WWII in Color Part 9: Overlord
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2017
- 9th part of the series WWII in Color. Under section 29 of the Copyright Act of Canada, copyright material may be used for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody, or satire, and is classified under fair use.
tomorrow is june 6 2017. i'm looking forward to visiting my dad's grave. he was amongst the 1st wave that landed on omaha beach. he passed 4-1-13. i'm going to thank him for all he did during his life, it's something i should have done more of when he was still alive. thanks dad.
Jesus. You have my best wishes for what your father did in helping liberate Europe.
Documentary101: thanks. his brother (my uncle) is still alive at 95 yrs. he fought in the pacific during ww2. he lives alone, but our family calls him daily & includes him in events.
midnight rider that's a awesome thing to read bro! My mom was in ww2 stationed as a hospital corpsman in the SF Bay Area.
Jared Shane: thanks for the kind reply. i did stop at his grave today. i'm with my 96 yr old mom now. my dad has a 95 yr old brother who is still alive, he fought in the pacific during ww2. i'll call him up today.
Greetings friend, how lucky you are, my father was with the french resistance at Normandy on D-day,he died in 2004 at 80 years age, my mother just passed away 4 weeks ago at age 93, she was a cryptographer during WW2 working for the British and Dutch. You have wonderfull living treasures with you, a gift from God,please send them my blessings,I miss my folks very very much.
I really appreciate this style of documentary versus the style where every 30 seconds theres a historian sitting in front of a bunch of books explaining to us what we're seeing. all footage, no fluff!
My Uncle was 82nd Airborne on D-Day, the 82nd came down near St. Mere Eglise. He managed to survive not only that night, but all the way through the Battle of Bulge. How he managed to make it home after being in all that is nothing short of a miracle.
Very happy for you mine never made it
Did he bring anything back?
My gramps was in that group ...wow
My grandfather Master Sergeant Ellis Ray Owens was in battle earlier on the war then volunteered for the 82nd. Jumped over Normandy and made it home after fighting his way across Europe. We have a letter from him that he wrote to his parents expecting it to “all be over by Christmas”.
Of course, we know, now that the battle of the bulge” proved all of that wrong.
He said the night they jumped out of that airplane over Normandy, the night was lit up like a Christmas tree and that was and he could not wait to get out of that plane as many rounds that look to be fired in his direction. Of course, that was just the tracer rounds he saw.
He told me about the “crickets” they used to identify each other, and that he had lost his.
He told me stories about Market Garden and other campaigns.
I was told that when he revisited Europe with his son after a Normandy and D-Day reunion, and with his son, who was stationed there, and his daughter-in-law, who was from Germany, he would go to towns where he had been in battles and excitedly run around, showing them places that he remembered clearly being at.
I remember the ball cap that the veterans received with his unit designation on it but to this day I feel like I remember a five and perhaps a zero one and I can picture that ball cap but I don’t know which unit he was in within the 82nd.
I do know he was not a big fan of generals, had Syn Patton, and was not a big fan of his saying that he didn’t care anything about soldiers’ blood.
He was a big fan of Slim Jim McGavin, though.
He was not a big fan of the SS and although he called the Germans, the Heineys, he never spoke ill of them like he did theS
SS.
I have the fortune of remembering standing with him and his Mississippi garden after he retired, and he told me the funny stories from the war but as I got older, he would tell me stories when I would ask him what he was thinking, as he stood, looking off in the distance, eating a tomato.
I remember him telling me he still has dreams about a young German soldier on a bridge that died.
When I excitedly told him that I had enlisted in the US Army infantry, he became very saddened, and stated when I asked why, “I don’t want you to see the things I’ve seen, hear the things I’ve heard, or smell, the things I’ve smelled”.
My five year-old son is named Ellis after him. I just hope my son doesn’t have to go to war and experience what my grandfather did.
@@jonathanriffey12345 he was from Mississippi..that's where mine is from ..I still live here
I will always have respect and reverance for all these soldiers who gave their lives for all.They did their work, no bath, little sleep, fear, anxiety, ...Yet they fought..For a just cause..Some came back, some did not..They were young..They died young..Lets dig deep..To think of them..And Glory in them..They GAVE IT ALL..❤❤❤❤
All for nothing because every western country is being invaded by third world peoples.
True heroes and we own them a lot. The world would have been different if not for them.
You make me wanna fart!
The footage of soldiers coming ashore from a craft and said Gold beach was at Juno Beach, where Canadian troops landed. That footage was show in cinema newsreels that night in London, countrywide by June 7, 1944.
