My grandfather fought in this war and was on the beaches my grandma said she was scared the whole time then she got the new that my grandfather passed away during this event even though I never meet you I will always remember you I love you grandpa
This hit me really hard . Thank you to all of the fallen and surviving soldiers for literally saving my life , my family their life , and the whole world . The amount of respect that I have cannot be described with words ! I will be forever gratefull ! May you rest in peace and never be forgotten !
I was fortunate enough to visit the beaches and the cemetery on Memorial Day 2017 as part of a trip through NW France and Paris. The French were very grateful and gracious to us American tourists (as if we had anything to do with this magnificent achievement). They keep the cemetery immaculate and our bartender at our hotel showed us pictures of graves that he takes and emails to families who inquire about a relative buried there. I was so humbled to be there and I am so grateful to the men and women who sacrificed (including the French citizens) for the rest of us. By the way, we were treated very well throughout our visit, even in Paris!
@@Chuked Americans fought, so did Brits, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis, Gurkas, the French and many more. Americans need to stop claiming it was all them...
@@juliad368 Aahh juliad, it's just you and me fighting the fight. I've been fighting this battle for over twenty years,, but it never filters through to them.
Wow. You'd think it would be infantry. So much sacrifice. Even tho there is little honor today. That generation gave their great great great grandchildren a wonderful life. That's a lot of new generations that lived in freedom because they gave their all. Thanks to those
@@anneball683 He is wrong about the aviators. Most of the buried were killed during the D Day landings and ensuing battles. There are some Army Air Corps crews buried there.
I would encourage every generation to visit the cemeteries of both wars. It's a humbling experience and offers a little insight to what past generations did so that we could be free.
I wanna thank all of the WW2 soldiers who are veterans now that fought in the war and for those who sacrificed their lives In WW2. Thank you all for serving In the war.
To the 3 people that gave this video a 'thumbs down '. Remember that it is your Democratic Right to do this Today because of the ultimate sacrifice of men (and women) such as these. Thank you for posting this highly emotive video.
I was fortunate to visit with Mom and nephew in '94 and will never forget the serenity while being the site of great human sacrifice during WWll...RIP great soldiers 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you all for all your sacrifices! To just disregard your own life, so we could have it better... there's no words for that!!!! It doesn't go unnoticed! Rest in heaven to all the brave men 🙏 ❤️
You can smile my friend, that's what they all fought for. For us to lead happy normal lives. I've just returned from Normandy with my young family. What those boys went through is just unimaginable. From training to pure hell. I thank every single one of them from the bottom of my heart. ❤️
Wow that’s Powerful makes one very grateful and humble. Those Brave soldiers were human beings just like any of us but they had so much courage RIP to all of them.
My grandfather is German he defend this beach from the allies he died there as well after 2 month from this battle in the small town while they was falling back RIP to all the Germans and allies soldiers
I understand many defenders weren’t German. Many of whom were conscripted Czech and Polish soldiers, other nations as well. Sometimes you have to fight in a war that isn’t even yours to begin with, because someone already took everything from you, except your life and your life is all you have left to gamble.
I am Filipino so I never valued Dday as much as every westeners. But I wholeheartedly pay my respect to the fallen and the survivors on the very beach.
I had a great uncle who helped build the pontoons, an uncle that was evacuated from Dunkirk and another uncle that was one of the first British troops into Bergen Belsen of which he never ever spoke and my brother and I were under strict instruction not to ask what he done in the war, he kept his sanity by not speaking about it, but impossible to forget.
My great grandfather also went into Bergen Belsen, he also never spoke of what he saw there. He was part of the Royal Artillery having landed at Normandy on D day +1. Then over to Netherlands, battle of the bulge. Unfortunately to information of which unit he was part of has disappeared through the years.
If any of you get a chance, I highly recommended the visit to Normandy region. We spent a whole week in the region visiting D-Day landing beaches and sites, Mont Saint Michel, and Etretat. Very historical places for children/new generations to learn history.
is when you look at those formidable defense positions you realize the amount of bravery required for such operation....these men were..are...and will be always known as the best generation for centuries to come...
No. The war is over and any explosive that remains underground is simply a remnant of the past. Think of it like a soccer match. Once the 90 minutes is over and the players are all gone, it doesn’t matter how many times you kick the ball into the net, the game has already ended. Just because you have access to the ball and the net doesn’t mean you were apart of the match.
