TH-cam has very strict policy’s !! By not obeying them yr channel gets taken off. Otherwise you statement is correct those men should be held in our memory and respected 💪💔
@@touraneindanke As a child I was following "World At War" with out fail every Sunday afternoon on national tv. One of the best made programs documenting WW2! Never did they blur out the dead. 40 years on I'm in my 50s but now not deemed capable of witnessing the effects of war and the cost men had to pay... I feel blurring out and censoring took some away from this otherwise good documentary... This is history... Shame on TH-cam for treating there viewer like children and forcing this on us ....
I initially had no intention of watching this until the end. I found I could not look away. If there is a veteran of this operation watching this and reading these words, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you did and all you gave. There will never be another group of men, regardless of your nationality, to whom we owe so much. We are forever in your debt.
Hear hear. This isn't going to be nice. But here goes. What really chaps my American a__ is how my fellow American vets had to sacrifice themselves in much larger numbers while dinky winky Brits/Canadians took the easier routes. This "Brit" vid acts like Brits caught all kinds of Germans. Bull sh--. The moronic queer sounding narrator actually has the nerve to say that Americans didn't know where much of Europe was on a map. LOL. That's why we'd had better training and valor when it came to that time of war. Of course, they had to know maps very well...even if most war vets weren't really aware of exactly where they were headed. That's part of war anyway duh. More Americans died but they captured more and destroyed more of enemy weaponry and bases. Yes, the RBA helped significantly but as it seems Americans did the grunt and detail all the way through. Not entirely of course, but sort of reminds me of Americans in the private yachting industry and yet these losers in Euro-TrashVille have the nerve to revel in putting Americans down to this dammm day. Guess what, LIKE we care. We're still the main character in the English international world, Mr and Ms BooHooJealousy. Glad you're enjoying our industries and technology STILL. And we don't have to speak your overtly pedantic "queens" English. What a joke. You never really deserved us in the first place. AND your "commander" Mont-Weeny something was too slow and cowardly to handle this years before. If he's such a hero, why did he wait years too long before these vermin spread throughout Europe? It wasn't our land anyway. So for all Americans who've been vets present, past, way back during the War....YOURE WELCOME. Yeah shut up.
i've never seen anything about D Day from the French perspective until now, and I appreciate it greatly. this is so very well done and pays a great tribute to everyone involved regardless of nation. thank you.
My Grandpa was 18 when he stormed the beaches at Normandy (Omaha) and he was awarded a Purple Heart for getting injured. I always wanted to talk to him about it, but he never wanted to speak on it so I never pressed him. I can only imagine the horrors he witnessed that day. It’s a miracle he turned out to be the kindest person I’ve ever known, he was my hero. RIP Gramps!
My father Fred, his brother Harry and their younger brother were among the first British troops to storm the beaches in Normandy...Fred and Harry survived but their younger brother was killed on the beaches, electrocuted by bare high voltage cables left by the Nazis ...
I worked at a VA nursing home arms heard many stories of their bravery. It was still hard for them to talk about it without crying. I had several patients who went to Normandy Beach. Their stories were truly terrible. I loved each one of those guys and was honored to be their nurse. This documentary is a reminder of each one of them and what they suffered. What a great, strong and courageous generation. We owe them great thanks for everything we have
And you played a very important part in this whole war, caring for the boys… must of been something for a young man wake up and see you there caring for them….and many others.. I salute you❤️🇺🇸🙏😃
You would get a tear as i FIS when at the normands catery a young French who visité south her class sumer it all up with a cars left on a grave. ewe are the choildren you enver hard
I just lost my hero. My step dad. He was 93. At the age of seventeen he piloted a Higgins boat onto Normandy Beach. They say they were the first ones the German’s shot at, the boat driver. He was a good man.
I just lost my 88 yr old mom on D-Day this year (6-6-23) We both visited the Normandy beaches for the 60th Anniversary… There is no way to describe the feeling of the American cemetery at Omaha beach… Beautiful but very moving.
my dad landed on Omaha Beach that morning with the 147th Combat Engineers, 6th Engineers Special Brigade aboard the US 91 LCI (L). The 91 hit an underwater mine as it neared the Dog White sector. My dad returned to Omaha Beach after the war and took a pic of the wrecked 91. That pic is next to my comment. Thank you dad, I'm so proud of you.
As a nurse WWII vets were always the BEST patients I ever had. Always upbeat regardless of the situation or hardship. Never self focused, they easily rolled with the punches and seemed grateful for the smallest things. I can tell you those horrific days of battle lived strong beneath their calm exteriors. I remember working one night and very old man in his 90s was yelling something about jumping in foxholes in his dreams. Sweetest man you every met, but he went to war in his dreams. Hard to believe they are almost all gone today. What a huge lose, those of us left behind have much work to do filling their giant shoes.
With the people America is turning out now, we will never replace them. Selfish, selfish, selfish... What happened to helping your fellow man just because you can and not because you get a tax break.
in 2004 i found a dog tag in a field in a place called chadelsfield England while metal detecting in a field it belonged to an American ww2 soldier called Kenneth McKnight from orange county Massachusetts in America and he was in the e502 company who was in the d day landings in Normandy he was only 22 when he signed up i was able to return it to Mr mc knight as he was gladly still alive his family were so happy and grateful and was able to piece together his journey from the war to why the dog tab was in a field in England sadly Mr mac knight passed away a few years later but he is always in my thoughts and i always tell his story to servicemen vets i meet
My father landed on the Omaha beach. He never mentioned it until he was in hospice in 2001. Never. What he said about his landing that it was horrible. The sand was red from blood as far as you could see and the water too; and you had to walk on the dead bodies to get off the beach. That's all he ever said about his war experience to me. His mother, my grand mother, told me why he didn't have any toe tips when I was really young, maybe 6 or 7. She said Dad lost them in the bulge. It took 15 - 20 years to realize what she meant. War never ends for those and their families that live it. Never. I do not want to distract from this video at all; the theme reminded of a lot of things, and I thought I needed to voice something. Thank you
My gpa was also on the beaches of Normandy, he still talks about it today he was stationed in Ft. Riley, Kansas, he was an Army Ranger on one of the first 50 boats to arrive onto the shore, I guess when they landed as soon as the ramp came down he told me his buddy got shot in the face and he tried to drag him onto shore but the water was too deep so he had to leave him and that the water was in fact pure red from left to right he said he hadn’t ever been more scared in his whole life. He had gotten shot in the leg several times I guess the medic that was helping him got shot in the neck and another medic came over to help and he got blown to pieces from a German hand grenade. I couldn’t imagine being there I think I’d shit my pants. My gpa made it out alive though he told me many stories about his experience, I love listening to him speak about it. He’s still alive and 97 years old, can’t believe what all he had to do through I am very proud of him.
There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.
But if they are lost files how can they have hidden secrets, very confused about that statement, but thanks for the heads up on the book deff getting a copy
@twztedsoldiergaming6338 i believe when people refer to things as lost files etc. It simply means the file was "lost" than found quite some time later. The same way a lost civilization isn't really "lost" it's just taken a long time to find them again!
I'm not sure if it's my age or my professional interest in Doc films, but as a son of a recently passed British war mum I am drawn to this period and the sheer magnitude of the hope and eternal suffering. How a tiny island managed to hang on is beyond me. My mother, as just one part of her "War Effort" was visiting the wounded (sadly mostly American kids) she went into graphic detail the terrible wounds and the horror of war, but was always able to say. "well that's what you did then, there was no other choice." Subsequent generations were gifted Choice by individuals like my mum and the soldiers of D-Day as a way of life because of the millions who simply did what they had to do. These docs celebrate all of them. Thank you.
The island held on because Indians and Africans were with the Empire. The real heroes are never acknowledged sadly. The handful Englishmen would have certainly lost, evident from Dunkirk
I am a retired U.S. Marine 2012-2018. I will never forget when I met a Navy Sailor who served in the Pacific during WWII. He described to me the horrors of Kamikaze attacks and looked me dead in the eyes, practically in tears, and said "The Marine fighter pilots saved me and my crew from certain death. From the bottom of my heart, thank you" and shook my hand. I got chills down my spine. This was the greatest generation.
I am French, my father was a small Parisian boy at the time of the allied landings. Honour to these thousands of young men so valuable, so courageous who sacrificed their lives for a country which was not theirs. I am forever grateful to them. My father always spoke of them that way. May they and their families be blessed for eternity.
My family was liberated in May 45, living in the Netherlands and having survived "de Honger Winter" (Winter of Hunger). My family always talked about their liberators with so much love and respect, and sad at the loss of life.
@@SA-cn4jc My family in Utrecht met English and Canadian soldiers. Mum remembers dancing with Canadians. An English soldier gave her tea and chocolate. They did not meet Americans.
@@davecopp9356 Yeah? Really? They defended their Nazi regime, defended that all those germans could kill over 6 Million Jews. Great, really awesome what they did. With every german soldier fighting longer, more innocent people were killed by thos fukin nazis. Thanks to every dead nazi for dying. But yes, thank you to all soldiers of the allys fighting against those bastards.
Good film. My father, who died in his bed in 2010, was a 19 year old landing craft commander in the Royal Marines taking French Canadians to Juno Beach in the second wave. On his return his craft hit a mine and was sunk, but as the craft was empty, and as there were numerous other vessels in the immediate vicinity, he and his crew were plucked out of the sea and survived. No one died. But pretty hair raising stuff, I must say. Much more than I ever accomplished in my life.
@@ramon3897 Really? My father contributed to freeing Europe from the Nazi yolk, and got shot at, mined and blown up, and almost killed, for his efforts. I can't imagine that you, or indeed anyone else alive today who didn't participate in the noble crusade that was that war, can claim to have done anything remotely as good in their lives. I certainly can't. What an asinine statement. You are a fool.
I wouldn't say that, I'm sure that your father's sacrifice resulted in a fine person being raised by a remarkable man that knows and realizes that those who forget/ignore history are doomed to repeat it. atleast you come from stock that stood up and did what needed to be done, I'll bet my life that you would have done the same. thank you for your father's service to the world, and for your appreciation for what he did.
My father who was of German ancestry served in the U.S.A from D. Day through V.E. Day in the battle of Europe. My mother survived the occupation of Adolf Hitler. This documentary is outstanding.
And my granduncle was the Gauleiter von Breslau, der Gauleiter von Niederschlesien. Deshalb durfte er auch seinen Familiennamen, Vorwerk, nicht führen. Ich kenne kein Foto von ihm und habe keine weitere Information jemals erhalten. Mein Onkel fiel östlich von Breslau 45 mit 18 Jahren und meine Familie wurde enteignet, sonst wäre ich heute Multimilliardär.
My father jumped on DDay with the 82nd Airborne Division, 507/Co. B. He was wounded in Normandy on June 15 on a farm in La Bonneville where he lost his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel. He fought at Chef du Pont and the bridge at La Fiere. He was 26 on DDay and lived to be 94. I visited Normandy with him two times.
That is awesome. Your dad came from a time when men were men, and you did what you had to do to get the job done. My grandfather was a gliderman/airborne in the 82nd. He entered the war through Holland along with British paratroopers in Operation Market Garden. I never really knew until watching Band of Brothers back then, and I recognized the patch on their Garrison cover was the same as in my grandads photos. I wish I had known him. I was told he never talked about the war other than his time in England before the push into Holland.
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My grandfather drove a Sherman for the 1st Polish Armored Division. He fought against the communists when they invaded Poland and escaped to England to join the Allied army. The stories he told us about the war seemed to be taken from a movie, during the war 4 tanks were destroyed and he lost many colleagues. When we were kids my brother innocently asked him if he had killed anyone in the war, all he did was look at the ground, cry and walk away. When he got Alzheimer's, he mistook us for German soldiers, sent us to cook for the battalion. He will always be a hero to me, but the story of each one of these boys was very hard and sad.
have you been drinking ??? What year did the communists invade poland ? and are you sure 4 Tanks were destroyed during the war?? maybe even 5 ?:-)) Oh and you should read about alzheimers before you put your grandpa to shame !! Do you really think a Alzheimers patient who looses the ability of memory and concentration can turn you "into a german soldier to cook for the battalion" Next time you need attention , take your neighbours garbage outside . It make for sense than insulting a Doku with a crap story like yours.
My Polish father also was a tanker with the same experience. He had to remain in the army until the Nuremberg trials as Poles who spoke German were needed there. Made for a long war. Lived a happy life in England until the age of 98.
Если бы не Советский солдат, который освободил все страны Европы, концлагеря,где фашисты уничтожали тысячами людей всех национальностей, не известно чтобы было ?! Спасибо советскому войну, спасшему человечество от фашизма! А какой ценой? Более 20 миллионов солдат и офицеров отдали свои жизни ради мира на земле! Чтобы жили мы как живем сейчас! 🙏
same. 80th anniversary, an incredible documentary and time capsule. I worry that the memory, significance, horribleness and sacrifice is fading. Please Never forget!
Excellent documentary. My mother was a Doctor at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth which overlooked the harbor and was one of the major embarkation ports. The harbour had been crammed for weeks.. The weather on the night of June 5th was not good. She was astounded to see the harbour empty on the morning of the 6th. Being British no one at breakfast talked about the empty harbour. They just sat there silently. Then there was a phone call telling them to get ready for a large number of casualties. She died in 2003.
20 year Army Vet.. 74-94 .. I must say I have been viewing quite a few WW2 Documentaries and this one is top of the line. Honor to those brave men who gave their lives for our day today.
Thank you for serving.My dad,who is passed retired too from the Marine Corpse.He served,I believe from 47-67.He saw Korea and Vietnam.TY again for your service.I LOVE WW2 docs.There are a bunch of photos and videos that were Nazi propaganda that were made in 3d.Just get a cheap pair of 3d glasses.They are mind blowing.
@@zazasnruntz7505 They gave there lives for the man on their right and the man on their left......the foundation of all infantry units in all countries.......brother, race doesn't have any fucking thing to do with it!
INCREDIBLE ! Thank you to TH-cam for recommending this magnificent report to me during this period of the 80th anniversary of the DDay. As a Frenchman, thank you also to our American, English, Canadian allies and all those who helped us liberate France.
I'm French and very grateful to your father. My Norwegian grand father was executed by the Nazis. I think of him so often especially now I'm older than he ever was.
My great great uncle fought in WWII I was to young to appreciate what he actually went through. I remember him gritting his teeth staring with a hard look on his face saying the German soldier where the toughest people he'd ever saw, looking back at it now I still remember the look of respect he had for the people he was fighting. He said said they would stay in fox holes for days in the freezing cold he said the people that didn't have family or really anything to go back home to would go crazy staying in their fox holes for that long and would run out and get shot. He said all of his friends died and he just stopped making friends because it was to hard to deal with their death. He kept a little bible in his pocket and read a verse everytime he had to run and get ammo drops not knowing if he's going to get shot or step on a land mine. He stormed the beaches of Normandy and was shot in the hip in the European theater. He came home and bought 100 acre's of land that my family still owns. He died at age 87 he had a good life after the war I am proud to have known him.
