It’s crazy how once on those lands and under those skies thousands of young men died and it was total chaos and now all you hear is the wind and the sea and a feeling of freedom/peacefulness all because of their sacrifice.
Hey if this was in the UK sadly it would be vandalised and locked up it lovely to see how well they are respected i will for sure be coming to see this in the future thanks for sharing.
Un Crapaud I was in Paris and I live in Switzerland. I was shocked it was so dirty.. I also went to Côte d’Azur, and everything was fine there. But Paris, not my city..
Great stuff. When i was a little kid my dad told me stories about d-day. I never understood the magnitude of what he told me. Now that i'm older i can appreciate the affect of that day had on the world. My dad passed 4-1-13. I miss him every day. He was with the 147th combat engineers, they were amongst the 1st wave that landed on omaha beach.
Very cool. It's a powerful place, you see it in movies and hear stories but only when you're there does it tie everything together. Thanks for sharing!
midnight rider my great grandfather was apart of the 29th Infantry Division. He went in on Omaha in the second wave, I’m so proud of him for what he did and what he had to see. Like he had always told my grandfather: “im no hero boy, the men that died are heroes.”
Lustful Gaming: my dad never wanted to see himself as a hero either. I think because of all the horrible things that happened and what you mentioned. I appreciate your awareness and compassion for that great generation.
If those bunkers were in the USA, they would be covered in graffiti, vandalized, fenced off and there would be a McDonalds within 15 feet of the back of them along with a strip mall and it would cost you $25 / person to look at them.
212 X Not even true, I’ve never seen any vandalizing, graffiti or anything at a US national park or historic site. They’re kept clean and majority are free
My Great Uncle was a captain in the war and was a beach master on Omaha. He was in the first wave in the attack. He directed the landing on that beach and helped soldiers out of the boats. He was one of the first American soldiers to land in France that day. He also helped land General Patton in the invasion of Sicily at Salerno. He also served in North Africa. On Omaha, he was standing under heavy German fire. Somehow he made it out alive that day. I went to Normandy (stayed in Bayeux) and saw these beaches. It is crazy to think about what happened there. It makes it feel wrong to complain about being cold after seeing that. In the American cemetery, there was a quote from a soldier saying “ I said to the man next to me ‘if there is a hell this has got to be it.’ Then a minute later he took a bullet to the head.” Rest in Peace Captain F Perry Williams. I wish I met you. God bless America.
So many things happened during WW2. I mean so many. The courage, the fear, the anger, the hate, the perseverance, the commitment, the confusion, the crying, the first jet plane, big bombers, first submarine, the brotherhood, mass casualties, the defeat, the victory and now we sit here calmly watching this beach. Then to suddenly be awoke to today's world. What a shame on us for forgetting what really happened in these times
I was there when I was 14 on a school trip, I'm now 33. The weight of what I was looking at gets heavier year by year. Those trenches...i read a Canadian man's love letter to his family etched in rock complete with a maple leaf drawing. My eyes still water thinking about it. God bless all of you who died for my family's freedoms.
I had the same experience when I was 16 yo. in 1974. I hope I'm not repeating myself, because I have posted this here or somewhere else. Driving to the memorial , almost 30 yrs to the day, I saw big craters and bombed barns throughout. The craters were deep and over grown with grass. At the memorial, therewas nothing but silence. Everyone went their separateway. I have always loved WWII history, and so it wasn't difficult to imagine what happened. You take each step and feel the terrible emotions of the day coming up from the sand and through your feet. Before you know it you're weeping. Tetrahedrons (I think that's what they're called), are scattered across the beach. At pointe de/du hoc you see bunkers and craters. It's all so profoundly sad. On one of the walls of the memorial are maps with the battle plans. Below or close by, it is written that we purchased the land to bury the dead. Oh yeah, the French also charged us a fee for each soldier fighting in France. I returned to the memorial several years later and did not see bombed out buildings or craters in the fields. The memorial is something every American should visit. There is a terrible price for freedom. It was paid here.
