BAND OF BROTHERS: On the Ground at BRECOURT MANOR!!! | History Traveler Episode 185
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If you've read the book or have seen the series Band of Brothers, then you know of Brecourt Manor. This was the location of a German gun battery that was taken out by the men of Easy Company, 506th PIR on D-Day under the leadership of Dick Winters. Much has been made of the action that took place here on June 6th, but few have had the chance to walk the grounds. In this episode, we're joining the owner of Brecourt Manor to retrace the footsteps of men who took out this gun battery that was firing on Causeway #2 coming off of Utah Beach. Hopefully, this video can be joined with what has been written about Brecourt Manor to give a better understanding of what happened here on D-Day.
Big thanks to Charles de Vallavieille for his hospitality and insight in making this episode. Also a big thanks to Erik Dorr of The Gettysburg Museum of History and Paul Woodadge of @WW2TV for their expert insights that served to bring a greater understanding of this story.
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Please Please Start uploading to rumble if thats possible for the channel, would love to see the content on rumble!
You know man great stuff love how you went right to the field at Normandy . Just outstanding stuff. I can almost see it unfolding in front of my eyes if you know what I mean. Just enjoy the hell out of it. Yeah this is tv worthy . Do you know where Band Of Brothers was filmed like this scene? Just wondering? Thanks again
@@ronaldwhalen8143- Thanks. Most of Band of Brothers was filmed in England.
@@TheHistoryUnderground but not in that field ? Lol just checking or asking thanks so much
History channel is gold digging and pawn stars now. It’s sad
Guy on TH-cam has a better history channel than the actual History Channel. Please keep up the awesome work.
Ha! Thanks. Appreciate that. I might make a video about aliens landing on Brecourt and see if History Channel is interested.
@@TheHistoryUnderground 😅 They will take you up on that.
@@TheHistoryUnderground that crazy hair guy will be knocking on your door as soon as you publish the video
You're correct in that statement but sadly there are MANY on youtube that are more credible and researched than the "History" channel.
@@mthompson0331 they're kinda like MTC now, they dont show music videos but they do use music in their garbage shows
Hi JD, what an awesome video, have of course watched the Band of Brothers episode, but to actually see the place it occurred is great. Enjoy the rest of your Normandy sojourn, thanks for this series really love it.
Thanks! Much appreciated.
Thanks J.D for one of thee most important moments, in the opening hours of D-Day. The moment Richard Winters showed incredible leadership, with the men he had with him.
The feeling of walking in and around those moments, and time being there. For those who lost their lives that day, must be a spine chilling moment. It definitely made the hairs on my neck stand, knowing it was just like that day.
Seeing the cattle around you was also a spooky feeling that was lying on the ground around you. like the series had portrayed instead of living they where dead.
Did it give you a eerie feeling like you where being watched?
Did the farmer J.D ever do any exploring of the land and ditches. For bullets fired at the men, or the spent cases pouring from Major Winters men. As pure brass wouldn’t decay even after all these years?
Excellent job guys, thank you!👍✊🏼
Great job. Very detailed, interesting and respectful.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Love the content!
For this clip i have a question. Where are the remains of these big guns now? Did allied forces later on in the war removed to pieces or something?
Most of that stuff ended up going to scrap.
@@TheHistoryUnderground thanks for you reply! Was once at the beaches of Normandy....chills. keep up the good work man!
Cannot wait to be there within two months! Any advice on places? Museums? TIA
Well done. Believe it or not, I have never been there myself! John Orloff (writer, episode 2, BoB).
Thank you! I appreciate that. I really admire the work that you did on the show. You’ll have to take a trip out there at some point. Feel free to shoot me an email (which can found on the About tab on the main TH-cam page) and maybe we can set up a visit 🙂.
Well done to you also!
Love BoB! You did a great job writing this episode!
Congratulations on fantastic work you did for posterity. You should be proud Mr. Orloff, and THANK you.