Уважение к людям ,с которыми он сражался ?? УВАЖЕНИЕ ??? ТЕ, КТО СЖИГАЛ ЛЮДЕЙ В ПЕЧАХ КОНЦЕНТРАЦИОННЫХ ЛАГЕРЕЙ , ТЕ , КТО УБИВАЛ ЖЕНЩИН , ДЕТЕЙ , СТАРИКОВ НЕ МОГУТ НАЗЫВАТЬСЯ ЛЮДЬМИ . А ВАШ ДЕДУШКА ИХ УВАЖАЛ ???? ФАШИСТОВ ???? Самые крутые люди на земле - ТЕ , КТО ПОБЕДИЛ ФАШИСТОВ . ТЕ, КТО БРАЛ БЕРЛИН - ЭТО РУССКИЕ ЛЮДИ. А ДЕДУШКУ ВАШЕГО ЖАЛЬ, - ОН ВИДИМО СИЛЬНО ИСПУГАЛСЯ НЕМЦЕВ....
And he did all that so Biden could turn this country into China? My Dad was a WWII vet also an he is spinning in his grave at the outrage. Thank God for people like your uncle. But now that they are nearly gone , the country is too.
Although, like many of those modest GI’s, my Dad rarely spoke of the War. He reminisced only on special occasions when his good friend would come to visit. They were medics and my Dad was wounded at the Bulge but, he still spoke kindly of the regular German GI. He understood like himself, politicians were responsible for the horrors that befell all those countries. Thanks you for a well documented film. I will keep it like so many others I’ve viewed hoping to catch a glimpse of my father back then.
One man who is a better man than I will ever hope to be. Who's voice I'll never in my life forget. Even in his age (93) his stern face followed by his deep voice that sent chills up my spine. His eyes never once leaving mine. As he told his tale of "Operation Overlord", his voice started to break only for a moment at first, then two... then before I asked once I belived his tale was coming to close his voice will forever echo in my soul. I'll never forget these words he spoke. It went like this. "After the fighting. I saw the dead as I ate one of my rations that the Sargent that I followed like a shadow told me to eat. And they were being tossed in graves hastily and I didn't think that was right but I Face up and down. Eyes open and closed. I look and saw General Patton himself. I wasn't maybe 10 feet away from him and he was yelling and pointing at the soldiers digging. His voice finally caught my ears in time for me to hear him say. " Those are my men down there. I want my men buried face up. With the honor they deserve" and I heard that and my eyes filled up and I felt the warmth running down my cheeks and I'll never forget what the general did. " Then his story stopped at i saw that the once stern face turn softer as tears streamed down his face. The weight that could felt while hearing him speak was tremendous. You could feel what he felt. Such a man . Such Men. Soldiers, such... Warriors. Their sacrifice was summed up by the words that Patton spoke and the soldier i quoted perfectly. So now... Why not show the men's faces. Show the world not only the sacrifice but the horrors of that war so that maybe if possible they may not be repeated . Thanks for reading this btw. The documentary was absolutely without a doubt the best I've ever seen. Thanks to those who gave their life so that we can live ours. RIP. We will take it from here. Rest now in Peace.
Oh my goodness, I’m crying now. My cousin who died long before I was born was on Omaha Beach. He made it into France, and was killed by enemy fire on his birthday. My Aunt and Uncle never got over it, you never do. God Bless and Keep you, Buster Rife. (His given name was Clarence, nobody ever called him that, according to my mom.) I did a little research on Find A Grave, and was surprised to see that he was buried in the little cemetery in Mechanicsville, Iowa.
Das war noch eine andere USA. Ohne die Sowjetunion hätten die Alleierten niemals Hitler besiegen können. Das scheint heute total vergessen zu sein. Die deutschen Kriegstreiber, die Grünen, FDP und SPD haben keine Vorstellung, was Krieg bedeutet. Sie glauben wirklich die NATO kann gegen Russland gewinnen. Niemals! Die Erde wird verglühen, Was dann? Wo sind die Menschenmassen gegen diese Kriegstreiber?
My Great UncleJerry jumped into Normandy on D-Day with the 82nd Airbourne. He survived the war, wounded 3 times, Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars. He died in 1996, never married, lived in my Grand Mothers basement as far back as I can remember as a little kid growing up in the 70s.. He was quiet and kept to himself, I would go down and visit him, I would walk with him to the corner store, he would hold my hand with his big hands, he would buy a carton of cigarettes and buy me candy. I didnt know he was in the war until after he passed away.
thats a touching story. so many brave men and war vets come back and are alone with their pain, disabilities .. not right. We would be all goose stepping if it werent for them
I had the honor of meeting a man, who was 82nd airborne from st. Marie's Idaho. The story is he and 3 others from there all made the 82nd, and all returned. Delmar Shaw. He said it was because they knew how to shoot, and they were tough because of the logging they did. He had many stories, and he had a way of telling them that'd make you smile. He refrained from the bad ones. He went on an honor flight to Washington to see the memorials, and to me, was larger than life and a true American. Salute to you my friend, RIP.
@@bizzirker My Dad told me that uncle Jerry was also selected for the Armys First Special Service Force which I didnt believe at first so I did some research and found his name on the units roster. He was 1 of only 1500 men to make the unit, they were a joint unit with some Canadiens.
This was Hands down one of the Best documentaries i have ever seen. Just amazing work. To ALL who worked on this Masterpiece i just want to say well done to the team. A lot of the clips i actually have never seen before let alone seen in color and the writing and editing really painted the picture clearly for me. If anyone of you who worked on this piece see my comment Keep up the Great Work. You all are a extremely talented group of people.
WOW! This is the best actual footage of WWII I've ever seen. I cant say how impressed I am with the film and story. The only criticism is blurring the dead. Not trying to be morbid, but they gave it all and those alive today need to see the stark reality of war. I liked the emphasis on the preparation, training, ingenuity, and disguise that went into D-Day, and the logistics of making it all happen. That was what the Allies had over the enemy, rather than an small collective of yes men scared of their master. I stayed up way too late to watch this, but it was well worth it. I'll be imploring many to watch this. The significance of WWII, and especially D-Day, needs to be understood by anyone alive that would side with the Allies.
well said, it’s hard to put to perspective but those men out there aged 18-25 are just like us, imagine everything you worked for and the character you built is now being sent to a war. everyone wants to be alive, everyone didn’t want to die but the truth is men were already facing death before they even knew it. from running to just all of a sudden seeing black within a matter of seconds. those who weren’t dead watched the dead perish as they drowned in their own breath. that’s the reality. bodies of men mutilated beyond recognition, to still go out there after seeing that.. man these people were a whole different breed.
True. However their families and their generals, and their fellow soldiers all said they didn't want them filmed, even at the time to the cameramen on the ground. This was mentioned in the documentary. Besides I think most people understand what dead is. If they don't understand what dead is without seeing someone missing a leg I don't know what to tell you. They are probably too young to be watching this at all... Them not blurring parts would also likely get the video flagged and thus removed from many eyes. Reducing the educational reach and purpose of the documentary...
This is the type of narration and visual that just captivates anyone who enjoys history and wants the deeper story that they didn’t get to learn in school. Well done 💯
I am now 75, but I always find myself thinking back, remembering what my father who a part of the Normandy Invasion. He was 27 at the time but always expressed amazement at the size of the Armada, as he put it "I didn't think there were that many ships in the world.
I am 75 my Dad was in US Navy. He was at D Day. He would talk about it some. He died at age 91. He had nightmares until his death of men the ocean and the ship pulling away as the men called.
Both of your fathers were a small part of the reason my grandparents were even able to have my parents and eventually my brothers and I in Poland in the late 70's and early 80's@@sweetpea2839. My grandfather used to do inconsequential favors for the German occupiers in exchange for cigarettees and other goods he was able to use or trade for survival. We Polak's would've never stopped fighting but if the Yankees didn't get involved when they did, I think this world would have seen a different fate. Every time I saw a WW2 Veteran at a local VA I frequented, I would literally get goosebumps and feel a wave of gratefulness and sorrow overtake me. They were all so much older than the middle east or Vietnam or Korea or Middle East Vets, but they stole everyone's attention and commanded respect and adoration as they were chauffeured or otherwise assisted from wherever they were to wherever they were going in that moment. I rode an elevator with one one time, and I was torn in between reaching out to thank him and shake his hand, and respecting his peace and space.
My Dad was a sergeant in charge of his platoon of 11 guys, 2x Universal Carriers and 2x 3 inch Mortars and attached to the 3rd Canadian Division during the D-Day landings on Juno Beach (Nan White). He fought all through Europe into Berlin including on the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Dad eventually discharged from the army in the 1950s at the rank of Company Quarter Master Sergeant (CQMS). Rest in peace Dad.
@@dennispfeifer7788 That's correct. It's also correct that Stalin's Russia started out at the beginning of WW2 on Hitler's Nazi Germany side against the Western allies. The Hitler-Stalin Pact (also called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) signed on 23rd August, 1939 in Moscow, laid the foundation for the outbreak of WW2 in Europe. The Treaty included that Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on the partition of Poland and Eastern Europe, including Finland. Of course Hitler eventually double-crossed Stalin, but considering Russia had been an ally of the west during WW1, it's an example of how another Russian leader could not be trusted. Putin is cast in the same mold as his soviet era counterpart.
Oui c’est vrai qu’on peut faire confiance au présidents us… 😂 aucun mensonge sur le la deuxième guerre😂, sur le Japon, les saudis, Chili, Cuba, Vietnam, sur Irak 2x, Iran sur l’Ukraine etc la listes des mensonges us est infinie! A vous entendre c’est vous qui avez détruit l’armée allemande, vous les usa avec des leaders nazi qui ont soutenu le fascisme et qui continue dans ce genre d’idéologie! Vous qui avez honteusement bombardé des villes européennes sans autre intérêt que celui des bénéfices colossaux engendrés par la reconstruction! Vous et votre armée à la solde d’intérêt particulier! Restez chez vous on se porte mieux sans vous! Restez entre mercenaires pourris! Faites vos magouilles entre vous, entre descendants de colons négriers, détruisez les états du sud au profit du de ceux du nord et recommencer dans l’autre sens tout les 20 ans… C’est fini, vous avez perdu sur toute la lignes, reste vos mensonges devant l’histoire et les derniers soubresaut d’un état enfoui sous les dettes…
as a french kid, we use to go every year to Normandy for the annual school trip.. This place still has effect on me 30 years later and I'm sure made a decent personn respectful of others, simply because it's impossible not to be touched by those scene. Thank you to those young man who gave up their lives for us
On June 6th, 2011, I got to do something I had always desired to do. I stood on the beach at Normandy where the Omaha landing took place. I felt total awe at what had taken place there while looking up at the cliffs and what few rusted German gun emplacements were left. I had the same feeling at Utah. I got to see Sainte-Mere-Eglise and watch the ceremony of each flag being raised to honor each Allied Country that took place that day in 1944. Seeing buildings and walls that were standing that day with the bullet holes still showing. As a Marine Corps Veteran, it was a honor for me to be there. The American Cemetery brought me to tears.
I remember going on a school trip to visit all the ww2 sites . I went to the american cemetery on omaha beech walling along the path overlooking the beech and the feeling was just something you cant describe, I was taken back by the amount of people who sacraficed themselves to defend us and I will always remember it to the day I die , I remember being there an hour and spent at least 30 mins crying , I felt so honored to be in the presence of so many heroes who gave there lives to allow us to be here today . It's a day I will never forget and will always honour that day . may all those rest in peace . i hope to go back 1 day and revisit all those sites . thank you for your recolition of your vist
I also went to point du hoc and saw all the fortifications the germans had built on top of that cliff and I thought , how the hell did they accomplish such a feat being at such a disadvantage.
@@God-of-all-monsters they weren't at a disadvantage. the germans controlled multiple countries along with everything in them, including their citizens. they had all the resources to do whatever they wanted.
Regarding what your documentary asked in the part about Juno Beach - "What were these young soldiers thinking..." I can answer specifically for one - Mervin Franklin Jones, one of the first Canadian D-Day paratroopers on the ground. He was thinking "Mervin, I don't think you're going to see your 22nd birthday." My grandfather did survive, and showing that sometimes the universe has a sense of irony, this D-Day participant's 22nd birthday was May 8, 1945 , Victory in Europe Day. It is very good that people are still reminded of the sacrifices so many made to fight for others who needed our help, as there are fewer and fewer of them around to tell us their stories now.
If some Americans, British or Canadian people read this post and if you know some vets who participated to this heroic actions just please tell them how grateful we the french people are for their sacrifice, I know a simple MERCI sound maybe light but beside this word there are thousand of different emotions in my heart,
Thanks to all those who came before us! My gramps was in this war and I feel every American should watch this video and really think about it. Words can't begin to describe the love I have for all those who fought and died to preserve peace and unity. Very thankful for the people who digitally remastered this film.
To think, the majority of those men VOLUTEERED for service. After Pearl Harbor, there were line ups at recruiting centers for all branches of service. Men signed up on their 18th birthday. And they all knew what they were getting into and went and did it anyhow.
What we saw on this documentary is just the tip of the iceberg. The sacrifice made and blood and sweat spilled to accomplish this was far more brutal and inexplicable. We thank all those nameless and faceless brothers who paid the ultimate price selflessly and in bravery, you have written your history in blood and the generation will remember you for a thousand years. Rest In Glory !
the weird thing is, that the losses and effords to win the war are still being exaggerated by the allied. i don´t know why, but i think its to make the final victory look even bigger. at that point it was only a question of time untill it was over. probably even without an invasion. Germany was already bombed into smithereens and japan also. the sad thing about the war is, that the politicians "needed" the battles of berlin, france and in the pacific to make a stand and to show the world how powerfull they are. not to mention the drop of the a-bomb. And so thousands of young men are sent to die.
@@snakeplissken2148 ...you are going the right way.....when you forget all the official stories and you think that from the beginning the allies wanted the war......suddenly all inconsistencies disappear.
Amazing documentary, I actually met a guy who filmed part of the landings, what he told me chilled to the bones, horrific to say the least. The men and women involved were so so brave. Huge respect !!
Which one,Omaha?.I remember reading the guy that took photos of Omaha landing lost just about every one out of hundreds taken because his photo lab assistant did something to screw up the photos but a few.It must have been a fantastic honor to talk to him.WOW.The most chilling photos of the landing I've seen is the one where the soldier is hiding behind a hedgehog while a wave came in.I have read the accounts from soldiers landing and you are right,it was horrific.
, I highly recommend this historical TH-cam channel to anyone who has a passion for learning about the past. It's a treasure trove of knowledge and a fantastic resource for history enthusiasts. Keep up the fantastic work!"
Watch this "documentary" if you want to get spoon-feed with false information by a youtube channel based in United States. Better do your own research.
My parents were children living on the south coast of England during the war. Both had narrow escapes from pieces of aircraft falling during the Battle of Britain or being strafed by a German raider. They told me how the entire town was sealed off for weeks before D Day because there was no hiding all the massive troops movements, vehicles and shipping being concentrated. On the night of D Day itself they were woken by the sound of hundreds of aircraft passing overhead, all going south across the coast. In the morning all the assault ships and troops ships had gone from the harbour and the Mulberry caissons had been towed over the horizon. In the days that followed there was an endless flow of aircraft and more ships carrying troops and equipment. It was something they never forget and told us about when we were children ourselves. In the area around our town it was Canadian troops who were stationed and it was some of those brave men who carried out the Dieppe Raid some years before and from which so much was learned but at great cost.
