British-Canadian Airborne - Walking D-day

The British and Canadian airborne invasion of D-day was chaotic, like the American drops. They were to destroy 5 bridges on the river Dives, destroy a gun battery, and capture 2 bridges over the canal and River one. They did achieve all their objectives.
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Pointe du Hoc
American airborne
Utah beach
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Gold beach
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Band of Brothers
Merville gun battery
La Fierre
General Falley
Waverly Wray
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
82nd airborne
101st airborne
Donald Burgett
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
Totalise
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
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Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
The Malmann line
Taking Cherbourg
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station
Bibliography
Battle Zone Orne bridgehead, Lloyd Clark
Red Devils in Normandy, Heimdal
Juno beach, Mark Zuckle
D-Day June 6th 1944, Stuart Robinson and Dale Booth
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[@anthonycrook-rumsey6189]

my dad was in 7 battalion and mentioned he was at le port was sent home at sometime a shell landed near him and blew him into a wall and it fell on top of him ,no memories until he was back in england he is stll alive today

[@WalkingDday]

Thanks for the feedback. It’s always interesting to get stories from veterans famillies.

[@bikenavbm1229]

wow thanks

[@Lighthand3079]

Excellent!

[@corinnejoimel5588]

Thank you Colin for this new video. It's very clear with all your maps !

[@GrumblingGrognard]

Cracking Good Stuff! I really enjoyed this VERY detailed, methodical presentation of the specific subject matter coupled with images from the battle site.

[@porkiepie1997]

Thank you for another fascinating video.

[@philprice3870]

I visited the area unfortunately this was a few years ago.I wish I’d have had this knowledge then I could have visited more areas offf the beaten track.Many thanks for sharing your immense knowledge with us less informed. 😁👍👍

[@jasterfett2721]

Thank you for doing this and keeping the awareness of history

[@WalkingDday]

Thanks for the appreciation. My latest video is on Michael Wittmann.

[@banzi403]

9:13 i'm assuming one of those men was pvt J.R. Alcorn aka my dad

[@peterbudd1803]

Hi , My father was in 7th Para at Pegasus Bridge he had gone in in the Gliders. Do you know what happened to them after D Day ? All I know was he was wounded some time in the middle of August and evacuated back to the UK. He was part of a Vickers Machine gun crew - I believe he was the gunner but he never talked about it very much.

[@WalkingDday]

Up untill 17th August they were around the Bois de Bavent or Ranville, which is more or less what they took on D-day. Then they started moving East towards Pont l’Evêque.

[@peterbudd1803]

@@WalkingDday thanks - He did say they never moved very far. The trench he was in was hit by a mortar. His mate was killed and he jumped up to call for medics only to collapse as he had not realised he had a piece of shrapnel through his ankle.

[@XxBloggs]

Excellent and interesting.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Really can't imagine 550 aircraft. The Germans must've exclaimed a rude word or two upon sighting them.

[@paloon17]

To this day I don't know where my grandfather Pte R. Pollon of 1 Can Para landed in Normandy or what his objectives were that day. He was a piet gunner/anti tank. I'm not sure what company he belonged.