Reed Byford that's why Europeans are the best race car drivers. It's nothing to them. Americans can't race unless it's in a circle with a mile wide track
This video brings a few memory's back of the time I visited these places it really makes you think how grateful you should be for the life we have would really love to go again to Normandy
It always blows my mind how massive the war effort was on both sides. For Germany to transport all of those huge weapons and cement to build these bunkers is just mind blowing.
thats exactly why im here. trying to figure out how they built these things so rapidly...i mean its obviously too large of a task to set them up everywheres so i imagine they had to be constructed quickly in response to possible attack? huge undertaking to complete that so quickly in what was basically a foreign land
french minesweepers said they have work for atleast the next 700 years just with the WWI ammos, and we've no idea about the WW2 ones (sorry for the grammar but i learn english by myself)
Looking at how peaceful this beaches are it makes me grateful for how countless men lost their lives for our freedom may they rest in heavenly peace. It makes me proud to say my great-grandfather fought for how we know life today. Rest In Peace
I've been there last summer with my father and the thing I'll never forget is pointe du hoc. An immense lunar landscape with bomb craters as deep as 6 meters in solid rock and a couple of completely devastated bunkers. Very impressive
I have driven these very roads myself during two visits to the landing beaches. Its a great place to visit, sad to remember all those who fell there, but also happy to see what true freedom looks like today. Beautiful part of France as well, I love it, incredible food, fantastic wine, calvados and ciders.
I was there too. So amazing and also terrible in one feeling. I am from Germany. And all this Things let me feel a terrible feeling. I am so sorry for all the People who lost there lives There
Thanks a million for uploading this great historic beach. I really wanna visit this place. Seeing the movie "Saving private Ryan" is not something exaggerate but shown the reality and true sacrifice of many soldiers. The distance between life and death is an inch and know this soldiers stepped into great combat for great reason. We are enjoying the fruitful moments on chaotic historic foundation. Great tribute to all those who sacrificed their lives.
Thats why we had skilled tradesmen directly after the war from the work carried out in the war effort . people really come together like no other in war.
Bayeux is a beautiful town never fought over during the War. It’s origin is over 2000 years ago. Many houses, walls, were built in the 14, 15, 16th centuries.
My uncle died a couple of months before D Day while serving as a Warrant Officer on a Sunderland Flying boat. I was able to obtain details of the incident from the Australian War Memorial to satisfy my own curiosity as my father, an RAAF Beaufort Bomber pilot at the same time in the Pacific, would say very little about the fate of his brother, obviously because it just brought back memories of a sad time. The extract from the report read as follows :- Sunderland ML 740 left base at 0847 on an anti-submarine patrol on 23 March 1944. At 1353 it reported sighting enemy fighters and was soon attacked by 9 JU88s. Severely damaged, the captain ordered ditching positions and the aircraft ditched heavily into a 20 foot swell and sank within 2 minutes. 7 crew members gained the dinghy but (my uncle) lay unconcious on the wing, one member failed to escape, and the other two were last seen on the wing. The 7 survivors were picked up by a naval vessel at 1520 on 25/03/44. The report also mentioned the shoot down occurred in the English Channel off shore from Plymouth. I only hope my uncle was unconcious up to his last, he was 20 at the time and left a widow back home.
Respect for all those who fought in war to preserve the liberty and freedom all around. This particular battle here is easily the most recognizable in the world, and it's heartbreaking that men would never get to see their family again on the same beach.
Close to the beach at Arromanches is an old German bunker and gun position. It is beautifully kept and inside it has been converted into excellent very modern public toilets. Outside above the entrance is a very nice sign. “These toilets by the courtesy of Adolph Hitler”........ viva La France !.
Great video thanks! So much I haven't seen before. Was great to see the history "in-person" instead of the usual pre-framed History Channel presentation I have seen so much of before. Sad to think about everything in context... Thank you to all who sacrificed themselves so that we can have the freedom we enjoy today. P.S. There is something very ASMR-ish about this vid too.
Tanta Historia en estas imágenes! Sin lugar a dudas el tema que más me intriga y más me apasiona. Ojalá hallamos aprendido las lecciones y que jamás se vuelva a repetir tanta barbaridad.
I see a lot of comments on how the streets seem so narrow and why ? ... I have to say keep in mind that Bayeaux, as a lot of other french and european cities has around 2000 years history, and that if not necesary the inhabitants never redesigned the entire city center layout. Buildings were only occasionally rebuilt, enlarged, etc. That is not the case for a lot of cities in Normandy that were totally wiped out by WW2 destructions and rebuilt in the 1950's (like Caen), but luckily for Bayeux it was taken very soon (June 7th) by the British forces with some infrantry fights but no major air or artillery bombings. Most of french city centers are from the Middle Ages if not Antiquity, and by that time those streets fit perfectly for horses of chariots :) Driving in these streets : you get used to it.
@@TheBIGJ24727 Take the train from Gare St Lazare in Paris to Cherbourg, it makes 6 stops including Carentan. It takes about 2 hrs 45 mins to Carentan (Utah Beach) then taxi. About 2hrs 30 mins to Bayeux (Omaha Beach) then bus or taxi.