Your show is freakin amazing. I can’t get enough of it and the perspective you bring to the history. You teaming up with Erik has enhanced this show so much. This is better than anything on the history channel or discovery channel. Please keep making more!
P.S. thought about showing the perspective of the Marine Corps in WWII?
Thanks! Appreciate that. As far as the Marines, they fought in some places that are a little more difficult for me to get to but I’m hoping to get to some of those places this year.
There's a guy who has done an awesome YT series of walks around the battlefields of Guadalcanal. Maybe they could collaborate? I'd watch it!!
@@TheHistoryUnderground Although the pacific war isn't as close to me as Europe (as I'm from Belgium), I'm looking forward to see what you will show us from these locations.
The Pacific with Slegde, Basilone, Leckie,... triggered my interest many years ago.
I was lucky enough in 2004 to have a personal tour of Normandy by a guide who “knew” the family or just paid them I’m not sure to let us on to the farm. The family member that was there took us over to the field and showed us where the legs of the guns laid! It was very cool
Nice!
That was a great video! Loved it. Back in the early 90s I took a World War II history class at The University of New Orleans from Stephen Ambrose the same semester the book Band of Brothers came out. He put on a few seminars in New Orleans with Winters, Carwood Lipton, Smoky Gordon and a few others. I was fortunate enough to meet those guys and have them autograph my copy of band of Brothers. The signed book is one of my prized possessions. They were heroes!
I have just started watching Band of Brothers. The second episode showed the actual battle you walked through in this episode. I am in awe of what occurred that day. Dick Winters is a very intelligent man who deserves more than what our country gave him in medals. God rest the souls of Easy Company.
Those guys were something else.
@@TheHistoryUnderground they were. Thank you for keeping out history alive.
Just a simple cow pasture and yet what happened there on that day was so important to the effort of the Allies. Another fantastic video, keep up the great work.
Absolutely. Thanks!
One of the best moments of the entire miniseries! These videos about Easy Company need their own separate playlist.
That’s a good idea. I need to do that.
To be honest, I'm jealous of you. I'd also like to walk where Easy Company fought. I am grateful to the Allied Forces for our freedom. I am also grateful to The History Underground for these videos. Keep up the good work!
Thank you. Happy that I can share the experience.
I’ve always been a a WW2, and Easy Co. fanatic and used to rely on the military and history channel many years ago. Today, I’m glad I found this channel and the perfect historian to go with it. I’ve gained more knowledge watching you than any other tv network I’ve ever watched. This channel is Gold, I hope someone sponsors you so they can pay for your travel so you can keep doing what your doing.
Unreal you having the opportunity of a lifetime to share to us folks and keep history alive. The collaboration you and Erik have is top notch.
Glad to be able to share the experiences. I’ve been learning a lot in the process.
Thank you Charles for opening up your land to JD and Erik so that they could film and explore the area, and thank you to JD and Erik for saving the histories and bravery of the greatest generation.
Time is the fog that clouds memory. Holy ground, just fantastic to see it up close! Great video as usual!
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I really need to watch band of brothers. I found a few clips from BoB's attack on Brecourt Manor on youtube, and all I can say is WOW!! Unfortunately, the clips stopped at the 3rd cannon.
No other series like it!
Your friendship with Erik brings to mind something my grandfather use to say ... It's always good to know people, that know people :)
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I believe all those Veterans are nearly gone now, but, at 70 years old I heard stories from then thirty year old Veterans in the 1950's that broke my Heart, yet, showed the valor, and, tenacity of the Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of that time possessed...
I would love to visit these amazing locations, but I find myself a mixture of appreciation and empathy towards these brave men that fought for our freedoms. A lot of conflicting emotions as I would seriously be aware of the hallowed ground, yet fanboying/nerding out about of being exactly where they fought. I think I would be overcome by emotions. Tears would fall. I would probably drop to my knees in humility, overcome with grief and appreciation.