No. You'd be unlucky. Sadly in many parts of the world it's not such an academic question and many of the landmines are 'discovered' by children and farmers. Although landmines have largely been cleared there is tons of ordinance being cleared every year all over Europe. Unexploded bombs are getting rarer but they still pop up every now and again. I heard an estimate that 30% of Ukraine is mined. I can't vouch for the number, no-one could, but I'm sure there's enough for them to still be stumbled on fifty years from now.
Rest in Peace to all who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our great Nation.. thank you for your courage. My grandfather landed on Normandy Beach with high octane fuel.. he survived but was never the same.
Once again - as always - the D-Day focus is all about Omaha, Utah, Pont du Hoc (all American zones), American troops and American cemeteries. As always, the British, Candian and even the French forces barely rate a mention. Anyone who knew nothing about the war would think from a whole plethora of films and videos - including this one - that not only were the Americans the only ones fighting on the Normandy Beaches, they also won the bloody war on their own; at least, that's what they want everyone to believe. Truly a shameful way to present even a remnant of a history, and the greatest war of all time. Just for the record, there were more British troops landed on the Normandy beaches than Americans. The casements were British-built and placed in position; along with the Canadians and French, they secured three Beacheads against the Americans' two; the RAF covered the airspace, and the Royal Navy covered the landings; and there are nearly 4,000 British & Commonwealth cemeteries in France and Begium alone, that more than outweigh all the American military cemeteries anywhere in the word COMBINED! 75 years later, who is still reaping all the glory from D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, Italy , France and Germany? Well. if you follow the American history books, you won't find much about British or Commonwealth involvement. You won't find anything about The Brits in Norway, Denmark, Greece, Burma, or the many daring raids they carried-out in the Lofotens, St Nazaire, Bruneval, Dieppe, the Norse Hydro or anywhere else. All the Americans seem able to pontificate about are centred on Normandy, Bastogne and the Pacific - all of which had full British participation, but are never mentioned in American histories. So let's get away from all of this false American idea that America won the war; it was an Allied war with a great many nations on the Allied side, and all of them played their part. Normandy, Bastogne, Europe as a whole, and the Pacific was a collaboration of Allied Forces and not just Amercan. To complete the record, Britain was compelled to pay an annual "fee" to America for their help in two World Wars. The finished paying for WW1 around the year 2014/5, and President called and end to repayments for WW2 during his term of office...but of course, you won't find all that in their history books!
@@-ETK- Your comment is noted, but has absolutely no relevance whatsoever to either this video or my thread. Neither the video nor my comments were anything to do with Soviets or destruction of any army. Perhaps you haven't got a full understanding of "Subject matter" in the English Language.
I'm right now here at Omaha beach and it is huge milestone in humans history... If this didn't happen.. maybe we all in Europe would speak German right now and some of us wouldn't be born at all in the first place
HELMUT ALTO true that. but if it was just one war front... I guess the German could hold it much longer... But with the attack from the other side Germans Power got torn apart
There were different codename beaches - Gold, Utah, Juno, Sword, Omaha. But among these, I think the one which stood out was Omaha beach because of its unexpectedly high casualties and even though it's a codename, the beach itself which is in Normandy, France has already been called "Omaha Beach" even though the name Omaha originated from the name of a place in the United States.
And, as usual, Canadian landing forces were ignored. I’ve been to the Normandy Beaches. It seems the US did everything, practically single handed. We, a much smaller country, provided an outsized contribution to the landing. 🇨🇦❤️
My Great Uncle Julian Strand Died during the Normandy Landings on D-Day of German - occupied France in Europe along with my Grandpa which was my Dads Dad that was in Patton’s Third Army, he fought all the way though the Battle of the Bulge but he got to come back home...
Its not impossible to be connected to the greatest generation. You may think you are removed, but your not. A great, uncle, Wylie Cliburn went ashore at Normandy. He then fought his way across france and germany, until he was hurt in Aachen, Germany.
