they had no choice but to be Nationalist because they couldn't import/export. They were impoverished until the workers party a.k.a. the Nazi party won elections based on their plan to tax rhe fuck out of the rich people, mostly bovarians that lost the election, and use the money to jump start the economy. Basically they created welfare, public housing and subsidies and in a few years they became a world economic giant. They still were under sanctions so they were considered a democracy government with a nationalist socialist economic system, but it wasn't by choice. So what the fuck is nazism? That's not at all a thing and Germany was and still is till this day a Democracy.
Says the guy who totally doesn't invest his self worth in his national identity and is very secure....
Hitler would own your ahh if it wasn't for America. Gimme a break.
The way Eisenhower handled that is exactly how anytime something like that happens should be dealt with.
it is almost impossible to imagine how difficult to handle DeGaulle. that would continue to 1964
Tempting to ask "Was France worth it ?"@@kevincody8391
@@kevincody8391 Why on earth did they cosset that man. He has done so much damage to
France and to Europe.
There’s an interview on RUclips of Eisenhower by Walter Cronkite on the 20th anniversary of D Day.
They are at the Normandy landing beaches in 1964 as IKE explains in his own words how he planned and executed the invasion. It’s very fascinating!
My father landed on Juno Beach during the night of 6th/ 7th June 1944 as a member of a Royal Air Force Forward Air Control unit attached to the Canadian forces, providing close air support for the ground troops. On leave in Paris in late 1944, he met a nice French girl who flirted with him - until her French boyfriend turned up with a revolver and chased my Dad through the streets of Paris ! Luckily for my Dad, and me, he didn't catch my father who was a fast runner in his youth - he was 19 in 1944.
My grandfather was in world War 2 in the army the paratrooper division and he came back alive he went every anniversary to the day he died when he was was 99 he was very patriotic he was buried at Arlington he was so strong about idea of freedom
Did he go to Normandy for the anniversaries?
@@boxsterman77 Too tired from spinning in his grave after watching CNN.
It’s a shame that his full grown grandson has problems writing about his grandpa’s experiences!
Growler...you are totally correct in saying that Irishmen died in WW1...My Great gran uncle was one...there was no conscription in Ireland....they were all Volunteers...Fred Bateman Lance Corporal with the Welsh Guards based in Kilkenny Ireland....and there is a monument in Kilkenny to all that lost their lives in that war to end all wars.
when tf did ww2 footage start getting blurred out? what a fuckin joke
Agreed. Ways to ruin an otherwise educational and fine video:
1.) Blur images.
2.) Video in vertical.
3.) Background effects/music louder than the narrator.
4.) Make it woke/politically correct.
It keeps the video from getting demonetized by RUclips. There's plenty of docs on here that don't blur violent images but generally the account owners are here to make money
@@adamc27, Then direct us to the videos that don't.
@@samuelschick8813trial and error...... like your conception
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg, Pretty hypocritical comment coming from the likes of you.
No mention of Alan Turing the actual brains of BlechleyPark.?
Yep. You just did!
Garbo is the most interesting person of WWII.. He created a whole spy ring out of thin air.
Dude was a chicken farmer 🤣
The most interesting stories and people will never become public. Because they never get caught
Under the control of MI5
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You mean like ghbbnbbb ?
The story at 50 minutes, good for Eisenhower. Respect for him.
British Soldiers, not English, my Uncle's from Glasgow fought in Normandy and they where Scottish, not forgetting the Welsh, Irish and others from the British Empire, just saying from Glasgow 💙😎🇬🇧👊
Similar my two uncles from Crossgates near Dunfermline fought in Normandy
As an Englishman I totally agree with you. Every time the narrator said English or England it really wound me up..
You're all the same to the rest of the world.
@thegreato And the stupid ass liberals and progresses would call you a racist.
Not only that. As a Swede I strongly object to the claim that Greta Garbo was an american actor. She was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden and named Greta Lovisa Gustafsson and later moved to the US and changed her name to the catchier Greta Garbo and the rest is cinematic history.
@6.14 what a beautiful room. Respect to everyone that fought at Normandy in those days
Ultra was the brain child of Alan Turing. It was Alan Turing that designed and built Ultra. It was Alan Turing that was head of Bletchley Park, Hut 8 that broke the code. Give credit where credit is due.
The film " The Imitation Game" covers Alan Turing and his contributions to cracking German codes.
Like hell he did.. It was the Polish that broke the code. And they fled to England where they gave the British the German cypher machine they built. As the British was so far behind in the technology. They had no clue how the German Cypher machine even worked..
