101st Airborne Liberators: Carentan 1944 Then and Now
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2023
- The Battle for Carentan and the surrounding area took place between June 12-13, 1944. The city is dominated by high ground to the southwest and southeast, all of which was under German control during the battle.
Over the following days numerous photos and films were taken by the men of the Signal Corps units documenting the Allied Landings in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord.
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, I will take you on a journey to Carentan to examine the various Then and Now photos of the men of the 101st Airborne and provide a breakdown of why they are important!
Apologies in advance for the sound as I had some microphone issues during filming combating the high winds!
If you enjoy this Then and Now episode I have lots more on my channel if you have time to watch!
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Lots of effort has gone into making these videos. As a former front-line soldier, I thank you for keeping their sacrifice alive.
Lots of hours spent editing I won’t lie! But I think it’s worthwhile to bring these stores and places to a wide audience!
Thanks for taking the time to watch as it’s really appreciated!
Wow my respects to you sir!
Great video. I love the "Then & Now" comparisons. Great information. It really shows you have a passion for what you do. Thanks!
Thank you! It’s a great town to visit and I love visiting there. Hoping to feature it again at some point but it’ll be something quite different!
Sir your a class act , I’m learning more and more new facts with every documentary you produce .
The little known memorial to the bridging officer who was sadly killed was especially an eye opening pearl of knowledge.
Thank you so much for your outstanding work to produce, script and present these historical echoes in time . Well done that man 🫡👌
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! It’s a wonderful city and the Bailey Bridge and Major Tuckers memorial is one of my favourite places there!
Carenten is such a beautiful place. Thank you for showing during ww2 time photos and present time video.
You’re most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
My heavens, Major Winters, beautiful man, you did this at 26! Or 25 if your birthday was later in the year. And most of us today need until 30 to “find ourselves” . . . . the greatest generation indeed.
Yes hard to imagine huh...
Very much so! They were a breed apart!
Он был отличным офицером.
It makes me think and love my dad more and more. I would love to walk were he did, but I'm in a chair with issues. Loved listening to him. Smartest mofo in the world. Love dad. Thanks so much what you've done in the world
Hi Jon
Thanks for sharing another great video!
Caretan looks to be such a beautiful old town with its buildings that were mostly saved from the war.
It’s fantastic that they have kept their heritage alive and tried to keep the same appearance with the post war renovations and rebuilding.
Keep up the good work brother ❤😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Carentan is a wonderful place to visit and very much key to the 101st Airborne’s story so I always enjoy visiting there, and fortunately I got lucky with the weather so could show the place off nicely!
Great video! Thanks for sharing! I really like looking at the old war photos. It's fascinating comparing the old photos with present day and how little has changed in some places and how things have changed more in other areas. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work! Much appreciated!
You’re lost welcome, and glad you enjoyed it!
Superb as always buddy!
Thanks mate! Just playing catch up now after my unexpected leave of absence!!
Another great Then and Now of Carentan. I really enjoy these videos. Keep them coming.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m new to your channel. Mightily impressed by reconnaissance/ research. Looking forward to watching your other location reports.
Thank you! Welcome to the channel! My next video will be an in-depth look at the battle for La Fiere filmed entirely on location so hope you enjoy it!
My father fought there at Carentan with 101st, 506th F company. He joined with the paratroopers at camp Toccoa, Georgia.
Thank you showing the then and now photos. I am always looking at the solders faces hoping to see my father.
Have you read Fighting Fox Company: The Battling Flank of the Band of Brothers by Bill Brown & Terry Poyser? It's a wonderful book all about F Company and is on Amzon etc. If you're able to I'd highly recommend trying to get a copy!
Yes, I have that book. I actually keep it close by and refer to it often.
Thank you
Amazing ! Thank you for this. I'm planning a trip with my Daughter we want to go to these sites in 2024 and learn the history take photos and experience the areas. Truly a part of history that soon will be forgotten. Thanks for keeping it alive. I hope to do the same.
I hope you have a great trip there! That sort of Normandy has so much to offer and the museums are first class!
Fantastic work! Some of these then and nows make it feel like the war was only last week. Many Thanks ;)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Super ! It feels like being there 👏
Thank you!
Hello John.
A fantastic video showing "then & now" photographs. I'm surprised just how much remains from 1944. What brave men the 101st were. I guess being repatriated back to the UK after this battle was very welcome.
