Omaha Beach on D-Day - what happened? The story in 10 minutes
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- What happened on Omaha Beach on D-Day, june 6, 1944? I have visited the place several times and made a lot of photo's: check them out at www.omaha-beach... .
I also shot some video here and there with my phone camera as I was walking around looking for the key points to photograph, and now have used these images to tell the story of Omaha as I see it - in 10 minutes. Contains footage of some of the key points like Fox Red, Dog Green, Easy red, Widerstandsnest 60, 62 and 72. Phone camera quality so expect no miracles but the story is worth telling. Lest We Forget!
Music is by Charles Ives, a great American composer of the early 20th century. For further reading I'd suggest the excellent books by Cornelias Ryan - "The Longest Day" and Joseph Balkoski - "Omaha Beach".
Omaha Beach is well worth a visit. It "breaths" history and at times has a near magical atmoshere surrounding it. Also make sure to visit the US Cemetery on top of the bluffs and pay respect to the thousands that lay there so we may live in freedom.
More footage I shot earlier (also at Pointe Du Hoc and British sectors) is in an older youtube movie from 2009: • A trip to the Normandy...
This has got to be one of the most detailed and educational videos in 10mins about D-Day. You provided a point of view no one else has covered like that before. Like you literally linked all the sectors where you could understand how the Omaha beach head as a whole was attacked by the Allies. I didn't even realise there were 10 sectors. And how both flanks were most vulnerable to enemy fire, but yet had some of the better forms of natural cover. This is really good.
Just in case anyone is wondering at all about this 'most detailed and educational video' there were other Allies engaged in the D-Day Landings. It is fairly insulting to suggest only the USA were present at Omaha Beach and Normandy in general.
@@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913 you have a point there. I just find this guy's video to be more detailed regarding the strategy as a whole; of how they approached the Omaha beach head.
@@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913 I'm not too aware or sure of who else at Omaha were present besides the Americans, if there were other non-American units I'm keen to know.
@@TheMainMayn : Quite right and the use of the British designed & built Mulberry Harbour, whose landing craft were they using to get to the beach - my moan in general being the Americans as usual asserting they did it all by themselves when the whole of D-Day was a combined operation of Canada, Britain and the USA plus assistance of the French Resistance and the combined air forces bombing the crap out German defences - although who was it launched their Shermans too early and which air force failed to bomb the beaches to make fox hole defences.
Oh well, there's always the Imperial War Museum in London for the over all view.
@@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913 I'm not American but Dutch and in no way I want to diminish the Commonwealth contribution to Overlord. Though Omaha was mostly an American sector some heroic actions were performed by British sailors like the coxswains on many of the landing craft and some of the destroyers (three out of 33 destroyers here were British). I did visit the Canadian and British sectors Gold, Juno and Sword also and may be I willmake a video on one of those at some time.
I am not an expert but landings in this area are crazy . The entire section has over looking hills and cliffs with no place to get away from the bullets !
Visited Omaha, Utah, Sainte-Mere Eglise and the Omaha Cemetery in June, Read many books, saw many movies studied numerous reports on D-Day prior to the visit. We had a knowledgeable guide but this video provided a unique insight that was helpful in understanding one of the keys to conquering Omaha's defenses. Thank you!
Thanks for your kind words! It is always a special and priviliged experience to walk those beaches, isn't it?
A must sacred place.....thanks again. @@herb79
I've seen a whole bunch of these and this one is one of the best, the "no" narration makes it all the more tense!
General Bradley considered withdrawing from the beach, not Eisenhower, he was back in the UK.
Black lettering would make the captions easier to read.
Best D day documenting I’ve seen yet, tried to find information from this perspective for a long time. Very well researched and filmed.
Thank you sir!
andy nichols splendid job.
Best D day documenting? Fucks sake it's probably the worst.
US Navy Destroyers at Omaha beach disobeying orders went into shallow water where they could have been grounded and took out German positions at the direction of land forces which allowed the land forces to move inland also saving the day !After Generals were going to call off further landing at Omaha!! Must have missed that point!
doriley13 Good point And I know it was Shells from a destroyer that helped subdue for instance WN65. It is underlining my point that battlefield initiative saved the day. I’ll add this info when I make a new video in the future.
Before my dad past i took time off work and my boss ask me y i told him what i doing and his company paid for the trip to see it for his last time i seen my dad fall to his knees and i broke down as well he cry seem for ever
could of done with out the psycho music though but great job
Good video,I really want to visit this beach my self and want to feel that atmosphere and image that what happened here on D.Day.
I think too that it is a very good video.