So you better stop getting your education off movies. As they are not historical accounts..It's why they created Books.
@@WizzRacing
The Poles gave the British a commercial Enigma machine. A far cry from the naval 4 rotor machine. The Germans were changing the codes daily, too.
It wasn't just breaking codes; it was doing so fast enough to make a military difference.
There was also the Lorenz code (called Tunny by the British), which caused even more difficulties.
That's why Tommy Flowers built the electronic programmable computer ,Colossus.
@@adventussaxonum448 You seem ignorant. As everybody but the United States used Commercial Cypher machines of the time..As the United States government made export of their Cypher machines illegal..
And again. The British had no clue how the German Cypher machine worked. Hell you can go too the British Library and read the History of how the Polish broke the "Military" code machine in 1932 with the help of the French..
Now beat it. The Polish had already invented the cyclometer. Had Alan Turing not had this information. Their whole team would still be rubbing two stones to make fire..
Now go get an education..
@@WizzRacing, Within weeks of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical machine called the bombe, which could break Enigma more effectively than the Polish bomba kryptologiczna, from which its name was derived. The bombe, with an enhancement suggested by mathematician Gordon Welchman, became one of the primary tools, and the major automated one, used to attack Enigma-enciphered messages. The bombe searched for possible correct settings used for an Enigma message (i.e., rotor order, rotor settings and plugboard settings) using a suitable crib: a fragment of probable plaintext. For each possible setting of the rotors (which had on the order of 1019 states, or 1022 states for the four-rotor U-boat variant), the bombe performed a chain of logical deductions based on the crib, implemented electromechanically.
The bombe detected when a contradiction had occurred and ruled out that setting, moving on to the next. Most of the possible settings would cause contradictions and be discarded, leaving only a few to be investigated in detail. A contradiction would occur when an enciphered letter would be turned back into the same plaintext letter, which was impossible with the Enigma. The first bombe was installed on 18 March 1940.
Pretty arrogant and hypocritical of you to call anyone ignorant.
@@WizzRacing Ultra was SO much more than Alan Turing. It's like saying that Wilbur and Orville Wright built Concord.
Since 1932 the Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski & Jerzy Różycki worked within BS4 (the Polish general staff cipher Bureau focussed on German decryption & intelligence), and together with VITAL assistance given by the French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand (who had cultivated a German informant codenamed "Asché" who had provided French Intelligence with tons of vital data including a full nazi procedural manual for use of the enigma encryption device), had by the purchase of a commercial version of the early enigma device and LOTS of analysis eventually broken into German army and air force 3 rotor encryption networks, this was a fantastic achievement, but it is true to say that they at no time did they crack German Kriegsmarine encryption due to the additional layers of security employed by the German navy.
In December 1938 the nazis introduced a further 2 interchangeable encryption rotors to the enigma system, which immediately brought the vast majority of Polish decryption efforts to a grinding halt, which is where it remained up until the outbreak of WW2. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of WW2 the Polish research work was passed to the French, who in the six months they had it in their possession added little to the accumulated knowledge, and to the UK where the British government seized it with both hands, and made its study top priority. So was instigated the British "ULTRA" project.
Jerzy Różycki elected to stay behind and work in Vichy France where, unknown to the Germans he worked on a seperate secret encryption system, which bore no tangible fruit before his death in 1942.
Marian Rejewski & Henryk Zygalski were, for security reasons, not included in the UK "ULTRA" project, and so took no further part in British decryption efforts.
The British "ULTRA" project took the non working foundation research of the Polish decrypters and from there MASSIVELY expanded that research to once again break into nazi 3 rotor enigma, this was followed in 1942 by the cracking of the improved kriegsmarine M4 enigma (the 4 rotor enigma device, codenamed "SHARK"), as well as simultaneously breaking into the FAR more complex "lorenz" cipher device used by the German army & navy high commands (TUNNY), before finally cracking the "Geheimschreiber" encryption device used by both the Luftwaffe high command as well as the top level of the nazi government (STURGEON), on top of these British achievements another product of the ULTRA program was the building of the world's first programmable electronic computer (COLOSSUS) to speed up the breaking of German codes. This was designed and built by a British team led by Alan Turing and the telephone engineer Tommy Flowers, which transformed British decryption from a process which often only gave results days or even weeks after the message was eavesdropped on by the British, to a state of affairs towards the end of WW2 where the British were reading a LOT of top level communications at the same time as the intended German recipient.