Austin Ian Yes it is free and fortunately. And anyway there are literally bunkers everywhere in France so it wouldn’t help to make the visit pay for certain places because people would immediately go to the free places. Not very far from my village there is for example a wood where there are several bunkers, the owner of this wood let me enter and leave his wood as I want because he says that it make the history live. If you want to see pictures of the wood type «Le bois carré » on Google which means in English the square wood.
Not just soldiers, over 20,000 (thousands) French civilians, men, women, and children, died during the Normandy campaign, alone! One American infantryman said that the thing that continued to haunt him, was seeing the bodies of so many dead children!
Utah beach is less developed than other areas like Omaha Beach. There are bunkers not in the tourist areas which are well worth the walk. Le Grande Vey is interesting.
To walk the same steps as they did very cool video overwhelming historical sites crazy to see the guns still there and not vandalize wood be awesome to see in person.
Il y a beaucoup de choses a voir en Normandie sur le débarquement, je conseille a tout les passionnés de la 2nd guerre mondiale, beaucoup de musée et de cimetière ou autre... Le meilleur moment pour y aller c'est le 6 juin, c'est le jours où tout les passionnés de guerre se rassemble! J'y suis déjà aller 2 fois hors saison et 2 fois pendant les grandes vacances et c'est très bien, beaucoup de choses a voir
Normandy beaches one of the most significant places during ww2 for a single night (or morning). So many lives lost there. So much planning, tanks, troops, bombs, aircraft, bodies and emotions. It must be so eerie to be in its presence now, a place once filled with so much life and noise for just a few hours until allied troops pushed on. Such a quick encounter but one that will be remembered forever. Makes you wonder the amount of bullets, undetonated bombs, debris or even bodies the sand is hiding
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...
He must have kissed the ground when he got back, way too many, never got the chance. The 3rd Army suffered 139,000+ casualties, during WW2!, 16,596 were killed!
It's disgusting what mankind does to each other; never in the history of the world has there been another species that destroys itself and harms itself as much as we do. The reason we do it and can get away with it "there're many willing men and many humans that will gladly die to protect their loved ones because that's what they were told they must do to protect them." However keep in mind i am by no means disrespecting veterans, they deserve the utmost respect for what they were forced to indure.
motor guy it’s because we’re smart and if we are smart we understand more and make more stuff in time so we understand hate and revenge so THATS WHY WE ARE TO SMART
@@mcnuggets8798 Yes people so smart that did wars in which millions of people died. Kids starving, watching their parents die. People are so smart that the world is full of pollution, of poverty and crime. That is how people are smart. Maybe they have a better brain from the other animals but, unfortunately, they don't use only for good things
This beach is a time capsule it will change over time but you will always see the scars it’s endured the hatred the sadness the memories the blood shed on its ground young men dying for freedom it will bore these scars forever within its ground men laying down their lives for both countries no matter their values it took a massive amount of courage to fight like this you see your friends,brothers, and fathers being mowed down and you just push on I respect these men
This is history right here the fallen soldiers will be remember for there sacrifices salute ladies and gentlemen without them our freedom would been taken away🇺🇸🇺🇸
HeisenbergRed consider the history it has and reminds us of what not to do, since ww2 there has not been a major global conflict, he doesn’t mean “ oh wow I love mass murder that comes with war” mate, chill
@@heisenbergred He means that it's interesting to study it, and it's the same for me. He didn't meant to say like he liked ww2 and how people died. Nobody would ever like that
My god how small and narrow those streets were was THAT a good idea? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 just wondering even though better to have less traffic I really wish I culd go there and explore every square inch of the erea just to even be in the city is an honor and privilege 😊
I was on exactly the same place this year (2018) on june 5 and 6 and it was the same wet and cold weather, but very crowded with tourists and army people: jeeps and other vehicles, static show guys in US army dress and off course the real guys who fought here. They are old, but still there.
The artifacts from the day operation will be discovered for years to come. not all are one of a kind ,but every one represents a time were just serviving untill dark ,was a tremendous accomplishment.
2 bombs in September and October 2020 ....french press...cities of "Le Mans " and " Evreux " ( Normandy ) actu.fr/normandie/evreux_27229/pres-d-evreux-une-bombe-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-decouverte-sur-un-chantier_36457364.html www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/le-mans-72000/le-mans-une-bombe-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-dans-l-enceinte-du-circuit-20ae4a52-1461-11eb-9415-fb1e7c3c0944
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo car la seconde guerre mondiale ces ce que j’aime le plus et je m’y connais énormément En apprenant tout seul je m’abonne et je mets un like à cette vidéo
THANKS FOR NORMANDY SCENES, DO YOU GET THE FEEL OF NORMANDY BATTLE? MORE SHOWS LIKE THIS SHOULD BE ON U TUBE MEDAL OF HONOR STORIES ARE SO INFORMATIVE LACKED THIS IN SCHOOL
It’s crazy how once on those lands and under those skies thousands of young men died and it was total chaos and now all you hear is the wind and the sea and a feeling of freedom/peacefulness all because of their sacrifice.