RIP to my fellow Canadian soldiers, the first of all soliders to breach the beaches fortified walls and open the gates for the nations behind them. Lest we forget 🌺🥇
@HELMUT ALTO Annual counts of disarming unexploded bombs in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany): 2015: 1098 2016: 1392 2017: 1946 2018: 2811 Around 5.500 bombs in Germany overall per year. What did you say? How many years are these events ago? :p
I have a distant relative who fought for the Confederacy during the civil war. He was NOT a slave owner and was actually against slavery as per family records. He was fighting for the protection of his home in rural NC. Just a young kid at the time caught up in a stupid war caused by politicians from both sides. When Johnston surrendered in Durham, NC, he went home to rebuild his life. Just as it's unfair to say all southerners were slave owning racists, it's unfair to say all German soldiers, especially by June 6, 1944, were on board the sick Nazi train. Hopefully mankind learned a lesson from each of these wars.
Most of these Germans were just kids, not even nazis either just regular Wehrmacht forces totally unprepared for the ass whooping we were about to deliver after we got slaughtered ourselves.
Yes, of course- the world is complicated. However, your relative may have not been a slave owning racist, but he did fight to preserve the institution of slavery. Not all German soldiers were Nazis but they fought for Nazism and Hitler. I don't know what lesson you want us to learn here- the only way to abolish slavery was to fight the war , and the only way to defeat Nazism and Fascism was to fight the war.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!
I want to become a marine and this just inspires me to do that First thing i did when i saw the graves i saluted... I pay respect for those 9000 americans that fought in that hell..
Never forget the brave soldiers who fight here and lost there lives. They did it for us so we can go on living in a free democratic world, who seems to destroyed nowdays by some scruples and eager humans. For myself I admire these beave soldiers.
@@davemaxa5263 Im pretty sure Juno was canadian. Im gonna double check. Edit: I found out and i will add flags of what country invaded what Utah: 🇺🇸 Omaha: 🇺🇸 Gold: 🇬🇧 Juno: 🇨🇦 Sword: 🇬🇧
There are a few youtube videos out there about Juno and the odd one or two about Gold and Sword. There's probably a hundred more about Omaha than all the other beaches put together. It's about resources and market forces.
In the late 1770s, France came to the aid of the fledgling United States. In 1944, we returned the favor. We have our disputes, and I love joking about the French as much as anyone, but when it really matters, we’ll always be at each other’s side. Love from across the Atlantic, may we always be free.
The Germans did not mess around. This was one of their strong holds and they were willing to defend it at all costs even if it means giving their lives up. So the beaches of Normandy Merrick coming in had a big boots Deville overtake Jeremy strong holds and this is of the biggest challenges of the war but we did it. This and battle Iwo Jima. I am proud and honored to be an American.
Beautiful and sad video, every time I think of the Normandy landings, I see again these rare scenes filmed that day where we see these soldiers, sometimes coming from far away, heavily loaded with their equipment and some of whom fall under the bullets on the beach, it saddens me to the core, not to mention the cemeteries dotted with white crosses, all these lives and families shattered forever! More than ever vigilant to defend democracy and freedom, it is so fragile, especially at this time when populism and nationalism are resurfacing everywhere in the world and even in France! A sincere and deep thought from a Frenchman for each of them for their sacrifices!
To land the number of troops needed one beach would not be enough. Imagine a Rugby or American Football game where all the players had to advance through a narrow gateway. All the oposition has to do is block that gateway. Also, apart from the initial assault a large part of D-Day was getting all the equipment and supplies ashore. It was like moving a medium sized city, including all the things needed to support a city (food, fuel, spare parts, toilet paper). One beach would be like supplying a city with one single lane highway. The string of beaches is not uniform. Some areas have low lying ground, some areas have low lying cliffs, and others have high ground overlooking them. What was needed was an area large enough and (relatively) flat enough. The area of beaches is not that small. I've read that when Rommel saw Normandy he could see the similarity with one of the allied amphibious landings in Italy (Anzio?) and ordered it to be reinforced because of that. The allies did try a smaller landing in 1942 at Dieppe (although even that had multiple beaches) and it was a disaster.