Very true.
Dieppe was not a practice run for Overlord, it was a distraction raid so that a top secret radar expert named Jack Nissenthal could cut a length of cable from the newly developed German Wurzburg radar, a radar that could be operated in a chain with overlapping fields, the radar had a small cabin that the operators would be inside, this cabin revolved with the radar which mustve been horrid for the operators. Jack was so important to the war effort that 4 men from the Canadian South Saskatchewan regiment shadowed him at all times during the run up, execution and escape from Dieppe with the expressed order to shoot Nissenthal if his capture looked imminent. Jack Nissenthal invented the cavity magnetron, a device that revolutionized British Radar, something that the Germans did not have so there could be no way that Nissenthal could fall into enemy hands but he was the only guy who knew exactly which cable he needed to cut and steal and how long it needed to be, from this short length of cut cable, Nissenthal could tell the power, range and how far part the Wurzburgs needed to be to have overlapping fields, this information was absolutely key in smashing the German radar threat.
Thanks for the info! I always appreciate more information about WW2 than I currently have! I actually didn't know there was any other reason behind the raid on Dieppe, other than as a practice run for D-Day, so I'm extremely grateful! Thanks again for the knowledge. Cheers!
@@Gary-And-His-Demons Look out for a book called Green beach, its a hell of a read, its all about it.
While coincidental intelligence tasks are certainly possible (a Canadian historian posits that the raid was solely to mask the capture of an Enigma by Fleming’s 30 Assault Unit) it is far more likely that it was a rushed and poorly coordinated amphibious operation (against a context of little understanding of amphibious operations) by Combined Ops and yes, Canadians who were spoiling for action. It was not a practice for DDay per se but offered invaluable lessons learned.
So proud of my grandpas and their generation. The world would be a vastly different and horrific place if they didn’t fight for our freedom. Thank you 🙏
49:25 that's one reasonably savage grandma dang 🤣
never seen anyone so happy to see a tank 30:44
Adding color really humanises WW2 and let's us relate. Thank you.
tzzzzzzz.......
Even this WWII footage needs to be re-timed like the footage of "They shall not grow old"
My Great Uncle Gerhard was lost in Stalingrad. Sad, sad for all men in wartime
Stalingrad was a horrendous battle for both sides.
Is he German ?
@nicktan4530 chances are yes. Gerhard Is a German name
I love that opening music. It was the most profound period in the history of the world. Good vs evil in its purest form and the music captures that.
It makes me think of my grandparents who we’re experiencing it first hand and persevering.
so naive
Thank you so much for this documentary. WWII has always been a pint of interest to me. This documentary provided me with new information and insights. Once again. ThankYou.
Another great episode. I learn something new in every episode. This timeI learned about the Cannes invasion/landing which I had not heard of before.
*I am the greatest builder of fortification of all time* - it reminds me of someone else
An orange rapist?
To be fair, it it had been finished, it would have been the second greatest in the world, only folowing the great wall of china.
one of the best documentaries
Throughout the entire series after the first two episodes, the phrase "But it was too late," was used more times to describe German troops or their movements than I think any other phrase has been used in history to describe anything aside from perhaps the fall of Rome.
Sort of Ironic considering the way they took europe
@@bretthousman8317 It is. But off course, they were built for offensive Blitzkrieg, not defensive warfare and also, they spread themselves incredibly too thin. It didn't help them at all that the generals weren't in charge of operations too. Hitler cost them big time with his terrible decision making. But, yes, to your point, incredibly ironic.
@@rockytoptom what's crazy is that they never expected to be as effective as they were. The Germans really thought that the French were going to be a lot tougher than they actually were. The French had given them such grief during WW1 that they were kind of scared of the French forces, at first. Plus the French had hundreds of thousands of troops that were only a few miles from the Rhineland. Too bad they didn't use them! The French eventually saw Hitler as the threat he truly was, "but it was too late." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
let's hope we can say the same about putin...
The instrumental music during the opening theme of this series is mind blowing.
They successfully composed an instrumental that gives a sense of dread & sorrow, while also giving a sense of hope, triumph, & victory.
Yep. Best WW2 docuseries of all time.
@@scottycas Agreed - this series is the absolute most captivating documentary of WWII I have ever seen by far. The score, the narration and footage are mesmerizing. I have watched nearly episode a dozen times and still watch it especially Red Sun Rising and Hitler Strikes East.
73rd anniversary of D-Day. May we all come to appreciate and respect those who fought and died for a noble cause.