Federal Bureau of Investigations yea
heavy Feeling think about it, cant imagine the chaos
Xplocial OnlineNetworking now you're just being stupid, waste of skin
There's no freedom in Europe now it's even worse
ant del there is
I like how well preserved all the bunkers are and how they're not covered in graffiti or other crap
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Hey if this was in the UK sadly it would be vandalised and locked up it lovely to see how well they are respected i will for sure be coming to see this in the future thanks for sharing.
Hey the reason you do not see any graffiti is 1)strict enforcement and 2)this is Europe NOT America...
RATED You should read before you reply to my comment...
*Goodness Sakes they are Respected By All*
Normandy with it's medieval villages is just stunning. I can't believe it was Hell on earth just over 70 yrs ago.
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Not a drop of trash on those streets.
Cleanliness is our first commandment, compared to other countries
Good education
Great an't it
Paris is much different. Much respect for the people of Normandy. Paris, not so much. From an American.
Un Crapaud I was in Paris and I live in Switzerland. I was shocked it was so dirty.. I also went to Côte d’Azur, and everything was fine there. But Paris, not my city..
@@thesavage5783 Paris is dirty as fuck
I dream of going there. So much history
UAV GAMING i've been there, it's hard to imagine that there thousands of young men died on those lands
Zeno Seghi yeah pretty sad to say the least😢
UAV GAMING same man. One time I actually told my mom in the future that I would be a WW2 Historian and how France surrendered so easily.
If you wanna go there you can also to to places where ww1 trenches still remain
Same.
Great stuff. When i was a little kid my dad told me stories about d-day. I never understood the magnitude of what he told me. Now that i'm older i can appreciate the affect of that day had on the world. My dad passed 4-1-13. I miss him every day. He was with the 147th combat engineers, they were amongst the 1st wave that landed on omaha beach.
Very cool. It's a powerful place, you see it in movies and hear stories but only when you're there does it tie everything together. Thanks for sharing!
midnight rider my great grandfather was apart of the 29th Infantry Division. He went in on Omaha in the second wave, I’m so proud of him for what he did and what he had to see. Like he had always told my grandfather: “im no hero boy, the men that died are heroes.”
Lustful Gaming: my dad never wanted to see himself as a hero either. I think because of all the horrible things that happened and what you mentioned. I appreciate your awareness and compassion for that great generation.
Ur daddy was a cook in the mess hall..never fired a live round in his life smh
Carson Tipton: and your opinion matters to me because?.........?
If those bunkers were in the USA, they would be covered in graffiti, vandalized, fenced off and there would be a McDonalds within 15 feet of the back of them along with a strip mall and it would cost you $25 / person to look at them.
212 X every historical spot in the us is mostly free btw
@@camdenwhitman8988 I understand that. That wasn't the point.
212 X hit or miss
Guess she took the kids
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Hit or miss
She took the money
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anything more you like to bitch about hipster?
212 X Not even true, I’ve never seen any vandalizing, graffiti or anything at a US national park or historic site. They’re kept clean and majority are free
My Great Uncle was a captain in the war and was a beach master on Omaha. He was in the first wave in the attack. He directed the landing on that beach and helped soldiers out of the boats. He was one of the first American soldiers to land in France that day. He also helped land General Patton in the invasion of Sicily at Salerno. He also served in North Africa. On Omaha, he was standing under heavy German fire. Somehow he made it out alive that day. I went to Normandy (stayed in Bayeux) and saw these beaches. It is crazy to think about what happened there. It makes it feel wrong to complain about being cold after seeing that. In the American cemetery, there was a quote from a soldier saying “ I said to the man next to me ‘if there is a hell this has got to be it.’ Then a minute later he took a bullet to the head.” Rest in Peace Captain F Perry Williams. I wish I met you. God bless America.
My grandpa is a D-Day soldier and I showed him this, he cried and mentioned all his comrades that past away 😣😣😢😢
Everything is so clean and nice. The French know how to deal with our history❤️. Thank you🇩🇪
Uuhhh..thats a german flag
@the man who fell into the river at LEGO city oof sorry
German flag: 🇩🇪. French flag: 🇬🇧. Canadian flag:🇨🇦
@@ajoltre-skin8043 french flag:🇲🇫*
This is mostly the americans history it's not really germans history especially since the Americans won
Such beautiful places for such a very sad history.