@@iamric23 They did have a 'second D-Day' in southern France, and there were invasions in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Normandy had a lot going for it. If you think of the factors. You wouldn't want to land too far from the main target, so Norway was out. You'd want to land within the range of fighter cover. You'd need a fair sized area so you could land enough troops. You'd want to capture ports but not assault a port directly (as Dieppe proved). You'd want it relatively close to U.K. ports. The only other place I could imagine is the Pas De Calais. That would have met more fortifications, more German troops, shorter supply lines for the Germans and more German fighters. If you scrub it from the list I can't think of a better place than Normandy. They spent plenty of time looking at alternatives. Churchill wanted it to be in the Balkans but that was more from wanting the UK to have influence there and for it not to fall to the Soviets than any serious attempt to attack Germany. D-Day was just the first day of the assault. Wherever that was, it was likely to be bloody. But they had to consider the larger picture beyond the first day.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I have not looked at places better than the ones they chose, but to me, there had to be weaker spots. That was a slaughter house for thousands of our men. Even if had to take a few more months to get to the targets, to me, it seems that they were just looking to shorten the war regardless of our casualties.
My grandfather fought in this war and was on the beaches my grandma said she was scared the whole time then she got the new that my grandfather passed away during this event even though I never meet you I will always remember you I love you grandpa
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rip grandpa 🙏
I'm very sorry to hear that he must of been very brave R.I.P
Mine grandfather did to he is still alive telling me war stories and I appreciate all of them.
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This hit me really hard . Thank you to all of the fallen and surviving soldiers for literally saving my life , my family their life , and the whole world . The amount of respect that I have cannot be described with words ! I will be forever gratefull ! May you rest in peace and never be forgotten !
Amen!
I was fortunate enough to visit the beaches and the cemetery on Memorial Day 2017 as part of a trip through NW France and Paris. The French were very grateful and gracious to us American tourists (as if we had anything to do with this magnificent achievement). They keep the cemetery immaculate and our bartender at our hotel showed us pictures of graves that he takes and emails to families who inquire about a relative buried there. I was so humbled to be there and I am so grateful to the men and women who sacrificed (including the French citizens) for the rest of us. By the way, we were treated very well throughout our visit, even in Paris!
We did have something to do with it.. We liberated them from tyranny
@@Chuked No, I meant us tourists. Our nation's commitment to freedom saved western Europe, for sure, and the French know it.
@@Chuked Americans fought, so did Brits, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis, Gurkas, the French and many more. Americans need to stop claiming it was all them...
@@juliad368 Aahh juliad, it's just you and me fighting the fight. I've been fighting this battle for over twenty years,, but it never filters through to them.
I never want those two flags to ever come down R.I.P. to all the brave men that storm the beach that day 🇺🇲
🇺🇸 🏴 ❤️
@@jays5926 🇺🇸🏴🇨🇦❤️
🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 (Plus some other countries/nations in small numbers.)
the US flag you guys think are typing is actually the unlying islands flag
The last real war that wasn't fought just for profit and lies and corporate greed and hijacking natural resources.
As I recall from my visit, most of the dead at the U.S. cemetery in Normandy were aviators. The average age of the dead was twenty-four years. Tragic.
Wow. You'd think it would be infantry. So much sacrifice. Even tho there is little honor today. That generation gave their great great great grandchildren a wonderful life. That's a lot of new generations that lived in freedom because they gave their all. Thanks to those
Terrible war, imagine what a graveyard with everyone who died in ww2 buried there would look like.
@@anneball683 He is wrong about the aviators. Most of the buried were killed during the D Day landings and ensuing battles. There are some Army Air Corps crews buried there.
@@davemaxa5263 thx
@@Fred-qk8nm I have been there also, he is wrong. Look at lists of buried veterans most are not air crew members.
Profound Respects and Awe. RIP Brave Souls.
Thank you 🙏 for all you sacrificed
Sacrifice !!!!
NWO yes
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james mc Can’t read your language sorry. But if you are opposed to my words then we have nothing more to say 👍🏼🇺🇸
Thank you for killing and invading countries making our country more rich.
I live in germany but l hate nazi germany rip american soldiers
@@Mrquetzalcoatlus honestly I feel like most Germans hate the nazis,
I would encourage every generation to visit the cemeteries of both wars. It's a humbling experience and offers a little insight to what past generations did so that we could be free.
I wanna thank all of the WW2 soldiers who are veterans now that fought in the war and for those who sacrificed their lives In WW2. Thank you all for serving In the war.
To the 3 people that gave this video a 'thumbs down '.
Remember that it is your
Democratic Right to do this Today because of the ultimate sacrifice of men (and women) such as these.