@@randybobandy9828 It was mainly bombs dropped from aircraft, just under 100 raids killing 300 and injuring around 500. But yes, there were some V1s during 1944. As far as I know there were no V2s in our particular town. With the V1s, Britain had captured all German spies parachuted into the country and false information was being fed back to Germany about the location of where V1s fell. As most were initially targeted at London, information was given to Germany that the missiles had fallen past London and to shorten the range. The meant that most V1s fell on fields , villages and smaller towns between the coast and London. Later in the war some coastal towns were the target, specially where there was a port or railway junction. My parents said that when the V1 motor stopped, they counted to 10 and that's when it detonated on the ground. Of course, those under the V2 target areas had no warning at all and for a while, the authorities had no idea what was causing those explosions.
French, always passionate about history, especially WW2, I can never thank enough all these brave guys who came to liberate my country and Europe. I have visited the beaches of Normandy many times and I have been able to visit museums and go to cemeteries. It is heartbreaking and very moving. I was born on June 18 (Gal de Gaulle's call to resist the invader), my wife was born on May 8 (End of WW2 in Europe), and my eldest son was born on June 6 (landing). I not only celebrate his birthday every year, but our Liberation. Thank you Allies!!
I think, by looking which direction France, Portugal, Spain and Germany and now UK is going, it look like nothing was learned from history by them. Now due to political correctness, Muslims are taking country by country, governments, using our law, TV, and media. I think our soldiers, knights now are just crying in their grave what is happening in EU... Soon EU or if now, is just another Muslim country state...These countries are gone now.
@@maciejrobertm1158 Not really false, unfortnately. But it's easier to fight a man with an uniform than a religion... on the other hand, the wars of religion exist since the creation of each religion. Too bad, when it is a prison for the simple-minded.
@@hmm3597 the French give up so easy. Even today people joke about the french surrendering so easy to anything. If the french were not cowards, a lot less people would have died.
@@gilbertvandenbroucke7827 Oui, les Russe ont fait quasi tout le boulot et on arrive encore a penser aux américains en pensant a la seconde guerre mondiale, c’est juste les américains avec leurs égo ils ont tendance a dire que ils ont sauver l’europe du génocide, nazis etc.. C’est aussi comme sa pour la premiere guerre mondiale je crois.
By far the best D-Day documentary I have seen and I have watched a lot of them, My dad landed at Normandy on D-Day plus ten ( June 16th ) and this film gave me a real feel for what he saw and experienced during the push on Paris and with so much of the film in color it was a real joy to watch. Many thanks to all involved in the making of this excellent film.
@@tuscanytrek That is unfortunate. I did not notice that error but if I were Canadian I'm sure I would have. Despite that oversight, your grandfather did his duty and you must be very proud of him. I have often thought that the Canadians and the Australians do not get their fair share of credit for their WW II service.
@@THEENERGYINHALER First of all, Democrats of today need to remember that Frank;in Roosevelt wanted no part of putting black soldiers in combat, preferring to go along with the status quo by keeping them in support role. It was only due to the constant pressure applied by his wife Eleanor that black combat soldiers and pilots were finally approved. Secondly, racism is alive and well today and just as caustic and degrading as back then but I feel it is maybe worse because it is more covert and insidious.
This is truly a one of a kind documentary, with stellar footage, recoloring, narration, and foley no less. Unbiased narration as well. It’s one of a kind because it actually hits at many points that often aren’t discussed about D-Day and pre-d-day invasion- the logistics. The sheer amount of allied cooperation to see these plans agreed, acted on, and fulfilled is nothing short of an industrial-mechanized miracle. One can only imagine what these characters, Churchill, Roosevelt, or perhaps even more so intimately- all the major allied generals must have been thinking prior to this massive land invasion. But this footage gives us a glimpse into this and it’s often not discussed. It’s a huge shame that this is censored. If anyone can find the uncensored version, I’d implore them to share it.
@@josephweaver5385 I don’t write it from a point of view that would necessary LIKE to see death and corpses, rather i stand from the point of view that censoring such things defuses some of the real horror and tragedy of war that we would otherwise come to realize by actually seeing the consequences of it. I don’t want it simply out of vanity, I truly believe this deducts from the full realization of war, and that is that the cornerstone of it lies in the taking of otherwise normal everyday lives. They too were humans, it’s horrific, but we need to know what happened, and what it looked like, as to do our very best efforts to avoid ever submitting to it again. Photography and videography is one of the best inventions man has ever devised, as it immortalizes the past into something beyond simply myth, or legend. It becomes something tenable, visual, real, and it has the ability to express that ethos in a chronological format. We have to take advantage of it and use it to its utmost degree.
@@TheBanjoShowOfficial I couldn't agree more. My father showed me uncensored pictures from the war. believe me, I remember and I will never condone war.
My father only missed the invasion because of his poor eyesight. He kept the bombers flying by being a mechanic. 50 years later he had eye surgery and had perfect vision. Every time a WWII veteran dies, I am so sad. We were lucky to have such men and women living amongst us.
Un documentaire fort en émotions, je remercie ses jeunes américains, canadiens et anglais d'avoir libéré mon pays dont beaucoup y ont malheureusement laissé leur vie.
An EXCELLENT piece of historical film-making ... certainly very distinct from the great many that have come before it. Extremely well done. Thank you for doing this.
Having seen many D-Day documentaries in my 78 years, IMO this is the one of the better I've seen. The build up in England, the training and housing of troops and storage and all that leading up was well done. The whole program was excellent. You pretty much covered in a very short time, most of the major points of the period. As this was prepared for the 70th anniversary in 2014, I understand why, but to haze out KIA casualties, both theirs and ours, misses the point as it actually shows ppl the horror of war. Perhaps the viewing might allow ppl to better understand and sympathize with the current actual war in Ukraine and what the dead look like. It puts a human image on warfare beyond the cold facts and figures of a documentary; in my humble opinion.
especially at 47:36, seen that clip many times in my 70 years . . . gave me a lot of soul searching... this here is the first doc in recent times that had the KIA in the beach scene completely blurred/blocked... ( you bonehead editors )...............For when he falls we should all stand and salute ... walking thru gunfire is nightmarish hell .... it was for my squad n Nam. Don't blur that man out...salute that man out.
I was thinking the same thing about the blurring out of the KIAs. Although it might of been done out of respect for the dead, but knowing the way things are these days, I doubt it. My great uncle was on Omaha beach part of the 2nd wave, and my Grandfather fought in the Pacific. I joined the US Army when I was 22 in 2009 because I felt strongly that I should serve the country that has given me so much. I'm 35 now and kids these days are being taught to hate their own country in schools, I can't have any kids of my own without surgery due to an injury I received while in the service, but I have a nephew, and I am scared to death for his future and the future of the country.
On my deployment in the Navy in 2018, one of our ports was Portsmouth England, the same port that the D-Day landing embarked from. I thought that was really intriguing, because when I was able to leave the ship, I would walk down the docks and see signs that said which units left from what dock at what time on the 5th of June 1944. It was awesome.
So you find death of innocent men forced into service aka slavery to their untimely death intriguing do you?!?🤔 Sounds like you've been successfully brainwashed!!
@@climeaware4814 Great museum. I was in the UK in 2019 from NZ, visiting the Portsmouth Naval Museum and I came across the D Day one by mistake just as it was closing. I went back the next day and spent the whole morning there. This was a bonus for me and the icing on the cake as I had been to France the week before and took a tour of the the two US beaches.
What an amazing program - it teaches history in a much different way than a book . Of course I had to cry , all these young men facing death , the suffering of the wounded , and because my own Uncle was shot down over Guam June 12 , 1944 , never recovered to this day . My Father was also in the Pacific , on the Ranger , never talked about any of his his experiences , but never taught me hate or prejudice . This was truly the Greatest Generation that I will never see again the rest of my life .
It’s hard to imagine now that we live in such good times, but at that particular time, the world was under threat. We know that Hitler got defeated now, but it was very uncertain back then. What a wierd feeling it must have been.
I was in Afghanistan during its worst year of war, 2009 - 2010, and what we went through was a mere scratch on the surface of what these boys went through. I once met a WW2 vet at the LA Zoo who landed at Omaha Beach, and he said, "Hell, i'd take Europe fighting any day over Afghanistan." It really was mind-blowing just how humble they were. Greatest Generation indeed.
@@микс-ъ9я Да, но, к сожалению, про наш ад они никогда не знали и не узнают. Для них история уже переписана. Они живут в полной уверенности, что это иммено эти люди освободили мир от нацизма, высадившись на пляж Омаха....
@@irinaklaric1963ohne die Hilfe der Amerikaner an Waffen, Panzern, Flugzeugen, Munition, Fahrzeugen über Murmansk und ohne 2. Front hätte die UdSSR gegen die deutsche Armee keine Chance gehabt. So ehrlich muss man sein. Soll nicht die Verluste und den Mut der Russen schmälern, aber alleine 1:1 gegen Deutschland hätten sie keine Chance gehabt.
Thanks for the upload and original film crew. Its incredibly moving to watch and listen to these accounts especially if you had close family involved - my father in law Joe was a SGT in an advanced observer unit often skirting or behind enemy lines including Operation Market Garden - incredibly brave, often isolated or cut off for periods. And my grandfather Frank on my dads side was a Merchant Navy captain, torpedoed on two separate ships / occasions and survived although with lung damage due to oil ingestion - incredible he survived at all in open sea. My own dad was too young although did his national service in the RAF, Malta working on Spitfires which remained there for some years. Everyone has a story and these documentaries help to keep them alive.
My father was a soviet soldier for 1936 to 1947 years. He participated to Finnish, 2WW and war against Japan. He was married with my mom in 1944. They lived together until 1956, when my father died. They had 8 children
Your father was a hero and on the eastern front too! In America we don’t give enough attention to the Eastern Front and respect to the Soviet soldiers who sacrificed more than any other ally including my country. I have a great grandfather who was on a medical ship in the war against Japan and a great uncle who’s Army uniform is in my closest. I feel very grateful for their and your father’s war service and I’m very glad they won!
I had five deployments over a 15-year career in combat and I can't imagine what these men went through. I've seen a lot downrange but nothing compared to what these boys did at such a young age. Truly the greatest generation.
Could not imagine climbing into one of those tanks and buttoning up facing that uncertainty!May they all Rest In Peace! they were all of them, the greatest generation!
That I can honestly say this is one of the most perfect documentaries I have ever watched. How can I even find the correct words to give it the credit it deserves? Awesome, outstanding, moving, tense and yet touching. just about covers it. It highlights humanity and horror.
Битва при Фализе - "Крупнейшая бойня за всю историю военных действий" (5000-6000 погибщих немцев) Тем временем: 1. Битва за Москву ~500 000 погибших немцев 2. Сталинградская битва ~850 000 погибших немцев 3. Курская битва ~440 000 погибших немцев 4. Битва за Днепр ~400 000 погибших немцев 5. Битва на Правобережной Украине ~250 000 погибших немцев 6. Операция «Багратион» ~409 000 погибших немцев 7. Восточно-Прусская операция ~487 300 погибших немцев 8. Смоленское сражение ~250 000 погибших немцев 9. Битва за Кавказ ~281 000 погибших немцев 10. Битва под Киевом ~128 600 погибших немцев Ну да, куда этим битвам до крупнейшей бойни при Фализе за всю историю военных действий...
My Dad fought in this war and several others, he is my personal hero, and yet I also thank the other heroes whose names I may never know. Thank you!👏🏽💜🙏🏽
The cliche, the Greatest Generation, is so true. I had two great uncles (father's side) fight in this theatre, one with the 45th, fought throughout Italy, then across France with Patton and eventually helped liberate Dachau; the other landed in Normandy in a glider providing light artillery support for the 82nd and 101; another great uncle (mother's side) was a Machinists Mate on subs in the Pacific... My dad went on to fight in Korea (45th as well), went up and down Old Baldy several times, then early stages of Vietnam, all were my heroes, and tough to live up to...
My uncle (dad’s brother, may they RIP) was drafted in to the war, but had a medical discharge during basic training. He had a bad heart murmur. His doctor said if he lived to 28, he would live to 100. He passed at age 27.
Incredible documentary, a complete real image of war. Thank you, and to all the brave men and women who fought with honor, no matter the flag they fought under.
Every American owes these heroes a debt of gratitude. We live how we do because of what they did for us. Freedom is not free. These men and women paid for the freedoms we enjoy in blood. Thank you
it is a real shame that this film did not show the dead. Not out of some morbid desire to see such images but by hiding them it softens the impact. History isn't there to be ignored and the harder it hits the more we should take notice and learn. My Uncle was there in a LCT at 0530 on D Day - he never spoke of it, his brother, my Dad was delivering Canadian troops and stores sometime between 6 and 11 June as he did not use the Mulberry harbour. He did say to me once that there were still bodies to be seen.
However their families and their generals, and their fellow soldiers all said they didn't want them filmed, even at the time to the cameramen on the ground. This was mentioned in the documentary. Besides I think most people understand what dead is. If they don't understand what dead is without seeing someone missing a leg I don't know what to tell you. They are probably too young to be watching this at all... Them not blurring parts would also likely get the video flagged and thus removed from many eyes. Reducing the educational reach and purpose of the documentary... You can watch it unedited yourself if you don't know what a body looks like and are that weird.
A dear family friend of ours was a Canadian bomber pilot stationed in England, who contributed to the D-Day landings. He'll turn 100 this coming August, & he's still pretty sharp - got a nice handwritten letter at Xmas. He crashed 4 times on friendly territory during his tour & earned the moniker "Crash" (he was exonerated of culpability in all 4 crashes). The medical shrinks examined the whole crew after their 17th trip & found only 2 worthy of continuing their tour - "Crash" & Kenny, his Rear Gunner. Kenny was concerned the rest of the crew would deem them cowards if they decided not to continue (even though the upper-brass were perfectly willing to give a by to the whole crew after trip #17). On the 19th mission they suffered a friendly-fire attack, resulting in the failure of one of the landing gears to deploy. They made it to a crash dome where the other wheel simply snapped off upon touchdown. They did two 360s before the bomber came to rest. The upper-brass credited them with a full tour after that (a full tour was deemed to be 25 trips). "Crash's" 414A form (a summary of a pilot's assessment & flying abilities) had him consistently placed in the "Above the Average" category. There aren't many remaining from the Greatest Generation.
Those who "won" where projecting their own crimes. Banksters/media behind every war and since the "good" ones "won" there has been countless wars and dept slavory.
Amazing. Our children should be taught about this in our schools and it should never be forgotten. My dad was a Dunkirk veteran with the North Yorkshire Light Infantry and survived to tell the tale. Marvellous men.
They gave their lives so you could enjoy road tax, income tax, value added tax, property tax, bedroom tax, electric bills, water bills, heating bills, food bills, covid, monkeypox, climate change, government corruption, corporate greed, old age, white hair, brittle bones, bad breath, disability, and death.
My countrymen fought in the Battle of England, escorted convoys in the Atlantic, liberated France, the Netherlands, and Italy. 6,000,000 of them were killed by Russians and Germans. 1,000,000 children, women, and old men were burned, their heads chopped off, their bellies ripped open in the Wolyn massacre by the Ukrainians. Do you know what awaited them after the war? They were sold by Churchill and Roosevelt for decades into Russian captivity. Now you call them "former communist bloc".
Documentary ? Nonsense it was designed as an old wives tale. It's primarily extracts from WW2 Newspaper Propaganda headlines, so not very accurate ! For military documentaries with quality research you can't beat the 42 x 2 Hour "WW2 BATTLEFIELD" British produced series of programmes from 1998-2002, all of which were uploaded to TH-cam by "Vasil Luga" some years ago.