Amen my friend. youre right !!
Anthony Smith
so sad what has become of this sick world, they didnt fight for that..
The only people who are to blame for this sick world as you say, is are governments the very people who we vote in to run are countries they promise us every thing and deliver nothing they should leave other countries alone stop invading and stealing from them just trade and try to help one another, the only time this world is ever happy is when its at war with each other and coursing death around the world .
Why oh Why do countries let Psychos run their countries?
Thank you TH-cam for not censoring this video. A lot of young people now have hardly any knowledge of WW II. People should be shown all of it. This is a great documentary.
1 word is all I have: RESPECT
mike856ms True, very true. At the risk of seeming trite... This was huge, epic even. It's difficult to imagine the scale of this war... RIP those that gave everything to their country and our way of life.
And it is amazing to see Ted Cruz run away from the winter storm in Texas... to go to a resort in Cancun. Its as though this generation has no sense of leadership.
@@greeneyeswideopen774 STFU you stupid a$$hole. This is the wrong post for you to spew your crap.
BTW, Cruz is a senator. There is nothing he could. It's up to the governor or fema under Biden's direction.
Piss off
@@mike856ms ted cruz has communications to very powerful people. He's the senator of the state. You really think he couldn't have done anything's ???
@@comradepolarbear6920 when it comes natural disasters it's the responsibility of the the governor. A senator can not do anything.
Nobody looks scarier than a Gestapo officer with his monocle. Straight out of a horror movie.
Such brave men, my great uncle died 20 years old and .gave his life and millions upon millions of others 💙 ❤️ ♥️ wonder what they think if they could see thing's around the world today
Thank you so much for this super documentary 😁👍
I am really impressed with the colonization of these historic films
think you mean color!
Well.. After all, half or so of the invasion force was from the British empire..
Great explanation...Thanks
This is a terrific documentary.
You are a real fighter. Everything for history. Amazing video. And please be careful with your health. 👍
The Atlantic wall didn't start at the danish border. It ran all the way up the danish westcoast, and started in Norway.
Brilliant distractions from the allies towards the D-day and kudos to the soldiers especially the landing troupe. Landings on beaches with probable death was more than bravery👏👏👏
Amazing how both sides able to video record the war.
Fantastic documentary
73 years ago today... wow
respect !!!
we are still very gratefull for those who gave there live for us today.
so glad we speak dutch instead of german.
Soon you will be speaking arab.
what a fantastic background music
My grandfather was in the 3rd wave of iwo jima..guadle canal and another one
This video has gotten 30k views since Saturday...
Mindblown*
Documentary101 no its like 800 k views now
1millions now👍✌️
Only if they had bulletproof shields to protect themselves like the romans and greeks when they hit the beaches. Alot of lives wouldve been saved. True heroes and brave men.
Totally incredible
The immense Greatness
Perseverance
A friend of mine's dad was on the US minesweeper USS Raven and in full orders of battle it starts with the mine sweepers going in first. Mr. McInnis told me that for months before the invasion they would go in and clear the mines in front of the Normandy beaches so that the German troops would get used to seeing them. No attempt was made by the Germans to shell the minesweepers and the Americans made no attempt to shoot at the Germans, it was kind of like an informal truce to the point that he said sometimes they would see the Germans out in front of the fortifications relaxing because it was business as usual. The American mine sweepers collecting mines and later that day or night, the Germans putting in new mines. So on D-Day everything went as usual and the Germans were not alerted to the invasion that day.
People need to revisit this and contrast it with politics in Europe today. It's a completely forgotten legacy. Europe needs perspective. We all do.
They western countries and evil Israel and the USA are about to start a world war 3.
Just wanted to say well done on not getting this copyrighted 😂😂
Maybe the producer/publisher doesn't mind?
Those men will always be in our memories here in France! Pour toujours! GG - City of Tours - France
Topgun 💯
R.I.P. warriors 🇨🇦
Godbless and Alienbless 🙏🏼
Absolute horror to land on the beach and face German MG42 gunners. A nightmare for every infantry soldier.
We own these guys a lot. The world would have been different if not for all these unknown heroes. They gave the ultimate a man can give..their lives.
The music is so much ww2
Interesting and informative. Excellent color photography job. Enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Fortunately for the allies the disillusioned/arrogant WW-1 dispatch runner 🏃 corporal Hitler 😈. Slept through the invasion. Once again refused to listen to his seasoned/experienced general's advice pertaining to the invasion.
Aa a young bloke we'd holiday in the US, Id just love to listen to the old war stories of my grandparents and their friends!