If possible take a visit not during the main holiday season. Otherwise on a sunny day you met thousands of people and the main cemetry - well known from Saving private Ryan - is overcrowded with people, thousands. Nevertheless very impressive, despite without shelling.
The locals are nice to Americans. We act respectful towards them and they do in return. One enters any French establishment like you would someone home.
Sunbathing on that beach is just plain wrong.
The Allies fought and died on those beaches to enable free people to do so, no doubt those sunbathing are aware of the sacrifice made and remember and respect in their way.
That's such a dumb comment.
Thanks for doing this
2 issues to point out.
Sometimes the white text was too dim to read and the paragraphs were not up for long enough to read.
Otherwise great job
Thanks for the feedback!
As this is YT and not plain old TV. It's easy to just click the screen, read the text, and click again... :)
Well done. THX.
General Bradley considered a withdrawal (not Eisenhower)....
Young men littered the ground as far as the eye can see there.
Many thousands.
The Sea held drowned young men.
Thousands.
The Sea water had turned the color red.
God bless our soldiers
Thank you u.s.a
REST IN PEACE ALL SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN WW2 ON ALL SIDES.NO MORE BROTHER WARS .
Choice of music could’ve been better I thought....
Choice of music could not have been worse i thought....
Er, s'cuse me sir, but: fact is that the Hoc guns were actually in the lane/parallel to/11 behind the battery itself. Also worth a mention is that what troops left manning the German controlled sector referenced here were Russians caught n turned to wear G uniform...
How Rommel must've wrung his hands, really?!
Been there a few times over the years (and found some nice bits n pieces before they cleaned all up pre 84) so must express my appreciation for this refresh view. Thankyou.
This music scared me shitless
What's MG fire? What's WN 60 and WN 72? Could have done without the ominous trumpet, flute filler music. White lettering was hard to read. Was interesting to learn about Lt. Spalding. I also liked when you showed Fox Red section of beach and labeled it as such. It's nice to know what you're actually looking at when viewing a video. I want to go to Omaha Beach someday and pay my respects to the men who fought and died there. My birthday is June 6th. But not 1944.
MG fire means machine gun fire. WN stands for “WiderstandsNest” (resistance nest - the Germans numbered them). Thanks for watching!
We are going to Normandy in October 2021. How do we find WN60?
On the road from Colleville to st Honorine des pertes juist outside Colleville turn left at a small road - it has a red fire extinguisher - then keep right until you reach a place where you can park near trees., it’s a 150 meters walk towards the coast.
Can’t read the white text
Being a Combat Engineer I really want to go see the Easy Red Sector.
The Combat Engineers made a vital contribution by blowing several gaps in the German mined obstacle belt on Easy red under heavy fire.
German 716 and 352 Infantry Divisions: "We actually won D-day... by a lot!"
Music was not appropriate
and yet it was used in a WW2 movie ;-)
There was some fierce fighting on them beaches hero's true hero's.
My dad was there the morning of june 6th. He was with the 147th combat engineers, 6th engineers special brigade. I was looking through his WW2 photo album. There's a pic of a pillbox and he wrote a caption "we landed 100 ft from here". I was trying to find that pillbox in this video. My dad passed 4-1-13. Damn do i miss that generation.
Excellent choice of music for this great little feature.
"The Unanswered Question" by Aaron Copeland?
Footage at low tide 300m when invasion execited a must
If Omaha was repeated other landing zones invasion would have failed ?
With the element of surprise was the strategy to have the Germans run out of ammunition? If that is the case this would be a classic human wave attack.
Did the invasion take place at low tide 200m or so of open beach to cover
On low tide due to the germans defense on the beaches
I've been twice. H Hour was scheduled for low tide at 06.30 at which time the exposed beach is approx 300m - when looking at it today it's astonishing to think that anyone could hope to cross that vast expanse unscathed - this was to give Combat Engineers the max amount of time to clear safe lanes through the beach obstacles for the next waves of landing craft to come in. In the ensueing carnage and chaos very few clearance parties were able function properly and the storm tide came in much faster than usual causing losses with the subsequent waves of craft as they struck uncleared obstacles which by now had become submerged.
use a tripod !!!
I don't have one for my iphone, sorry.
The English was very bad. I could hardly read what was written.
New music please.....terrible screeching
2500 invaders killed its vague how many ?
frikkin music!!! sshheesshh!!! :/
Head-on assault didn't work. Whoduthunkit?
Terrible job narration white writing on a white sky. Brilliant idea and a waste of good video. I don't like and I don't subscribe. That music was the worst sounding music on the face of the earth and is disrespectful of the men who lost there lives here. Just awful can't watch it or listen to it and worst of all can't read it.