Intestinal fortitude. We who live in the allied countries should never forget. Not just D Day. All of the struggles, hardships, assaults on the person, destruction of property, death and ruined lives that were part of and the consequence of war. When tyranny rears its head whether it be at home or abroad we who cherish freedom have a duty to our forefathers, to each other, and to our heirs to confront it, stop it and destroy it. This film was very well done.
and yet we stand aside and allow Russia to invade a sovereign country, committing some of the worst atrocities imaginable against women, children and the aged. So what was D Day for? Have we lost the backbone and courage our forefathers had in fighting for our freedom. Yes we have, in the hope that this atrocity won't reach us. Shame on NATO shame on UN shame on EU. Slava Ukraine
How is it that TH-cam algorithms took two and a half years to present this SUPERB documentary to me, and this despite me regularly viewing historical documentaries on WWII?
One of the best film on the Normandy landing i have seen so far. Vast amount of footage i have never seen before and very well balanced use. Thank you very much !
It’s almost like a dream how could this of happened, this documentary should be seen by every student so they can see what there forefathers went through
It seems like a dream because we are sheltered. That kind of stuff still goes on today. It went on for centuries long before WW 2 but it's those era's is hard to grasp because there's not photographic evidence. It goes on China but they control the flow of information going out and in. The slaves in America went through a similar circumstance. Times before America there's always been wars and genocide.
That's why we gotta stop thinking like that. Because with that kind of thinking it will happen again. We need to start humanizing it because Germans where like us pre Adolf. Under the right circumstances everyone is susceptible to join a party like the NSDAP. We already see it on the left with their intolerance to those who have a different belief then they do. Calling for violence. Calling for deaths. Laughing at people who died over their opinions on that vaccine. If you're laughing over someone who died then you are literally no better then the nazi's. Because that's how it started.
اگر انگلیسی هستی بدان چرچیل شما تمام موادغذایی کشور من ایران را بعد از اشغال نظامی غارت کرد وباعث کشته شدن نیمی از جمعیت شد ۱۰میلیون انسان به خاطر قحطی وگرسنگی پس افتخاری نیست
My wife's grandfather was first wave on Juno. On a rare moment or two he would relate a story. But he always stop,turn away, story over. Rest in Peace Bruce. Like all through these comments, Greatest Generation, blessings. 🇨🇦
This documentary forgets to mention the Polish troops. Yet at 59:23 you can see the Polish flag being mounted. It is a shame that the Polish Soldier was forgotten here. There were 17 thousand Polish Soldiers by the side of Canadians: ''It was by pure coincidence that the Polish armoured division, 17,000 men who had fled Hitler's invasion of their country in 1939 by escaping to Britain, became the liberators of Potigny as they fought across Normandy from the D-Day beaches beside the Canadian army.'' Also: ''Polish airmen took part in missions on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy. Several Polish ships also took part in the naval part of D-Day, and the 1st Polish Armoured Division landed later in the campaign and took part in the fighting around the Falaise Pocket.'' Yet Polish troops did not take part in the Victory parade in London on 8th of June, 1946 because the Communistic regime of Stalin did not let them appear in London. Polish Soldiers and Polish airmen also must be remembered here!
@@rodrigjose I confirm. And I thank you very much. Not to brag about myself but I mentioned the Polish soldiers because I am Polish-American and I served in the United States Army in 1970's. I feel so much affnity towards the US military uniform.
@@SN-xk2rl Yes, the Poles fought for the Nazis; about 300 thousand of them and they had German blood in them such as the Kashubians who till today use their own language which resembles German language mixed with some Prussian language. But even though they were Polish citizens, they were of other ethnic origins such as Ukrainians, Belarussians, Lithuanians. And they joined the Nazis because they were more afraid of Communism rather than Germans. But Jews had also a part in liquidating their own people in Ghettos: ''The Jewish Ghetto Police or Jewish Police Service (German: Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei or Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst), also called the Jewish Police by Jews, were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local Judenrat'' The Polish soldiers were the true Poles who loved their country and fought for it. So, they deserve honor.
Great documentary Iam an old man now and my grandfather aged 17 hit those beaches with the British army he lost both legs but survived , my grandad was bitter but not towards his family
The young do not have any appreciation for those days in our history and will willingly give up this great democracy for reasons that they don’t understand.
My neighbor who has since passed away was a POW twice in Italy. Never forget him telling me after their recapture , the Germans shot all the officers, one standing right next to him. Then he burst out crying as if living it all again. Bob had raised eight kids and the sons would badger me if he had told me any war stories. I never told them, I think he didn't want them to know. RIP TO THAT GENERATION
Я из России, и посмотрел с удовольствием ваш фильм! Жизнь подходит к завершению! А я смотрю на тех парней, которые отдали свою жизнь, в войне с фашизмом! Это уже история! Мой дедушка и его родной брат погибли в один день, в мае 1944 года! Помню и горжусь ими!
And the most inaccurate I have seen in 40 years. So much of the story missed or misrepresented DO NOT make this the only thing you watch on it. Read diaries etc. They missed huge moments , concentrated on divisions and rumour and ignore or chose not to tell many important facts. (Such as the Caen defenders being the 21st panzer division with many more tanks in the area! Not a word said of it!)
i agree my Dad signed up in 1939 served in the BEF then North Africa, Italy and back home to retrain for DDay at this point, he was 28yrs old so a old boy to some of the new young lads going in for the first time. Heroes All.
some were younger. volunteers signed over by their parents at country stores and post offices in the country they didnt have recruiting stations in every town.
@@miketaylor5212 ,, And, some were much older. That's how averages work. Lol The Draft and WWII On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history. Sorry to bust your bubble. You don't get 16,112,566 Americans to serve during a war by simply volunteering.
I disagree with the last comment about blurring out the dead for two reasons, TH-cam rightly has its guide lines and second no disservice was shown by the blurring, it was respect for the departed. One of the best documentaries I have watch about WWII. My only regret is that it wasn't longer.
I wouldn't say the blurring of the dead soldiers ruined it, but it was distracting and a little annoying. I'm American, and In April 2023, we traveled to Normandy and visited several WW2 sites, including Arromanches and the museum of the Mulberry harbors. At the exit, an older French woman, probably in her 80s, clasped my hands in hers and said Merci, merci beaucoup. I was dumbfounded and managed to say You're welcome, which wasn't very eloquent. She smiled broadly repeated Merci then let go of my hands. What an astonishing and unforgettable interaction. France, you helped us start our country and we helped you keep yours. BFFs forever! 🇨🇵🇺🇲
Sizin dedeleriniz Americayı kurdu tamamda müslümanlarında başına bela oldunuz eline sopa almış bir deli gibi kapı kapı dolaşıp karıştırmadığınız ülke kalmadı kimini siz vurdunuz bı bahaneyle kiminide bi şekilde karıştırarak bölerek zarar verdiniz böl parçala yut tekniyini uyguladınız ama unutmayın zalimliyin sonucu sizde hüsrana birgün uğrayacaksınız filistine yapılanları görmüyorsunuz heralde İsrail bebek yaşlı dinlemeden öldürüyor hiç bir müslüman ülke americanın korkusundan birşey de diyemiyor zaten bazı müslüman ülkelerin liderleri sizlerin belirlediği adamlar yönetiyor ama buna rağmen bunu unutmayınki son tokadı ve sağlam tokadı Türklerden siz zalimler elbet yiyeceksiniz çünkü sizlerin deyiştirdiğiniz kitapta yazmaz bizim yani müslümanların gerçek doğru ve Allahın bu kitaba uyun dediyi kuran da yazıyor sonunda müslümanlar ezici şekilde galip gelecek ortalığı karıştıran sizleri helak yani yok edicez
It’s a shame you blurred out these men. They deserve to be seen, they gave us everything they had and more, show their face!
TH-cam has very strict policy’s !!
By not obeying them yr channel gets taken off.
Otherwise you statement is correct those men should be held in our memory and respected 💪💔
@@touraneindanke As a child I was following "World At War" with out fail every Sunday afternoon on national tv. One of the best made programs documenting WW2! Never did they blur out the dead. 40 years on I'm in my 50s but now not deemed capable of witnessing the effects of war and the cost men had to pay... I feel blurring out and censoring took some away from this otherwise good documentary... This is history... Shame on TH-cam for treating there viewer like children and forcing this on us ....
Couldnt agree more...Im from Chicago and have to see Lori Lightfoots face...DEATH doesnt disturb me at all
Perhaps they were considering the feelings of their family and friends...I think so.
@@touraneindanke they're stealing this content anyways and don't need to be paid
I initially had no intention of watching this until the end. I found I could not look away. If there is a veteran of this operation watching this and reading these words, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you did and all you gave. There will never be another group of men, regardless of your nationality, to whom we owe so much. We are forever in your debt.
They absolutely sucked. They were terrible. I am a combat veteran. They were wrong. The bad guys won wwii.
Anytime fam😎
@@thezodiackiller420you were a veteran of this operation?
Hear hear. This isn't going to be nice. But here goes. What really chaps my American a__ is how my fellow American vets had to sacrifice themselves in much larger numbers while dinky winky Brits/Canadians took the easier routes. This "Brit" vid acts like Brits caught all kinds of Germans. Bull sh--. The moronic queer sounding narrator actually has the nerve to say that Americans didn't know where much of Europe was on a map. LOL. That's why we'd had better training and valor when it came to that time of war. Of course, they had to know maps very well...even if most war vets weren't really aware of exactly where they were headed. That's part of war anyway duh. More Americans died but they captured more and destroyed more of enemy weaponry and bases. Yes, the RBA helped significantly but as it seems Americans did the grunt and detail all the way through. Not entirely of course, but sort of reminds me of Americans in the private yachting industry and yet these losers in Euro-TrashVille have the nerve to revel in putting Americans down to this dammm day. Guess what, LIKE we care. We're still the main character in the English international world, Mr and Ms BooHooJealousy. Glad you're enjoying our industries and technology STILL. And we don't have to speak your overtly pedantic "queens" English. What a joke. You never really deserved us in the first place. AND your "commander" Mont-Weeny something was too slow and cowardly to handle this years before. If he's such a hero, why did he wait years too long before these vermin spread throughout Europe? It wasn't our land anyway. So for all Americans who've been vets present, past, way back during the War....YOURE WELCOME. Yeah shut up.
@@nodnoc9627 I'm guessing not.
i've never seen anything about D Day from the French perspective until now, and I appreciate it greatly. this is so very well done and pays a great tribute to everyone involved regardless of nation. thank you.
My Grandpa was 18 when he stormed the beaches at Normandy (Omaha) and he was awarded a Purple Heart for getting injured. I always wanted to talk to him about it, but he never wanted to speak on it so I never pressed him. I can only imagine the horrors he witnessed that day. It’s a miracle he turned out to be the kindest person I’ve ever known, he was my hero. RIP Gramps!
Yes.
@@donreed I'm French and i want to say thanks to our heros, your Grandpa !
I'm French and i live in Normandy, in Cherbourg, thanks to your Grandpa and all this heroes for our country
I would very much like to have met this honorable man in person and thanked him in person.
My father Fred, his brother Harry and their younger brother were among the first British troops to storm the beaches in Normandy...Fred and Harry survived but their younger brother was killed on the beaches, electrocuted by bare high voltage cables left by the Nazis ...
I worked at a VA nursing home arms heard many stories of their bravery. It was still hard for them to talk about it without crying. I had several patients who went to Normandy Beach. Their stories were truly terrible. I loved each one of those guys and was honored to be their nurse. This documentary is a reminder of each one of them and what they suffered. What a great, strong and courageous generation. We owe them great thanks for everything we have
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We do, and thank you, ma'am, for caring for these heroes. God bless you.
And we owe them not letting it happen again.
And you played a very important part in this whole war, caring for the boys… must of been something for a young man wake up and see you there caring for them….and many others..
I salute you❤️🇺🇸🙏😃
You would get a tear as i FIS when at the normands catery a young French who visité south her class sumer it all up with a cars left on a grave. ewe are the choildren you enver hard
I just lost my hero. My step dad. He was 93. At the age of seventeen he piloted a Higgins boat onto Normandy Beach. They say they were the first ones the German’s shot at, the boat driver. He was a good man.
I am sorry for your loss. I have visited a WWII museum that tells the story of the Higgins boats. May your stepfather rest in peace.
What a man he was...proud you should be
@Michael Murray how amusing you are..
I just lost my 88 yr old mom on D-Day this year (6-6-23) We both visited the Normandy beaches for the 60th Anniversary… There is no way to describe the feeling of the American cemetery at Omaha beach… Beautiful but very moving.
Спасибо за помощь! Соболезную
my dad landed on Omaha Beach that morning with the 147th Combat Engineers, 6th Engineers Special Brigade aboard the US 91 LCI (L). The 91 hit an underwater mine as it neared the Dog White sector. My dad returned to Omaha Beach after the war and took a pic of the wrecked 91. That pic is next to my comment. Thank you dad, I'm so proud of you.
Hello were you born July 6th in 48?,, 7664 here Greetings
As a nurse WWII vets were always the BEST patients I ever had. Always upbeat regardless of the situation or hardship. Never self focused, they easily rolled with the punches and seemed grateful for the smallest things. I can tell you those horrific days of battle lived strong beneath their calm exteriors. I remember working one night and very old man in his 90s was yelling something about jumping in foxholes in his dreams. Sweetest man you every met, but he went to war in his dreams. Hard to believe they are almost all gone today. What a huge lose, those of us left behind have much work to do filling their giant shoes.
Very well put @TheMVCoho.
They were the greatest generation
Благослови вас Бог!
With the people America is turning out now, we will never replace them. Selfish, selfish, selfish... What happened to helping your fellow man just because you can and not because you get a tax break.
@@user-qs4js9tf7c Бог фашистов не благословляет.
in 2004 i found a dog tag in a field in a place called chadelsfield England while metal detecting in a field it belonged to an American ww2 soldier called Kenneth McKnight from orange county Massachusetts in America and he was in the e502 company who was in the d day landings in Normandy he was only 22 when he signed up i was able to return it to Mr mc knight as he was gladly still alive his family were so happy and grateful and was able to piece together his journey from the war to why the dog tab was in a field in England sadly Mr mac knight passed away a few years later but he is always in my thoughts and i always tell his story to servicemen vets i meet
Amazing 😻
Excellent!! Thank you for sharing. Gives me chills.
What a great Story!
that’s pretty cool man. Thanks for sharing your story.
Thank you for your kind act and consideration.
My father landed on the Omaha beach. He never mentioned it until he was in hospice in 2001. Never.
What he said about his landing that it was horrible. The sand was red from blood as far as you could see and the water too; and you had to walk on the dead bodies to get off the beach.
That's all he ever said about his war experience to me.
His mother, my grand mother, told me why he didn't have any toe tips when I was really young, maybe 6 or 7. She said Dad lost them in the bulge. It took 15 - 20 years to realize what she meant.
War never ends for those and their families that live it. Never.
I do not want to distract from this video at all; the theme reminded of a lot of things, and I thought I needed to voice something. Thank you
Thanks for sharing!