Thank you for the video.
So many things happened during WW2. I mean so many. The courage, the fear, the anger, the hate, the perseverance, the commitment, the confusion, the crying, the first jet plane, big bombers, first submarine, the brotherhood, mass casualties, the defeat, the victory and now we sit here calmly watching this beach. Then to suddenly be awoke to today's world. What a shame on us for forgetting what really happened in these times
Not first submarine
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@@helmutflieger4098 American Revolution the Turtle (1775) primitive but classified as a Sub
I was there when I was 14 on a school trip, I'm now 33. The weight of what I was looking at gets heavier year by year. Those trenches...i read a Canadian man's love letter to his family etched in rock complete with a maple leaf drawing. My eyes still water thinking about it. God bless all of you who died for my family's freedoms.
I had the same experience when I was 16 yo. in 1974. I hope I'm not repeating myself, because I have posted this here or somewhere else. Driving to the memorial , almost 30 yrs to the day, I saw big craters and bombed barns throughout. The craters were deep and over grown with grass. At the memorial, therewas nothing but silence. Everyone went their separateway. I have always loved WWII history, and so it wasn't difficult to imagine what happened. You take each step and feel the terrible emotions of the day coming up from the sand and through your feet. Before you know it you're weeping. Tetrahedrons (I think that's what they're called), are scattered across the beach. At pointe de/du hoc you see bunkers and craters. It's all so profoundly sad. On one of the walls of the memorial are maps with the battle plans. Below or close by, it is written that we purchased the land to bury the dead. Oh yeah, the French also charged us a fee for each soldier fighting in France. I returned to the memorial several years later and did not see bombed out buildings or craters in the fields. The memorial is something every American should visit. There is a terrible price for freedom. It was paid here.
@plaguelock - and operation barbarossa????
As a southern American, those narrow roads make me anxious
Reed Byford that's why Europeans are the best race car drivers. It's nothing to them. Americans can't race unless it's in a circle with a mile wide track
And thats why americans are useless drivers
vIMONST3RIv didn’t know there was such thing
im canadian and agree with those guys LOL thats why they have the autobon (idk the spellin) no speed limit highway. canada drivers are AWFULL aswell
reviewsDaily my truck couldn’t even fit down some of those tiny roads lol
This video brings a few memory's back of the time I visited these places it really makes you think how grateful you should be for the life we have would really love to go again to Normandy
Just came back from a 3 day tour of that area last week. A beautiful place and so much to see. A very humbling experience.
It always blows my mind how massive the war effort was on both sides. For Germany to transport all of those huge weapons and cement to build these bunkers is just mind blowing.
Slave labor, that's how.
thats exactly why im here. trying to figure out how they built these things so rapidly...i mean its obviously too large of a task to set them up everywheres so i imagine they had to be constructed quickly in response to possible attack? huge undertaking to complete that so quickly in what was basically a foreign land
They are Germans, they can do anything really
A lot of what you see there, was built by slave labor!
Nice vid, I wander how many bullets, cases and metal shards are now buried in the near dirt, sand and grass all over the place
A lot. I was on holidays in france at the atlantic coast last year and found 3 clips of kar 98 ammo near a bunker.
french minesweepers said they have work for atleast the next 700 years just with the WWI ammos, and we've no idea about the WW2 ones (sorry for the grammar but i learn english by myself)
NoUrSe Dey BoA great that you learn English by your self
NoUrSe Dey BoA for learning by yourself you did pretty damn good
@@noursedeyboa3138 Signs at Point du Hoc saying not to dig around there.
Looking at how peaceful this beaches are it makes me grateful for how countless men lost their lives for our freedom may they rest in heavenly peace. It makes me proud to say my great-grandfather fought for how we know life today. Rest In Peace
Thank you for the great video
I really enjoyed it
Nice video of a great historic place. RIP all great soldiers who lost their lives for their country.
I've been there last summer with my father and the thing I'll never forget is pointe du hoc. An immense lunar landscape with bomb craters as deep as 6 meters in solid rock and a couple of completely devastated bunkers. Very impressive
Wow some really nice work I subscribe and like thumbs up.
I have driven these very roads myself during two visits to the landing beaches. Its a great place to visit, sad to remember all those who fell there, but also happy to see what true freedom looks like today. Beautiful part of France as well, I love it, incredible food, fantastic wine, calvados and ciders.