Can you tell me some stories?
Just never understood why Hitler didn't take Rommel's advice and place the Panzer divisions closer to the coast. Properly camouflaged, they would have been very difficult to spot by air recon. By no means am I a military strategist, but it seems to me that in a situation such as this, you don't want the enemy to gain a foothold on the beach. And the best way to prevent this from happening is to have powerful, hard hitting armor and artillery units within easy striking distance.
Calais
Cal
They were set up in the wrong area. Calais. Plus Rommel was away celebrating his wife’s birthday so he wasn’t in the area. Hitler was sleeping. German intelligence said it would be anywhere but Normandy and it definitely wouldn’t take place during early June. Whoops!
Patton. Patton had command of the phony army in England supposedly ready for the invasion of Calais and Hitler had been convinced that army was real, largely because Patton was in command of it. Patton was sidelined for slapping a soldier. German officers were allowed to shoot and kill any of their soldiers, so Hitler never bought into that nonsense of Patton being pulled from command over a slap.
I agree. Also, destroying the Allies' beachhead would have fairly quickly revealed the finer points of the entire Allied Overlord strategy to the Germans, including their expertise in using deception which convinced German intell that the real landing was yet to occur at Calais.
So with the cat out of the bag, the Allies would have been forced to go back to the drawing board, delaying any further attempts at cross-channel invasion for quite some time. It would also have motivated Hitler to prioritize strengthening their coastal defences.
this is what happens when you let a Corporal run things
worst of all, that corporal wasnt even german !! amazing !!
Well, I do not want to get into US politics, but you know, democracy is not a guarantee for capable leaders. That much I have learned. Again, I do not criticize ideologies here. Just a person.
@andy & patrick And if the Commander in Chief haven't even been a common soldier???
well yes, youre right also. so many posibilitirs.thank you.
The corporal conquered all of europe and a huge part of russia. No country the size of germany should have been able to accomplish that. If adolph had not invaded russia all europe would be speaking german today.
Montgomery's failure to take Caen during the 1st day nearly cost the Allies the foot hold of Normandy. Rather than a full scale attack he believed small limited attacks would work and "surprisingly" it didn't. Eisenhower should've replaced Monty after the 1st day.
All Fallen soldiers R.I.P.,Gen.Rommel,gen.Patton respect one day no more wars,
wow people in the comment section are actually competing on which nation made the most sacrifice by their overall death toll, and down playing the efforts and sacrifice of other nations!.
That's actually disgusting, and not what those young men gave up their youth for!.
Hitler: I am the greatest builder of fortifications of all time!
*Joesph Stalin has entered the chat*
This is one of the only good WW2 documentaries out there. Most other ones I've seen have a whole lot of talking and still images and not a lot of actual, ya know, WAR FOOTAGE
I had two great great uncles that fought at Juno beach
This whole series is really hard to watch. Everything that happened just breaks me heart:/
It's still important that we learn what happened so that the words "never again" maintain their meaning.
Pete Nielsen you may never know with current world situation something like this can happen again
But we like the last parts of the series right?
My uncle was a paratrooper dropped over Germany somewhere in 1945. I never asked him where, all i knew is he was a paratrooper. After the war he told, he told me, many years ago as we were enjoying one of the last stouts he would ever enjoy together. He told me, you know i don;t know why we had to take part in this killing. He told me it was never our war. To this day i think i think we were coaxed into war by people with lots of money. Today i will be visiting his grave. I'd like to thank him for speaking his mind. War is never a good thing.
Oh how Ike detested Monty - 17:25 - the look on his face says it all haha
Actually he totally admired Monty all through the war. He had studied how he had defeated Rommel in the desert both before Operation Torch and during it and it set the basics for what happened after. He had to be a politician to keep inexperienced but opinionated Brit hating US Generals Marshall, Bradley and Patton from insulting the British Generals, air Marshalls and Admirals who had been fighting a war for 3 years longer than the Yanks.
Operation Overlord was an entirely British conceived operation in all its aspects: The Commandos scoured the beaches, subs photographed coasts, RAF photographed the whole coast, the Mulberrys and Pluto were built entirely in the UK. 80% of the naval assets deployed were British and the whole operation was commanded by the British From Monty down. Ike knew who he could trust.