Thank you for these history lessons and giving us the chance to see these locations, instead of it just being words on a page.
Glad to share the experience. Thank you.
I am total agreement in the humility and emotional experience walking there. Just learning more details of what my grandfather's generation put their lives down for the world brings me to my knees.
My knees would be like spagetti walking there. Places were history have taken place gives me the goosebumps. People might not think much of it but, trees and other things in nature can become very old, nature is almost stationary on these time scales, so the smells, the wind, the cold, the sounds, the nature around this place is what those soldiers experienced that day, it could be the same trees, the same land, and the same amount of wind, if we consider walking there in June that is. There's probably bullets still dodged into trees. So the bushes, trenches and trees are basically living relics. That's why I sometimes have trouble walking in historical places because there's so much to take in, so it would almost take a whole day or more to fullfill it all. You could almost feel and hear the soldiers mentioning those huge hedgerows and trenches, it's so abnormal, many of them had probably never witnessed such things, but it made for great cover. Climbing a tree would be so appealing. The drone also gives you a perspective of the scale of it all, the distance to the beach, and along the beach. Hedgerow war all over it, so much they had to create hedgerows cutters for the tanks.
The only thing I would have to argue was that the hedge rows were also a major problem for the armor not just the flooded fields. The hedge rows directed the flow of armor. 👍👍👍 great job.
Yes, they were a major problem but the Allies weren’t aware of how big of a problem they’d be before D-Day. The flooded fields were definitely a known factor though. Thanks for watching!
If I recall correctly, Some of the guys in the field welded metal graters on the front of their tanks to help cut thru the hedgerows.
@@FPdesignfab That's what I remember too. Seems it was one of those good old boys from a farm. Good old GI engineering.
Great Video, been past Brecourt Manor as was traveling to Utah beach from St-Marie- du-mont. Has the guy from Gettysburg museum been on Pawn Stars ? From a confused Englishman 🏴🇬🇧
Thanks! And yes, Erik has made several appearances on Pawn Stars.
I've seen multiple videos concerning the Brecourt assault and I've visited it myself twice, best video so far!
Oh wow! I appreciate that. Hope that it helps people to understand the assault a bit better.
@@TheHistoryUnderground thanks a lot for making these videos! Makes me want to go back badly
JD...... Yet another superb vlog. You are recording history as it occurred and preserved it for future generations. Thank you for this great effort. We must remember the bravery and heroic action done by these soldiers to preserve our freedom. God bless them all for stopping the tyranny of the Nazis regime. Thank you again
Thanks! Much appreciated.
Another excellent episode, JD. Hallowed ground you were walking on. Great to have Erik's Normandy contacts giving you privileged access. Fantastic work!
Absolutely. Thank you!
I remember this well from the Band of Brothers series. Very cool that I was able to pick up a relic from here at Eric's store. Awesome access to the site. 👍
Absolutely. Glad that we were able to get access to the grounds to share it with everyone.
I wish I could give a thousand likes this has been incredible following along with you on your journey through Normandy
Appreciate that. Maybe share with a friend or two and encourage them to subscribe 🙂
THE HBO SERIES WAS PHENOMENAL I REMEMBER WATCHING THE WHOLE SERIES ON DVD
Absolutely.
What a beautiful farm!!! The fact that it’s still in the same family and it’s a working farm is awesome!! I wish our battle fields were respected like this. Thanks for sharing this with us and again another awesome video.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but yes, many of our civil war battlefields ARE respected like this!
@@vivians9392 not all. If you watch the video from the American Battlefield Trust a lot of them have been turned it housing development. They have to fight for them and raise money to save them. To respect the battlefield. You have to care about them and so many people don’t. They’re still try to get more of the Gettysburg Battlefield but when it’s in private hands it’s hard to get a hold of.
@@cyndiebill6631Many of our battlefields are well respected and preserved. Unfortunately not all can be saved, this is just a part and fact of life, which applies to not only battlefields in the U.S. but many many many in Europe
Possibly the best video out there depicting the attack on Brecourt Manor , job well done !