My gpa was also on the beaches of Normandy, he still talks about it today he was stationed in Ft. Riley, Kansas, he was an Army Ranger on one of the first 50 boats to arrive onto the shore, I guess when they landed as soon as the ramp came down he told me his buddy got shot in the face and he tried to drag him onto shore but the water was too deep so he had to leave him and that the water was in fact pure red from left to right he said he hadn’t ever been more scared in his whole life. He had gotten shot in the leg several times I guess the medic that was helping him got shot in the neck and another medic came over to help and he got blown to pieces from a German hand grenade. I couldn’t imagine being there I think I’d shit my pants. My gpa made it out alive though he told me many stories about his experience, I love listening to him speak about it. He’s still alive and 97 years old, can’t believe what all he had to do through I am very proud of him.
@@blueberryog69 No offense, but 2023 - 92 = 1931. Someone born in 1931 was 13 or 14 on D day. Much health to your grandpa!
@@florinn166 🤦♂️ yes I made a typo thank you lol. He’s 97.
My utmost respect for the veterans
There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.
Where can you purchase this book
But if they are lost files how can they have hidden secrets, very confused about that statement, but thanks for the heads up on the book deff getting a copy
@@hiddengem12-o9s
💥🎯💥
*war-machiners*
💰 *EXPOSED* 💰
👎🏁🤺 *Cnuts*
🤨"follow it! 💰
And, D-Day started on June 6th, at 6am. Or, 666...
@twztedsoldiergaming6338 i believe when people refer to things as lost files etc. It simply means the file was "lost" than found quite some time later. The same way a lost civilization isn't really "lost" it's just taken a long time to find them again!
I'm not sure if it's my age or my professional interest in Doc films, but as a son of a recently passed British war mum I am drawn to this period and the sheer magnitude of the hope and eternal suffering. How a tiny island managed to hang on is beyond me. My mother, as just one part of her "War Effort" was visiting the wounded (sadly mostly American kids) she went into graphic detail the terrible wounds and the horror of war, but was always able to say. "well that's what you did then, there was no other choice." Subsequent generations were gifted Choice by individuals like my mum and the soldiers of D-Day as a way of life because of the millions who simply did what they had to do. These docs celebrate all of them. Thank you.
The island held on because Indians and Africans were with the Empire.
The real heroes are never acknowledged sadly.
The handful Englishmen would have certainly lost, evident from Dunkirk
@@Spartacus4850 100% correct. Too many people ignore the commonwealth troops and our allies who helped.
There were no Indians or Africans at Monte Casino.@@Spartacus4850
@@Spartacus4850 You probably know more about what goes on in the Colosseum then you do about events leading up to Dunkirk !
@Norberto_G Nope if it hadn't been for the Leader of that small island Russia would be speaking German now !
I am a retired U.S. Marine 2012-2018. I will never forget when I met a Navy Sailor who served in the Pacific during WWII. He described to me the horrors of Kamikaze attacks and looked me dead in the eyes, practically in tears, and said "The Marine fighter pilots saved me and my crew from certain death. From the bottom of my heart, thank you" and shook my hand. I got chills down my spine. This was the greatest generation.
Semper Fi
2006-2010 0351 Marine here...that's an excellent experience. The things the men and women went through back then are horrific.
I'm an ex SAS soldier but still doing operations on a secret level in Russia atm
The bravery is outstanding
@@abroukkhaldoun7097 كلامك هراء. يسمح القرآن والحديث بخوض الحروب إذا أمكن تبريرها.
@@ciararespect4296 what u mean still doing operations on a secret level in russia?
I am French, my father was a small Parisian boy at the time of the allied landings. Honour to these thousands of young men so valuable, so courageous who sacrificed their lives for a country which was not theirs. I am forever grateful to them. My father always spoke of them that way. May they and their families be blessed for eternity.
mmm km n. un😊 bb ok ho hay ok jua es
las la p hay
@@dricfiiu151?
Hello...Kindly share yr address
It is American since that Day.
Now its african also thanks to Nato
@@DeutschlanddenDeutschen1987 shuttup troll
My family was liberated in May 45, living in the Netherlands and having survived "de Honger Winter" (Winter of Hunger). My family always talked about their liberators with so much love and respect, and sad at the loss of life.
@@SA-cn4jc My family in Utrecht met English and Canadian soldiers. Mum remembers dancing with Canadians. An English soldier gave her tea and chocolate. They did not meet Americans.
More and more young people worldwide need to watch these WW2 documentaries.
Darned strait
I have recently watched a WWI uncensored documentary .. WWII was a piece of cake compared to that imo
But it might hurt their little tutus as my WW2 Army Dad used to say. They don't make 'em that tough anymore if you ask me.
@@saltycreole2673 thats also true
And instead, more and more history is being removed from their curriculum.
If there is a veteran of this operation watching this and reading these words, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you did and all you gave.
To all the german soldiers of WW2: Respect and thank you for your service. You gave it all with honor and loyalty till the bitter end. RIP.
@@davecopp9356 Yeah? Really? They defended their Nazi regime, defended that all those germans could kill over 6 Million Jews. Great, really awesome what they did. With every german soldier fighting longer, more innocent people were killed by thos fukin nazis. Thanks to every dead nazi for dying. But yes, thank you to all soldiers of the allys fighting against those bastards.
not there in europe....... but this MARINE was elsewhere in 68-69.
@@davecopp9356 I smell national socialism coming from you. Nazis doesn't deserve any salute.
The youngest veterans would be 97 yrs old by now.
And probably already passed their bedtime.
Good film. My father, who died in his bed in 2010, was a 19 year old landing craft commander in the Royal Marines taking French Canadians to Juno Beach in the second wave. On his return his craft hit a mine and was sunk, but as the craft was empty, and as there were numerous other vessels in the immediate vicinity, he and his crew were plucked out of the sea and survived. No one died. But pretty hair raising stuff, I must say. Much more than I ever accomplished in my life.
Aa11
@@ramon3897 Really? My father contributed to freeing Europe from the Nazi yolk, and got shot at, mined and blown up, and almost killed, for his efforts. I can't imagine that you, or indeed anyone else alive today who didn't participate in the noble crusade that was that war, can claim to have done anything remotely as good in their lives. I certainly can't. What an asinine statement. You are a fool.
He was a badass, the greatest Generation…
If you’re to translate Ramon in English it means dickhead.
I wouldn't say that, I'm sure that your father's sacrifice resulted in a fine person being raised by a remarkable man that knows and realizes that those who forget/ignore history are doomed to repeat it. atleast you come from stock that stood up and did what needed to be done, I'll bet my life that you would have done the same. thank you for your father's service to the world, and for your appreciation for what he did.
My father who was of German ancestry served in the U.S.A from D. Day through V.E. Day in the battle of Europe. My mother survived the occupation of Adolf Hitler. This documentary is outstanding.
I would love to shake Hitler's hand if given the chance. We have been lied to in the west about him.
Fico triste por sua mãe 😢
And my granduncle was the Gauleiter von Breslau, der Gauleiter von Niederschlesien. Deshalb durfte er auch seinen Familiennamen, Vorwerk, nicht führen. Ich kenne kein Foto von ihm und habe keine weitere Information jemals erhalten. Mein Onkel fiel östlich von Breslau 45 mit 18 Jahren und meine Familie wurde enteignet, sonst wäre ich heute Multimilliardär.
@@8iosatlost209 хвастаться нечем.
My father jumped on DDay with the 82nd Airborne Division, 507/Co. B. He was wounded in Normandy on June 15 on a farm in La Bonneville where he lost his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel. He fought at Chef du Pont and the bridge at La Fiere. He was 26 on DDay and lived to be 94. I visited Normandy with him two times.
Thanks for his service! Eternal Gratitude🙏
That is awesome. Your dad came from a time when men were men, and you did what you had to do to get the job done. My grandfather was a gliderman/airborne in the 82nd. He entered the war through Holland along with British paratroopers in Operation Market Garden. I never really knew until watching Band of Brothers back then, and I recognized the patch on their Garrison cover was the same as in my grandads photos. I wish I had known him. I was told he never talked about the war other than his time in England before the push into Holland.
jesus crist u must b getting on then
Eternal gratitude
We must never forget those brave men
Didn’t skip absolutely one minute of this, this war was literally hell. Rip to every brave soul we lost in the battlefield, and thank you.
Мы потеряли больше, в войне с фашизмом! Воевали вместе.
А теперь, вы наши враги!
Дикий Запад.
"Bedanken" Sie sich bei den Urhebern des grauenhaften Krieges.
Lesen sie dazu die hochbrisante George Friedman STRATFOR Rede 2015 (Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2015).
The reds have always been the enemy of the free world @@Ролан-с8ы
@@nightingale7829 I don't know who you're talking about? Germany declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor.
My grandfather drove a Sherman for the 1st Polish Armored Division. He fought against the communists when they invaded Poland and escaped to England to join the Allied army. The stories he told us about the war seemed to be taken from a movie, during the war 4 tanks were destroyed and he lost many colleagues. When we were kids my brother innocently asked him if he had killed anyone in the war, all he did was look at the ground, cry and walk away. When he got Alzheimer's, he mistook us for German soldiers, sent us to cook for the battalion. He will always be a hero to me, but the story of each one of these boys was very hard and sad.
Да , но если бы не Советский солдат, то твой дедушка мог и не дожить , а сгорел бы где нибуть в немецком концлагере.
have you been drinking ??? What year did the communists invade poland ? and are you sure 4 Tanks were destroyed during the war?? maybe even 5 ?:-)) Oh and you should read about alzheimers before you put your grandpa to shame !! Do you really think a Alzheimers patient who looses the ability of memory and concentration can turn you "into a german soldier to cook for the battalion"
Next time you need attention , take your neighbours garbage outside . It make for sense than insulting a Doku with a crap story like yours.
Beautiful story
My Polish father also was a tanker with the same experience. He had to remain in the army until the Nuremberg trials as Poles who spoke German were needed there. Made for a long war. Lived a happy life in England until the age of 98.
Если бы не Советский солдат, который освободил все страны Европы, концлагеря,где фашисты уничтожали тысячами людей всех национальностей, не известно чтобы было ?! Спасибо советскому войну, спасшему человечество от фашизма! А какой ценой? Более 20 миллионов солдат и офицеров отдали свои жизни ради мира на земле! Чтобы жили мы как живем сейчас! 🙏
Here watching this on the 80th anniversary of D-Day,2024.Never forget!!
80 aniversario, esto nunca habrá que olvidarlo!!
nous n'oublions pas les sacrifices fait pour libérer notre pays
same. 80th anniversary, an incredible documentary and time capsule. I worry that the memory, significance, horribleness and sacrifice is fading. Please Never forget!
Jamás!!!
😊😊😊😊@@octavegautrin1969
I have watched tons of WW2 documentaries, but I have never seen anything like this. Truly amazing what these brave young men accomplished.
I agree, an amazing documentary!
7,000 ships
20,000 C-47 planes
😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
The sky black with planes and raining paratroopers everywhere!!!
Check Stalingrad battle.
Я вам рекомендую посмотреть военные очерки русских солдат и вы поменяите свое мнение кардинально .
Они просто по шли на готовое и вляпались, красная армия их ещё и выручала, до сих пор Европа акупирована американцами..
Excellent documentary. My mother was a Doctor at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth which overlooked the harbor and was one of the major embarkation ports. The harbour had been crammed for weeks.. The weather on the night of June 5th was not good. She was astounded to see the harbour empty on the morning of the 6th. Being British no one at breakfast talked about the empty harbour. They just sat there silently. Then there was a phone call telling them to get ready for a large number of casualties. She died in 2003.
20 year Army Vet..
74-94 .. I must say I have been viewing quite a few WW2 Documentaries and this one is top of the line. Honor to those brave men who gave their lives for our day today.
AMEN ..
Thank you for serving.My dad,who is passed retired too from the Marine Corpse.He served,I believe from 47-67.He saw Korea and Vietnam.TY again for your service.I LOVE WW2 docs.There are a bunch of photos and videos that were Nazi propaganda that were made in 3d.Just get a cheap pair of 3d glasses.They are mind blowing.
I’m black and I can guarantee you these whyte men never gave their lives for any black person in this country
God bless you
@@zazasnruntz7505 They gave there lives for the man on their right and the man on their left......the foundation of all infantry units in all countries.......brother, race doesn't have any fucking thing to do with it!
INCREDIBLE ! Thank you to TH-cam for recommending this magnificent report to me during this period of the 80th anniversary of the DDay. As a Frenchman, thank you also to our American, English, Canadian allies and all those who helped us liberate France.
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Good on you kid well said
французы защищали канцелярию гитлера в мае 1945 г
Polonia y Francia las conejillas de la segunda guerra mundial
Y donde Los Españoles.?
My Dad was there that day .He died in 2021 age 99.
The French gov awarded him the Legion d Honneur.
Takes pride of place in my home.
I'm French and very grateful to your father. My Norwegian grand father was executed by the Nazis. I think of him so often especially now I'm older than he ever was.
God bless you & your father ❤
LMAO
A tu Padre le agradecemos , no solo Francia, todo el mundo.
@@juliad368 jeez,that must be a hard memory .
My great great uncle fought in WWII I was to young to appreciate what he actually went through. I remember him gritting his teeth staring with a hard look on his face saying the German soldier where the toughest people he'd ever saw, looking back at it now I still remember the look of respect he had for the people he was fighting. He said said they would stay in fox holes for days in the freezing cold he said the people that didn't have family or really anything to go back home to would go crazy staying in their fox holes for that long and would run out and get shot. He said all of his friends died and he just stopped making friends because it was to hard to deal with their death. He kept a little bible in his pocket and read a verse everytime he had to run and get ammo drops not knowing if he's going to get shot or step on a land mine. He stormed the beaches of Normandy and was shot in the hip in the European theater. He came home and bought 100 acre's of land that my family still owns. He died at age 87 he had a good life after the war I am proud to have known him.
Слава твоему Деду!!!
Уважение к людям ,с которыми он сражался ?? УВАЖЕНИЕ ???
ТЕ, КТО СЖИГАЛ ЛЮДЕЙ В ПЕЧАХ КОНЦЕНТРАЦИОННЫХ ЛАГЕРЕЙ , ТЕ , КТО УБИВАЛ ЖЕНЩИН , ДЕТЕЙ , СТАРИКОВ НЕ МОГУТ НАЗЫВАТЬСЯ ЛЮДЬМИ . А ВАШ ДЕДУШКА ИХ УВАЖАЛ ???? ФАШИСТОВ ????
Самые крутые люди на земле -
ТЕ , КТО ПОБЕДИЛ ФАШИСТОВ .
ТЕ, КТО БРАЛ БЕРЛИН - ЭТО
РУССКИЕ ЛЮДИ. А ДЕДУШКУ ВАШЕГО ЖАЛЬ, - ОН ВИДИМО СИЛЬНО ИСПУГАЛСЯ НЕМЦЕВ....
Much Love, Gratitude & Respect to your Great Uncle & Your Family❣️
And he did all that so Biden could turn this country into China? My Dad was a WWII vet also an he is spinning in his grave at the outrage. Thank God for people like your uncle. But now that they are nearly gone , the country is too.
I bet he realized that he was the bad guy. He likely knew the germans were a good people unjustly attacked by jewish intetests. Very sad.