Monty was the most successful battle General of WWII by a long margin and its why the Yanks other than Ike hated him. But everything the US Army did until 1945 was commanded by Monty. He was hated even more by Patton who hated the British despite being taught his tank warfare by the British. When the US Army failed in the Ardennes and allowed a German break out just 2 months after Ike gave full US Army command to Bradley it was Monty that Ike called on to stop the advance. And he did with British armour and re-organising how the US infantry fought back. And Patton? He raced off ignoring orders to Bastogne where the US media were and where he started the disgusting stories about Monty. Ike's only mistake was not sending Patton back to the USA after his dismissal in Italy.
After the war Ike would invite Monty over to stay with his family in the USA (and vice versa) on many occasions and in his autobiography he made it very clear things could have been very different without Montgomery.
with all the brilliant strategy of the german army in the early years of the war it surprising by 1944 the high command did realise germany could not win the war without a significant air force.
Nowadays we keep talking about terrorists, armed with knife or hammer. We seem so devastated in such a dramatic way and forget that our forefathers had to deal with much graver threats and much more deadly dangers. I am not trying to make terroristic attacks looking harmless. But I would like to warn all of us, including me, to keep in our mind what does it really mean to fight evils in this world. It never appears as some sort of cakewalk. It will never be easygoing as if you were strolling through some lines of supermarkets searching what ever you happen to be interested in. On the contrary, it demands from all of us concentrated and well calculated struggles which won't spare casualties.
When I was 12 yo, My worry was, "Would I be able to face a bayonet charge?
When I was 12 years old, I once faced someone with a sharp knife in his hand. He demanded me to give him some yeast dumplings for he was hungry. I was scared to death and gave him what he demanded. I still recall how agonizing it was for both of us: He was scared to starve. I was scared to be killed. For me, he was the embodiment of eivl: How can you threaten someone else with a knife? Maybe I was some sort of sponge. How can you be so well-fed and not share even one or two yeast dumplings? If I had been couragous I would have duelled with him. It was very likely that one of us would have had to be at least injured, maybe killed. One of us may have gone down in the history as "young terrorist".
Nothing is so desperate as a man with starving children!
thank you for the report
Proof that Rommel was right in maintaining that the best chance of repelling the invasion was dealing with it as it landed…not holding the armour back in reserve positions to respond. Allied air superiority proved to make movement of such forces hazardous, slow and costly.
If Those Brave Soldiers Had Seen What The Twentieth Century Had Looked Like , Then They Would Not Have Even Marched 20 Foot onto Those Beaches At Normandy . No More Brothers’s Wars
27th*
Seeing the allies march into the French towns gave me chills. Can’t imagine what the French had to endure under Nazi occupation. ❤
endure ? they are just cowards and incapable of warfare. Just like Italy......
@@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylistsever heard of Napoleon?
France is now overrun by third worlders. Doubt it was worse for them back in the day.
Things we struggle to understand - they knew the German tiger and its cannon - even so - the Sherman was completely outgunned because of its small caliber gun - and the Amerikanski preferred gazoline for the tanks - but the US has always been fond of gazoline - which they did also use for tractors and harvesters - but it would light up very easily.
ONE OF THE BEST "OLD FILM" DOCUMENTARIES OF D-DAY I;N COLOR/HD. MAKE SURE TO READ THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS...!!!
all those poor boys dead ......... I bet they are turning in their graves if they could see what they fought for has be come.
I know, right? Running water, indoor plumbing, dental care, electricity...man, all that stuff sucks.
Can we go back to the "life expectancy of 40 years" please?
Basic Name he meant that humans are destroying the earth with global warming and are spending a lot of money on stupid shit like plastic surgery and fidget spinners like wtf
Basic Name you're name, be fits you.
HUMANS HAVE VERY LITTLE EFFECT ON THE PLANET EARTH, WE JUST LIKE TO THINK WE ARE SO GREAT...!!!
Tag: we Americans wanted to just to return to the States. Europe was not that interesting..they were busy trying to mock American music (even Japan), learn OUR culture and want everything we had! (Hershey's)
The Germans were busy robbing everything in sight. GI's found no joy in destroying lives and property.
49:25 I love that old lady!
Who knew “let’s go” was the coldest line ever spoken during overlord
"It's one of those things" like the US Civil War.
The whole matter makes no sense either generally but in specificity in a matter such as this.
"And yet it is made sense by those who made the decisions personally" as Churchill did in his personal "History of World War 2" after the War.
Just imagine even that for one moment: no less than Winston Churchill himself writing his "History of World War 2."
To General Eisenhower's credit he did write "The Great Crusade" but hardly such a direct look as what Winston Churchill described.
