ORIGINAL FOOTAGE! Ultimate Then & Now Compilation | Cherbourg | Normandy WW2
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- In this video I show you some of my favourite Then & Now locations to film.
The US 79th Infantry Division led the way in assaulting Cherbourg’s Fort du Roule on June 25, 1944, and two Americans would receive Medals of Honor for their heroic conduct.
Capturing Cherbourg and its harbor installations was considered vital for the long-term viability of the Normandy landings, for no matter how many supplies were brought ashore on the artificial Mulberry harbors, they could not compete with the capacity of modern port facilities.
In this video I show you four of my favourite then and now pictures and story behind them. If you enjoy this video let me know in the comments. I'd love to hear from you.
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE! Ultimate Then & Now Compilation | Cherbourg | Normandy WW2
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Just watched this video the first one I just came across it so I’m going to watch all others you’ve done/do Tell me though is it just about the American input in Normandy or do the British get mentioned?? Only asking because my father was in Normandy and I’d love to see the places before and after
Also are you going to document the Burma part of the War??
Hello buddy. Thank you for checking out the channel.
I have plans for lots of British and Canadian content, you can see some I’ve done already.
I’m a serving British army officer so definitely keen to cover more events towards Caen. I will also visit the Netherlands later this year and I have plans to get to Singapore 👍
@@thehistoryexplorer thank you
@@thehistoryexplorerI have just watched your trailer WW2 Normandy October 2023 and commented but please can you tell me what the song is you’re playing. It’s beautiful and heart breaking at the same time
@@theresaryan2280it’s called Sgt Mackenzie
@@thehistoryexplorer thank you so much
My father was an aid man in the infantry during WWII. He often spoke of many of the places you visit. I picture him there as a young 19 year old and the experiences he had that shaped his life. I only wish he was here to share these amazing videos with me.
Thanks for sharing, I bet he had some stories to tell!
Having known my dad too was in France then I can understand how you feel.
the younger generation would never know what happened in that part of the neighborhood if you never made this video- great work !
Thank buddy. Hope you enjoyed it
actually, they do know in France, Luxembourg, Belgium - they learn about it at school, often singing anthems of either the US or allied countries - depending on who liberated. The streets have Allied names, the memorials are everywhere. Maybe you. meant US children?
@@nzfreeskiThat’s wonderful to hear . A lot of US children are not told much about WW 2. Those classes in high school are electives , not required . It’s a shame . Those of us who had fathers and uncles in the US army or marines they didn’t talk about it much . My father would watch the history channel but never a WW2 movie . He was in the occupied forces but I had uncles in the marines . We were never to ask them about it . They kept those memories, the good and the bad .
Thank you for not sanitizing the video or over dramatizing your comments or the musical background. Well done. I think it's important to present the events as they actually happened without any embellishment or editing so that viewers can experience the reality of those events as horrific and gruesome as they may be. It's also important to note that when we see victims of that terrible war who fought against us they too had families who loved them. Hopefully with a common humanity we will one day learn how to avoid wars and give the young people who fight those wars a chance at life. God Bless.
Thank you Godfrey and we’ll said. I’m surprised TH-cam did not censor it actually
My brothers father-in-law was in the Normandy invasion and made it alive on the Omaha Beach landing, but could never talk about what happened that horrible day.
Astonishing images, beautifully put together and narrated. What a treat. Utube at it’s very best, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such powerful images so many years later have such an impact of sorrow & sadness.
How innocuous these places are,, thousands pass daily not knowing what happened on these roads, streets and doorways, but thanks to you,, we get a real sense of what happened there !! War is such a horrible experience,, having fought in 2, and being in conflict in Bosnia 🇧🇦 I know what it is!! 3 lives taken for the cost of 2,, 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 ! Rest in peace 🪦 I hope diplomacy can prevail and prevent such violence in the future!! But as we see in Palestine, Ukraine, Haiti , we haven’t learned from the past!! God bless❤️❤️
Well said my friend. Great comment
So eerie, looking back in time at the precise locations of these historic events.
Thank you for putting this incredible footage together.
It’s a deeply sad and poignant tribute to those young men (on both sides) who tragically lost their lives in the futility of war.
Thank you very much. It was my pleasure
I enjoy Then and Now images on any subject. Thank you for respectfully doing this.
