My uncle was involved in this battle, 1st Battalion Black Watch. Alas he fell in a battle of St Sylvain woods on 12th August just south of Caen. Every documentary I see focuses on taking Caen and not what happened after sadly. Would love some more information
Very good informative channel. Great work, thanks. I once met a French lady who lived through the campaign in Normandy as a young girl. She was not of a great opinion of the Allied bombing of civilians in the city.
Thank you for your docus, glad you actually read the script like someone who is speaking rather than some channels that read every sentence in the Same Exact Cadence that sounds like a 15yo reading out loud in class
In a poignant twist the French efforts to rebuild their country came from a mandate from Albert Speer in the Speer-Bichelonne agreement a year earlier in September 1943. Jean Bichelonne, then Vichy’s Minister for Industrial Production, sought to attain France’s place in the ‘new European order’. Speer made it clear that ‘the NSDAP government preferred to place orders in France for consumer and domestic goods only while it would free up German industry for just armaments. By summer of 1945 most of these factories survived and hit full gear for jobs and strengthening the burgeoning economy of France. By the time of Speers arrest and trial, it was France who objected to Speers death sentence much to the dismay of the Americans, British, and Soviet leaders. It had to be a unanimous verdict. Speer was set free eventually and spent the rest of his life trying to maintain his reputation.
I have read Omar Bradley's book A soldiers story, I seem to remember. In it he said it was alway the plan for the British and commonwealth troops as well as the Poles, to keep the Germans tied down until the Americas could get out of the bocage territory. Happily, the only tanks they had to encounter was Panzer Lehr, and they were wiped put when the Americans broke out of Normandy into open country. So hats off the the British and commoneweath troops plus Poland! The French, were deployed to the United States and rushed to liberate Paris.
The Americans couldht believe what was holding the British up due to having a fairly easy push from the beach.Alot of the German tanks and men being held up in the cean fighting were the tanks that shold have been in the front line to start with but Hitler held them back thinking DDay was just a diversion. Then the British and Canadians got the full force of them .
'The Americans couldht believe what was holding the British up due to having a fairly easy push from the beach' Faily easy push?.. The only major German counter attack on D-Day, by the 21st Panzer Division, took place in front of SWORD, and UTAH beaches.
@@Leon-bc8hmBig whoop hundred thousand man against a million and some more, you really won huh? Look at the casualties they say very very different. Those Germans took plenty of Soviet’s with them, it was the inadequacies of repositioning armor back to Berlin for the battle of Berlin, which the reich fought with mostly infantry! Frankly Germany lost this war because Hitler wouldn’t admonish his command and replace it with a capable commander. I could only imagine the frustration of German officers in this era, you know how to win but you aren’t allowed to strike as you need to with full control. I hate incompetence on any front, and while they have the ability to control the battlefield the Nazis squandered this chance with their head of the leadership. That is the cost of a leader not acknowledging his failures and attempting to regain initiative
Not all French people were with the allies. France was divided in two. Those with the Germans, and those with the allies. So yes, some were not happy with the Allied bombings. The Allied bombings killed more French civilians than the Germans did.
If Bradley's US 1st Army didnt give up on St Lo in June because of bushes in the way, Caen may have been taken sooner. No pressure being applied against St Lo meant that the Germans sent, and kept, all their panzer divisions in the Caen sector throughout June.
Lyndon you lying limey St lo was taken long before CAEn.Typical of the britsh inferiority complex trying to play down the USA who came across 3500 miles of ocean so your failed empire and pedophile Monty could go 30 over a channel. Go across and ask the euros shouldn't take you 4 yrs to cross like it did bernard
@@loganmaddocks4703 'I dont think you quite grasp what bocage fighting was. Not as simple as "going througha few bushes".' And you know what about it?..
Originally the Canadians were not assigned Caen but Monty didnt want to risk his precious 1st British army and the Canadians were switched in. Problem was they didnt have enough forces and it turned into a slow attrition fight and really nasty. Eisenhower after a month of this came to find out Monty wasnt supporting the Canadians and told him to get off his ass and support the Canadians. He was furious with Monty. Canadians dont have a high opinion of Monty , pompous ass is the usual sentiment.
British 1st Army wasn't even in Normandy. It was British 2nd Army in Normandy. If Bradley's US 1st Army didnt give up on St Lo in June because of bushes in the way, Caen may have been taken sooner. No pressure being applied against St Lo meant that the Germans sent, and kept, all their panzer divisions in the Caen sector throughout June. British 2nd Army was fighting heavily in Operation Perch and Operation Epsom in June and suffering MORE casualties than the Canadians. All the Tigers in June were facing the British.