In regards to the Diepe Action
I would have hope that by now a major correction should have been made: Diepe was not a disaster it was a total success to steal from the german their new enigma code book (which had just changed) by a special SAS team. The beach landing was a diversion, when the German discover their hotel HQ was on fire it lead them to believe the code book was destroyed, and the enigma machine was still in place out of service but still in place.
This action save many lives later on, it was kept secret until 2015 when the british government decided to declassify the operation, the canadians that did survive Diepe were stunt by the news and so did the government of Canada.
As well as the fact that the British knew that the lading armada had been spotted and had plenty of time to turn them back, but they didn't sending so many young men to their deaths.
That new Book did more to end the war than a lot of Bombers over a Ball bearing Factory . Once decoded at Betchley park They knew where the U boats were and that allowed more Armaments, Trucks, Tanks, Planes to get to England
Making the call to send troops into danger is always a difficult thing to do. It takes a special person to weigh the sides of yes or no.its much easier to say no. Thank goodness we had leaders at the time that could do it.
The Canadian soldiers in Britain were unruly, they drank a lot and got into fights so it was decided to give them a taste of real warfare, that's how they got onto the Dieppe raid.
@@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq Bollocks!
Our Clan lost a lot of uncles and cousins in the WW11. When I see and hear of the battle
@ Iwo Jima and the loss of lives and limbs for the right of all of us to partake at the table of our democracy; I weep for our flag these GI's fought for...and those who feel they can burn it now because somehow it became a 'Right' to degrade our way of honor.EB
Respect to the desert Fox and his legacy shall go own
Zee uniforms though, quite dashing. They wore Killer combinations.
hi german agent smith.
I read elsewhere the weather turned out to be a blessing for the invasion.
It cleared just long enough to let the allies get in with their planes and then the clouds closed up so the German air force could not respond.
I find it ironic that Hitler as an ego maniac was able to lead an entire country astray but then, was unable to make wise decisions on how to successfully win the war he started.
Had his generals managed to dispose of him I fear the Germans might have halted the allied advance. His generals were a whole lot smarter than him.
Mike B: the USAF couldn't fly. If they could have, it would have been easier to land.
Had his generals been able to take him out, like they tried when they attempted to assassinate him? They would have surrendered and sued for peace. They knew the war was lost.
They tried to assassinate him to end the war. They were at a point that they were convinced that their occupation was at an end and wanted to surrender to the allied forces.
@@freshimpactco.8698He was a madman. U can’t fight on 2 fronts at the same time with such powerful allied forces. They couldn’t even take over Russia & now they’ve to take on 2 extra strong enemies/countries in Great Britain & the US??? Lol. Hitler was straight delusional. If he’d have gotten assassinated, so many lives would’ve been saved my friend 💯💯💯 I so wished the Germans would’ve succeeded their assassination mission for Hitler but it wasn’t to be.
anyone noticed the naked running man at 36:10 :D
At 41:50 when the narrator said that when the US bombs fell short over 100 US troops were killed he failed to mention that a total of 300 Canadian and US troops were killed.
It leaves out so much. I guess it's a good overview but it doesn't discuss why Ike was Supreme commander or why Churchill was forced into the Normandy landings. Or how little the gas lines were used or how the Mulberry harbors worked out.
Funny to see everyone thinking Americans have liberated Europe. They have liberated France and Italy, actually. Most of Europe has been liberated by the USSR, though, to be fair, what followed was dictatorship. Still, you got to admit the Soviets did most of the Job, from Moscow to Berlin toward Stalingrad.
Alejandro Jodorowsky yes then they established another oppressive regime
true. with deportation camps, political police and oppression of minorities, too. still way better than nazism
Eugene Burden You obviously know very little about the 1941-1945 war. Most persecutions, whether ethnical or religious, praticaly stopped just in a few weeks. In fact, religious believes and failing generals were never as secure as during the war.
No you dont, you are painfully ignorant. " Russia has always been a cruel mentor for its people and for everyone else. It is a dictatorship"
First, we are talking USSR, not Russia. Second, being a "master" in History involves being factual, not being a political activisit. Third, what do you think you are assessing ? That the USSR was a dictatorship, even during WWII ?? Yeah, you ARE a master. You are Captain Obvious, no doubt.
Now regarding the precise point you were making. You obviously know very little, otherwise you would know that most persecutions stopped during the war.