Although, like many of those modest GI’s, my Dad rarely spoke of the War. He reminisced only on special occasions when his good friend would come to visit. They were medics and my Dad was wounded at the Bulge but, he still spoke kindly of the regular German GI. He understood like himself, politicians were responsible for the horrors that befell all those countries. Thanks you for a well documented film. I will keep it like so many others I’ve viewed hoping to catch a glimpse of my father back then.
One man who is a better man than I will ever hope to be. Who's voice I'll never in my life forget. Even in his age (93) his stern face followed by his deep voice that sent chills up my spine. His eyes never once leaving mine. As he told his tale of "Operation Overlord", his voice started to break only for a moment at first, then two... then before I asked once I belived his tale was coming to close his voice will forever echo in my soul. I'll never forget these words he spoke. It went like this. "After the fighting. I saw the dead as I ate one of my rations that the Sargent that I followed like a shadow told me to eat. And they were being tossed in graves hastily and I didn't think that was right but I Face up and down. Eyes open and closed. I look and saw General Patton himself. I wasn't maybe 10 feet away from him and he was yelling and pointing at the soldiers digging. His voice finally caught my ears in time for me to hear him say. " Those are my men down there. I want my men buried face up. With the honor they deserve" and I heard that and my eyes filled up and I felt the warmth running down my cheeks and I'll never forget what the general did. "
Then his story stopped at i saw that the once stern face turn softer as tears streamed down his face. The weight that could felt while hearing him speak was tremendous. You could feel what he felt. Such a man . Such Men. Soldiers, such... Warriors. Their sacrifice was summed up by the words that Patton spoke and the soldier i quoted perfectly. So now... Why not show the men's faces. Show the world not only the sacrifice but the horrors of that war so that maybe if possible they may not be repeated .
Thanks for reading this btw. The documentary was absolutely without a doubt the best I've ever seen.
Thanks to those who gave their life so that we can live ours.
RIP. We will take it from here. Rest now in Peace.
Oh my goodness, I’m crying now.
My cousin who died long before I was born was on Omaha Beach.
He made it into France, and was killed by enemy fire on his birthday.
My Aunt and Uncle never got over it, you never do.
God Bless and Keep you, Buster Rife. (His given name was Clarence, nobody ever called him that, according to my mom.)
I did a little research on Find A Grave, and was surprised to see that he was buried in the little cemetery in Mechanicsville, Iowa.
Eeeehhhhh shut up 😂
That made me cry
The voice over in the last was simply great." Who were you? Whoever you are ,Thank you" It is very grateful.
É lindo final
Das war noch eine andere USA. Ohne die Sowjetunion hätten die Alleierten niemals Hitler besiegen können. Das scheint heute total vergessen zu sein. Die deutschen Kriegstreiber, die Grünen, FDP und SPD haben keine Vorstellung, was Krieg bedeutet. Sie glauben wirklich die NATO kann gegen Russland gewinnen. Niemals! Die Erde wird verglühen, Was dann? Wo sind die Menschenmassen gegen diese Kriegstreiber?
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My Great UncleJerry jumped into Normandy on D-Day with the 82nd Airbourne. He survived the war, wounded 3 times, Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars. He died in 1996, never married, lived in my Grand Mothers basement as far back as I can remember as a little kid growing up in the 70s.. He was quiet and kept to himself, I would go down and visit him, I would walk with him to the corner store, he would hold my hand with his big hands, he would buy a carton of cigarettes and buy me candy. I didnt know he was in the war until after he passed away.
thats a touching story. so many brave men and war vets come back and are alone with their pain, disabilities .. not right. We would be all goose stepping if it werent for them
Nothing I or anyone can say trumps the courage and bravery of men like him. All my respect and full thanks to your greatuncle.
I had the honor of meeting a man, who was 82nd airborne from st. Marie's Idaho. The story is he and 3 others from there all made the 82nd, and all returned. Delmar Shaw. He said it was because they knew how to shoot, and they were tough because of the logging they did. He had many stories, and he had a way of telling them that'd make you smile. He refrained from the bad ones. He went on an honor flight to Washington to see the memorials, and to me, was larger than life and a true American. Salute to you my friend, RIP.
@@bizzirker My Dad told me that uncle Jerry was also selected for the Armys First Special Service Force which I didnt believe at first so I did some research and found his name on the units roster. He was 1 of only 1500 men to make the unit, they were a joint unit with some Canadiens.
Если бы не Русские вас бы не было...@@msmysticstorytime
80 years since D-Day, Remarkable generation of heroes.
Sacrifício e coragem, para hoje termos uma geração chorona, medrosa e doente. Woke fede.
This was Hands down one of the Best documentaries i have ever seen. Just amazing work. To ALL who worked on this Masterpiece i just want to say well done to the team. A lot of the clips i actually have never seen before let alone seen in color and the writing and editing really painted the picture clearly for me.
If anyone of you who worked on this piece see my comment Keep up the Great Work. You all are a extremely talented group of people.
WOW! This is the best actual footage of WWII I've ever seen. I cant say how impressed I am with the film and story. The only criticism is blurring the dead. Not trying to be morbid, but they gave it all and those alive today need to see the stark reality of war. I liked the emphasis on the preparation, training, ingenuity, and disguise that went into D-Day, and the logistics of making it all happen. That was what the Allies had over the enemy, rather than an small collective of yes men scared of their master. I stayed up way too late to watch this, but it was well worth it. I'll be imploring many to watch this. The significance of WWII, and especially D-Day, needs to be understood by anyone alive that would side with the Allies.
well said, it’s hard to put to perspective but those men out there aged 18-25 are just like us, imagine everything you worked for and the character you built is now being sent to a war. everyone wants to be alive, everyone didn’t want to die but the truth is men were already facing death before they even knew it. from running to just all of a sudden seeing black within a matter of seconds. those who weren’t dead watched the dead perish as they drowned in their own breath. that’s the reality. bodies of men mutilated beyond recognition, to still go out there after seeing that.. man these people were a whole different breed.
Totally agree with blurring the dead. This is a war documentary, morbidity is built-in.
@@paperroutee well said 🙁
The original version of this does not blur out the dead, I found it on vimeo while trying to find a version without the blur.
True. However their families and their generals, and their fellow soldiers all said they didn't want them filmed, even at the time to the cameramen on the ground. This was mentioned in the documentary.
Besides I think most people understand what dead is. If they don't understand what dead is without seeing someone missing a leg I don't know what to tell you. They are probably too young to be watching this at all...
Them not blurring parts would also likely get the video flagged and thus removed from many eyes. Reducing the educational reach and purpose of the documentary...
This is the type of narration and visual that just captivates anyone who enjoys history and wants the deeper story that they didn’t get to learn in school. Well done 💯
@@davesmith3023 there are no more people who want to die for your Nazi Ukraine
@Dave Smith je ne vois pas le
This really makes me appreciate that the freedom we take for granted is not free. Brave men paid the price.
It amazes me that even till this day (2023) that new footage that I have never seen before still comes up in new documentaries about WW2.
it amazes me i have neve seen before still comes up in new documentaries about ww2
I am now 75, but I always find myself thinking back, remembering what my father who a part of the Normandy Invasion. He was 27 at the time but always expressed amazement at the size of the Armada, as he put it "I didn't think there were that many ships in the world.
your dad was a hero and im thankful to him and the men like him i dont speak german now
I am 75 my Dad was in US Navy. He was at D Day. He would talk about it some. He died at age 91. He had nightmares until his death of men the ocean and the ship pulling away as the men called.
Both of your fathers were a small part of the reason my grandparents were even able to have my parents and eventually my brothers and I in Poland in the late 70's and early 80's@@sweetpea2839. My grandfather used to do inconsequential favors for the German occupiers in exchange for cigarettees and other goods he was able to use or trade for survival. We Polak's would've never stopped fighting but if the Yankees didn't get involved when they did, I think this world would have seen a different fate. Every time I saw a WW2 Veteran at a local VA I frequented, I would literally get goosebumps and feel a wave of gratefulness and sorrow overtake me. They were all so much older than the middle east or Vietnam or Korea or Middle East Vets, but they stole everyone's attention and commanded respect and adoration as they were chauffeured or otherwise assisted from wherever they were to wherever they were going in that moment. I rode an elevator with one one time, and I was torn in between reaching out to thank him and shake his hand, and respecting his peace and space.
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I often wondered what the Germans did/said when they saw that armada on the horizon.
My Dad was a sergeant in charge of his platoon of 11 guys, 2x Universal Carriers and 2x 3 inch Mortars and attached to the 3rd Canadian Division during the D-Day landings on Juno Beach (Nan White). He fought all through Europe into Berlin including on the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Dad eventually discharged from the army in the 1950s at the rank of Company Quarter Master Sergeant (CQMS). Rest in peace Dad.
The Russians took Berlin and it cost them about 100,000 men.
@@dennispfeifer7788 That's correct. It's also correct that Stalin's Russia started out at the beginning of WW2 on Hitler's Nazi Germany side against the Western allies. The Hitler-Stalin Pact (also called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) signed on 23rd August, 1939 in Moscow, laid the foundation for the outbreak of WW2 in Europe. The Treaty included that Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on the partition of Poland and Eastern Europe, including Finland. Of course Hitler eventually double-crossed Stalin, but considering Russia had been an ally of the west during WW1, it's an example of how another Russian leader could not be trusted. Putin is cast in the same mold as his soviet era counterpart.
Oui c’est vrai qu’on peut faire confiance au présidents us… 😂 aucun mensonge sur le la deuxième guerre😂, sur le Japon, les saudis, Chili, Cuba, Vietnam, sur Irak 2x, Iran sur l’Ukraine etc la listes des mensonges us est infinie!
A vous entendre c’est vous qui avez détruit l’armée allemande, vous les usa avec des leaders nazi qui ont soutenu le fascisme et qui continue dans ce genre d’idéologie!
Vous qui avez honteusement bombardé des villes européennes sans autre intérêt que celui des bénéfices colossaux engendrés par la reconstruction!
Vous et votre armée à la solde d’intérêt particulier!
Restez chez vous on se porte mieux sans vous! Restez entre mercenaires pourris!
Faites vos magouilles entre vous, entre descendants de colons négriers, détruisez les états du sud au profit du de ceux du nord et recommencer dans l’autre sens tout les 20 ans…
C’est fini, vous avez perdu sur toute la lignes, reste vos mensonges devant l’histoire et les derniers soubresaut d’un état enfoui sous les dettes…
@@atoiton Blah, blah, blah!
Greatest generation
I liked this documentary film not containing any dramatization. Just real participants. I watched it twice.
Same
as a french kid, we use to go every year to Normandy for the annual school trip.. This place still has effect on me 30 years later and I'm sure made a decent personn respectful of others, simply because it's impossible not to be touched by those scene. Thank you to those young man who gave up their lives for us
The French helped the Americans during our revolutionary war, so it cuts both ways... Thank you, France.
On June 6th, 2011, I got to do something I had always desired to do. I stood on the beach at Normandy where the Omaha landing took place. I felt total awe at what had taken place there while looking up at the cliffs and what few rusted German gun emplacements were left. I had the same feeling at Utah. I got to see Sainte-Mere-Eglise and watch the ceremony of each flag being raised to honor each Allied Country that took place that day in 1944. Seeing buildings and walls that were standing that day with the bullet holes still showing. As a Marine Corps Veteran, it was a honor for me to be there. The American Cemetery brought me to tears.
I remember going on a school trip to visit all the ww2 sites .
I went to the american cemetery on omaha beech walling along the path overlooking the beech and the feeling was just something you cant describe, I was taken back by the amount of people who sacraficed themselves to defend us and I will always remember it to the day I die , I remember being there an hour and spent at least 30 mins crying , I felt so honored to be in the presence of so many heroes who gave there lives to allow us to be here today .
It's a day I will never forget and will always honour that day .
may all those rest in peace .
i hope to go back 1 day and revisit all those sites .
thank you for your recolition of your vist
I also went to point du hoc and saw all the fortifications the germans had built on top of that cliff and I thought , how the hell did they accomplish such a feat being at such a disadvantage.
@@God-of-all-monsters they weren't at a disadvantage. the germans controlled multiple countries along with everything in them, including their citizens. they had all the resources to do whatever they wanted.
@@shuarma0 I don't know but maybe @Atraks 1 Fatalis meant how did the allies overcome the cliff with it's fortifications.
Something I hope to get to do before I die. Glad you got to go!!
Regarding what your documentary asked in the part about Juno Beach - "What were these young soldiers thinking..." I can answer specifically for one - Mervin Franklin Jones, one of the first Canadian D-Day paratroopers on the ground. He was thinking "Mervin, I don't think you're going to see your 22nd birthday." My grandfather did survive, and showing that sometimes the universe has a sense of irony, this D-Day participant's 22nd birthday was May 8, 1945 , Victory in Europe Day. It is very good that people are still reminded of the sacrifices so many made to fight for others who needed our help, as there are fewer and fewer of them around to tell us their stories now.
And that is why you never surrender 👊
If some Americans, British or Canadian people read this post and if you know some vets who participated to this heroic actions just please tell them how grateful we the french people are for their sacrifice, I know a simple MERCI sound maybe light but beside this word there are thousand of different emotions in my heart,
Wonderful, beautiful sentiment, thank you from the USA.
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Thanks to all those who came before us! My gramps was in this war and I feel every American should watch this video and really think about it. Words can't begin to describe the love I have for all those who fought and died to preserve peace and unity. Very thankful for the people who digitally remastered this film.
@@ramon3897 all about your outlook my friend!
@@williamjones7851 within
To think, the majority of those men VOLUTEERED for service. After Pearl Harbor, there were line ups at recruiting centers for all branches of service. Men signed up on their 18th birthday. And they all knew what they were getting into and went and did it anyhow.
@@robingourde9366 my gramps had his mom n dad sign for him he was 16 when he went into WWII as a marine!
@@evanhainey2101 the bravery of all the men! I never forget our soldiers and if Canada gets in war you better believe me and my brothers are going.
What we saw on this documentary is just the tip of the iceberg. The sacrifice made and blood and sweat spilled to accomplish this was far more brutal and inexplicable. We thank all those nameless and faceless brothers who paid the ultimate price selflessly and in bravery, you have written your history in blood and the generation will remember you for a thousand years. Rest In Glory !
Brilliantly stated mate. 👍
the weird thing is, that the losses and effords to win the war are still being exaggerated by the allied. i don´t know why, but i think its to make the final victory look even bigger. at that point it was only a question of time untill it was over. probably even without an invasion. Germany was already bombed into smithereens and japan also.
the sad thing about the war is, that the politicians "needed" the battles of berlin, france and in the pacific to make a stand and to show the world how powerfull they are. not to mention the drop of the a-bomb. And so thousands of young men are sent to die.
@@snakeplissken2148 ...you are going the right way.....when you forget all the official stories and you think that from the beginning the allies wanted the war......suddenly all inconsistencies disappear.
The Longest Day in history
They are not faceless or nameless!!
Amazing documentary, I actually met a guy who filmed part of the landings, what he told me chilled to the bones, horrific to say the least. The men and women involved were so so brave. Huge respect !!
Which one,Omaha?.I remember reading the guy that took photos of Omaha landing lost just about every one out of hundreds taken because his photo lab assistant did something to screw up the photos but a few.It must have been a fantastic honor to talk to him.WOW.The most chilling photos of the landing I've seen is the one where the soldier is hiding behind a hedgehog while a wave came in.I have read the accounts from soldiers landing and you are right,it was horrific.
