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Thank you. My father was a Tough Ombre.

Many accusations of "cowardice" are unjustly laid at the door of the French in WWII (IMHO). But since Britain was never occupied, it is a relatively easy - and ignorant - thing to point the accusing finger at the French. However, the publication of "Dominion" by CJ Sansom in 2013 gives a frightening - and embarrassing - picture of Britain under a supposed Nazi occupation post 1940. What we find is collaboration and betrayal at both the higherst and lowest levels - just like in France, with a replica Vichy government headed by Lord Beaverbrook, a resurrection of the Auxiliaries who earned infamy in Ireland in 1920 as a British "milice", and small but determined groups of resistants who eventually prevail. A resistant in France, if caught, was more often that not brutally tortured before being garrotted, guillotined or shot. The Geneva Convention did not apply to these heroes. And they were taking on impossible odds, which they were well aware of. Of course they could have collaborated or kept their heads down, as most did, or even get used to living in a Nazi-occupied Europe. But they didn't. So please let's hear no more crap about the French running away during WWII. Men like Jean Moulin deserve never to be forgotten.

Thanks for the re-upload, Colin. The sound is much better now. 😊

I simply do not understand these people posing so widely for photographs . They were a gift for the gestapo and informers.

I've always been curious why did the British not take down those towers at the steel works in order to stop the Germans from observing their movements. Same as the cement works Tower.

It's pronounced Si-enne, not the Seine!

I've explored there many times. Your commentary was excellent. I'll be there again soon.

Just watched this evening 6/12 enjoyed the depth of information and your narration as well. 😂

Hi Colin...very well researched and informative. Well done.

What a life as a refugee, in the UK and the treatment was dreadful. Till the authorities finally realised they could use them to fight against Germany. Sense at last, refugee to Commandos. Great story thank you for telling us a story that is not well known.

Fabulous display of skill and in memory of those who fought.

Amazing and heartbreaking memorial. Least we forget. Thank you Colin shame a permanent home can't be found for this installation.

Thanks for sharing, a memorial that is certainly different to others memorials. Using local schools for the frize after all the soldiers fought so the children of today could be 😊free.

The image of the tape reader from input to the Colossus computer is an anachronism. The Colossus was not used to break Enigma code. It was used to crack Lorenz encoded teletypewriter transmissions. Morse code scrambled and unscrambled by an Enigma machine was cracked using devices called Bombes...as depicted in the popular movie Imitation Game.

Great video again Is the location where general mcnair was killed?

My grandpa was a Bren Gunner in the Canadian Scottish and landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. In the early 2000s he told me about a battle he was in where he counted 18 Canadian tanks taken out by the Germans. It took me a little while to figure out it was Operation Tractable and to find the location. In 2008 (when I was the same age he would've been in '44) I made the trip to Normandy. And with the help of some info I picked up at the Juno Beach Centre I was able to put myself in the area of this battle. It's nice to see I was in the right spot. He told me the Canadians were advancing on a German tank. It fired a round and he said a group of Canadians dropped where it impacted. Then it fired a second shot a bit closer to his position and more Canadians went down. The 3rd shot he said he didn't see, he was just instantly on the ground. He got up, found his Bren gun, bent down to pick it up but couldn't because the tendons in his right arm were severed by 88 shrapnel. That was the end of the war for him.

Hi Colin, thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of your chsnnel. Your video is highly informatove and interesting. I will be watching your other videos over the next few weeks and will be in touch in the next fee days...hope you and youe family are all well. Best regards Pete Flett. 😊😊😊 8:45

My great uncle was in 3rd Bn HQ Co. of 12th Bn. He was KIA on June 22, 1944 at Bois du Coudray. I visited there in 2017. Do you know if Col. Dulin was in a bayonet charge and where was he in relation to Bois du Coudray and his direction of travel when this occurred? My great uncle was in his battalion and they were KIA the same day. If anyone can help me to know if he was KIA in Dullin’s bayonet charge.

Very informative, keep up the good work!

Helpful video thank you. My dad (1923-1992) was a pfc radio specialist and liaison US Army XIX Corps, 228th FA Grp Hdqts Btry. St Lo was the first major action he saw after landing D+18. Gut wrenching stuff. I'm currently editing his memoir so visuals and side-by-sides are very helpful.

Hello. Where can I find out the exact composition of the German kampfgruppe in these associations?

Excellent video about Pattons campaign movement in France during WW2. He was a larger than life character, and a good General.

The conquest of Europe began...

Another good one Colin.