Three examples :
- During the war, propaganda was authorized to film churches, priests, people making the cross sign, and so on, a thing that never happens before (and that people themselves were not used to do anymore, but with war everyone turned Alexander Nevski-fan and a traditional orthodox believer). You can see it in very well-known footages of soldiers liberating a village and being (christianly) blessed by peasants with cross sign
- If generals knew that the starting area of a Soviet offensive was already known by the enemy, they ordered officers to hide concentration moves and gathering of tanks in that area by full-volume songs. Those included not only patriotic and communist anthem, but also traditional songs (potentialy anti-communist, minority-supporting or religious)
- During the war, everyone had to be useful. So, basicaly, most of war criminals (at least until the very last months, when revenge against German civilians became too difficult to control) were not convincted or executed. Instead, they got into "penitientary battalions" that were sent in first lines or in the most dangerous fields (else explaining high level of casualties among such units : if they were wounded or succeeded in mission, charges against them were dropped
You see, priorities during a war where two thirds of the useful territory is occupied are other than "killing one's own people". You could have learn it by yourself because its pure logic. But, apparently, you are a master in WWII. And in politicaly-biased viewpoint.
First, my boy, never call someone names and expect them to listen to you . Russia? USSR,? I don't
know what you're getting at? A dictatorship is anti human I don't care what color you paint it?
It has to be the greatest military blunders in History. Why oh why he invaded Russia. While they had greatly underestimated the fighting capacity of the Russians and many of it's great generals had been removed by Stalin during the purges, I still believe it was folly to invade Russia at the point they did. The geographical area of Russia was huge. Even if they had overrun Moscow and its main cities, I believe the country as a whole would have been difficult to completely subdue. The country was too vast and the population too many to control and subdue.
All the drugs were in Vietnam. All those american kids that were conscripted were all jacked up on heroin for courage. The U.S government was the biggest drug pushers in vietnam. Those kids didn't want to be there and came back all fucked up.
You would do well to stay quiet Eugene as you haven't a clue what your talking about
Krackowkid: You have been reading too much communist bull shit.
+Eugene Burden *Krackowkid expresses his opinion and confirms it with his arguments. But in your message there are no facts, but only insults. Learn from Krackowkid, perhaps he read more right books and is more well-mannered than you.*
Sorry, my own experience is living during that time.
Why am I so obsessed with the world wars...
Because its the only reality show thats real.
17:06 it's not because of the H itler moustach, but i think that guy next to Ike might've been a German spy ...
Yes, the Russians lost more men and saw a bigger army but you have to understand Russia was simply gaining traction on land. The United States had to literally cross an ocean with an entire army and setup a base in a new land. The Brits and Americans had to invade a beach with fortifications and huge obstacles. The Brits had the logistics down and the Americans had the manpower and economic power to make it happen.
The United States literally had no Army either you moron. The United States literally put the entire country to produce tanks, ammunition, trucks, and planes during WW2. Hell, the United States had to cross an entire ocean with an army and try to invade a heavily fortified occupied land with no retreating because the sea was behind them. Trust me, it's harder than having the enemy on your own land where you know the landscape and your own citizens can fight back.
I always get eye pain when they use modern maps for WWII documentaries. The geography of the Netherlands has changed a lot since then.
how many uploads of this content do you think there is in YT?
Why is it today it takes forever to build roads and buildings. But back then great structures were built in record time. Not just just war efforts. But hell the Hoover dam.
People were more expendable. About 100 died building the Hoover damn, and Germany used tons of slave labor in those days. And an authoritarian government that could just say "we're building a big road".
Watching the previous video has reduced my respect for the Soviet army and their cause significantly.
Luckily, there are always the British, American and Canadian troops on D-Day, be it from the sea or sky, to look up to.
"Seeing how the Soviets took out the majority of the Nazis and played the biggest part in defeating them really rubs me the wrong way!" Red Army won the war Mike. Cope
@@isaiahmiller854 It was a team effort. Cope
@@Fish-tz8yn A team effort lead by the Red Army, who killed 7/10 German soldiers who died in the war. America can have all the credit it wants for defeating the Japanese (along with China). They deserve it. But the Soviet Union deserves credit for defeating the Nazis and bearing the brunt of their brutality. If not for them we'd be speaking German.