It’s incredible isn’t it given how much shelving the place took in mid June but fortunately most that did get hit seems to have been rebuilt in the original style in the centre of the town
New subscribed. Great (Then and Now), like watching uncharted territory for many areas we walk and yet never knew it.
Thank you and welcome to the channel!
Beau Travail comme d'habitude🔬🍀🌐Toujours un Moment de Détente💪🎬Alex France Picardie🙏🌌
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Carentan is a wonderful town and it was a lot of fun to track those locations down! Thanks again for watching!
Quality vid mate to see all of the then & now shots plus the arch work they built into the BoB set. Top work 👏🏻🪖🦅
Glad you enjoyed it Steve! It’s a great place to visit!
Sir you are a genius ❤.
Thank you!
Another great episode, as usual. Thank you!
Thank you!
Great video Jon. I really enjoy the then and now shows. Thanks!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and hopefully showed Carentan has some interesting places that are worth a visit if you have the chance!
I appreciate the then and now template.
And I really appreciate how the French keep things,like the buildings,the way they were originally.
Not like in the U.S.A. where old buildings are torn down and replaced with these eyesores.
Agreed. It is nice to be able to visit these places and because of the buildings you can really feel the history and those who have gone before. Plus it makes my work that much easier for which I’m grateful!
@@WW2Wayfinder Your a gift.👍
Hope you feel better, Shawn from the States
Thank you Shawn! Getting there fortunately thanks to the amazing medics at the hospital! Can’t thank those people enough for helping my sorry backside!
Great channel with very interesting and well researched videos im hooked on the history.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great series of videos, bringing the old “Then and Now” books bang up to date 😊
Thanks mate!
I’m glad you showed that paper about the June 13 German offensive . That was the date my father was wounded. The newspaper clipping about my dad being wounded says “somewhere outside Carenton.” That’s all I know.
Great work! Thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve just visited Carentan and was able to find some comparison shots but not as many as you.
Looks like I’m going to have to go back !
Well Done another Excellent video 👍🏻👏🏻
Great you’ve been able to see the town, and find some of the locations! It’s definitely an underrated location to walk around in terms of the 101st story. Plus there’s some great bars and places to eat by the marina! Thanks for watching 😃
Well done John awesome effort with these 🤝 lovely to see where history happened
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Carentan is always fun place to visit
Great job , glad to see that places didn't change that much. It keeps memories alive. Greetings from Paris, from a grateful Frenchie.
Thank you!
It’s great that Carentan remains largely as it did during the war as it’s a lovely place to spend a couple of hours exploring.
Hi John, Really grateful I found your fascinating channel, the depth of your knowledge amazes me. Just checking, I sent you an email couple of weeks ago re the 2nd Warwicks. A relative of my wife, Thomas Wagstaff from Bolton was in the 2nd Warwicks and tragically killed 13th August 1944. Just to make sure the email has not been diverted to your trash. There's certainly no rush to reply, I realise the effort you put into this is so time consuming. Take care. RIP to all those heroes.
I’ll have the war diary to you tomorrow 😃
Carentan was such a great place to visit.
It’s nice isn’t it, especially down by the Marina
@@WW2Wayfinder Beautiful area with such a big role in history
Great job Jon! A lot of research really paid off. Love your detailed explanations and historical facts. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Carentan is a lovely place to visit and I was pleased with how this came out as I filmed so late in the day I was loosing the light!
New sub. Facinating tour of these key WW2 locations. Love it. Keep up the great work.
I must admit I’ve only recently come across your channel. I have a huge interest in places such as Bastogne, Foy, Brecourt Manor etc. Just want to say what an absolute joy it is to sit and watch through your channel. No crap just great informative and captivating content. Really allows you to escape and learn something’s along the way. Look forward to much more. Ps. I wish you had hoodies to purchase :) take care
Thank you! I’ve got lots to come from my current trip to Normandy as well so be prepared for that!!
I do plan on having hoodies at some point, it’s just been a crazy year for me so far with my day job and moving house so it’s on the list of things to do!
Thanks again!
@@WW2Wayfinder really look forward to seeing your current travels. Yeah completely understand, fair play for doing this along side a day job thats pretty impressive! Great stuff i shall keep an eye out and will certainly get one on order when available. Take care!
Excellent video as always..👍👍
Thank you!
A wonderful and fascinating video. Thanks very much.
You’re most welcome, thank you for taking the time to watch!
Another fantastic video!
Thank you!
absolutely brilliant we need you for a battlefield tour
One day I want to be able to offer them, just need to sort a few other things out first (I need to quit my full day job!)