The early Polish codebreakers did indeed provide the "acorn" from which the British cultivated the "mighty oak" of ULTRA.
One long-kept secret about the Normandy landings is that the Americans were not alone on the beaches that day.
@4:20 (+/-): No, Hitler did NOT control 'all of mainland Europe'. There were a number of neutral countries.
new info, new interviewed persons, new footage. thanks so much!
Agreed. What do you think the GREATEST generation would think about our SUPPORT for KIEVS REGIME?
And the SNOTZEES we helped wage a coup? Do people get what caused the Cuban missile crisis!?
That Russia did that bc we had our missiles in TURKEY..? Yet now, we're trying to put them in UKRAINE!?
this doc is 10 years old - it's interesting, but there's nothing new here ;)
lol,fkn humans
What did the author mean when he used the word "declassified"? This is just another repeat of a story that's been told thousands if not millions of times.
The special "LBGQT" unit's that terrified the Germans
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg😅
Light Batle Ground Quality Tanks ?!!!!😂😂
Exactly old story s....
It may be an “Old story that’s been told thousands of times” but I challenge you to find a Millennial or Gen Z who knows anything about it.
Think we need to remember that it was ‘ Britain ‘ under attack and not just England or the ‘ English ‘ - Also monumental efforts were made by all the British empire , which isn’t just ‘English ‘ as portrayed here
Thank you for pointing that out. I am tired of listening to the 'Britain stood alone' nonsense, unless of course people mean 'alone except for Newfoundland, Canada, NZ, Australia, India, Kenya, Jamaica, etc., etc., etc.'
We all know this, my god man
Credit to Alan Turing for creating that computer. Also some of the code breakers were people who had answered an ad in the newspaper about a crossword puzzle challenge. Some people just see things differently. Cheers to whoever realized that and found a way to round them up! Crossword puzzle challenge... who would have ever thought something so innocuous would lead to the highest top secret work of the war!?! The history is fascinating!
51 min. mark; Man, good on Eisenhower!!
Imagine being able to talk to the walls in that war room wow!
Hello walls
That wouldn't be a problem, unless the walls talked back at you....😂😂😂
@@jplacido9999 That would be ideal to hear what they had to say they witnessed a lot of history
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I did some mushrooms one time and the walls totally talked back 😂
Every intelligence failure is caused by an intelligence success...
For decades I’ve asked and wondered where were the Spitfires, P51s, P47s giving those brave soldiers advancing on the beach some air cover. Strafing those machine gun nests Was it political? Or oversight ?
They where behind the landing beaches stopping the Germans from bring up reinforcements to the landing zones. Close coordination between air and attacking ground forces was in its infancy then and not really practical.
You can summarily dismiss oversight. It’s not like the whole lot of senior and very capable leaders and their staff forgot a thing so basic. My understanding is that they assigned to the Navy the job of softening up the heavily fortified pill boxed and gun bunkers because their battleships and destroyers could lay down far more metal than a fighter could even come close to. The planners also deliberately called for a short, but extremely intense bombardment alone with bomber support rather than a prolonged one because they wanted to get the troops on their objectives before the Germans could organize, react and repulse them with forces in the rear. And they had other plans to disrupt the forces in the rear.
Not every aspect of the campaign was executed flawlessly. Some example of horrendous failures occurred. But there was nothing that was just forgotten.
@@boxsterman77well said and explained
Patton was feared because he didn't care how many men he lost. he would do whatever it took to win, regardless.
Patton WASN'T FEARED at all by the Germans, they didn't know who he was until Metz, and then thought him a fool.
Old blood and guts
@@ianmuir3640 Yes, his men dying was a price he was more than willing to pay.
This was such an interesting and fantastic documentary. Lmao them inflatable tanks were genius. Thank you for sharing!
thanks for watching!!
Yes, they were craft. Weren't they? I urge you to look into Operation Mincemeat if you haven't already, probably have... I've seen several videos on Mincemeat and found it a crafty and very well planned out operation. Those guys were very clever!
This story de deserves a movie!
They have one, it’s called The Longest Day
Thanks to GARBO without him thier might have been a completely different result.
I think he's easily overlooked
As he would have it, back in the day.
"there."
Not, "thier."
Thanks!
Thank you so much for supporting us!!