@@isaiahmiller854 And the US and Uk should also deserve the same amount of credit for the strategic bombing campaigns screwing up their industry, the battle of the Atlantic basically destroying the krerigamarine, providing several ground campaigns while individually not a significant as the eastern front but together are about on the same level, and i know this is a bit of an overused point but its valid, lend lease supplying a crap ton of trucks, food, raw materials, etc. I’m sorry but ww2 is a little bit more complex that “NoRmAnDy JuSt SpEaD uP tHe WaR iTs a SiDeShOw” or “80% GeRmAn ArMy DeAtHs oN eAsTeRn FrOnT” trust I’m not trying to mock the soviet effort and I will forever hold the belief that they did equally as much in the war in Europe against the British and Americans, I’m just sick and tired of people like you constantly portraying the western allies as ‘speeding up the war’ or what not. It was a team effort, deal with it. And also the US isn’t the only one to take credit for ww2, all countries bloody do it! Even Russia does it, just look up a ww2 video on RT and you’ll see what i’m talking about.
The part about the Sherman going up in flames because it ran on petrol is untrue. It was found more liable to burst into flames because of where it's ammo was stored. The Germans didn't call it the Ronson because the Ronson lighter didn't exist until after the war.
chaosXpert The Ronson lighter did indeed exist during WWII. It was the British who applied that name to the Sherman, not the Germans. www.sparksoftimevintagelighters.com/a-little-historyinfo-on-the-ronson-company---art-metal-works---now.html
they called the sherman the "tommy cooker"
Anyone else get the "I am the greatest builder of fortifications of all time" bit.
Can’t imagine anyone these days with the arrogance to trump that
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WHERES ALL THE WAMAN?
Thank you America! Love from Europe.
Thank the Russians.
Yeah...the Poles thank the Russians every day for invading their country in coordination with the Nazis and slaughtering tens of thousands. And of course the Eastern Germans keen to be rid of their leaders appreciate all the raping done by Russian soldiers. Thank you Russia.
Of course, the Finns are very greatful for being invaded by Russia and having land taken away from them. And of course, the entire eastern block has warm memories of 50 years of communi. Thanks Russia.
The Finns have always been the outsiders. They never knew what they wanted to be. They certainly leaned toward Nazism. But, it didn't compute when the Nazi's started hauling people away for special work!
Russia finally took over, mainly for the metals in the North. I remember as a kid that the Allies didn't trust the Finn's motives. I also remember that the Finns were good fighters!
Not really, Allied bomb on Germany is more reliable details that indisputable huge casualties..So, thanks to US and allies also when Hitler double cross Stalin, stalin got Allied equipment. Also thank nature that slowed german advanced on Russia.
Dieppe was cancelled, then decided to do it again. MountBatten’s idea to do it after cancellation.
Its unbelievable how much time and money went in fighting during ww2, the amount of men power , i always wondered if using today's military planes tanks electronics and weapons vs ww2 Japan or Germany, how long would it take to defeat them ?? One year ? Or more or just a few months ?
At 16:13 you can here the radio say "Basher 52, this is Basher 11 on Alpha."
That radio message is actually from the Search and Rescue plane that tried to locate Captain Scott O'Grady (USAF) who was shot down in Bosnia in 1995. The audio is edited in this series.
Makes you wonder what else is fake in this series....
I think a lot of the video material doesn´t have audio. So I guess they add a lot of unrelated or generic sounds to make the documentary more realistic.
A lot of video material in this series is not actually film taken at that place or even around that time. Much of the details in this series is a bit off unfortunately but still close enough to be cool.
youre right ,this is clear propaganda
Please stop spreading your stupidity with this stupid comment.
ftffighter 🇧🇲
Don't be fooled, the Soviets fought the war and the Americans supplied it for the British, otherwise the British would have been another German territory. In the end they gave eastern Europe to the Soviets as a prize for its efforts, allowing it to languish and become a dilapidated vegetable.
The British supplied the intelligence and if they hadn't won the Battle of Britain, it would have been a different story.
+Pe rsi "the Soviets fought the war" HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET?? Where were the Soviets during North Africa, the Invasion of Sicily, Italy, Normandy??? All the Soviets could do was take care of themselves, and if the US hadn't joined the war, Germany would have defeated Russia.
Don .Stephen
Because of the weather?
Huh and I wonder who supplied the Soviet's with all that equipment and supplies.
+Don Stephen HEY STUPID, that's because we took prisoners, the Soviets rarely did.
+Don .Stephen A lot, look it up yourself, you damn Nazi.
I like the maps.
As usual you give all the glory to the us
We should have been helping Germany against Russia...
NO one can side with murderers.
Phelps, you would have been helping a drug adled killer.
Robert, you can't help a country that is killing their people. Germany was
spiritually bankrupt and couldn't last as a nation, even if they won the war.
I feel sad you are that dumb
WTF do some of y'all mean when you say the U.S. should have sided with Germany? They declared war on us first! Y'all tripping for real.