Oh wow. I honestly was expecting to get a bunch of hate on this one. Thanks!
Respect to that land owner for letting you do this, maybe he knows that if it wasn’t for those men/liberators, this wouldn’t be his land.
My god you do such a great job navigating the details, showing the areas that I or my wife just wouldn't know how to do outside of seeing the monuments. Thanks a lot for keeping these memories alive and sharing them with all of us. We live in Stuttgart and are from Virginia. We plan to visit Normandy before we rotate home. Thanks so much!
Thanks! You’ll love it there.
Erik is definitely a good friend to have with all his connections and knowledge
100%
Of all the Easy Company/WW2/D Day content, this one is my favorite. Excellent work, sir
Oh wow. Thank you. That means a lot.
I've read that Lipton later said that climbing that tree was a very dumb, rookie mistake, and not something he would've not done had he been more experienced.
Yeah, that could’ve been bad.
Stunning report JD. For those of us that can't get to these places (yet), you really do bring it into our homes. Fantastic
Appreciate that 🙏🏼
Another fantastic video.
Thanks 🙏🏼
Every day we lose oral history with these brave mens passing to their next adventure. it’s really sad! RIP all the men that fought and died here. Both German and American. They were just pawns caught up in the turmoil that was WW2.
beautifully presented - walking in the footsteps of heroes , well done ..
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Man that’s awesome tracking the history here. I was fortunate to work on the first 2 Call of Duty’s and this video brought back a bunch of good memories from early 2000’s when I was studying the history at Brecourt.
Oh wow! Interesting!
Many thanks as well to the family for allowing you to film on the property.
Great job dude. You outdo yourself every video!
Thanks 🙏🏼
Funny that these band of brothers episodes are dropping as im rewatching bob for the millionth time, im a history nut and cant get enough. Love the videos cant wait to see what is in store for 2022!
Awesome! Got a bit more Easy Company content coming up in this series.
This is so cool! I utterly love band of brothers and hte episode you mentioned is awesome. It is super to see the actual site and learn al these thins, thank you.
HEY, JD & ERIK WOW,
I remember seeing this Action on the band of Brothers movie and It's So awesome seeing where this action Really Happened at And who knows how many life's We're saved
By them Doing this ..
Well thank you guy's for showings this part of one of the first Action's on D-Day take care stay safe God bless and will see you on the next video projects
Sincerely Thank you so much! for your work and videos! So humbling to see the locations where brave men saved the world
I appreciate that. Hopefully the videos are doing some good.
Thank you! 2.5 months ago i was there, and could only have a look at it from outside the manor. Now've let me enter the spot at least virtually
I’m so glad that allowed us to do this so that we could share it with everyone.
That was Great! To hear the accounts and see the actual locations today makes it absolutely surreal. Man I love your channel. Keep doing what you’re doing, and thanks for taking us along.
Thanks! My pleasure.
Love your channel. I know you focus mainly on Easy Company - 101st - 506PIR, but you may also find the 504PIR of the 82nd Airborne of interest as well, and specifically the books by T. Moffatt Burris "Strike & Hold" and the most decorated soldier in the 82nd airborne James Magellas, and his book "All The Way to Berlin"? Burris was the company commander for "I" company 504th 3rd Battalion and Magellas was the "H" company commander. These two companies made the incredible boat crossing of the Waal River during Operation Market Garden and depicted in the film "A Bridge Too Far." My uncle was a platoon Sgt. under Burris and was part of that gallant charge in flimsy canvas boats. I attended the 60th Anniversary in Nijmegen and met both men as well as several other troopers. All amazing men. Sadly all gone now.
What an amazing experience for you, going to that anniversary, and meeting those men! Thanks for sharing it with us here. My list of books to read keeps growing, but I'll have to add the ones you mentioned!