Never seen your channel before today and Iam fully enjoying it great job , I will subscribe
Thank you! I hope you enjoy my other videos, and still lots more to come😃
Thank you for this video. You just got another subscriber!!
Thank you and welcome to the channel! Hope you enjoy the rest of my work 😃
I really enjoyed watching this video!
Thank you! Hope it gave you a good idea of the history you can still find in Carentan today!
Excellent episode "Sir" you are living my dream. I appreciate you doing the Then and Now, puts things into prospective.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I hope to have a few more Then and Now episodes in the next few weeks. My next video is slightly different though and about a specific battle in Normandy so I hope you enjoy that too when it’s released!
Great videos,, love all of them.. I especially like the photos of the Tucker Bridge, I wasn’t aware of that.
Thank you! The memorial to Major Tucker is fantastic and doesn’t receive the attention it deserves sadly.
Thanks. Another great video. 👍🏻
Thank you!
@@WW2Wayfinder I realise you are a busy chap (needing some R'n'R!), but have you considered a wee series on the withdrawal/capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valery en Caux?
Une reconnaissance éternelle pour ces jeunes soldats américains et alliés morts pour la liberté de l’Europe. Leur mémoire reste gravée dans nos cœurs. De véritables héros qui ont tout sacrifié pour notre avenir en perdant le leur. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💞💞💞🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷👍👍👍
An eternal gratitude for these young American soldiers and allies who died for the freedom of Europe. Their memory remains engraved in our hearts. True heroes who sacrificed everything for our future by losing theirs.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💞💞💞🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷👍👍👍
This was awesome! I didn’t realize that Bailey bridge was still there! Awesome
It receives little attention from what I’ve seen so really pleased I had time to fit it into the video and the memorial to Major Tucker is fantastic, and a credit to his memory and to those who took the time to place it there.
@@WW2Wayfinder absolutely 👍 I honestly hadn’t heard about this, well about the bridge I mean. Really liked this episode!
Awesome and moving stuff..thanks for documenting, big add for posterity..
Thank you!
another great video. i did the whole Normandy thing a few yrs ago. couldn't take advantage of the walking around seeing sites like you did because it was raining sideways. miserable weather. hell, thought i was back in the infantry.
Thank you!
Sadly Normandy weather can be a real pain in the backside when it wants to be!
I was there in April one year and enjoyed snow of all thing!!!
Hope the episode was able to show you some of the spots there you weren’t able to see when you visited, and I’ll have a lot more from various locations in Normandy coming up over the next few weeks!
Just found your pages, Brilliant ! Texas Brit ! Impressive ~ subscribed ~ !
Thank you and welcome to the channel! Hope you enjoy my work 😃
Good job again, great video
Thank you!
Fantastic video. My son and I are going to Normandy next mid-April. Looking so very forward to it. Thank you.
Oh wonderful! April is a nice time of the year to visit and it’ll be nice and quiet so you should be able to really take in all the sites! Hope you have a great trip, Normandy is such a special place!
Thank you for this upload, really appreciate your work. We have a home in Varenguebec, we believe that it was set up as a German field hospital during D-Day and possibly an airstrip until our troops cleared it out. Lots of bullet holes and shrapnel still evident in the old buildings around the village. There’s some footage of Italian soldiers being rounded up in the village also. (On TH-cam)
Fantastic! I know the area well! It’s a stunning part of Normandy so will have a look into that. The Boos are Limors certainly saw action as the 82nd were in that area later in June
Been away a while, but these are consistently excellent. Congats on a well-deserved 100,000 subscribers recognition!
Thank you! And thanks for the support along the way, crazy to think how far it’s all come in 18 months! Happy New Year too!
Just got onto your channel by way of your interviews on the A Few Minutes of History channel.
Oh cool! I’ll let Jake know! Thanks for that! Hope you enjoy my content and welcome to the channel!
One hell of a channel this.
Thank you!
Well done. Many thanks.
Thank you!
Excellent, I will be visiting in a couple of months so will try to hunt down the images you showed. Thank you for posting.
Hope you have a great time there! Carentan is a wonderful place to spend a couple of hours and I can definitely recommend the restaurants by the marina if you have time for food there!
Awesome thanks a lot!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Quality item(s) ... Lest We Forget. Many thanks WW2 Wayfinder.
Really enjoyable video, on Major tucker's memorial it said his brother was also killed in France, very sad the 2 brothers lost their lives so far from home in such a short space of time.