Thank you for posting this
highly emotive video.
Dude they probably being spammed by this freaking Ad, please help me.
So true
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Women didn’t do anything
what facist democracy leading youth to sacrifice lives needlessly ASS WHOLES
My grandpa had fought in Normandy and in the battle of the bulge he was in the 82nd AirBorn Division He recently just passed
A legendary division still kicking ass to this day! Rip to your grandpa
I was fortunate to visit with Mom and nephew in '94 and will never forget the serenity while being the site of great human sacrifice during WWll...RIP great soldiers 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The world will never forget. Just an incredible visual. The significance of Dday cannot be measured
Thank you all for all your sacrifices! To just disregard your own life, so we could have it better... there's no words for that!!!! It doesn't go unnoticed! Rest in heaven to all the brave men 🙏 ❤️
My uncle is buried there. Peaceful and beautiful place.
May he rest in piece❤️🙏
My tear drops for you,
Normandy
lots of respect.
Honnestly the landing was ballsy as hell but thats the US for yah. Those guys back then were a different breed.
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You know the British and Canadians landed the the exact same time right ?
I will not smile when I go their I'll be thankful. Those soldiers Gave everything to give a country its home again. That shows how big people can love
You can smile my friend, that's what they all fought for. For us to lead happy normal lives. I've just returned from Normandy with my young family. What those boys went through is just unimaginable. From training to pure hell. I thank every single one of them from the bottom of my heart. ❤️
what about the people defending it?
Wow that’s Powerful makes one very grateful and humble. Those Brave soldiers were human beings just like any of us but they had so much courage RIP to all of them.
My grandfather is German he defend this beach from the allies he died there as well after 2 month from this battle in the small town while they was falling back RIP to all the Germans and allies soldiers
So your grandfather was a nazi.
Thanks for sharing ur Grandfather was brave.
@@ChefDuJour78 there is a different between nazi and German and my grandfather was a German he fought for what he believed is right
@@ChefDuJour78 there were a lot of germans against the Nazis, there was like 9 assassination attempts against Hitler in germany
I understand many defenders weren’t German. Many of whom were conscripted Czech and Polish soldiers, other nations as well. Sometimes you have to fight in a war that isn’t even yours to begin with, because someone already took everything from you, except your life and your life is all you have left to gamble.
I am Filipino so I never valued Dday as much as every westeners. But I wholeheartedly pay my respect to the fallen and the survivors on the very beach.
Thank you.
They done a big sacrifice so respect for the brave soldiers🙏🏼🙏🏼
It’s crazy how small these beaches were, 19,000 deaths at most all on these tiny beaches.
My Dad landed on 'Gold Beach' on D-Day. luckily he survived the war, but lost a lot of his comrades on that brutal day.
Magnifique vidéo merci... J y suis allé il y a pas longtemp... Dur dur.. Emotion
I had a great uncle who helped build the pontoons, an uncle that was evacuated from Dunkirk and another uncle that was one of the first British troops into Bergen Belsen of which he never ever spoke and my brother and I were under strict instruction not to ask what he done in the war, he kept his sanity by not speaking about it, but impossible to forget.
My great grandfather also went into Bergen Belsen, he also never spoke of what he saw there. He was part of the Royal Artillery having landed at Normandy on D day +1. Then over to Netherlands, battle of the bulge. Unfortunately to information of which unit he was part of has disappeared through the years.
Today’s was Memorial Day for us we just had our silence a movie played on the tv about this beach and it gave me chills
Beautifuly done, my wife and grandkids jut got back. They went to every beach. Many tears.
Always remember,NEVER EVER FORGET ❤️
My father survived Omaha Beach. It became part of our family with his recurring memories.
What would we have done without them. Brave men. Thankyou
ah man, i wish i could just go back and time look these soldiers in eye, while being taken into almost certain death, and thank them for everything
Excellent presentation !
If any of you get a chance, I highly recommended the visit to Normandy region. We spent a whole week in the region visiting D-Day landing beaches and sites, Mont Saint Michel, and Etretat. Very historical places for children/new generations to learn history.
I have a great grandfather who fought on d-day but survived the war until 2019 he died (he was 93 years old)
is when you look at those formidable defense positions you realize the amount of bravery required for such operation....these men were..are...and will be always known as the best generation for centuries to come...