The Germans were not afraid of Patton. They did not even know he was the commander of FUSAG until AFTER D-DAY. Patton's "inspection tours" around Kent did not attract attention. The Germans were more interested in what Eisenhower & Montgomery were up too. ~Henrik Bering (Hoover Institute) commenting on the book, "Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies" by Harry Yeide
Well Henrik Berdigs (or whatever his name) book was poorly researched. The Germans ABSOLUTELY knew whom Patton was. He had been Eisenhower's boss, his audacity in war was known to the world, and it was known that he had written the book on American tank doctrine. Having raced through both German and Italian divisions in both North Africa AND Sicily AND Italy, to say they didn't know or fear him is the height of ignorance. In FACT, the Germans pulled Rommel out of North Africa to allow him to save face when it was obvious that Patton had beat him. So no doubt the German Field Marshal in charge of the Atlantic wall (Irwin Rommel) knew who Patton was. Finally, Patton was the allied general most often mentioned in German dispatches. Everything I have stated is a known historical fact. The problem with revisionist history, is people like you that believe it.
@@Yeffronimo That good info. Do you have some references. ...always willing to learn more from other sources.
@@rogerb3654Patton a Biography 2006; Axelrod, Alan
Patton George S War as I Knew It 1947
Stephen Ambrose- Eisenhower: Soldier and President 2007
Bkumenson: the Patton Papers 1940-45
. German general Günther Blumentritt, a key planner of the invasions of France and Poland, wrote in a study for the U.S. Army after the war, “We regarded General Patton extremely highly as the most aggressive Panzer General of the Allies, a man of incredible initiative and lightning-like action…. His operations impressed us enormously, probably because he came closest to our own concept of the classical military commander.” Alfred Jodl, who served as Hitler’s chief of operations from 1940 until the end of the war, told American interrogators, “He was the American Guderian. He was very bold and preferred large movements. He took big risks and won big successes.” General Heinz Guderian himself, after Germany’s surrender, told his Allied captors, “From the standpoint of a tank specialist, I must congratulate him for his victory since he acted as I should have done had I been in his place.”
Trust me, the Germans were not concerned with Montgomery.
I really like this documentary , Good job , Very interesting, Thank you for sharing .
and thank you for watching!
At 00:37, did he put his helmet on BACKWARDS?
No mention of the glider troops in the preinvasion. Rather sad omission...
Mr Roman, thank your for your service and sacrifice. We could never repay you.
There's a blatant mistake at 14:55. Pierre-Alain Antoine is misquoted as saying that Patton was not the type of guy who went to brothels. He did not says "bordel", which is French for brothel or bordello. He said "il n'est pas du genre à les border le soir". Which translates to : "He is not the kind of guy who tucks them in at night."
@9:11 Where it says "KENT" is actually to the west of Kent. It is roughly the location of Gatwick which at the time was in Surrey but now in Sussex.
patton was supposedly furious about this. it's been said that ike was punishing him for slapping a private scared of fighting. he'd already been taken away from fighting and bradley put in his place for having done this.
Not scared, PTSD....
Patton couldn't be trusted
Because of his performance in Sicily, not following plans and orders, assaulting sick troops, causing the worst Blue on Blue incident to date, trying to cover up massacres....
Ike wanted to send him back to the States, but had to settle for him being sidelined
Patton was a good commander of a brigade , but hopeless at overall strategy...too much of a hot head that broke orders continuously
Good stuff, nothin I didn't already know. There was a 6th Beach, some where, I haven't been able to find much on. Thanks those who served!
6th beach somewhere ? Not likely. I am a WW2 historian and I never heard of a 6th beach.
Sixth beach was code named Band and I think it was to the east of Sword
I've been to the war rooms. It's an interesting day out.
I'd love to go if I ever make it to the UK
Is there a reason why you used someone writing in French to illustrate Juan Pujol’s communications?
‘ “A lot of us were killed…” At Utah Beach, 200 of John’s comrades were struck down by German bullets.’
A little misleading. Without wishing to diminish John Roman’s experience, the documentary has been edited to give a false impression. I’m not sure why. A total of 197 casualties, killed and wounded, were suffered by the troops of 4th Infantry Division landing on the beaches code-name ‘Utah.’ 8th & 22nd Infantry Regiments together suffered 12 killed. They encountered sporadic shelling and small arms fire, with losses from mines on the beach and offshore but the strongest defences had been sidestepped by a fortunate error. (The footage mostly shows landings at the more heavily defended ‘Omaha’ beach).
By a grim irony, 4th Division had suffered far worse casualties when training exercises had gone terribly wrong. Over 800 alone died one night in April 1944, when German E-Boats raiders had chanced upon troops preparing to land on the Devon coast. They also suffered badly entering Germany later that year.