On catch up. D-day I know quite a bit about it. But inland I don't know a lot about the fighting. So this is new to me. Thank you for all your research and driving around. Cherbourg I'm learning about for the first time.

The what if, if I'd shoke my Twins hand, if I'd not been sent back to England. Survivor guilt? Thank you to sll those brave men who fought and lived or fought and died eho gave their lives for us. Thank you Volin for the great video

Doenitz playing Checkers. WATU playing 4D Vulcan Chess. ;)

Chaos for paras, chaos for Germans, the fog of war in this case literally.

What I like is that you cover not only the big actions on D-day as well as important smaller actions. I like the personal comments of family who father's/ uncles had survived the war. You convey well the confusion in war and despite not all the parachutists landing in their correct landing areas they went about trying to complete their objectives as best they could. They did well.

Your talking about a terrible battle for Caen in the midest of the countryside. Which is now a beautiful, peaceful and quiet area.

Excellent video about yhe dreadful for the German's their retreat. The first of many they had. The bravery of the dug in Polish troops who did not give up was just so typical of their fighting spirit. They hung on until reinforcement arrived.

In the photograph at 16:25, Captain Roberts in seated in the middle, the brilliant 21-year-old chartered accountant (CPA in US) Jean Laidlaw is seated on his right, 18-year-old bridge player Janet Okell is standing behind Robert's left shoulder, and future Vogue magazine super model 19-year-old June Duncan is standing second from the left in the back row. It's generally accepted nowadays, after declassification of WATU documents, that Wren Laidlaw was the one who deduced how the U-boats were getting inside the convoys, and who then developed the Raspberry tactic with it's resultant devastating effect on Donitz' fleet. It's very sad that none of the Wrens of WATU were ever recognized by the Admiralty for their work, similar to how the WASPs were not recognized for their US war efforts. But such was the thinking towards wormen's roles in the 1940s and 1950s.

A good Commander has to be a flexible commander. A Commander should be aware that plans don't always go to plan. That the enemy have their own plans and will be happy to interfere. DDAY certainly proved that with the fighting on the landings beaches, with the parachutists.

The transformation made the 66-year-old Ambrose a multimillionaire and a celebrity He now finds himself in the middle of the biggest plagiarism scandal to hit U.S. universities in years, one that begs the questions of how far -- and how fast -- an academic should go when turning a dry history into a book ready for the mass market and perhaps Hollywood producers.

I have always wondered why the old general was not put on trial as a traitor at the end of the war ? Or at least been tried as a collaborator with the Nazi regime.

My father was a Canadian spitfire pilot during the battles of Mt Cassimo. He told me of how he discovered the emplacemrnt of 4 huge guns (on rails). He radioed an American battleship with the coordinates and watched as the first shell landed on the corner of the big guns. He radioed for three more with the same coordinates then wstched "the guns blown to hell!" Thanks for this but didn't know so many men werekill

Good to see you back out on the tour beat 😊. As far as general Mark Clark he should have been relieved from command and set home for what I understand the theater Commander general Alexander even made the recommendation to general Eisenhower to relieve him.

"We are the D day dodgers...dying in Italy" May they all RIP...all gone now inc luding my dear old Dad 😢

Wikipedia says the attack was by Typhoons (not Spitfires) and I've heard that from other sources too.

at 16:00 you talk about kings staffordshire light infantry and i am wondering if you mean kings shropshire light infantry.....well a still living good friend of mine is 92 and his brother was there in KSLI and now has his grave at normandy, i have been tracing the movements of his KSLI who were indeed at Bieville, well anyway it's my mystery, thank you

Excellent! Thank you. Share many of your videos with others.

thanks for reminding the World of these minor events in the perspective of the Battle of Normandy, but hardly Minor for these Men that by Chance found themselves in this little village just like many others in other villages through the War whose story likely will never be told. Thank you for doing just a bit More..

Very good

King was an idiot.

Thank you sir. Good to hear your voice again. Love.

My Father was wounded here

That farmhouse at the beginning of this video is that the same notorious firm house where the woman hung herself in a room and when her husband found her he hung himself right beside her n and during the Battle of Normandy when this farm was under attack a German soldier hung himself in the same room? I have heard that story a couple of different times from different sources I just thought I would ask the expert on Normandy to put the rumors to rest.

Also, some credit goes to the Frenchv they were the ones who found a disgruntled German officer who wanted to switch sides and stole one Enigma, passing it to the Poles, as they didn't really know what to do with it.

I always thought that the sunken warships were considered war Graves by international agreement and no one could even enter them to remove items much less take tanks off of them.