@@paigetomkinson1137 - You'll enjoy both books. Here's a link to a documentary that was produced on James Magellas around 2012. Also well worth watching. If you real "Strike & Hold" by Burris you will see two photos of my uncle in the book John Gallagher. Enjoy.
@@paigetomkinson1137 - sorry, forgot the link: th-cam.com/video/liVYe2jFOHM/w-d-xo.html
@@paigetomkinson1137 - Just found this link on Moffatt Burris. th-cam.com/video/Bxyc0ntSc9o/w-d-xo.html
@@grooveman222 Many thanks!
It’s refreshing to hear historians admit to not knowing the whole story. To many insist on saying they have the definitive picture when it’s truly impossible. My dad was at pointe du hoc and knew only too well how the stories get confused. These guys are really doing justice to an amazing and heroic story.
I hope the site and property is eventually treated as a historical site and preserved in perpetude. Nice job again with your vlogs.
Its a working farm. Not going to happen.
I would imagine that it’ll stay in the family. There were all kinds of amazing things that happened from Sword to Utah. The whole stretch is basically a historic site 😄
@@TheHistoryUnderground I hope you are right, but development and encroachment is such an issue here and suspect can become an issue there. Here we would have the NPS and the American Battlefields (The National Trust in Britain) and local organizations working to preserve land or get easements, do they have anything like that in France that preserves historical property.
@@tommcdonald1873I live in Normandy and this question comes up a lot. How would anyone be able to define what a significant historical property is? You're talking about a region where every village and town saw fighting. Brecourt is one of hundreds of locations where allied soldiers eliminated a German position
@@WW2TV Plus considering that the area has historic significance going back centuries, if not longer. I believe it's more complicated, and complex, in Europe than in the States since we're such young pups, historically speaking.
Question for JD & Eric-I realize a lot of the ground you cover is private property. Or hamlet, village, town, city, state, country property. Specifically in this video, could you not have asked the owner of the farm if you could have done an exploratory use of a metal detector on the purported locations of the German guns? Not to remove, or excavate, anything. Just to mark the highest concentration of metal ‘finds’, as possible locations for the guns. (?) Just an idea. Same for all ‘hazy’ locations. Also, (ask a cop) if you have < > 10 people actually watching/witnessing an accident right in front of them, you WILL have < > 10 DIFFERENT versions of said accident. Just saying. Glad you did your videos in the summer. This current time/weather would have been horrible-Storm Ida…. Keep up the amazing ’work’!❤️
Thanks! There was some digs that were done there awhile back but the results left more questions than answers. I’m still doing some looking.
Wasn’t the battle fought by serval companies and not just easy? I’ve heard that before as well…..
As I mentioned towards the end, D Company was also involved. There were also a few guys from HQ.
I’ve watched basically every history video that I can find on D-day and specifically these events and I can say with absolute certainty that your videos are some of the best. Thanks so much for the time and effort it took to produce this and share it with us.
Oh wow. Thank you! That really does mean a lot.
Outstanding as always !!
Splendid job taking us along and sharing the path of real life heroes !
Excellent video JD, love it getting the details of the trench line and jumping down into it.
Thanks! Glad that I can share the experience with everyone.
Phenomenal video! This type of on the same ground view of history is poignant and moving. One can only try to imagine the scene but it's a trip on hallowed ground.
Thanks!
Amazing place i have the privilege to visit also 👍🏻 the method used to take the guns by infantry is still taught at west point
Quite the place.
Had the chance to meet with the owner of Manoir Brécourt a few years back and acted as a translator for him. It was definitely an honor to hear him tell the story, and talk about what his father went through on that day and leading up to that day. Also thankful to have been able to speak with French people that were alive during the Normandy Invasion.
I'm listening to Band Of Brothers right now and this was the chapter I just finished listening to last night. The young man who was shot with his arms raised and was sent to be healed, was he the present owner's father or his uncle?