It’s tragic isn’t it when you hear of losses like that. Really brings home the human cost of the war and the unimaginable impact it must have had on their family!
Another outstanding vid. Bailey Bridges were built to last. A great topic for a future video, perhaps.
Incredible aren’t they and more left from the war still in use than you’d think!
Cool as always your visit to that days of iron,blood and fire..
Thank you!
Thank you = I've just bought the Band of Brothers DVD series. And this gives me a little more background on this incredible Company of Heroes.
Hope you enjoy the series, episode 3 about Carentan is one of my favourites especially the Battle of the Bloody Gulch towards the end!
Another tremendous video. Thank you so much.
You’re most welcome! Carentan is a great place to visit
Amazing work man😮.Yes and chance encounters are meant to be.I stopped an old guy in Dunkirk for directions to the beach evacuation site .Turned out he was doing Christian Charity work and lived 30 minutes from my home town.He jumped in my car and directed me to the exact spot at a memorial .😊
It's amazing that the country is so old that you find the exact place it shows us Americans the skills of European people to repair such damage to the almost exact places as they were then
It's satisfying to see isn't it that these places were rebuild for the most part in their pre-war style.
Magnifique la vidéo très bien détaillée 👍👍👍👍
merci! contente que ça te plaise !
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you!
Thanks..awesome
You’re most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Great !Great!Great! Thanks for the job !im going to subscrive !
Thank you and welcome to the channel 😃
Thanks!
Wow thank you so much for that! I really do appreciate it and it will go toward my next set of videos for Op Market Garden!
Thank you for your videos. I love World War II history. I’ve seen the movie twice and I’m certain I’ll watch it again.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Carentan is a wonderful place to visit
Absolutely excellent 👍
Many thanks!
i wonder if folks who never served in the infantry ever wonder why soldiers are always crapped out when they can be. there's an old infantry saying - "never stand if you can sit, never sit if you can lay down, and never stay awake if you can sleep." because you never know when the next chance to rest will come.
The ability to sleep anywhere is definitely a learned skill!
Hey Jon, You sound like you've got some military experience with the way you refer to CQB etc. What's your background mate? Loving the videos by the way.
Some in a dim and distant past but nothing of any real interest!
Glad you’re enjoying the videos, and I think you’ll really enjoy the next one I’ve got planned!
LOVE THIS .
Thank you!
Wie immer faszinierend 👍. Hervorragend recherchiert, top.
Thank you!
Thank you so much 😃
Next video 👉 Bloody Gulch 😏
I visited Carentan few months ago, like Sainte Mère Église, Brecourt Manor, Utah&Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. All great places.
I like to be there and I hope to leave in this area. I miss Normandie. In my town Auneau (France - Centre Val de Loire), we honor General Patton and the Third Army.
There is a nice monument. When I see this monument, the picture of General Patton and the US flag flotting, I am so grateful.
Thank you too Colonel Guy de la Vasselay (Maire d’Auneau-Bleury-Saint Symphorien) that made « la voie de la Liberté », it start at Ste Mère Église and the last milepost at Bastogne, but the first one was created in 1946 and it was in Saint Symphorien.
Thank you USA and all allies 🙏
Got something good planned for next year with the Bloody Gulch so keep an eye out for that!
Glad you’ve been able to visit the area yourself too, it’s a wonderful place to be!
Another job well done. Thank you for your hard work and knowledge
You’re most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it and hopefully helped to provide some context to these well known 101st photos!
Im thown off with the then and now pics because the amount of cars in the now pictures. In 1944 there werent cars like they are now taking space in the streets
Great Video as always, i do enjoy watching them! I would like to see if you're able to, to create some content on the British and Canadian battles that took place in Normandy and further inland, after all, there were more troops from those nations that landed on D-Day than the americans but it seems to be ignored or acknowledged by many the loses, sacrifices and battles won by those nations. I think it would make for great content that's not been covered to death already. I would't want your great channel to become a Holywood film company ignoring and airbrushing out all the other allied nations acheivements, as all we ever here about (not just you) is what the americans did. Keep up the great work, hopefully i get to see D-Day from a different angle from you real soon as i enjoy your filmaking! :-)
Don’t worry lots of British content to come and will feature heavily next year! And Canadian and Polish too! Got some (hopefully) very interesting episodes lined up that’ll cover areas not seen before 😃
That’s great, the answer I was hoping for!
I can’t wait to see the episodes!