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156k men going to the same beach? must be a topless one
Nudist Dogging Spot
More like bottomless, and free beer.
Nice 🫵
Several beaches
@@jplacido9999 i know but it doesnt work forthe joke
Great story its sort of like Catch Me If You Can ha. My uncle was a navigator in WW2 and came back late from a date one night all the planes were ready to go so he missed the flight that plane got shot down no survivors never found he was thrown in the brig he married that lady who was WAAF my aunty. But he served from 1940-45 and was shot down twice 😅😮😊
Sounds eerily like my Aunt and Uncle....a WAF and a Navigator
God moves in Mysterious ways . Honour & Respect . Lest we forget .
This was absolutely great, thank you for putting this together!
Thanks so much for watching!
The problem of rape absolutely has to be discussed as it is part of the history. Including both good and bad is correct. I am very happy to hear how Eisenhower handled the situation. Horrible that it ever happened. Here is one observation. By some reason ONLY rapes perpetrated by Americans were discussed. Evidently all the other soldiers from the many allies in the invasion were not human as not one item of misbehavior is recorded.
I also noticed that the entire background of D-Day only involved the British. Again all the others allies involved, including the overall commander, must have sat on their hands during D-Day if this is believed. I understand that when one country writes its story there can be a tendency to overlook everyone else but this is ridiculous.
Most of the commonwealth nations come under British. Just makes it easier than stating every single nation.
This video is a French production, with an English narrator.
Its hilarious hearing an american whining about someone understating american involvement.
You guys forget the british even were there. 3 of the 5 beaches. British.
The overall plan? Montgomery.
The country it launched from? Ahem.
Most of the naval support? RN.
Most of the air support? RAF.
The majority of troops on the day? British.
The intelligence that allowed it to be done? Enigma intercepts (british).
Watch a US war movie or read a us book on D day? There was noone else present.
Gtfoh.
Bet you think your lot won the nth african campaign too? There jussst long enough to claim credit.
Wankers
History is written by the victorious.
The Russians on thier own would have eventually beaten the Germans
28:50 So what has transpired thereafter when the Germans haven't come across this imaginary convoy that Pujol clearly made up? This event had to be countered with some kind of intervention by Pujol, right? I mean....the Germans would obviously ask questions after failing to intercept this "convoy".....
My grandad was one of them toms
Enigma code-breaking work was first started and developed by the Polish!
I always heard it was five housand ships. Now it's seven thousand. Now i can see some leeway here of a couple hundred. But 2000 is too much of a stretch without some proof.
Lots more info out there saying 7000, think you should divert your proof request at the fucker who said 5000
Actually it was 46 ships, 4000 boats, 53 dingys and an armored canoe
21:50... Big Ben ringing AT FIVE PAST the hour???
An easily described one of the many sloppinesses.
43:45 This kind of beautiful stories seem rare nowadays.
but you don't mention Operation Mincemeat??? the body used in Operation Mincemeat...
They agreed and signed a death certificate for Major William Martin for "asphyxiation through immersion in the sea"; the body was released by the Spanish and, as Major Martin, was buried in the San Marco section of Nuestra Señora cemetery in Huelva, with full military honours on 2 May etc.
That's because Operation Mincemeat was nothing to do with D Day.
It's the old joke you walk into an intelligence room and you ask what are doing reply comes waiting for someone with intelligence 😅
I don’t get it
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Allow me:
It’s the old joke. I guy walks into the military intelligence room and he is quickly challenged by one of the occupants:
“What are you doing here”?
The man replies “‘I’m waiting for someone with intelligence.”
A lame joke that you had rendered inscrutable for want of literacy.
@@boxsterman77 🤣🤣🤣
Patton. much to his chagrin, was made to command a phantom army in England.
It was a compliment to his pugnacious reputation.
@40:53 "Oh what a night"...yeah I can only imagine...😆
This was very well put together now. As an American. I am deeply disturbed that the women were raped. But what? I will say what Hitler did is far worse than what americand thank God. That the english people knew what to do and how to do it to end the war.But I'm deeply disturbed as I said about these women that were raped as an American.It's not right but what hitler did is far worse and it's disgusting and history repeats itself
France. The great capitulators and the great collaborators. Should have left them. They capitulated and collaborated to save their antique Paris while the Poms fought for them and had London destroyed.
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@@charlesmartella agree
Just for the record, British and Canadian troops outnumbered the Americans on D Day.
And in Navy and Airforce .