Fascinating…to be able to follow in the same trench line as the 101st guys would be surreal. Great video!
I’m learning so much from this series, but mostly that the large invasions and battles are really made up of many small incursions and capturing of numerous points and positions we never hear about. Thank you for truly bringing the heroic actions of these men to light and giving them the full recognition deserved.
Your birds-eye view map, drone footage and graphics overlay really helps the story move along. Since the birth of America it seems there has been so much interaction between England, France and America. I think that the WWII vets looking down from above are proud of your work to keep their history alive. Thanks to Erik and JD..........
Wow, amazing to get access in those trenches. I get chills just watching on my television!!!
Pretty cool experience. Glad that I could share it.
Did you happen to interview the farm owner? Would be interesting to hear his perspective or where and what he was doing during this time. Maybe he was just a young child or not born yet but sure there were stories.
He wasn’t born yet but his dad and grandfather were there. We have more from him in the next few episodes.
As a Band Of Brothers historian and fanatic who lives right near Currahee and Toccoa, This is GOLD. I watched the series as it premiered, got it on DVD, then Blu-ray, and still watch it to this day. Just amazing. I badly want to visit here. And film for my channel.
Thanks! Appreciate that.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Come back anytime. I sure wish I could have helped with last years cleanup on the Currahee.
NOW n THEN... What a pretty memorable unforgettable and legendary sites on the battlegrounds area to remember.... For the mighty brave and gallant boys of the EASY co...of 🇺🇸. Hailed Heroes liberators on ww2 seat.. Vs the Hitler's boys... And my wholeheartedly ❤❤❤💪👍 salute to col. dick winters and maj. Compton boys the opn OVERLORD....thanks for your svc n saving millions of lives... God bless AMERICA 🇺🇸.. The policeman of the WORLD....🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍💪💪💪
Dick Winters was just following common sense at Brecourt Manor. I have always heard that it is good practice to charge a battery before use. Just kidding. Great video of an interesting and famous aspect of Easy Company at Normandy
One of your best videos yet. Thank you for revising this in a way and on a platform that younger generations can more easily consume. I hope your content gets preserved and shared for years to come.
Thank you for bringing us along history with you all great work and keep bringing content
Our pleasure!
Great video, really brings Band of Brothers to life! Are you planning to touch on Holland at all? Lotta stuff you could do on Market Garden.
Would love to hit Market Garden at some point. Thanks!
Best Chanel to binge today , Memorial Day, my go to for WWII and Civil War history. Thanks
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Damn! The Lieutenant General (3 star) standing behind the row of soldiers looks an awful lot like Omar Bradley, Commanding General of overall D-Day operations! Same chin and jaw line. How cool is that!
Yep! That was him.
A great analysis of the assault on the 105's at Brecourt Manor. Your respect and humility of knowns and unknowns is excellent. Well done....Curahee!
How fitting that this video shows up just as I finish the Memoirs of Major Dick Winters!
I live less than an hour from Gettysburg museum of history. My son and I both are obsessed with ww2 history. Thank you so much for everything you do. We both look forward to every new video you put out. Your channel is the best on TH-cam.
Thank you! And thanks for sharing it with your son and getting him into history as well.
Came here because I loved the video so much. Found you through Vlogging through history :))
Awesome! Love his channel.
Was just there a year ago! Unfortunately we couldn't walk around like you did so thank you for this video! They were actually digging up multiple spots in the area to recover artifacts via a university project so we could only walk past the cowpies and briefly in the main trenches where the germans setup. It was still an amazing feeling standing right there knowing this specific engagement is still being taught at west point for how well executed it was by Winters
Thx again to JD (& Eric) for bringing us along on your trip to Europe. I would expect that actually being on the ground at the exact spot where history was made was awesome. As a WWII history buff, and living not far from Toccoa, these glimpses and insights into the 101st and its men are particularly interesting to me. I know that filming and editing is difficult and time-consuming, and I'm thankful that you are keeping this history alive. That said, I am continually baffled that your channel doesn't have more than 1M subs??