Amazing seeing the fallen soldiers in doorways on the streets.
Thinking good bad or indifferent this is where their souls departed this life.
If this doesn't move you your not breathing
Well said. Regardless of side or beliefs they are someone’s son, brother, father etc
@@thehistoryexplorer They are someone's son , that's what I was thinking looking at the face of this young man laying down bidding farewell to his youth, his dreams and wishes🙍
@@sarahwithanh.4368 you’re absolutely right. It’s a very sad and powerful picture showing the consequences of war
Yes ,you are right😢
It was kill or be killed as we know. It always touches me lots as a mother of adult sons. My son has a nice framed photo (it was in the frame) of a handsome young german guy and he has a slight look of trepidation. We think he probably died in the snow. Not sure how my son thinks that but my son is a history major.
He would've known somehow. We were sad there's no name on it.
That picture of the German soldier lying in the stairway is so moving. Although he was German his bravery was unquestionable. Why on earth the two men never surrendered we will never know. Five lives wasted.
Because they were ideological condition, to server there leader, prob ss
@@antoniostamndley8272 It did not need to be a SS to fight to death beyond your duty
The stories that would of went around about POW camps and rumours of what happens. Especially if was SS as they knew what they did to captured people. Different world then and mind sets.
And just think so many high-ranking Nazi officers hightail to Argentina not fighting to the death not even getting dirty@@kaa13
Great video! A dear sweet friend of mine who passed away several years ago was wounded by shrapnel just outside of Cherbourg on the 30th of July of 1944. This one was special for me!
Wow! Barely days after this footage was shot
Watched dozens of these vids and this one is the best. My dad was in the Pacific in the War. .these young people of today need to be made to watch these vids so they can appreciate what the greatest generation was all about
Thank you very much!
th-cam.com/play/PLYe0nvKOCf_bZGae_W4EGXZpEWTFw3qKY.html
Thank you for putting in so much hard work and posting the “then and now” videos. I always look forward to viewing them and sharing them with others. They’re very engaging and informative. As always, keep up the good work. It’s very much appreciated.
You are most welcome! I appreciate your support 👍
Ça c'est de la bonne superposition d'images.
Pas trop longue, avec un aller et un retour, et une incrustation très précise.
D'autres vidéos du même type n'ont pas cette qualité.
Bravo.
Thank you my friend. Much appreciated
Absolutely superb! My uncle was a 505 PIR trooper dropped far from DZ and captured, marched to Cherbourg, put on a train, marched through Briquebec to Besneville(which I visited in ‘16) strafed by our planes, wounded, & liberated. To get this view of the rail yard where he might have been is priceless.
Wow! What a war
@@thehistoryexplorer Thank you for helping to keep these stories alive.
Excellent as always. It's amazing how much is still there after all these years.
Couldn't agree more! Some parts of Normandy haven’t changed at all
I walked these places in the 1980's - stationed in Germany. I wish I had the video cameras, computers, software, and the Internet of today. Nice job. On the other hand as I did my exploring many locals would come up to me and relate their memories of the events I was documenting. They showed great interest in the books that I had with me helping to locate the then and nows.
Brilliant. I wish I had been able to engage with more veterans and those who experienced war in their doorstep
@@thehistoryexplorer We had limited info back then - just books. The backseat of my Opel was like a book shelf. The locals wanted my books but they were hard to come by and I always felt bad when I declined to give/sell my tomes to them.
Fantastic video. It is so fascinating to look at black and white photos of WWII photos and transpose them against the same backdrop of today. I’ve always felt like I’ve lived through WWII even though I was born generations after that war ended.
Fantastic job putting this video together guys. RIP our soldiers who lost their lives fighting for us. Huge thumbs up. 👍🙏🏻
I know exactly what you mean! First time I went to Normandy I felt like I’d been there before…probably because of all the pictures I’d seen. Magical place
@@thehistoryexplorer Me too. When I was in the military stationed in Germany, I went on several tour bus trips with WWII American veterans and we traveled from Germany to France through Belgium and visited several battle sites and cemeteries. Walking through Verdun, and Normandy area, it all felt like I’ve been there before. Few years before I was even in the military, I’ve had dreams of being a soldier getting into the back seat of an open top Mercedes with a young lady. It felt so real that after I woke up, I was confused who I was and where I was for few minutes. Strange indeed.