To think that those beautiful waves that crash to the shore we're ones covered crimson red war is absolute hell
Dumbass thought: If I went there and stepped on a forgotten landmine, would I still be a casualty of the war?
No, because the war ended
No. The war is over and any explosive that remains underground is simply a remnant of the past.
Think of it like a soccer match. Once the 90 minutes is over and the players are all gone, it doesn’t matter how many times you kick the ball into the net, the game has already ended.
Just because you have access to the ball and the net doesn’t mean you were apart of the match.
it will be count as an accident
No. You'd be unlucky. Sadly in many parts of the world it's not such an academic question and many of the landmines are 'discovered' by children and farmers. Although landmines have largely been cleared there is tons of ordinance being cleared every year all over Europe. Unexploded bombs are getting rarer but they still pop up every now and again. I heard an estimate that 30% of Ukraine is mined. I can't vouch for the number, no-one could, but I'm sure there's enough for them to still be stumbled on fifty years from now.
Rest in Peace to all who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our great Nation.. thank you for your courage. My grandfather landed on Normandy Beach with high octane fuel.. he survived but was never the same.
merci ;
thank you bro
a wonderful video but so sad all those young lives lost
Once again - as always - the D-Day focus is all about Omaha, Utah, Pont du Hoc (all American zones), American troops and American cemeteries. As always, the British, Candian and even the French forces barely rate a mention. Anyone who knew nothing about the war would think from a whole plethora of films and videos - including this one - that not only were the Americans the only ones fighting on the Normandy Beaches, they also won the bloody war on their own; at least, that's what they want everyone to believe. Truly a shameful way to present even a remnant of a history, and the greatest war of all time.
Just for the record, there were more British troops landed on the Normandy beaches than Americans. The casements were British-built and placed in position; along with the Canadians and French, they secured three Beacheads against the Americans' two; the RAF covered the airspace, and the Royal Navy covered the landings; and there are nearly 4,000 British & Commonwealth cemeteries in France and Begium alone, that more than outweigh all the American military cemeteries anywhere in the word COMBINED!
75 years later, who is still reaping all the glory from D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, Italy , France and Germany? Well. if you follow the American history books, you won't find much about British or Commonwealth involvement. You won't find anything about The Brits in Norway, Denmark, Greece, Burma, or the many daring raids they carried-out in the Lofotens, St Nazaire, Bruneval, Dieppe, the Norse Hydro or anywhere else. All the Americans seem able to pontificate about are centred on Normandy, Bastogne and the Pacific - all of which had full British participation, but are never mentioned in American histories.
So let's get away from all of this false American idea that America won the war; it was an Allied war with a great many nations on the Allied side, and all of them played their part. Normandy, Bastogne, Europe as a whole, and the Pacific was a collaboration of Allied Forces and not just Amercan. To complete the record, Britain was compelled to pay an annual "fee" to America for their help in two World Wars. The finished paying for WW1 around the year 2014/5, and President called and end to repayments for WW2 during his term of office...but of course, you won't find all that in their history books!
And if you look at the number of casualties, soviets did the real job on destroying german army. And this is coming from Finland, enemy of soviets.
Thank You, And now finally Britain has a Normandy memorial after all these years.
@@-ETK- Your comment is noted, but has absolutely no relevance whatsoever to either this video or my thread. Neither the video nor my comments were anything to do with Soviets or destruction of any army. Perhaps you haven't got a full understanding of "Subject matter" in the English Language.
@@yellahhhhh8644 Yes Rebecca, and not before time!
totally agree with you. Many americans do tend to make the D Day landings all about America.
Thank you for your service!
Humble
thank you
You can only imagine......
I'm right now here at Omaha beach and it is huge milestone in humans history...
If this didn't happen.. maybe we all in Europe would speak German right now and some of us wouldn't be born at all in the first place
HELMUT ALTO true that. but if it was just one war front... I guess the German could hold it much longer...
But with the attack from the other side Germans Power got torn apart
Rip everybody who fought in world war ll D-Day
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Thank you for the great sacrifice brave souls. R. I. P 🙏🙏🙏 🇺🇲
i hope there's no the 3 world war
It could be with China next.
@@solidstudd22 most likely
Dont jinx it
it could be with canada vs north korea
@@ward7725 weird war😂
Nice work. Thank you for sharing.