Ha! Probably has something to do with my face. Thanks!
Heroes. Just awesome heroes. What a way to define your adulthood.....Dick Winters defines a citizen soldier and a professional. Personal hero.
I was asked to spend a summer watching AA Eastern League Minor League Baseball by a man. I happened to have worked for The Oakland Athletics who ran the Albany-Colonie A's. So I had an advantage. Now, this man who stood 5'10 in his youth and 5'9 in his senior years was Jack Carroll. Jack on 05JUN1944 was employed by The United States Army as a member of Signal Corp's Pathfinder's Unit. 82nd Airborne Division. Jack had jumped the day before. Some 40 hours earlier in heavy rains, a low ceiling, low altitude jump along with dozens of toy Paratrooper dummies. Jack was their for scouting purposes. I was a member of a volunteer fire company located near the Baseball park. Jack had never spoken about the day and a half spent in Normandy surrounded by the German Army. The SS. The Nazis. A little less than 39 years had passed by without Jack speaking anything about what transpired over the first minutes he and his teammates had hit the ground. There was a small break in the weather, but for some reason an extremely dark night and morning. So, Jack entered the Firehouse and asked out loud if anyone would care to join him watching Baseball. A bunch of hands went up. Mine didn't. He said that the person would need to agree to watch all home games. A few hands dropped. Still, many stayed up. Next he said that the person would need to a Veteran. a few more hands dropped. Now, Jack is beginning to walk towards where I was sitting. Next, Jack said that the person had to have served in The United States Army. Last... "The person has to have served in The 82nd Airborne Division. John, would you consider attending minor league baseball with an old Paratrooper?" "I would be honored Jack." I didn't raise my hand because I didn't think I was worthy of such an honor. To be able to be with a World War 2 Combat Veteran who served with The 82nd Airborne Division. Who survived the Operation Market Garden Jump. And The Ardennes Forrest. Battle of The Bulge. Plus pre D-Day minus 40 zero Dark. When we sat in the stadium the Oakland Athletics provided the best seats for Jack and I. They are a class act. Jack began to speak. He said that he had carried a heavy burden for decades. And yet he wanted to share his story with another Paratrooper. One who would be able to see what a huge privledge it was and is to be selected. I served with The 618th Engineers ( Special Operations Unit ), attached to The 307th Combat Engineers, of The 82nd Airborne Division. 20 years later while going through a painful divorce; a member of Signal Corp's met up with me in Division. We are there for our guys no matter how many years have past. Every home gameof the 1983 season Jack told me stories. His first 40 hours was a blur of trying to stay undetected. Which he and his Team achieved. 🙂. Jack has since gone to Heaven.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that.
You are welcome.
Somebody shot Michel de Vallavieille and one site says it was Spiers. Same site said Malarkey put some horizontal mortar rounds into the manor building killing a machine gun nest. Rumor has it that the four guns are buried on the farm. I went into that field too after talking with Charle’s sister
Americans doing what America does best defend FREEDOM once again right on it very cool to be walking in the same trench they used to save thousands of lives by taking out those guns thank you again you do a great job of explaining what went on 🇺🇲🇺🇲
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Outstanding as always and much thanks to the land owner for the access.
We were pretty thankful that he allowed us to come out.
An amazing start to 2022! Very interesting, I love anything that has to do with the Band of Brothers!
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Again, after just watching Band of Brothers I can really visualize what took place. Especially Mullarkey running out for a Luger… lol. Great job!!
Thanks!
You're close to getting the free toaster with your frequent flyer miles aren't ya brother? Lol
Ha! I feel like I should be getting close.
Walking on Sacred Ground! Humbling! Great Job as Always JD!
Thank you for making me stay proud of being an American!
