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Why - “Because it’s Necessary” ❤

If you get the chance go there. Visit the museums. Take a tour with a good guide. What you learn will amaze you. I was there on June 6 2023. These soldiers had an unspeakable horror that cold, windy, raining morning. God bless their souls

The Germans fought hard in that beach, trying to kill Americans. But, they didn't give up, they fought back and won the war.

I saw the odds of avoiding being wounded or killed in just the first 15 minutes of the first wave was 1 in 3.

Thank you Sir for your service

The German soldier who shot him was Heinrich severloh who killed 2000 us servicemen ,he shot 12000 round of ammunition

It’s one thing to hear the statistics like “thousands of men died trying to cross this beach” but it hits me harder when a man like this gives you a backstory about writing love letters for a friend and describes his background, family, and personality, and at the end says “and he got hit just coming off the boat, and that was the end of him”. Makes you realize that each of those thousands had a real life and people who cared for him.

Music from Medal of Honor European Assault

I love the way these guys talk. “He got hit and that was the end of him.” Nothing better than being to the point. War is hell.

Who gives this a thumbs down? Awful people who don’t appreciate their freedom!

How He did not die from that massive wounding is an absolute miracle.

I wonder what the differences are between the beaches then and today.

weird that for most of us this place is nothing but a beach with history behind it but for this man and all the vets that survived this placed its something completely else

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Incredible story from incredible man captured by an incredible cinematographer with Ole Glory waving in the background above Uncle Sam

a very unassuming man who was a total hero when he was young. I often wonder why Eisenhower didn't just avoid that beach. The carnage was incredible. I don't think anybody knows how many men were killed. God bless their souls.

What an absolute waste of human life. Can't we all just get along. Must of been absolutely terrifying knowing your probably going to die.

a real hero does not need to brag and talk about and seek out praise... they do their job........ definitely the greatest generation......

Thank you for what you had to endure so I can have the freedoms I have. God Bless you

67 commies gave a thumbs down 🤮

To the greatist generation , THANK YOU ALL.

The question of whether these guys were the greatest generation has had its proponents and its detractors. Is it glorifying WWII or even War itself to sing their praises? Would any generation of free men & women have answered the call to go to war like the so called Greatest Generation did? Remember that these mostly young men did so not for conquest or to overrun a continent to acquire more land and treasure or to subjugate millions of people for their own Country’s benefit but to risk their futures to help liberate this Continent of people they knew almost nothing about who had seen their freedom and very lives taken away by an evil ideology called Nazism. I recall seeing a British Documentary that focused on the period just prior to The Battle of Britain. It seemed the adults at that time, most of whom were WWI Veterans had serious doubts as to whether the current generation of young men who they saw as arrogant, entitled and pretty much useless would have the Greatness to answer the call & save their Country from being overrun by the Germans that had conquered Western Europe in a matter of weeks and were now amassing less than 100 kilometers away in Northern France. As the history books now tell us it didn’t take long for the arrogant, entitled and useless young pilots of the RAF to become in the words of Winston Churchill: Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so FEW! So as to the question of whether the Greatest Generation was indeed special and unique in human history and it was very fortunate that when the free world needed them they were present, willing and able...OR would any generation, were they to be called upon to risk their futures to save ours have done what was asked of them in their time?? While it’s interesting to discuss questions like this, the kind where you’ll never know the answer for sure. To me the answer to the question; “was this the Greatest Generation?” is this: While it’s impossible to know whether any generation of youngsters would have responded similarly in similar circumstances, the facts are this: that generation of young men & women WERE & ARE the Greatest because they DID do it. We don’t have to wonder as to how they would respond when needed. They will always have what people today call SCOREBOARD!