I've been there before and knew about the guy on the steps. had no idea there was another one right next to him. Crazy to think what has happened where you walk
Thank you so much for creating this. My grandfather was a 2nd LT in the 9th ID and he helped liberate Cherbourg. He was horribly wounded at St Lo but survived. He spent 6 months at the Greenbrier in WV recovering. He originally wanted to enlist in airborne but was told he was too old. Because he had prior service as a Marine, he went to OCS and was a 90 day wonder. I have the letters he wrote to my grandmother while he was in France. Amazing bit of history.
Amazing story, thank you for sharing. You must be very proud of his legacy. I hope you enjoyed this video too, I have hundreds more on the way
How wonderful you have his letters. I wish I had my dad's letters to my mom....they weren't even mentioned to me.
As my mother often said: "Without the Americans....". Merci, merci, merci....
Powerfully moving. Thank you for retracing those steps through history.
Have you ever thought about showing these pictures to the locals passing by? I wonder if the civilians living there are aware they pass by spots where soldiers once lay dead. Might be interesting to see their reactions.
So well done....thanks. I was just about two months old at that time. I don't know if my dad was there, but he did serve in France somewhere. Wish he was still here to tell me where.
I love these segments of places and people of times past -to how it looks now. 👌 Absolutely great! ❤
So glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the comment
Beeindruckendes Video. Das Blut, was die Treppen hinunterläuft..... Der Soldat sieht fast schlafend aus, als hätte er es endlich hinter sich gebracht. Du machst damit wertvolle Aufarbeitung über die Sinnlosigkeit des 2. WK.
Thank you very much! Really appreciate your feedback
Great footage, looking back into time. As General Patton so eloquently said, "Wars are not won by you dying for your country but making the other SOB die for his."
Love the way you show it several times!👍
Hopefully not too repetitive?
@@thehistoryexplorer No. Just right. It was always a crib of mine that you don’t get to see it more than once!👍
Very powerful. This really makes history feel much closer.
It’s why I love then and now comparisons. So powerful
Many thanks for this video. I was born in Cherbourg and you filmed my neighborhood where im growing up! This neighborhood is called "Le Roule"👍👍👍
I thank you for your work, which I greatly admire.
It is my pleasure
Thank you for bringing these videos.👍🏻
My pleasure!
Wow. Simply blown away by the impact your videos have made on me. They are stunning my friend. Music is beautiful and the skill of shooting and editing the videos are perdection. My new favourite channel and you have my subscription buddy. I love it. ❤
So glad to hear it! Thank you for the kind feedback and I hope you’ll enjoy the channel, I have hundreds of videos coming
As all your videos are, absolutely brilliant! Thank you for all the time you put into these recreations and the accompanying history lessons. Cheers from Minnesota.
Thank you my friend. It really means a lot to know people are enjoying these videos
I just came across your channel absolutely love it. Thank you for the amount of effort you put into your videos.
I'm now a subscriber!!!
Thank you for the subscription and the very kind comment! I hope you’ll enjoy the videos I have coming up. There are hundreds planned 👍
Well done Rob. Fab episode. I look forward to the rest from your new series 👍
You’re most welcome mate. So happy you enjoyed the video
Stunning work.
Many thanks! So glad people are enjoying this one
Absolutely incredible.Amazing history.
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely wonderful channel. My Hero, my Father fought in this war. Thank you for what you are doing.
My beloved battleship, Texas, emptied her 14 inch shell storage on Cherbourg. And then return to England for a refill. Upon arriving back at the battle the front line was out of the range of her guns so the captain flooded one of the torpedo blisters, causing the ship to tilt giving her the range she needed to still wreak havoc on the German troops.
Wow thanks for sharing. Brilliant info. What’s your link to the Texas?