The British didn't lose 400 tanks they lost around 150-200 tanks with the rest being repaired, some within 24 hours. It should be noted that the German's suffered around 100 tank and self propelled guns all of which were total losses. It should also be noted that the Germans suffered personal losses of at least 7,000 compared to the Allies 5,000 in this battle.
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- That's total false. There are no known numbers of Germans dead in that campaign due to lack of documents. What is known is that the Germans made the Allies pay horrendous losses for their gains.
Yes Montgomery was C-in-C of all allied ground forces up until September 1st. Sadly, shortly after Eisenhower took his job that's when the allied advance, which was well ahead of schedule by the start of September, began to fail and got stalled for the next six months.
You know when a Canadian stops being polite you are in the shit . Or if you hear the anzac accent they don't want you to surrender 😅😅if its bagpipes its also over 😅😅all sides had good fighters but you'll do what needs to be done to survive
With so much vegetation and shrubs and hedgegrows, it's like a Vietnam of France. Ambushes were easy to perform and the combat engagements would have been closer than normal
Comments are being removed again, it’s an ongoing issue. Extremely annoying.
Always enjoyed your content but you have really stepped up your game in the last 4 to 6 months. Good work
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Censorship when you talk about socialism getting wrecked by capitalism
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Seems like a very one sided channel here Fin.
My uncle was involved in this battle, 1st Battalion Black Watch. Alas he fell in a battle of St Sylvain woods on 12th August just south of Caen. Every documentary I see focuses on taking Caen and not what happened after sadly. Would love some more information
Great footage and commentary. Thank you so much.
Love the channel
Very good informative channel. Great work, thanks. I once met a French lady who lived through the campaign in Normandy as a young girl. She was not of a great opinion of the Allied bombing of civilians in the city.
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Great documentary. Please keep making them! Best on YT.
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idk what you changed to the ai voice but the speed is ramping up and down a lot in this one. more than usual. great doc again!
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Amazing historical documentary
Great video don’t worry about ur reading I think u did a great job 👏
Thank you for your docus, glad you actually read the script like someone who is speaking rather than some channels that read every sentence in the Same Exact Cadence that sounds like a 15yo reading out loud in class
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It was an accurate title and an informative documentary... Thanks for sharing
"get there first with the most and don't let them see you coming"
If Hollywood made a film about Caen, the US would have won it single handedly.
Even though they weren't involved in the battle.
Yup.
Ass bite
In a poignant twist the French efforts to rebuild their country came from a mandate from Albert Speer in the Speer-Bichelonne agreement a year earlier in September 1943. Jean Bichelonne, then Vichy’s Minister for Industrial Production, sought to attain France’s place in the ‘new European order’. Speer made it clear that ‘the NSDAP government preferred to place orders in France for consumer and domestic goods only while it would free up German industry for just armaments. By summer of 1945 most of these factories survived and hit full gear for jobs and strengthening the burgeoning economy of France.
By the time of Speers arrest and trial, it was France who objected to Speers death sentence much to the dismay of the Americans, British, and Soviet leaders. It had to be a unanimous verdict. Speer was set free eventually and spent the rest of his life trying to maintain his reputation.
Great documentaries! Keep them coming please!
Good shows about our history
I have read Omar Bradley's book A soldiers story, I seem to remember. In it he said it was alway the plan for the British and commonwealth troops as well as the Poles, to keep the Germans tied down until the Americas could get out of the bocage territory. Happily, the only tanks they had to encounter was Panzer Lehr, and they were wiped put when the Americans broke out of Normandy into open country. So hats off the the British and commoneweath troops plus Poland! The French, were deployed to the United States and rushed to liberate Paris.
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"liberate Paris"- you never visited Paris recently havent you? France was never "liberated", it was doomed.
The Americans couldht believe what was holding the British up due to having a fairly easy push from the beach.Alot of the German tanks and men being held up in the cean fighting were the tanks that shold have been in the front line to start with but Hitler held them back thinking DDay was just a diversion. Then the British and Canadians got the full force of them .
Then some bushes held the Americans up from pushing on St Lo for over a month. Hypocrisy at its finest.
@@lyndoncmp5751 This and the soviets were well on their way destroying 3 complete German armies. Including all their best units.
'The Americans couldht believe what was holding the British up due to having a fairly easy push from the beach'
Faily easy push?..
The only major German counter attack on D-Day, by the 21st Panzer Division, took place in front of SWORD, and UTAH beaches.
@@Leon-bc8hmBig whoop hundred thousand man against a million and some more, you really won huh? Look at the casualties they say very very different. Those Germans took plenty of Soviet’s with them, it was the inadequacies of repositioning armor back to Berlin for the battle of Berlin, which the reich fought with mostly infantry! Frankly Germany lost this war because Hitler wouldn’t admonish his command and replace it with a capable commander. I could only imagine the frustration of German officers in this era, you know how to win but you aren’t allowed to strike as you need to with full control. I hate incompetence on any front, and while they have the ability to control the battlefield the Nazis squandered this chance with their head of the leadership. That is the cost of a leader not acknowledging his failures and attempting to regain initiative
Being a british and commonwealth battle there are a lot of clips of americans in this video, other than that its ok at least a nice clear narrative.