@@jameswebb4593ok oooo😊ooo😊
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Guess they couldn't find a Canadian or British or Australian veteran to interview? and a bias documentary
If that's the truth, then so be it. But I hope that all remember w/o America finally entering WWII as an ally, France, definitely, and likely the rest of Europe, including England, would all be speaking German today. Let's not forget the magnitude of the sheer number of American GIs, especially those who perished, who fought in WWII. D-Day was but one battle (the largest) on the beaches of Normandy
85% of the equipment?
The love story was heartwarming
This is cool. Thank you.
Thank you so much for watching!
I read little while ago that Canadian troops were attacked in Paris by French citizens shortly after the liberations. I always wondered if that was true and why. If anyone knows, it would be interesting to know more.
Native real Americans,nicked named code talkers were the first to cross enemy lines with out protection
Do you have a source for that?
Huge numbers of rapes also occurred in areas under German occupation, such as France, Poland or regions of the Soviet Union. German soldiers were perpetrators there. There were also perpetrators among the Allied forces in post-war Germany.
It has been stated that approximately 2 000 000 births to German women resulted from rapes by allied soldiers in the post war years
They say this appointment was really what caused Patton to have an inflated sense of self worth
lol
Lets have a bit of ballance here please the American role on D Day was a junior partner to the Brits and Empire forces on land, in the air and most importantly at sea.
Thanks for actual LOL. Including airborne US made up almost half of land forces, well over half of the aircraft (not including Lend Lease) and the navy was a little busy on the other side of the world where the RN had not been since 1941.
Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944.
The Royal Navy had a couple of sail boats left
@nickdanger3802
So, he's correct about Normandy, then?
Anyway...... apart from the plan, the deception plan, the intelligence, the resupply through Mulberry and PLUTO, 80% of naval forces, 60% of air cover, and just over 50% of the landing forces......it was all US😅
I admit, 90% of the film coverage was American....and still is.😅
@@nickdanger3802 Look again at the airforce figures. Without the RN the Yanks would have had to swim to France, lol. The RN operated against the entire war. Btw the Americans were also the a Junior partner against the Japanese. Look at those figures again and thank the Chinese and Commonwealth forces.
@@BenEthridge The RN was the biggest and most powerful navy afloat
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching!
Bletchley was not the headquarters of the English counter intelligence service. It the was the headquarters of the BRITISH counter intelligence. Yet again the rest of the UK is treated like sh1t.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
A brilliant video if not for the gastly music, which spoilt the enjoyment, I'm sure the men in the battlefield couldn't hear music.As much as I wanted to watch it I had to switch off.
I'm glad they do not have to rely on geography to get around the UK. For one, Lake Windermere is simply called Windermere, and it is in Cumbria these days, which is definitely in England and not in Scotland.
🫡 Thank you for your service!
0:35 you put your helmet on back to front buddy
From Liverpool, cross the Atlantic??
We will never know but this may have been Patton's greatest contribution to the war. I'll bet it ate him alive.
Churchil's plan was not "Macciavellian". He was on the wrong side for that.
Greta Garbo was Swedish, not American
Garbo, Juan Pujols was a german/english double spy
The British and Canadians were fighting all of Germanys best troops in Caen and Normandy etc. 600 plus tanks and most Waffen SS divisions . USA only faced 150 tanks max
Who financed it?
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend No combat experience.
21st Panzer Division (Heer) Formed 1943 with French trophy armour.
German Tanks in the US sectors of the Bocage would have as useless as US tanks were until field modified into rhino tanks.
@@brandonbarr2784...Britain and the Commonwealth did...took us to 2004 approx to pay the US back..
Nothing new here, rehash of a known story
Why no lics?
GENERAL EISENHOWER WAS IN A DIFFERENT SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND TUNNEL THAT CHUCHILL WAS IN.
What I don't understand about D-day is why they didn't use battleships and shoot the crap out of the bunkers on the cliffs and then send in the troops afterwards. I mean come on guys this is common sense there would of been way less casualties
'Today the two are still together' How wonder is that!
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is NOT down Fifth Avenue. By Macy's it's on BROADWAY.
If china tries this with Taiwan it's 3 times as far against an enemy who has had decades to prepare - just saying
Absolutely amazing feat. The allies not only having the time to play around with cool ideas creating toy equipment and managing to present all this deception to the enemy thus achieving total battlefield surprise, seizing at least air superiority (nearing air supremacy), using merely 700 vessels, were able to deploy well trained and equipped troops on target location and succeeded in causing 6000 casualties on the axis side, suffering measly 4300 allied losses and claiming all this astonishing success despite being forced to resort to the unfortunate limitations of relying on a mere 30:1 advantage. Just wow!