@@thehistoryexplorer I have lived in the area of the battleship, Texas my entire life. I have donated to her many many times financially. Had an uncle that served on her during World War II, and was on her at Cherbourg. he passed about 20 years ago. I have a TH-cam channel where I cover several military subjects. However, I specialize in videos on the battleship Texas. She is currently in the process of having repair work done to the tune of $60 million and I have heard estimates as high as 72 million more than her original cost of 5.7 million. That was in 1912, lol. She just came out of dry dock where she had approximately 80% of her outer hull replaced. She is currently floating better than she has in decades. Right now she is sitting back in the water and her wooden deck is being removed, the steel underneath the wooden deck will be repaired and then a new wooden deck replaced. Also all but two of her deck guns, with the exception of the 14 inch turret, have been removed, and for about two years now have been undergoing restoration. When they are replaced back on the ship, they will be in fully operational condition with the exception of a missing firing. One of her smaller 3 inch guns will remain fully functional with a firing pin so that it can be fired from time to time. Once all repairs are done, she is being moved to a new location in Galveston, Texas, where she is expected to get a much higher visitation rate. If you look up gulf copper shipyard in Galveston, Texas, on Google Earth, you will see her floating at dock F.
Correction I see the satellite photo on Google Earth is old. In that photo she is still in the floating dry dock. However, in reality she has been re-floated and moved over to dock number F, which is the longest dock at the shipyard.
@@AJeepADroneAndAnOldManthat’s great. I know about your channel and have che Jed it out. Keep up the great work. I love these old battleships
@@thehistoryexplorer thanks brother, I look forward to your future work
Un très grand merci pour le travail que vous faites les reconstitutions les superpositions des images les recherches de l'histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en tant que Français c'est touchant👍🇨🇵
Beautiful France. I love it
Fascinating. Thank you.
You are most welcome
Are military were and are still to me HEROES! MY FATHER WAS IN WORLD WAR TWO!❤️
Amazing job Rob... really enjoyed that!
Thanks Shane! Appreciate it. Wish I hadn’t taken that gap in posts though. 6.8CTR and only minimal impressions 🤦♂️
@@thehistoryexplorer great content though so will pick up again soon. I got demonitized and had to appeal to get back in. That really flatlined my stats.
@@MilHistRL oh bugger! There’s been a lot of that recently. Flagged as ‘re-used content’ when it isn’t. YT AI just isn’t up to the volume and nuance required
@@thehistoryexplorer that's exactly what it said! I didn't realise I wasn't the only one!
Excellent presentation, the way you fade and overlap also your descriptions with a sense of respect, all the young people who died , tragic
Thank you my friend 👍
Much appreciated buddy
Great work, well researched and compilation footage. Just subscribed.
Thanks for the sub! Appreciate the feedback 👍
Excellent work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Appreciate the content, good job 👍
My pleasure!
Those buildings that are still standing have a long story to tell!
If walls could talk hey!
@@thehistoryexplorer Seriously, those buildings and walls have been standing throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, all the way to present time!
Amazing photos
Glad you like them!
WE CAN'T ESCAPE FROM HISTORY.....
Sem palavras para definirmos a saudade acumulada...
I love seeing these then and now photos. It is fascinating to me!
I love it too
This is amazing. One of the most fascinating channels on TH-cam. Amazing research and overlay, plus the carefully empathetic music. What a brilliant combination, so that we do not forget the past and the countless sacrifices that were, and that we do not repeat the past. What a terrible waste of such sacred life.
Thank you.
You are most welcome my friend, and thank you for the kind feedback. Means a lot 👍
@@thehistoryexplorer it’s amazing work
I felt very sensitive. I imagine those moments and felt like real. Thanks for the video
You're welcome!
Merci pour ces remarquable travail de recherche effectuer cela fait plaisir de voir des jeunes qui rendent omage a tout ces héros mort pour libérer notre pays.
Amitiees Michel
You are most welcome my friend
Absolutely amazing work my friend.
Thank you very much! Appreciate it
These photos are very moving. You never realize who had passed this way and at what risk.
Дякую, хоч я й з далекої України, але історія 2-ї Світової війни мене захоплює, навіть зараз, коли у нас йде своя війна. Відео дуже цікаве і змістовне. З мене підписка і не зупиняйтесь -- це історія, яка буде передаватись поколіннями !
Great video.Well done and thanks.
Thank you so much. Appreciate it
amazing video! Salute to all those who risk their life to protect democracy and fight against dictatorship.
Cherbourg c’est ma ville merci pour cette vidéo 🥹💪
You are most welcome my friend
Love these videos so much! Thank you for all the work on these, they're amazing and so moving!