Caen was a meat grinder for all involved, particularly the Canadian Tankers who fought a war of Attrition against the Germans.
None of these videos should be censored at all or any comments removed
The french: Please, please, stop liberating us!
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@@Luftwaffengel From 34:38 onwards. But if you dont get it its okay.
Not all French people were with the allies. France was divided in two. Those with the Germans, and those with the allies. So yes, some were not happy with the Allied bombings. The Allied bombings killed more French civilians than the Germans did.
Friendly fire is more frequent than we know. Sad for those men and their families.
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Hellish war
No it’s juicy war
If Bradley's US 1st Army didnt give up on St Lo in June because of bushes in the way, Caen may have been taken sooner. No pressure being applied against St Lo meant that the Germans sent, and kept, all their panzer divisions in the Caen sector throughout June.
I dont think you quite grasp what bocage fighting was. Not as simple as "going througha few bushes".
Lyndon you lying limey St lo was taken long before CAEn.Typical of the britsh inferiority complex trying to play down the USA who came across 3500 miles of ocean so your failed empire and pedophile Monty could go 30 over a channel. Go across and ask the euros shouldn't take you 4 yrs to cross like it did bernard
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'I dont think you quite grasp what bocage fighting was. Not as simple as "going througha few bushes".'
And you know what about it?..
@@thevillaaston7811 enough to know that it's unwise to diminish what those men did. 🫡
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Wow kinda insane fight just like anything during the 30 yrs war
Originally the Canadians were not assigned Caen but Monty didnt want to risk his precious 1st British army and the Canadians were switched in. Problem was they didnt have enough forces and it turned into a slow attrition fight and really nasty. Eisenhower after a month of this came to find out Monty wasnt supporting the Canadians and told him to get off his ass and support the Canadians. He was furious with Monty. Canadians dont have a high opinion of Monty , pompous ass is the usual sentiment.
And that's being kind.
British 1st Army wasn't even in Normandy. It was British 2nd Army in Normandy.
If Bradley's US 1st Army didnt give up on St Lo in June because of bushes in the way, Caen may have been taken sooner. No pressure being applied against St Lo meant that the Germans sent, and kept, all their panzer divisions in the Caen sector throughout June.
British 2nd Army was fighting heavily in Operation Perch and Operation Epsom in June and suffering MORE casualties than the Canadians. All the Tigers in June were facing the British.
Good opportunity to be sent to US or Canada as POW.
Good wood lost closer to 400 tanks No good asking British historians
The British didn't lose 400 tanks they lost around 150-200 tanks with the rest being repaired, some within 24 hours.
It should be noted that the German's suffered around 100 tank and self propelled guns all of which were total losses.
It should also be noted that the Germans suffered personal losses of at least 7,000 compared to the Allies 5,000 in this battle.
British historians are more reliable than Hollywood and American tv rewritings.
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- That's total false. There are no known numbers of Germans dead in that campaign due to lack of documents. What is known is that the Germans made the Allies pay horrendous losses for their gains.
@@gh87716 Those are casualties
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@jonathans9537 The truth is called hate speech.
@iamjefffort Except it was a British general who lead the allied armies and planned Overlord 😉
Yes Montgomery was C-in-C of all allied ground forces up until September 1st. Sadly, shortly after Eisenhower took his job that's when the allied advance, which was well ahead of schedule by the start of September, began to fail and got stalled for the next six months.
@@lyndoncmp5751 His original comment which was deleted said ' never send a brit to do an americans job" 🙄 so arrogant
@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
You should have told him about Montgomery having to do Bradley's job for him in the Bulge. 😉
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Gotta find another outlet, Utube sucks! They're afraid to hurt our sensibilitys!!
They are a bunch of woke leftwing commies who are in love with censorship.
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This man talking about comments being "extremely annoying" like he's the one that runs the channel. The utter audacity of some TH-camrs.
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Is that two German with K98 looking up at the Allies????
Looks like Germans to me. Hats and camo panchos.. and rifles.
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You know when a Canadian stops being polite you are in the shit . Or if you hear the anzac accent they don't want you to surrender 😅😅if its bagpipes its also over 😅😅all sides had good fighters but you'll do what needs to be done to survive
Not if it is Justin.
If this is about the hell of Caen then explain to me why there are film fragments of the occupation of The Netherlands ???
With so much vegetation and shrubs and hedgegrows, it's like a Vietnam of France. Ambushes were easy to perform and the combat engagements would have been closer than normal