At the same time on the opposite, eastern front the soviets suffering monumental casualties and losses. Which comes as a no surprise really, considering their leaders failed to take their time to properly train their troops before sending them into battle (assuming of course they'd be skilled enough to do, which they never were). Also all the other things like inability to design, develop, produce and deliver any military tech that could come even close to be on par with what the axis were enjoying, let alone even the lowest arms of the allies. Not only on the ground, but neither in the air. All they could do was just keep feeding meat fodder into the axis grinder and then have the audacity to claim they helped win the war, when in truth they werent even able to make a dent. Twenty two million losses for nothing! 22 000 000! Even after all the economic and military help, delivered right to their feet. Hopeless.
The US lost what? Barely 400K? And that, fighting and defeating both all the combined axis forces in the continents of Europe and Africa, AND fighting and defeating the forces of the Japanese Empire in Asia and Oceania. Practically all on their own without any assistance. Not even wanting to get involved in the first place. Shamefully attacked without having any knowledge or suspicions, minding their own business, unfairly accused of causing devastating damage to the entire world by allegedly allowing (knowingly and willfully) a tiny group of individuals playing games of wealth and power chasing the emasculating feel of holding the faiths of billions of souls in their grasp? Ridiculous! Provoking the japanese by suffocating them economically (and many other means), thus scattering away any potential ideas they may have of pride, ambition or level treatment? Absurd! Desire to join the war against Germany for the same reasons - to prevent a rise of another challenging power? Nonsense! Taking advantage of the critical situation Britain has found herself in, make her beg for help, humiliating her and exploit events to break up the hold of the current leader and replace it as the new dominating power? Laughable!
I've seen cynicism but you take the cake, if it was someone in your family who was one of 400 thousand Killed in battle, what would you say.
The fake landing in Pas De Calais is definitely the biggest gotcha in human history.
Why do we remember hitler but forgot about spain? Francisco Franco
Because he was brown and was 10 times worse than hitler.
We just living in a f joke
Brown ? What are you talking about ? Brown like the SA? Franco was, surely, bad, but 10 times worse than Hitler is not possible. Nevertheless, Francos crimes have not been highlighted enough, that is true.
@@geeache1891 You don't even know why ww1 happened, therfor you also don't know why ww2 happened and to say franco was not 10 times worse than hitler shows me you also have no idea what happened there. You are the joke I was talking about.
@@geeache1891 If you have no idea what you talking about, why even speak?
You only make yourself look like a fool this way. 😂
@Desperado070 Considering your first somewhat incoherent reaction, I expected already a bit similar reaction on mine, but the extent still surprises me. Funny how much you think you know about me. But to the point, let's add some numbers. Hitler was responsible for the death of 6 million Jews and about the same number for non jew deaths, according to various sources. Correct me if wrong. In my reasoning, simple math, 10 times worse would mean Franco would be responsible for 120 million deaths. Let's say this number is orders of magnitude more than the 50,000 after and ca. 630,000 during the Spanish. As I said in bad in itself and largely forgotten, but not 10 times..
@@geeache1891 Read your own comment back and you expected to get something else?!? always funny people like you who point there finger towards others, just remember when you do that 4 fingers are pointing towards yourself. Look what a rant you wrote and at the same time once again you said nothing. 🤣 You really have no idea what you talking about that just shows off about what you saying, nothing is true of that. 😂
Wasn’t it the cities of England that lost over 40,000 civilians during the Blitz?
Got my sub! History is often twisted and mistaken. Not here!
Thank you so much for the support!
Before everyone was selfish. Now days the world doesn’t want to stop dictators and misery.
All this bickering, like this was facebook about who"s first. I will tell who was first. Fifth Field Company Combat Engineers, 3rd Canadian Division. Landed an hour and half before the first wave of assault troops. 'They cleared the way for those who followed.' Sappers, unarmed so to carry more explosives, blew up anything that impeded or imperiled the landing. Landed under heavy fire and continued to do their assigned duty under heavy fire. Some working in neck deep water to destroy obstacles. They were first unit on the beach and the last. After D Day who cleaned the beachs of unexploded ordinance and picked up the body parts? The sappers who were declared as wiped out by the planners. Those sappers rebuilt bridges and roads all the way to Germany.
it takes an incredible amount of machinery to achieve if effort victory. everything from logistics, procurement of resources, development of. the Heroes ofare ofthe aero Aces, Armor, Infantry. The real heroes are
"ultra sophisticated and powerful artillery" cast off naval guns and captured old field guns
On D-Day the British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, the Americans 57,500.