When I finally make it over there I hope the weather is exactly the same. A beautiful, sunny, warm day just wouldn't seem right.
Thanks for the tour ! I will probably never get there so it's nice to see !
I was there too. So amazing and also terrible in one feeling.
I am from Germany.
And all this Things let me feel a terrible feeling.
I am so sorry for all the People who lost there lives There
Dude it wasnt anyones fault for the terrible things that happened. Anyone who fought fought for a reason. Not because they wanted to but they had to.
Thanks a million for uploading this great historic beach. I really wanna visit this place. Seeing the movie "Saving private Ryan" is not something exaggerate but shown the reality and true sacrifice of many soldiers. The distance between life and death is an inch and know this soldiers stepped into great combat for great reason. We are enjoying the fruitful moments on chaotic historic foundation. Great tribute to all those who sacrificed their lives.
"Don't shoot, let 'em burn!"
Lol saving private ryan
Can you imagine walking out on that overlook and seeing over 6,000 vessels out at sea getting ready to invade? Crazy
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
love this video, it's the nearest thing to being there yourself. Thanks for posting.
Thats why we had skilled tradesmen directly after the war from the work carried out in the war effort . people really come together like no other in war.
Thanks for the video it is much appreciated!
You're welcome - thank you for watching!
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Wow my hometown Normandy thank you so much for sharing this I sure miss it
I salute to all of the veterans who took part in those landings because it’s Veterans Day tomorrow....
Bayeux is a beautiful town never fought over during the War. It’s origin is over 2000 years ago. Many houses, walls, were built in the 14, 15, 16th centuries.
Still bullets impact everywhere all coast Brest to Dunkerque...
I'm french ! Sorry for my english 😏
Jean Philippe Carel no one cares if you speak English tard
Your English is just fine. Better than my French, which is nothing.
You are perfect
My uncle died a couple of months before D Day while serving as a Warrant Officer on a Sunderland Flying boat. I was able to obtain details of the incident from the Australian War Memorial to satisfy my own curiosity as my father, an RAAF Beaufort Bomber pilot at the same time in the Pacific, would say very little about the fate of his brother, obviously because it just brought back memories of a sad time. The extract from the report read as follows :-
Sunderland ML 740 left base at 0847 on an anti-submarine patrol on 23 March 1944. At 1353 it reported sighting enemy fighters and was soon attacked by 9 JU88s. Severely damaged, the captain ordered ditching positions and the aircraft ditched heavily into a 20 foot swell and sank within 2 minutes. 7 crew members gained the dinghy but (my uncle) lay unconcious on the wing, one member failed to escape, and the other two were last seen on the wing. The 7 survivors were picked up by a naval vessel at 1520 on 25/03/44.
The report also mentioned the shoot down occurred in the English Channel off shore from Plymouth. I only hope my uncle was unconcious up to his last, he was 20 at the time and left a widow back home.
Respect for all those who fought in war to preserve the liberty and freedom all around. This particular battle here is easily the most recognizable in the world, and it's heartbreaking that men would never get to see their family again on the same beach.
Thanks so much for uploading this. I tried to get to some of those places but ran out of time.
It’s cool how all the allies and axis equipment is displayed safely so everyone can see.
Those cannons are huge I remember when I was little I used to want to be in the military now we’ll I guess I changed my mind lol
Great tour. Wish you could identify the bunkers. Looks like you hit them east to west.
Close to the beach at Arromanches is an old German bunker and gun position. It is beautifully kept and inside it has been converted into excellent very modern public toilets. Outside above the entrance is a very nice sign. “These toilets by the courtesy of Adolph Hitler”........ viva La France !.
Great video thanks! So much I haven't seen before. Was great to see the history "in-person" instead of the usual pre-framed History Channel presentation I have seen so much of before. Sad to think about everything in context... Thank you to all who sacrificed themselves so that we can have the freedom we enjoy today.
P.S. There is something very ASMR-ish about this vid too.
This may be very long after you published this video,but Thank You so much for this.
Tanta Historia en estas imágenes! Sin lugar a dudas el tema que más me intriga y más me apasiona. Ojalá hallamos aprendido las lecciones y que jamás se vuelva a repetir tanta barbaridad.
I see a lot of comments on how the streets seem so narrow and why ? ... I have to say keep in mind that Bayeaux, as a lot of other french and european cities has around 2000 years history, and that if not necesary the inhabitants never redesigned the entire city center layout. Buildings were only occasionally rebuilt, enlarged, etc. That is not the case for a lot of cities in Normandy that were totally wiped out by WW2 destructions and rebuilt in the 1950's (like Caen), but luckily for Bayeux it was taken very soon (June 7th) by the British forces with some infrantry fights but no major air or artillery bombings.