@@mpatrickthomas Yeah, Omaha, I don't know about photos but this guy actually filmed, well when he could, he said he vomited so much. Brave brave men.
Care to share any of the stories he shared with you?
, I highly recommend this historical TH-cam channel to anyone who has a passion for learning about the past. It's a treasure trove of knowledge and a fantastic resource for history enthusiasts. Keep up the fantastic work!"
It's phenomenally inaccurate.
Watch this "documentary" if you want to get spoon-feed with false information by a youtube channel based in United States. Better do your own research.
My parents were children living on the south coast of England during the war. Both had narrow escapes from pieces of aircraft falling during the Battle of Britain or being strafed by a German raider. They told me how the entire town was sealed off for weeks before D Day because there was no hiding all the massive troops movements, vehicles and shipping being concentrated. On the night of D Day itself they were woken by the sound of hundreds of aircraft passing overhead, all going south across the coast. In the morning all the assault ships and troops ships had gone from the harbour and the Mulberry caissons had been towed over the horizon. In the days that followed there was an endless flow of aircraft and more ships carrying troops and equipment. It was something they never forget and told us about when we were children ourselves. In the area around our town it was Canadian troops who were stationed and it was some of those brave men who carried out the Dieppe Raid some years before and from which so much was learned but at great cost.
Did they have any v1 or v2 rockets hit by them after battle of Britain?
@@randybobandy9828 It was mainly bombs dropped from aircraft, just under 100 raids killing 300 and injuring around 500. But yes, there were some V1s during 1944. As far as I know there were no V2s in our particular town. With the V1s, Britain had captured all German spies parachuted into the country and false information was being fed back to Germany about the location of where V1s fell. As most were initially targeted at London, information was given to Germany that the missiles had fallen past London and to shorten the range. The meant that most V1s fell on fields , villages and smaller towns between the coast and London. Later in the war some coastal towns were the target, specially where there was a port or railway junction. My parents said that when the V1 motor stopped, they counted to 10 and that's when it detonated on the ground. Of course, those under the V2 target areas had no warning at all and for a while, the authorities had no idea what was causing those explosions.
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French, always passionate about history, especially WW2, I can never thank enough all these brave guys who came to liberate my country and Europe.
I have visited the beaches of Normandy many times and I have been able to visit museums and go to cemeteries. It is heartbreaking and very moving.
I was born on June 18 (Gal de Gaulle's call to resist the invader), my wife was born on May 8 (End of WW2 in Europe), and my eldest son was born on June 6 (landing).
I not only celebrate his birthday every year, but our Liberation.
Thank you Allies!!
Nice comment Pierre. I think all European Nations were equally brave during that time.
I think, by looking which direction France, Portugal, Spain and Germany and now UK is going, it look like nothing was learned from history by them. Now due to political correctness, Muslims are taking country by country, governments, using our law, TV, and media. I think our soldiers, knights now are just crying in their grave what is happening in EU... Soon EU or if now, is just another Muslim country state...These countries are gone now.
@@maciejrobertm1158 Not really false, unfortnately.
But it's easier to fight a man with an uniform than a religion...
on the other hand, the wars of religion exist since the creation of each religion.
Too bad, when it is a prison for the simple-minded.
My uncle died in France in September 1944 ,they were trying to push the Germans out France and was ambushed.
@@hmm3597 the French give up so easy. Even today people joke about the french surrendering so easy to anything. If the french were not cowards, a lot less people would have died.
As a young French man, that is such a magnificent documentary with lot of emotions, thanks a lot. Thank you so much to all our past liberators.
Im French too and i totally agree 👍
You owe us. We accept your hot French chicks in payment 😜
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Et surtout le plus grand merci c'est surtout au Russe .
@@gilbertvandenbroucke7827 Oui, les Russe ont fait quasi tout le boulot et on arrive encore a penser aux américains en pensant a la seconde guerre mondiale, c’est juste les américains avec leurs égo ils ont tendance a dire que ils ont sauver l’europe du génocide, nazis etc.. C’est aussi comme sa pour la premiere guerre mondiale je crois.
Спасибо за фильм. Спасибо за прекрасный расказ, про страшную войну.
By far the best D-Day documentary I have seen and I have watched a lot of them, My dad landed at Normandy on D-Day plus ten ( June 16th ) and this film gave me a real feel for what he saw and experienced during the push on Paris and with so much of the film in color it was a real joy to watch. Many thanks to all involved in the making of this excellent film.
My Grandfather landed at Juneau Beach, a Canadian beach which is represented by a Union Jack? Disappointingly sloppy.
@@tuscanytrek That is unfortunate. I did not notice that error but if I were Canadian I'm sure I would have. Despite that oversight, your grandfather did his duty and you must be very proud of him. I have often thought that the Canadians and the Australians do not get their fair share of credit for their WW II service.
Democrats of today say all these men were racists...what do u say to them?
@@THEENERGYINHALER First of all, Democrats of today need to remember that Frank;in Roosevelt wanted no part of putting black soldiers in combat, preferring to go along with the status quo by keeping them in support role. It was only due to the constant pressure applied by his wife Eleanor that black combat soldiers and pilots were finally approved. Secondly, racism is alive and well today and just as caustic and degrading as back then but I feel it is maybe worse because it is more covert and insidious.
@@tuscanytrek Dont blame it on Britain this is a French Production !
This is truly a one of a kind documentary, with stellar footage, recoloring, narration, and foley no less. Unbiased narration as well. It’s one of a kind because it actually hits at many points that often aren’t discussed about D-Day and pre-d-day invasion- the logistics. The sheer amount of allied cooperation to see these plans agreed, acted on, and fulfilled is nothing short of an industrial-mechanized miracle. One can only imagine what these characters, Churchill, Roosevelt, or perhaps even more so intimately- all the major allied generals must have been thinking prior to this massive land invasion. But this footage gives us a glimpse into this and it’s often not discussed. It’s a huge shame that this is censored. If anyone can find the uncensored version, I’d implore them to share it.
I would not rather see dead torn apart bodies. The narration is good enough. I get the picture, so to speak!
What one are you talking about?
@@josephweaver5385 I don’t write it from a point of view that would necessary LIKE to see death and corpses, rather i stand from the point of view that censoring such things defuses some of the real horror and tragedy of war that we would otherwise come to realize by actually seeing the consequences of it. I don’t want it simply out of vanity, I truly believe this deducts from the full realization of war, and that is that the cornerstone of it lies in the taking of otherwise normal everyday lives. They too were humans, it’s horrific, but we need to know what happened, and what it looked like, as to do our very best efforts to avoid ever submitting to it again. Photography and videography is one of the best inventions man has ever devised, as it immortalizes the past into something beyond simply myth, or legend. It becomes something tenable, visual, real, and it has the ability to express that ethos in a chronological format. We have to take advantage of it and use it to its utmost degree.
I agree on all points Banjo Show.
@@TheBanjoShowOfficial I couldn't agree more. My father showed me uncensored pictures from the war. believe me, I remember and I will never condone war.
My father only missed the invasion because of his poor eyesight. He kept the bombers flying by being a mechanic. 50 years later he had eye surgery and had perfect vision. Every time a WWII veteran dies, I am so sad. We were lucky to have such men and women living amongst us.
Un documentaire fort en émotions, je remercie ses jeunes américains, canadiens et anglais d'avoir libéré mon pays dont beaucoup y ont malheureusement laissé leur vie.
Thank you from the USA
An EXCELLENT piece of historical film-making ... certainly very distinct from the great many that have come before it. Extremely well done. Thank you for doing this.
Having seen many D-Day documentaries in my 78 years, IMO this is the one of the better I've seen. The build up in England, the training and housing of troops and storage and all that leading up was well done. The whole program was excellent. You pretty much covered in a very short time, most of the major points of the period. As this was prepared for the 70th anniversary in 2014, I understand why, but to haze out KIA casualties, both theirs and ours, misses the point as it actually shows ppl the horror of war. Perhaps the viewing might allow ppl to better understand and sympathize with the current actual war in Ukraine and what the dead look like. It puts a human image on warfare beyond the cold facts and figures of a documentary; in my humble opinion.
78 years is a mighty good time. salut a vous, as my French memory would say. I have only 73.
RAY BAME - Well said; I agree. Seventy-eight? You were likely born in ‘44 - the year of D-Day!
I thought it odd as they did show some dead people.
especially at 47:36, seen that clip many times in my 70 years . . . gave me a lot of soul searching... this here is the first doc in recent times that had the KIA in the beach scene completely blurred/blocked... ( you bonehead editors )...............For when he falls we should all stand and salute ... walking thru gunfire is nightmarish hell .... it was for my squad n Nam. Don't blur that man out...salute that man out.
I was thinking the same thing about the blurring out of the KIAs. Although it might of been done out of respect for the dead, but knowing the way things are these days, I doubt it. My great uncle was on Omaha beach part of the 2nd wave, and my Grandfather fought in the Pacific. I joined the US Army when I was 22 in 2009 because I felt strongly that I should serve the country that has given me so much. I'm 35 now and kids these days are being taught to hate their own country in schools, I can't have any kids of my own without surgery due to an injury I received while in the service, but I have a nephew, and I am scared to death for his future and the future of the country.
On my deployment in the Navy in 2018, one of our ports was Portsmouth England, the same port that the D-Day landing embarked from. I thought that was really intriguing, because when I was able to leave the ship, I would walk down the docks and see signs that said which units left from what dock at what time on the 5th of June 1944. It was awesome.
So you find death of innocent men forced into service aka slavery to their untimely death intriguing do you?!?🤔 Sounds like you've been successfully brainwashed!!
You should have found the museum.
@@climeaware4814 Great museum. I was in the UK in 2019 from NZ, visiting the Portsmouth Naval Museum and I came across the D Day one by mistake just as it was closing. I went back the next day and spent the whole morning there. This was a bonus for me and the icing on the cake as I had been to France the week before and took a tour of the the two US beaches.
What an amazing program - it teaches history in a much different way than a book . Of course I had to cry , all these young men facing death , the suffering of the wounded , and because my own Uncle was shot down over Guam June 12 , 1944 , never recovered to this day . My Father was also in the Pacific , on the Ranger , never talked about any of his his experiences , but never taught me hate or prejudice . This was truly the Greatest Generation that I will never see again the rest of my life .
What balls these people had. Thank you EVERYONE involved, what courageous people
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Яйца были у граждан СССР, а у вас так , мешочки . Козлы , как всегда наблюдали
It’s hard to imagine now that we live in such good times, but at that particular time, the world was under threat. We know that Hitler got defeated now, but it was very uncertain back then. What a wierd feeling it must have been.
I was in Afghanistan during its worst year of war, 2009 - 2010, and what we went through was a mere scratch on the surface of what these boys went through. I once met a WW2 vet at the LA Zoo who landed at Omaha Beach, and he said, "Hell, i'd take Europe fighting any day over Afghanistan." It really was mind-blowing just how humble they were. Greatest Generation indeed.
Yea I was in nam dak to kon tum the most intense close quarter fighting but a stroll in the park compared to these guys
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Это всё царапина на поверхности по сравнению с тем адом что пришлось пройти русским в WW2 . С 1941-45 СССР погибли 20 миллионов человек .
@@микс-ъ9я Да, но, к сожалению, про наш ад они никогда не знали и не узнают. Для них история уже переписана. Они живут в полной уверенности, что это иммено эти люди освободили мир от нацизма, высадившись на пляж Омаха....
@@irinaklaric1963ohne die Hilfe der Amerikaner an Waffen, Panzern, Flugzeugen, Munition, Fahrzeugen über Murmansk und ohne 2. Front hätte die UdSSR gegen die deutsche Armee keine Chance gehabt. So ehrlich muss man sein. Soll nicht die Verluste und den Mut der Russen schmälern, aber alleine 1:1 gegen Deutschland hätten sie keine Chance gehabt.
Thanks for the upload and original film crew. Its incredibly moving to watch and listen to these accounts especially if you had close family involved - my father in law Joe was a SGT in an advanced observer unit often skirting or behind enemy lines including Operation Market Garden - incredibly brave, often isolated or cut off for periods. And my grandfather Frank on my dads side was a Merchant Navy captain, torpedoed on two separate ships / occasions and survived although with lung damage due to oil ingestion - incredible he survived at all in open sea. My own dad was too young although did his national service in the RAF, Malta working on Spitfires which remained there for some years.
Everyone has a story and these documentaries help to keep them alive.
What is the music at the 20th minute
Thanks to all heroes for a better future! Never forget!!!
Greetings from Slovenia🙏
My father was a soviet soldier for 1936 to 1947 years. He participated to Finnish, 2WW and war against Japan. He was married with my mom in 1944. They lived together until 1956, when my father died. They had 8 children
You failed to mention how Russia begged for help from America, too afraid to fight Germany alone. Then you betrayed America, thanks for nothing!
Your father was a hero and on the eastern front too! In America we don’t give enough attention to the Eastern Front and respect to the Soviet soldiers who sacrificed more than any other ally including my country. I have a great grandfather who was on a medical ship in the war against Japan and a great uncle who’s Army uniform is in my closest. I feel very grateful for their and your father’s war service and I’m very glad they won!
@@1984isnotamanual Respect to your grandfather for the participating in 2WW. I hope it was last war in our history 🙏
Вот это история любви ❤ спасибо деду за победу
@@1984isnotamanualесть ещё нормальные люди в США. Миру мир. Не допустим третьей мировой.
I had five deployments over a 15-year career in combat and I can't imagine what these men went through. I've seen a lot downrange but nothing compared to what these boys did at such a young age. Truly the greatest generation.
Could not imagine climbing into one of those tanks and buttoning up facing that uncertainty!May they all Rest In Peace! they were all of them, the greatest generation!
never forget what hapend in Jugoslavija
These are men, not boys and these to me are heros.
@@lintonero9018 It's a figure of speech.
Can safely say a soldier nowadays wouldn't cut it back tben
My uncle was 82nd Airborne on D-Day, he was also in the Battle of the Bulge. How he survived both is beyond imagination. May God bless them all.
感谢你的叔叔
They are not blessed by God. Most were probably damned for what they did to the innocent germans.
@Jack Pleb then you should see what I did to your mom
@@jackpleb2360 Your last name suits you.... a Pleb
@@jackpleb2360
How apt your name, given your statement.
That I can honestly say this is one of the most perfect documentaries I have ever watched. How can I even find the correct words to give it the credit it deserves? Awesome, outstanding, moving, tense and yet touching. just about covers it. It highlights humanity and horror.
Highly recommended apocalipsis WWII, and others follwomng this name.
Про Курскую дугу посмотри или Сталинград. Ты будешь в шоке что немцы творили там.
Я знаю, что они делали в тех местах, и там они встретили свой конец, разгромленные Красной Армией.@@ИрикНасибуллин-ь6ц
Битва при Фализе - "Крупнейшая бойня за всю историю военных действий" (5000-6000 погибщих немцев)
Тем временем:
1. Битва за Москву ~500 000 погибших немцев
2. Сталинградская битва ~850 000 погибших немцев
3. Курская битва ~440 000 погибших немцев
4. Битва за Днепр ~400 000 погибших немцев
5. Битва на Правобережной Украине ~250 000 погибших немцев
6. Операция «Багратион» ~409 000 погибших немцев
7. Восточно-Прусская операция ~487 300 погибших немцев
8. Смоленское сражение ~250 000 погибших немцев
9. Битва за Кавказ ~281 000 погибших немцев
10. Битва под Киевом ~128 600 погибших немцев
Ну да, куда этим битвам до крупнейшей бойни при Фализе за всю историю военных действий...