Glad you like them! Thanks for the feedback
I love the effort you have put in
To showing history
I’m so glad you like it! Many more videos like this on the way
@@thehistoryexplorer I have watched all your contents
And I'm blown away from how much dedication you have put in to it and honestly the thought and money to achieve such I can appreciate your effort
Excellent footage, I did feel sorry for the guy who was dead on the stairs, and the one under the window, it brings it home that so many people died, my dad had nightmares about it all until he died in 1988
So sorry to hear that. We always forget the pain of those who survived too
Amazing work!
Thank you!
Always watch your content. thank you so much
I really appreciate that! Thank you
Interesting video, thanks for all the extra information, I turned these photos into then & now mixed images about 14 years ago, but never got to visit the locations.
Amazing. Simply amazing!
Thanks a lot!
Just now watched it. Great job Rob! As time goes on your videos keep getting better and better. Thanks.
That’s the plan! Thank you so much.
Another way to see the history , congratularon !!
Oh wow! That was punchy. thabnks Rob
I hope you enjoyed it
I like that you do the then and now photos and back out up with the history of it.
Thank you very much. I try to add as much detail as I can without being too stodgy
Great video. Thank you
You are welcome!
Merci pour ce reportage.
Best regards
73's
Very good very touching ,it just make you think of those times and your times now..
Thanks so much. Appreciate the feedback 👍
this is such an AMAZING and poignant tribute to such a critical path in the future of all humanity. You're doing God's work, sir. Connecting 70+ years of time in an image...simply breathtaking.
Wow thank you very much indeed! Much appreciated
Muy interesante...los detalles...nos transportan al pasado...increíble
Excelente trabajo 👏👏👏👏🗽🗽🗽🗽
Thank you 👍 😊
We used to travel past the big "Cherbourg " sign many times on our way to our first stop at St Mere Eglais. There is now a ring road so no need to use the road anymore. Absolutely fascinated to know what took place there. Thanks I have subscribed.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I’d love to get inside the fortress, never been up there myself
My Dad was there as part of the 4th Division. This was amazing to see. Great job!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dziękuję za niesamowity film i przeniesienie nas w czasie do tragicznej historii. Zapraszam do Polski do Wrocławia i zrobienie materiału o oblężeniu miasta dawnej twierdzy Festung Breslau. Pozdrawiam 👋
I would love to! Thank you very much
Outstanding research !
Thank you! It’s the part I enjoy the most…other than visiting the location of course!
So so moving. Thank you for sharing.
You are most welcome!
Only just found your channel but wow amazing. Plus so sad
Welcome aboard! I hope you’ll stay for the ride. I have hundreds more videos to come
AMAZING! THANKS!
Glad you liked it!
Magnificent work. Thank you!
You are most welcome
BELÍSSIMO TRABALHO!!!
PARABÉNS!!!
Thank you my friend
Outstanding job ❤
Thank you very much buddy
Brilliant work. Very impressive integration of new and old images and excellent background research. Riveting viewing.
Great to hear! So glad you enjoyed it
Great video! Its so neat to see the before and after pics. It really puts things in prospective.
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Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated
Thank you for this video.The section of the dead German soldier sat in the stair well is one of the photos that I think is very poignant and moving.
I am of the age that first became interested in then and now photos in the 1970s with the After The Battle magazines.
Keep up the good work
A man after my own heart. I love then and now stuff. Nothing quite connects you to the location and events.
I’m also convinced there is some sort of energy left behind!
Hello from Detroit Michigan USA. Wonderful job my friend
Thank you very much! I hope you enjoyed the video buddy
Just amazing work thank you for the work you are showing I always wish here in the US people would stop tearing down history but I always say to others if you ever go over seas look at the history they don't take old building down or places
Your videos are incredible , i can't imagine the hard work you put in to make this happen , thank you
I appreciate that! So glad you enjoy them
Incredible video, well done, many thanks 🪖
You are very welcome. Thanks for the kind feedback
Superb as usual
Thanks a lot. Means a lot to know people enjoy the video
Thanks for the pictures. The older I get, the more I’m amazed at what the men suffered. To see the soldiers casually walking along, after they’d run through sniper fire and one guy contemplating doing it himself. What would I have done? Bill.
Outstanding isn’t it. Hard the believe