Most of french city centers are from the Middle Ages if not Antiquity, and by that time those streets fit perfectly for horses of chariots :)
Driving in these streets : you get used to it.
Oh god 9:50 that sounded like a moat strike
Gay lol Postman wind
I bet his pansy ass was nervous watching the video haha
If ghosts were real this will be the scrariest place to be
Thanks for the nice video. 👍🏻🙏🏻 i was there in 2010.
I'm going there in September, I'm a little worried about driving in Normandy. We have sidewalks wider than the roads in the video.
I'm gonna be in Paris, just curious is it possible to take the train there? Because I'm travelling and won't have a car. Thanks!
@@TheBIGJ24727 There is a train from Paris to Caen. Several tours companies are based in Caen, bike rentals are also available.
@@TheBIGJ24727 Take the train from Gare St Lazare in Paris to Cherbourg, it makes 6 stops including Carentan. It takes about 2 hrs 45 mins to Carentan (Utah Beach) then taxi. About 2hrs 30 mins to Bayeux (Omaha Beach) then bus or taxi.
Its just the historic center of the town..countryland road are pretty mich the same as u.s road i think🙂
Very nice video plz make similar ones for other places like kursk.
You can just freely explore here?!
Austin Ian Yes it is free and fortunately. And anyway there are literally bunkers everywhere in France so it wouldn’t help to make the visit pay for certain places because people would immediately go to the free places. Not very far from my village there is for example a wood where there are several bunkers, the owner of this wood let me enter and leave his wood as I want because he says that it make the history live. If you want to see pictures of the wood type «Le bois carré » on Google which means in English the square wood.
I remember staying in someone’s house in Bayeux and the beaches of Normandy really cool
Спасибо за видео!хранение техники на улице это плохо,бережно нужно относится к истории,техника уникальная!много интересных экземпляров.
Sorry, I don't speak *Communism*
This is rather sad to look at knowing that millions of soliders die.
To the soliders that die:
Thank you for serving our country.
65 million Allies died in WWII
Not just soldiers, over 20,000 (thousands) French civilians, men, women, and children, died during the Normandy campaign, alone! One American infantryman said that the thing that continued to haunt him, was seeing the bodies of so many dead children!
ive been to normandy d-day beach but didnt go and see the bunkers thanks for the video its awesome
I have saw this b4! My dad was in that war most of my family was in that war and I watch a lot of these a few times
Have been to Normandy several times just love the area the people and the history.
my great great grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy
Utah beach is less developed than other areas like Omaha Beach. There are bunkers not in the tourist areas which are well worth the walk. Le Grande Vey is interesting.
To walk the same steps as they did very cool video overwhelming historical sites crazy to see the guns still there and not vandalize wood be awesome to see in person.
I visited there this summer. So powerful. I.. I can't describe it with words.
The people that fought for your future were there at one point
This isn’t a video game kids! A lots of people lost their lives on these vary beaches and lands! show some respect!!
;-; how would you know kids are watching this
Every year i spent a couple of days in Bayeux...i love this town!
Il y a beaucoup de choses a voir en Normandie sur le débarquement, je conseille a tout les passionnés de la 2nd guerre mondiale, beaucoup de musée et de cimetière ou autre... Le meilleur moment pour y aller c'est le 6 juin, c'est le jours où tout les passionnés de guerre se rassemble! J'y suis déjà aller 2 fois hors saison et 2 fois pendant les grandes vacances et c'est très bien, beaucoup de choses a voir
Thank you :)
Normandy beaches one of the most significant places during ww2 for a single night (or morning). So many lives lost there. So much planning, tanks, troops, bombs, aircraft, bodies and emotions. It must be so eerie to be in its presence now, a place once filled with so much life and noise for just a few hours until allied troops pushed on. Such a quick encounter but one that will be remembered forever. Makes you wonder the amount of bullets, undetonated bombs, debris or even bodies the sand is hiding
this place deserves reverence from all over the world as young soldiers sacrificed themselves in order to stop German insanity. . Thank you
i was actually in BAYEUX in 2103 love the place, the people and the food. they had great curators who did the trips
Nice job, never seen the relics of D-Day , cool stuff
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...
He must have kissed the ground when he got back, way too many, never got the chance. The 3rd Army suffered 139,000+ casualties, during WW2!, 16,596 were killed!