Loved this Then & Now, especially being a fan of Band Of Brothers
Thank you! I may have a part two to this in the next few weeks hopefully!
You do a really great job, with the narration and historical pieces with the pictures...are you ex-military?
Отличный повествовательный рассказ.
Thank you! I’ve got several more on the channel about the 101st in Normandy if you have time to take a look!
Thanks again for watching!
I'm a late-comer to this one: don't know how I missed it 8 months ago. You had a few tough locations to marry up...and I wonder if you ever ask locals if they can help fix the current locations from your old photos. In any case, another great video....in relation to a battle location that I feel has been neglected by Historians of the post D-Day ETA.
Complimenti, i tuoi video sono straordinari. Ma dove hai trovato tutte le foto dei video che hai fatto?
Thank you! All the photos are either available online or from my collection of originals that I’ve been given or bought throughout the years.
@@WW2Wayfinder Grazie, i tuoi video sono molto belli. Sono un appassionato della seconda guerra mondiale, e nel 2018 sono stato in Normandia. Rivedere i tuoi e anche altri video mi procurano una grande emozione. Un caro saluto.
Fabulous
Thank you!!
Love your videos! My father-in-law flew B-17s out of Bury St Edmonds with the 94th bomb group and we appreciated what all those "kids" did to keep American and Europe free
Oh wow! That’s amazing, I know Rougham Airfield and the home of the 94th BG well! I grew up by the old USAAF bases slightly further inland in the UK so sparked my passion for all things USAAF as a kid.
Have you been able to visit Bury St Edmunds and see where your Father flew from?
@@WW2Wayfinder we have not yet but plan to visit in the next couple of years.
Please let me know when you do as I’d be more than happy to help you plan it from the UK side if needed!
@@WW2Wayfinder That would be great. We certainly will.
love it
Thank you!
Great video, a question, though,if I may. Do you cover many sites featuring British and Canadian operations? I only ask because due to the HBO series, they seem to be forgotten.
Check out my episode on Falaise and I have a whole itinerary of British episodes for next year planned, but since the early 90’s I’ve been passionate about the 101st so I do gravitate towards that Divisions actions.
I also covered my Grandfathers landing on Gold Beach last year but will be looking to document his war with the infantry over the next 2/3 years 😃
I look forward to seeing them. I have been on three battlefield tours with Leger and enjoyed them all. It would be nice to have more time at the different sites and be able to see different ones. I did the Battle of the Bulge tour in 2017, I think, and at that time, we were able to visit Bois Jaques without paying admission. I agree with you that it is wrong to charge, though if it helps stop vandalism, it may have some plusses. There is a fantastic museum in Bastogne, in it you can experience an air raid coming over.
Hi, Where do I get a copy of those old war photos that you showed in the video?
I dream of the day if possible to see my granddad in one of these videos or pictures. Dunkirk, Normandy, Sword Beach, St Nazaire.
Later next year I plan to feature much more British content on the channel, so keep an eye out!
My Grandfather landed on Gold Beach on D-Day so I have a very personal connection with the British Army of WW2.
Carentan pojawiło się w wielu grach komputerowych osadzonych w czasach II wojny światowej, takich jak: Call of Duty i Call of Duty 2 w mapach do rozgrywki wieloosobowej[4]. Spotkać je można także w: Company of Heroes, R.U.S.E., Men of War, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood i Battlefield 1942 jako mapa "Bocage"
That’s a good point! It’s a very well documented town from a gaming point of view!
Any plans to do anything from the Pacific theater? Italy would be nice.
If I can raise funds for it I will. Currently 99% is funded by myself and it’s not cost effective to travel that far from the UK at present sadly but the desire is there for it.
I’ve already got some episodes on the channel from Italy that I filmed this time last year
What was the music all about? Was there a WW2 celebration?
I filmed it on the 5th June and one of the shops was playing Glenn Miller
Why don’t you do more on combat engineers?
All in good time!
Just me, myself and I and a budget for the channel so I’ll get there, it just takes a while!
@@WW2Wayfinder my father, was in patents, third Army. he put pontoon bridges across the rivers, and whatever else he had to do. hey thanks.
QUEM falou que as pessoas não podem voltar ao passado???🤔 vendo essas fotos, até eu que não era Nascido em 1944. Fico vendo as fotos e por um instante é como se eu tivesse participado dessa guerra. 😊
amazing video, the biggest generation ever
They were the best and we owe them everything!
@@WW2Wayfinder Indeed sir