As an indication of the weight of armoured forces the allies were facing after the D-Day landings here are the German armoured dispositions around the Normandy bridgehead by the middle of July 1944.
British 2nd and Canadian 1st Armies facing Caen and the eastern portion of the Normandy bridgehead were opposed by:
1st SS Pz Div (Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler)
9th SS Pz Div (Hohenstaufen)
10th SS Pz Div (Frundsberg)
12th SS Pz Div (HitlerJugend)
21st Pz Div
116th Pz Div
101st Heavy SS Pz Abteilung
102nd Heavy SS Pz Abteilung
503rd Heavy Pz Abteilung
The American 1st & 3rd Armies on the Contentin peninsular and in the western portion of the Normandy bridgehead were opposed by:
2nd SS Pz Div (Das Reich)
17th SS PzGr Div (Götz von Berlichingen)
Pz Lehr Div
While focussing as usual on US losses during the Normandy Landings, you should remember to say a respectful "Thank you" to the British and Canadians who took the brunt of the German defensive reaction, and far greater casualties AFTER D-Day & shielded you from the worst of the fighting while the yanks flailed about in the "Bocage" against mostly "stomach divisions" and were allowed to amass for "Cobra" in relative peace and quiet.
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I am amused by the twisting of the effort. Beyond Caan was good tank country and therefore the bulk of armor from both sides were concentrated in this area. The Americans had to fight through hedgerow country which heavily favored the defense. Their primary goal was to capture Cherbourg and give the allies a working port. The initial plan called for the British and Canadians to break through in Caan. Instead they became the lightening rod and drew the bulk of German forces. Cobra was the key, but like all the initial operations were expensive in men and material. After the breakthrough casualties fell considerably until the Germans were able to establish defenses on their frontier area with France, Belgium, etc. There they gathered the last of their power to delay the inevitable.
@@billmoretz8718 I don't for one second question that "Cobra" was decisive, but it was the US "sword" to the British and Canadian "shield" that had taken the brunt of the German assaults for the first 2 months, a shield without which D-day would have been driven back into the English Channel.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I was simply stating that that was not according to the original plan. The original plan was for British and Canadian troops to break out in Caan. Cobra was made as a regional adjustment that lead to the liberation of France. Neither would have been likely without the other. And let's not forget about French resistance fighters that so disrupted the road and rail systems to stop Germans from reinforcing quickly. That also lead to the success.
Я полностью согласен но ещё не нужно забывать что союзники используют своё полное превосходства в авиации и выражение ковровые бомбардировки произошло именно оттуда то как тысячи бомбардировщиков бомбили немцев перед Каэн, Котэнтан, и перед холмом Коттбус , без вашей бомбардировочной авиации немцы были бы очень рады повоевать ещё и потеряли бы вы намного больше...тем более что были полностью уничтожено дороги и железные дороги и немцы никакой возможности не имели перевезти помощь и танковые дивизии.А так да спасибо всем за помощь в этой войне. Из России с любовью.
Wtf …. windermere near Scotland …. Like SF being close to Seattle
Fyi: D-Day was primarily a British operation. Would be nice to change the perspective that it was mostly American…
Including airborne US made up almost half of land forces, well over half of the aircraft (not including Lend Lease) and the navy was a little busy on the other side of the world.
Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944.
@@nickdanger3802 I’m not blaming the Americans for not stepping up, after all the British were also fighting the Japanese so I totally understand. Less than half the troops who landed (including airborne) were American (73k US v 83k). Moreover, Britain supplied 3/4 of the landing craft, twice as many sailors as the Americans (112k to 52k), 900 of the 1200 warships and 2/3 of the aircraft used. Not taking anything away from the Americans, I just wish history was reflected more accurately.
@@keithmitchell6548 D DAY AIR FORCES
USAAF 7,800 RAF 5,175
Flight Journal May/June 2024
25,870 aircraft Lend leased to Britain by War (Army) Dept.
1,000 Landing Ship, Tank (LST) made in the USA, fewer than 80 by Britain and Canada.
I understand Britain and Canada did not did the proper respect in The Longest Day. I suspect this had to do with increasing the role of France to secure their cooperation in production.
@@nickdanger3802 US industries certainly made a lot of money…
Also the British Commonwealth! 🇨🇦