There were different codename beaches - Gold, Utah, Juno, Sword, Omaha. But among these, I think the one which stood out was Omaha beach because of its unexpectedly high casualties and even though it's a codename, the beach itself which is in Normandy, France has already been called "Omaha Beach" even though the name Omaha originated from the name of a place in the United States.
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Together in arms
Back then this beach is hell
And, as usual, Canadian landing forces were ignored. I’ve been to the Normandy Beaches. It seems the US did everything, practically single handed. We, a much smaller country, provided an outsized contribution to the landing. 🇨🇦❤️
unconditional love
My Great Uncle Julian Strand Died during the Normandy Landings on D-Day of German - occupied France in Europe along with my Grandpa which was my Dads Dad that was in Patton’s Third Army, he fought all the way though the Battle of the Bulge but he got to come back home...
Its not impossible to be connected to the greatest generation. You may think you are removed, but your not. A great, uncle, Wylie Cliburn went ashore at Normandy. He then fought his way across france and germany, until he was hurt in Aachen, Germany.
The brilliant, possibly world-changing minds these people might've had.. lost in war 🙏 RIP
Wonderful
May both sides all rest in peace in heaven for eternity❤️🙏
RIP to my fellow Canadian soldiers, the first of all soliders to breach the beaches fortified walls and open the gates for the nations behind them. Lest we forget 🌺🥇
It feels weird to see a place associated with so much death and destruction look so serene and kind of beautiful.
Somehow my grandpa survive the war
Who else is here on Remembrance Sunday 2022? - WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
This is only creepy knowing this silent beach holds a dark past...
Imagine going to visit and stepping on a german mine
@HELMUT ALTO Annual counts of disarming unexploded bombs in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany):
2015: 1098
2016: 1392
2017: 1946
2018: 2811
Around 5.500 bombs in Germany overall per year.
What did you say? How many years are these events ago? :p
I have a distant relative who fought for the Confederacy during the civil war. He was NOT a slave owner and was actually against slavery as per family records. He was fighting for the protection of his home in rural NC. Just a young kid at the time caught up in a stupid war caused by politicians from both sides. When Johnston surrendered in Durham, NC, he went home to rebuild his life.
Just as it's unfair to say all southerners were slave owning racists, it's unfair to say all German soldiers, especially by June 6, 1944, were on board the sick Nazi train.
Hopefully mankind learned a lesson from each of these wars.
Most of these Germans were just kids, not even nazis either just regular Wehrmacht forces totally unprepared for the ass whooping we were about to deliver after we got slaughtered ourselves.
Yes, of course- the world is complicated. However, your relative may have not been a slave owning racist, but he did fight to preserve the institution of slavery. Not all German soldiers were Nazis but they fought for Nazism and Hitler. I don't know what lesson you want us to learn here- the only way to abolish slavery was to fight the war , and the only way to defeat Nazism and Fascism was to fight the war.
He fought for his home Yeag sure thing
A friend’s Father missed death here due to that morning awakening with measles.
Every soul in his combat construction battalion perished.
music?
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!
I want to become a marine and this just inspires me to do that
First thing i did when i saw the graves i saluted...
I pay respect for those 9000 americans that fought in that hell..
Wow I didn't know the number in cemetery.
@HELMUT ALTO thank you
Never forget the brave soldiers who fight here and lost there lives. They did it for us so we can go on living in a free democratic world, who seems to destroyed nowdays by some scruples and eager humans. For myself I admire these beave soldiers.
As what one current Army Ranger said at the 75th Anniversary ceremony at St Come du Mont; “They were a different breed of men.”
And just think, this is 9,000 lives lost and we are currently losing this many every 3 days to Covid. To date we have lost 275,000 to Covid.
Nothing about Juno or Sword?
They were British.
@@davemaxa5263 Im pretty sure Juno was canadian. Im gonna double check.
Edit: I found out and i will add flags of what country invaded what
Utah: 🇺🇸
Omaha: 🇺🇸
Gold: 🇬🇧
Juno: 🇨🇦
Sword: 🇬🇧
There are a few youtube videos out there about Juno and the odd one or two about Gold and Sword. There's probably a hundred more about Omaha than all the other beaches put together. It's about resources and market forces.
Where is Turner ??