I can not thank God enough for you and Eric! This week I had the misfortune to get super excited about the revealing of the time capsule left in the Robert E Lee monument base. I became utterly irate that they were not opening the box in the proper environment, the stupid cow opening it was more concerned about the camera getting her good side and making sure the cameras were focused on her.
They did not open the vault in a climate controlled room, they used rubber or latex gloves, even my stupid dumb ass knows you can't use petroleum products on relics because it deteriorates the findings. They did not have on proper masks to protect them from any dormant germs that were in the box, They had 2 kids running around the room where they opened the box. I had worked myself up to stroke stage when she took a Dremel blade to the bass box the Mason's had left the relics in. She made Marxist comments about "Oh it is just stupid Confederate stuff" The blood vessels in my head were popping every minute of them removing the items. Knowing the care and precision that Eric takes in recovery they should have had someone like him or him there to open this box so it would have given respect to our Country's history. They were pawing through damp pages of the many books left in the box and I can not tell you the anger this evoked in me LOL I left many many comments of my disdain of the opening. What utter moron opens a time capsule the next day without consulting the proper persons of antiquities who would have respect and care of what they were doing.
I know I am ranting but I suspect you would have had the same reaction. My neighbor said she had not heard such angry rants and cussing other than when she hears me watch our former vice president speak.
More people need to stand up and be counted on keeping our history alive. If we don't know where we came from we will never know where to go. The utter ignorance of not looking at history to find the right path also makes me bonkers. All history is Good and Bad, some is Ugly and some is Beautiful but it all made us into the country we have become and the destruction has enraged me as an American.
They want to scream about slavery... well they need to go look for the Vikings Slaves, the Greeks Slaves, the Irish Slaves, the Oriental Slaves, the Italian Slaves, the Roman Slaves, the French slaves..... omg that list goes on and on but you can become a slave of your own doing if you are living in ignorance and don't do your homework to know where and why we are where we are at. Our Forefathers saw to it that they could allow their ideas to keep going, our Forefathers have given us the liberty to speak our minds, our ForeFathers have given us what we our FREEDOM. Many many many lives have been lost from all races in keeping our freedom and freedom for others.
Thank you again for keeping our history alive. Thank you again for taking a stand to make sure people can know our history. Thank you again for keeping a accurate report of our history. Thank you for sharing the history with us often so we never have an excuse of not knowing our history. Like I said some of it is not pretty, some of it I do not agree with, some of it is now so misconstrued and utter lies that it is going to be my own undoing of my sanity.
God Bless America, God Bless You, JD. God Bless Eric.... Keep letting FREEDOM ring and reminding us of where we have come from and of those who have sacrificed their lives to give us this FREEDOM. I pray for yall daily that you are protected so you can keep telling of our true history. THANK YOU AGAIN, I can not say it enough!
Thanks for watching 🙂
FOX News needs to get you on Tucker Carlson some night! Loved the rant! Semper Fi
Another great video, JD. The last time I was there, some reenactors were walking around the hedgerows. It was very surreal.
Very well done. I was at Brecourt in 2017 and met Charles and walked the same field - cows and all. This is by far the best explanation and overview of the attack I have seen to date. Excellent, excellent work Sir.
Amazing to walk the same location as the Heros did!! So “Dag Gum” amazing!!! 😁 💞 No way would anybody be able to do this with it being private property, Thank you so much to taking us along! 🙏🏻🥰
Ha! My pleasure.
Back in September of 2004 I drove the lane between Brecourt Manor and the adjacent field where the artillery battery was located without really knowing it’s exact location. Thank you for the insight!
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It's so cool how the same family's still own alot of these places. Doesn't happen like that in America sometimes I've noticed
Agreed.
Wonderful. Visit that area in 2019 with my son and a local guide owner of The Battery du Holdy Jean Ferrolliet from Sain Marie du mont
Thanks! We actually spent some time in those places as well.
Your production quality is through the roof, and I appreciate your attention to detail. I have no questions that go unanswered when I watch your videos. Cheers from Washington DC.
Appreciate that!