Omg your driving really fast through the narrow winding road and through the country road. It like playing a video game of racing cars
It's disgusting what mankind does to each other; never in the history of the world has there been another species that destroys itself and harms itself as much as we do. The reason we do it and can get away with it "there're many willing men and many humans that will gladly die to protect their loved ones because that's what they were told they must do to protect them." However keep in mind i am by no means disrespecting veterans, they deserve the utmost respect for what they were forced to indure.
motor guy it’s because we’re smart and if we are smart we understand more and make more stuff in time so we understand hate and revenge so THATS WHY WE ARE TO SMART
Supra Fan lots of animals kill themselves. Bears eat their own young
AlleyStar Growley yes but there aren't hundreds of thousands of bears line up with AD'S shooting each other
@@mcnuggets8798 Yes people so smart that did wars in which millions of people died. Kids starving, watching their parents die. People are so smart that the world is full of pollution, of poverty and crime. That is how people are smart. Maybe they have a better brain from the other animals but, unfortunately, they don't use only for good things
@@panormosparlamas1780 well tbh wars help control the human population. we havent had wars for a long time we are overpopulating
Cracking video 👍👍🏴
Excelente video
This beach is a time capsule it will change over time but you will always see the scars it’s endured the hatred the sadness the memories the blood shed on its ground young men dying for freedom it will bore these scars forever within its ground men laying down their lives for both countries no matter their values it took a massive amount of courage to fight like this you see your friends,brothers, and fathers being mowed down and you just push on I respect these men
Hhhmm in movies and games it looks different like bigger and more bunkers and stuff, but seeing the actual place is quite suprising :o.
This is history right here the fallen soldiers will be remember for there sacrifices salute ladies and gentlemen without them our freedom would been taken away🇺🇸🇺🇸
I want to go to see those bunkers before they get in bad shape I love ww2
gotta make the trip! wake up early and drive around. Get in front of the crowds, it's a very enriching experience
love world war 2?? are you insane?
HeisenbergRed consider the history it has and reminds us of what not to do, since ww2 there has not been a major global conflict, he doesn’t mean “ oh wow I love mass murder that comes with war” mate, chill
@@heisenbergred
He means that it's interesting to study it, and it's the same for me. He didn't meant to say like he liked ww2 and how people died. Nobody would ever like that
I’m crying inside about the sacrifices of each country
My god how small and narrow those streets were was THAT a good idea? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 just wondering even though better to have less traffic I really wish I culd go there and explore every square inch of the erea just to even be in the city is an honor and privilege 😊
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
My grandfather fought there, Thank God he survived, otherwise I wouldn't be alive now. His Name was Walter Filicetti von Liebenfelss.
Obviously he servived now you are here
I was on exactly the same place this year (2018) on june 5 and 6 and it was the same wet and cold weather, but very crowded with tourists and army people: jeeps and other vehicles, static show guys in US army dress and off course the real guys who fought here. They are old, but still there.
Can't believe no hand-held flash light. Always a must.
Great footage. You have talent.
How wonderful it is that these remains of history are still cared for, no graffiti or other things that could damage it
The artifacts from the day operation will be discovered for years to come. not all are one of a kind ,but every one represents a time were just serviving untill dark ,was a tremendous accomplishment.
2 bombs in September and October 2020 ....french press...cities of "Le Mans " and " Evreux " ( Normandy )
actu.fr/normandie/evreux_27229/pres-d-evreux-une-bombe-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-decouverte-sur-un-chantier_36457364.html
www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/le-mans-72000/le-mans-une-bombe-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-dans-l-enceinte-du-circuit-20ae4a52-1461-11eb-9415-fb1e7c3c0944
Thanks France🇫🇷 for preserved all the weapons materials and places.. One day I will visit in future....
I feel so much respect watching this
Can you believe that people fought for you before you even had dna? Crazy respect all around my friend
I''ve been to Normandy. I'll be going there next year.
QuickFury cool
This is dope place I bet is peaceful here I bet there is spirits here
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo car la seconde guerre mondiale ces ce que j’aime le plus et je m’y connais énormément En apprenant tout seul je m’abonne et je mets un like à cette vidéo
Hi I'm french and your video is good
My favorite part was when he walked on rocks and the wind was blowing and the shaky camera and when he stuck the camera out of the car
THANKS FOR NORMANDY SCENES, DO YOU GET THE FEEL OF NORMANDY BATTLE? MORE SHOWS LIKE THIS SHOULD BE ON U TUBE MEDAL OF HONOR STORIES ARE SO INFORMATIVE LACKED THIS IN SCHOOL
The battle can not be imagined.
I went there two years ago it was brilliant.
Thank you for the tour
Thank you for the video....simple is efficient.