And zussman
Such a high cost for a peace
Respect
Why is the quality so bad?
It’s Courseulles-sur-Mer not Courselles 😊
I wonder if the bodies of all those fallen soldiers are actually in those graves or if they're just markers set up in their honor?
I would imagine that sadly, a lot of those are empty graves 😭
@user-uk9tr2ir4q What about the soldiers who died in explosions that have no body to bury? Don't they at least get a symbolic grave too?
Why did you upload this in 480p? In 2019.
In the late 1770s, France came to the aid of the fledgling United States. In 1944, we returned the favor.
We have our disputes, and I love joking about the French as much as anyone, but when it really matters, we’ll always be at each other’s side. Love from across the Atlantic, may we always be free.
The Germans did not mess around. This was one of their strong holds and they were willing to defend it at all costs even if it means giving their lives up.
So the beaches of Normandy Merrick coming in had a big boots Deville overtake Jeremy strong holds and this is of the biggest challenges of the war but we did it. This and battle Iwo Jima. I am proud and honored to be an American.
@Randy Lahey18 no? It was above 96%.
Wow
Pvt. John Steele, in reality, hung off the other side of the church tower. The dummy is located on the opposite side for better view by the tourists.
0:41 it still looks like June 6th 1944.💀
Sacred ground indeed😢
I salute you all.
hey anyone at TWGSB
Rip to all Germans and us solders
Respect from a man who his grandfather fights here
Respect from Germany
As the American Major General Smedley Butler famously said: War is a Racket.
Girls : omg we are going to beach !!!
Boy:
Thank you to all soldiers past and present who defend against other countries that think it is ok to invade and steal your land.
Beautiful and sad video, every time I think of the Normandy landings, I see again these rare scenes filmed that day where we see these soldiers, sometimes coming from far away, heavily loaded with their equipment and some of whom fall under the bullets on the beach, it saddens me to the core, not to mention the cemeteries dotted with white crosses, all these lives and families shattered forever!
More than ever vigilant to defend democracy and freedom, it is so fragile, especially at this time when populism and nationalism are resurfacing everywhere in the world and even in France!
A sincere and deep thought from a Frenchman for each of them for their sacrifices!
Does anyone know why the allies just didn't use Gold beach? Focus on that landing area instead of the harder beach areas that had cliffs.
To land the number of troops needed one beach would not be enough. Imagine a Rugby or American Football game where all the players had to advance through a narrow gateway.
All the oposition has to do is block that gateway. Also, apart from the initial assault a large part of D-Day was getting all the equipment and supplies ashore. It was like moving a medium sized city, including all the things needed to support a city (food, fuel, spare parts, toilet paper). One beach would be like supplying a city with one single lane highway.
The string of beaches is not uniform. Some areas have low lying ground, some areas have low lying cliffs, and others have high ground overlooking them. What was needed was an area large enough and (relatively) flat enough. The area of beaches is not that small. I've read that when Rommel saw Normandy he could see the similarity with one of the allied amphibious landings in Italy (Anzio?) and ordered it to be reinforced because of that. The allies did try a smaller landing in 1942 at Dieppe (although even that had multiple beaches) and it was a disaster.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 There had to be a better place in Europe to land.
@@iamric23 They did have a 'second D-Day' in southern France, and there were invasions in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Normandy had a lot going for it. If you think of the factors. You wouldn't want to land too far from the main target, so Norway was out. You'd want to land within the range of fighter cover. You'd need a fair sized area so you could land enough troops. You'd want to capture ports but not assault a port directly (as Dieppe proved). You'd want it relatively close to U.K. ports. The only other place I could imagine is the Pas De Calais. That would have met more fortifications, more German troops, shorter supply lines for the Germans and more German fighters. If you scrub it from the list I can't think of a better place than Normandy. They spent plenty of time looking at alternatives. Churchill wanted it to be in the Balkans but that was more from wanting the UK to have influence there and for it not to fall to the Soviets than any serious attempt to attack Germany. D-Day was just the first day of the assault. Wherever that was, it was likely to be bloody. But they had to consider the larger picture beyond the first day.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I have not looked at places better than the ones they chose, but to me, there had to be weaker spots. That was a slaughter house for thousands of our men. Even if had to take a few more months to get to the targets, to me, it seems that they were just looking to shorten the war regardless of our casualties.