One of the absolute best WW2 documentaries I have been fortunate to see. Love it !!
Unfortunately there's a fair few inaccuracies in there but it is still good
Correct them buddy
Would you rate this better than Ken Burns' The War?
@@lizettewanzer8650 I haven’t seen that one yet I don’t think. But I have seen some of Ken Burns other documentaries and they are all great.
My Dad fought in this war and several others, he is my personal hero, and yet I also thank the other heroes whose names I may never know. Thank you!👏🏽💜🙏🏽
The cliche, the Greatest Generation, is so true. I had two great uncles (father's side) fight in this theatre, one with the 45th, fought throughout Italy, then across France with Patton and eventually helped liberate Dachau; the other landed in Normandy in a glider providing light artillery support for the 82nd and 101; another great uncle (mother's side) was a Machinists Mate on subs in the Pacific... My dad went on to fight in Korea (45th as well), went up and down Old Baldy several times, then early stages of Vietnam, all were my heroes, and tough to live up to...
they where sacrfised on that day in Ritual 666 6.6.1(9)44 for N.w.o .
My grandfather did to best generation that ever lived
Yes they are all the Hero for humanity and civilization ever and ever.
My uncle (dad’s brother, may they RIP) was drafted in to the war, but had a medical discharge during basic training. He had a bad heart murmur. His doctor said if he lived to 28, he would live to 100.
He passed at age 27.
Incredible documentary, a complete real image of war. Thank you, and to all the brave men and women who fought with honor, no matter the flag they fought under.
Every American owes these heroes a debt of gratitude. We live how we do because of what they did for us. Freedom is not free. These men and women paid for the freedoms we enjoy in blood. Thank you
it is a real shame that this film did not show the dead. Not out of some morbid desire to see such images but by hiding them it softens the impact. History isn't there to be ignored and the harder it hits the more we should take notice and learn. My Uncle was there in a LCT at 0530 on D Day - he never spoke of it, his brother, my Dad was delivering Canadian troops and stores sometime between 6 and 11 June as he did not use the Mulberry harbour. He did say to me once that there were still bodies to be seen.
Floutages ridicules
My thoughts. Showing the dead in this context for history and to show how dangerous war is shouldn't be covered up like that
However their families and their generals, and their fellow soldiers all said they didn't want them filmed, even at the time to the cameramen on the ground. This was mentioned in the documentary.
Besides I think most people understand what dead is. If they don't understand what dead is without seeing someone missing a leg I don't know what to tell you. They are probably too young to be watching this at all...
Them not blurring parts would also likely get the video flagged and thus removed from many eyes. Reducing the educational reach and purpose of the documentary... You can watch it unedited yourself if you don't know what a body looks like and are that weird.
It's for TH-cam censorship, because little children watch it now days, and there's no way to monitor age
@@shable1436 No
A dear family friend of ours was a Canadian bomber pilot stationed in England, who contributed to the D-Day landings. He'll turn 100 this coming August, & he's still pretty sharp - got a nice handwritten letter at Xmas. He crashed 4 times on friendly territory during his tour & earned the moniker "Crash" (he was exonerated of culpability in all 4 crashes). The medical shrinks examined the whole crew after their 17th trip & found only 2 worthy of continuing their tour - "Crash" & Kenny, his Rear Gunner. Kenny was concerned the rest of the crew would deem them cowards if they decided not to continue (even though the upper-brass were perfectly willing to give a by to the whole crew after trip #17). On the 19th mission they suffered a friendly-fire attack, resulting in the failure of one of the landing gears to deploy. They made it to a crash dome where the other wheel simply snapped off upon touchdown. They did two 360s before the bomber came to rest. The upper-brass credited them with a full tour after that (a full tour was deemed to be 25 trips). "Crash's" 414A form (a summary of a pilot's assessment & flying abilities) had him consistently placed in the "Above the Average" category. There aren't many remaining from the Greatest Generation.
Those who "won" where projecting their own crimes.
Banksters/media behind every war and since the "good" ones "won" there has been countless wars and dept slavory.
Amazing. Our children should be taught about this in our schools and it should never be forgotten. My dad was a Dunkirk veteran with the North Yorkshire Light Infantry and survived to tell the tale. Marvellous men.
Where do you live that you don't learn this in school? Serious question. This is a top 10 moments in our time.
They gave their lives so you could enjoy road tax, income tax, value added tax, property tax, bedroom tax, electric bills, water bills, heating bills, food bills, covid, monkeypox, climate change, government corruption, corporate greed, old age, white hair, brittle bones, bad breath, disability, and death.
germany let dunkirk allies troops leave. it was the easiest to survive
Do you mean KOYLI ?
It is criminal that they aren’t.
- "I just watched this video and I'm blown away! The message is so powerful and the visuals are stunning. Thank you for sharing!"
Brilliant documentary. My dad was in the RAF in late 50's early 60's.I grew up watching documentaries like this.
Your dad was a pawn
My countrymen fought in the Battle of England, escorted convoys in the Atlantic, liberated France, the Netherlands, and Italy. 6,000,000 of them were killed by Russians and Germans. 1,000,000 children, women, and old men were burned, their heads chopped off, their bellies ripped open in the Wolyn massacre by the Ukrainians. Do you know what awaited them after the war? They were sold by Churchill and Roosevelt for decades into Russian captivity. Now you call them "former communist bloc".
Documentary ? Nonsense it was designed as an old wives tale. It's primarily extracts from WW2 Newspaper Propaganda headlines, so not very accurate ! For military documentaries with quality research you can't beat the 42 x 2 Hour "WW2 BATTLEFIELD" British produced series of programmes from 1998-2002, all of which were uploaded to TH-cam by "Vasil Luga" some years ago.
Thank you to all of the veterans that served in war and peace and those who are serving today.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Amen 🌹
Intestinal fortitude. We who live in the allied countries should never forget. Not just D Day. All of the struggles, hardships, assaults on the person, destruction of property, death and ruined lives that were part of and the consequence of war. When tyranny rears its head whether it be at home or abroad we who cherish freedom have a duty to our forefathers, to each other, and to our heirs to confront it, stop it and destroy it. This film was very well done.
Very beautifully said.
and yet we stand aside and allow Russia to invade a sovereign country, committing some of the worst atrocities imaginable against women, children and the aged. So what was D Day for? Have we
lost the backbone and courage our forefathers had in fighting for our freedom. Yes we have, in the hope that this atrocity won't reach us. Shame on NATO shame on UN shame on EU. Slava Ukraine
Say that to trump😅
How is it that TH-cam algorithms took two and a half years to present this SUPERB documentary to me, and this despite me regularly viewing historical documentaries on WWII?
Простите,а чем вы интересовались в ютюбе все эти годы?
The most unabelievable documentary of D-Day I have ever seen. Those men were the bravest men ever. Thank you for making this available for all to see!
The germans were brave. The allies were shabbos goy slaves.
Loved that last line: "Whoever you are, thank you."
One of the best film on the Normandy landing i have seen so far. Vast amount of footage i have never seen before and very well balanced use. Thank you very much !
Apart from the Monty Bashing but not surprising since it is a French production !
This documentary is very informative & realistic. Thanks to channel
It’s almost like a dream how could this of happened, this documentary should be seen by every student so they can see what there forefathers went through
It seems like a dream because we are sheltered. That kind of stuff still goes on today. It went on for centuries long before WW 2 but it's those era's is hard to grasp because there's not photographic evidence. It goes on China but they control the flow of information going out and in. The slaves in America went through a similar circumstance. Times before America there's always been wars and genocide.
That's why we gotta stop thinking like that. Because with that kind of thinking it will happen again. We need to start humanizing it because Germans where like us pre Adolf. Under the right circumstances everyone is susceptible to join a party like the NSDAP. We already see it on the left with their intolerance to those who have a different belief then they do. Calling for violence. Calling for deaths. Laughing at people who died over their opinions on that vaccine. If you're laughing over someone who died then you are literally no better then the nazi's. Because that's how it started.
They'll go through the same when Biden declares war against Russia. 😓
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اگر انگلیسی هستی بدان چرچیل شما تمام موادغذایی کشور من ایران را بعد از اشغال نظامی غارت کرد وباعث کشته شدن نیمی از جمعیت شد ۱۰میلیون انسان به خاطر قحطی وگرسنگی پس افتخاری نیست
My wife's grandfather was first wave on Juno. On a rare moment or two he would relate a story. But he always stop,turn away, story over. Rest in Peace Bruce. Like all through these comments, Greatest Generation, blessings. 🇨🇦
God Bless your family 🙏
This documentary forgets to mention the Polish troops. Yet at 59:23 you can see the Polish flag being mounted. It is a shame that the Polish Soldier was forgotten here. There were 17 thousand Polish Soldiers by the side of Canadians: ''It was by pure coincidence that the Polish armoured division, 17,000 men who had fled Hitler's invasion of their country in 1939 by escaping to Britain, became the liberators of Potigny as they fought across Normandy from the D-Day beaches beside the Canadian army.'' Also: ''Polish airmen took part in missions on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy. Several Polish ships also took part in the naval part of D-Day, and the 1st Polish Armoured Division landed later in the campaign and took part in the fighting around the Falaise Pocket.'' Yet Polish troops did not take part in the Victory parade in London on 8th of June, 1946 because the Communistic regime of Stalin did not let them appear in London. Polish Soldiers and Polish airmen also must be remembered here!
I agree, I salute the Polish Soldiers!
@@rodrigjose I confirm. And I thank you very much. Not to brag about myself but I mentioned the Polish soldiers because I am Polish-American and I served in the United States Army in 1970's. I feel so much affnity towards the US military uniform.
It is just a fact that more Poles joined with the Nazis than fought against them.
@@SN-xk2rl Yes, the Poles fought for the Nazis; about 300 thousand of them and they had German blood in them such as the Kashubians who till today use their own language which resembles German language mixed with some Prussian language. But even though they were Polish citizens, they were of other ethnic origins such as Ukrainians, Belarussians, Lithuanians. And they joined the Nazis because they were more afraid of Communism rather than Germans. But Jews had also a part in liquidating their own people in Ghettos: ''The Jewish Ghetto Police or Jewish Police Service (German: Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei or Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst), also called the Jewish Police by Jews, were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local Judenrat'' The Polish soldiers were the true Poles who loved their country and fought for it. So, they deserve honor.
Majority of French Army were African and everything you see is all white French liberating french which is false.
It's the sincerity & accuracy of this piece for me. Weldon sir
Great documentary Iam an old man now and my grandfather aged 17 hit those beaches with the British army he lost both legs but survived , my grandad was bitter but not towards his family
Not bitter enough to not get married.
The world owes deep gratitude to these soldiers who laid down their lives so that future generations could prosper
and now we are worried about genders
No way
tuje kya
gratitude, Lol
The young do not have any appreciation for those days in our history and will willingly give up this great democracy for reasons that they don’t understand.
My neighbor who has since passed away was a POW twice in Italy. Never forget him telling me after their recapture , the Germans shot all the officers, one standing right next to him. Then he burst out crying as if living it all again. Bob had raised eight kids and the sons would badger me if he had told me any war stories. I never told them, I think he didn't want them to know. RIP TO THAT GENERATION
Я из России, и посмотрел с удовольствием ваш фильм! Жизнь подходит к завершению! А я смотрю на тех парней, которые отдали свою жизнь, в войне с фашизмом! Это уже история! Мой дедушка и его родной брат погибли в один день, в мае 1944 года! Помню и горжусь ими!
✊❤️🔥🙏
So am I.
And Iam thanking your forefathers for their help
without it
*we*
*@uk* could be
speaking German.
"Lest we forget"
✊❤️🔥🙏
I thank
you & yours
for giving us freedom & hope.
*Lest we forget*
*all* *men* *amen*
The best documentary of the D-Day I have seen in my life
...by far... well done to the producers and contributors to make this happen...
All for nothing...Europe now overrun by cancer/islam. RIP all for nothing. Conquered without a bullet fired.
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And the most inaccurate I have seen in 40 years. So much of the story missed or misrepresented DO NOT make this the only thing you watch on it. Read diaries etc. They missed huge moments , concentrated on divisions and rumour and ignore or chose not to tell many important facts. (Such as the Caen defenders being the 21st panzer division with many more tanks in the area! Not a word said of it!)
Then you need to watch a lot more - this was a rehash of many other documentaries
Lets not ever forget that these "men" were 19, 20, 21 year old and more volunteers.
Never forget, always respect.
i agree my Dad signed up in 1939 served in the BEF then North Africa, Italy and back home to retrain for DDay at this point, he was 28yrs old so a old boy to some of the new young lads going in for the first time. Heroes All.
The American's avg age was 24.
some were younger. volunteers signed over by their parents at country stores and post offices in the country they didnt have recruiting stations in every town.
@@miketaylor5212 ,, And, some were much older. That's how averages work. Lol
The Draft and WWII
On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history.
Sorry to bust your bubble.
You don't get 16,112,566 Americans to serve during a war by simply volunteering.
@@MickRiley My uncle was 26 when he was drafted into the US Army in 1942.
I disagree with the last comment about blurring out the dead for two reasons, TH-cam rightly has its guide lines and second no disservice was shown by the blurring, it was respect for the departed. One of the best documentaries I have watch about WWII. My only regret is that it wasn't longer.
I disagree with the last comment about blurring out the dead for two reason
That generation saved the world. They didn’t fight for the world to turn out the way it has. Lest we forget ❤
I wouldn't say the blurring of the dead soldiers ruined it, but it was distracting and a little annoying.
I'm American, and In April 2023, we traveled to Normandy and visited several WW2 sites, including Arromanches and the museum of the Mulberry harbors. At the exit, an older French woman, probably in her 80s, clasped my hands in hers and said Merci, merci beaucoup. I was dumbfounded and managed to say You're welcome, which wasn't very eloquent. She smiled broadly repeated Merci then let go of my hands. What an astonishing and unforgettable interaction.
France, you helped us start our country and we helped you keep yours. BFFs forever! 🇨🇵🇺🇲
Sizin dedeleriniz Americayı kurdu tamamda müslümanlarında başına bela oldunuz eline sopa almış bir deli gibi kapı kapı dolaşıp karıştırmadığınız ülke kalmadı kimini siz vurdunuz bı bahaneyle kiminide bi şekilde karıştırarak bölerek zarar verdiniz böl parçala yut tekniyini uyguladınız ama unutmayın zalimliyin sonucu sizde hüsrana birgün uğrayacaksınız filistine yapılanları görmüyorsunuz heralde İsrail bebek yaşlı dinlemeden öldürüyor hiç bir müslüman ülke americanın korkusundan birşey de diyemiyor zaten bazı müslüman ülkelerin liderleri sizlerin belirlediği adamlar yönetiyor ama buna rağmen bunu unutmayınki son tokadı ve sağlam tokadı Türklerden siz zalimler elbet yiyeceksiniz çünkü sizlerin deyiştirdiğiniz kitapta yazmaz bizim yani müslümanların gerçek doğru ve Allahın bu kitaba uyun dediyi kuran da yazıyor sonunda müslümanlar ezici şekilde galip gelecek ortalığı karıştıran sizleri helak yani yok edicez