What a hero😢😢

SALUTE SIR ❗️🌹🇺🇸

My grandfather was a tank driver for Canada victor nabess

To the hero. And the hero that saved his life. Thank God. Bless America. Rangers lead the way

Thanks for all those gentlemen we have a freed country

My Uncle Sylvester C. "Butch" Riese was wounded here also. RIP dear Uncle Butch.

my Uncle Al was in the Korean War, he got hit, then got a grenade thrown at him, which costed two of his legs. i was out to eat with my grandma and we were talking about it, she said "the soldiers came up to him and Al said "Don't waste your bullet on me, I'm gonna die", but he did not die. he became a prisoner of war for a day, then being released and then taken into the aid. dont know what happened after that but he passed away a few years ago. didnt really know him that well, but still makes me emotional thinking i had family in wars who have experienced things like that.

www.wwiirangers.org/our-rangers/ray-tollefson/

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A real gentle man. Thank you for your service from the Netherlands

Hello my name is Alistair Young. I am creating my second educational remembrance video for young people teaching them about why it is so important for them to respect and remember their past and our history. Please can I use some of this footage in my video to help teach about the importance of pillboxes and defences? I will credit you of course. Thanks so much

Awesome man, great that he could tell his story

What for, brave man? What for?

62 thumbsucking bedwetters!

There can be no doubt that the action on D-day at Omaha beach will go down in the history of battle as an example of what some have called the pity of war. I may have misunderstood but I beIieve I heard it said that the troops in the first waves of attack were deliberately chosen because if their LACK of experience of battle, since it was theorized that troops with greater experience would be reluctant to attack aggressively. Whether or not this is true, or whether it was correct hardly matters since the first ashore were subject to murderous fire from the entrenched and fortified German troops of a veteran division, using interlocking fields of fire, weeks in the planning and preparation. The slaughter continued until the German gun barrels began to overheat. They were replaced with spare barrels which were used until they too had to be changed. And so it went until two things happened - the Germans ran out of both barrels and ammunition, and the attacking force overwhelmed them by sheer force of numbers. Recall that for several reasons the Germans were not able to reinforce the thin crust of their coastal troops during the Overlord attack, so that they inevitably were overrun by superior numbers coming in on the attack. It's impossible for those who were not there to imagine what it must have been like. Videos like this can perhaps give us a brief glimpse by way of the individual or microscopic experiences of the whole. In the end many " will hold their manhood cheap they were not here ".

Im still in awe of how people can thumb down these videos , who the fuck are you an are you human ,

All deserve mad respect. Both of my grandfathers were there, on the "supply "and defend end in the Pacific.. 1 was on a troop transport called the Storm king that delivered troops a d equipment and Never sunk.. the other on a Cruzer that took battle damage by kamikazes but never sunk.. bless them all.Note : my grandpa said his friend manning one of the guns probably a 20mm or bigger lot his head shot completely off. My papa was a marine aboard a naval ship. Hard times and he took that to heart.. he died in 1986 by suicide. Very hard. The war was so bad. My father was a Vietnam vet-Army with alot of combat and killing also. I am lucky I slid into that to young and too old slot from the first gulf war to the iraq and Afghanistan wars now.. my father always said I never want you to go to war!. But if it was a world war I would..

No. More. Brother. Wars.

Was a really good documentry on the history channel some years ago if the raf lost. the plan was not to win the battle but make it cost as many german lives as possible to brake there spirit and make them pull back. at Sandhurst they ran an experiment against surviving german officers and a batch of young officers using exactly the same tools to see what would happen. been looking for that documentary for ages

Most badass generation ever courage..honor..faith and strength.....I feel like a spoiled asshole hearing these stories.

We have to put things in perspective, listening to these heroes. To us they’re old men, but in reality they were 18/19/20 y/o kids. Quite a burden to shoulder at that age. I can’t imagine the kids today facing such a responsibility.

Jesus Christ..what a beautiful old guy. I'm choked up and my eyes full of tears. No empty bravado, no patriotic BS, just quiet dignity and respect. We will never see their like again.

THANK YOU SIR AND ALL LIKE YOU!

Standing there looking out over that peaceful beach, and you knew the nightmare was playing over and over in his mind.

i have the highest respect for every soldier that was on that beach that day so we can live our lives we all have today... thank you sir... and to the people who give these uploads a thumbs down... absolute shame on you.

Thank you for showing this. I never think about Britain having these defenses. A powerful reminder.

For those who have served, are serving (my son 11+ yrs), will someday serve and especially those who gave it all; this country will never be the same and never fail due to the brave men and woman. Gods bless an Gods speed...thank you thank thank you.

Let no one ever forgot...