83RD INFANTRY DIVISION IN EUROPE, THE

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  • 83RD INFANTRY DIVISION IN EUROPE, THE - Department of Defense 1951 - PIN 20372 - COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II.

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  • @kevinellepac9317
    @kevinellepac9317 3 роки тому +9

    Funny I just found out that the 83rd has liberated my home town Grevenbroich in Germany and a friend of mine has convinced our mayor to build a monument for the 83rd

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn5461 3 роки тому +2

    A classic Army Signal Corps reel. A mix bag of stock footage etc. Great stuff. Thanks for posting!

  • @johnyoung4747
    @johnyoung4747 9 років тому +28

    Thanks for posting, PublicResourceOrg. My dad was in the 83rd, 331st Combat Team. He lived to age 90 and died in 2002 in Lancaster, Pa.

    • @zuluromeo1232
      @zuluromeo1232 7 років тому +5

      My Dad too. 1st Battalion. cannoneer / infantryman. Name was Estes from Birmingham Ala. Died at 65 in Miami, fl.

    • @harris1234100
      @harris1234100 6 років тому +4

      331st company A

    • @daleeasternbrat816
      @daleeasternbrat816 4 роки тому +2

      My uncle was in the 331sr RCT . He badgered my Grandmother to lie about his age. He went in at16. He was wounded , won a Bronze Star and was preparing to go to the Pacific when the Bomb dropped. He was mad they let the Russians take Berlin. I heard it from my mom and him. God Bless your Father. Guys like him saved the World.

    • @fooleayoutube
      @fooleayoutube Рік тому

      My grandfather was in the 83rd 331st. Frank Kitcey from albion, pa. Died at 88 in 2005!

    • @jonkore2024
      @jonkore2024 7 місяців тому

      My ex-girlfriend's father was in the 83rd

  • @joeogost
    @joeogost 9 років тому +55

    My father Maurice Candido was with the 83rd and was a true American patriot . I have actually have seen him in some of these old war footage .He died back in 1985 and we miss him . Toni Taragowski

    • @tomtabor1229
      @tomtabor1229 6 років тому +14

      My great uncle was in the 83rd infantry. An never made it home. KIA. Thank your father for his bravery an sacrifice. An all the men in the 83rd.

    • @frankferraro6450
      @frankferraro6450 6 років тому +14

      My father, Frank Ferraro, was in the 83rd. He was the S-2, 308th Med Bn. He told me many stories of his experiences. He never considered himself a hero. He always said, “the hero’s were the one the didn’t come home”.

    • @vivians9392
      @vivians9392 5 років тому +1

      It must be an eye opener to actually see your Dad so young, and being a soldier! I would get copies of those films to review at special times.

    • @jerrypolverino6025
      @jerrypolverino6025 5 років тому +2

      My Dad was there. We were lucky. He made it home.

    • @joeogost
      @joeogost 4 роки тому

      @Jebus Hypocristos ????

  • @daleeasternbrat816
    @daleeasternbrat816 4 роки тому +9

    Also known as the 83rd Panzer Grenadier division because of all of the German equipment and vehicles they were using. They transformed themselves into mechanized infantry. Using captured equipment. My Uncle was there. Carrol McDonough 331st RCT.

  • @gerardpoltawsky4656
    @gerardpoltawsky4656 5 років тому +9

    my dad boris poltawsky was with the 83 rd anti tank co.

  • @EightiesNintiesMetal
    @EightiesNintiesMetal 11 років тому +15

    My grandfather was 83rd infantry Thunderbolt as well. Died when I was 5 ywars old.

  • @chrisw5150
    @chrisw5150 4 роки тому +8

    Its hard to realize the size of the war. So many battles going on at the same time. I've been binge listening to soldiers storys for a week and am still in awe of what happened.

  • @johnnyloungejazz5477
    @johnnyloungejazz5477 5 років тому +5

    My Dad was in this outfit. Clarksburg Wv.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 4 роки тому +4

    A good film, with different guys from different parts of the divison telling their story.

  • @robertnardi4104
    @robertnardi4104 5 років тому +8

    These men were awesome. Bitter cold n no gloves and they still shooting....

    • @emmawatson9180
      @emmawatson9180 4 роки тому +3

      I know, right? Braved snipers, disease, death, starvation, mud, concentration camps but people now can’t have a mask or take a vaccine. Mad

  • @jonkore2024
    @jonkore2024 7 місяців тому +1

    Lynnwood Childress died in 2016 at 88 he was with the 83rd at the Hurtgen Forest

  • @RebelSonBand
    @RebelSonBand 11 років тому +17

    My Opa was a volunteer Schutze in the German Wehrmacht ... He fought in France too ...

  • @Mojave888
    @Mojave888 11 років тому +6

    My Dad was in the 908th FA HQ Battalion.

  • @TermiteUSA
    @TermiteUSA 5 років тому +6

    Imagine at anchor for two weeks during a storm I'm the shallows of the Channel. They were more than ready to get ashore and push hard.

  • @jeffreymcfadden9403
    @jeffreymcfadden9403 5 років тому +8

    O H I O
    (one helluva infantry outfit)

  • @brennen203
    @brennen203 Місяць тому

    My grandfather joe Zaborowski was in 83. Told me wild stories as a little boy. He got shot and was stitched up and sent back out just to be shot again.

  • @williamorr9203
    @williamorr9203 4 роки тому +3

    I'm a vet.If the enemy's in range,so are you.!

  • @2d_AIRBORNE_Brigade
    @2d_AIRBORNE_Brigade Рік тому

    You're outta whack, slick. Perception only matters to the individual or beholder. And that's as far as it goes.

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscott 4 роки тому +1

    14:41 Damn, I've never been to war, never had anyone shoot at me, and I complain when it the temperature gets below 50.
    Yeah, these guys are tens times the man than I will ever be. /Mad respect

  • @vivians9392
    @vivians9392 4 роки тому +3

    Seemed like forever fighting, but actually just a total of 11 months fighting in Europe. Japan was the long war.

  • @RasEli03
    @RasEli03 5 років тому +2

    2:42 m3 Lee's and grants weren't used in Normandy right?

    • @Fr1thar
      @Fr1thar 3 роки тому

      yes im pretty sure

  • @VIDS2013
    @VIDS2013 5 років тому +9

    Huertgen Forest--what a nightmare. Total waste of lives.

  • @kawythowy867
    @kawythowy867 4 роки тому +5

    America’s GREATEST generation.

    • @Fr1thar
      @Fr1thar 3 роки тому

      eh in this war pretty much, Vietnam not so much, other wars from Vietnam and on weren't really great for american troops

  • @EightiesNintiesMetal
    @EightiesNintiesMetal 11 років тому +4

    @ Rick. Stanley Segiel was his name. Ask your uncle.

  • @noretreat151
    @noretreat151 5 років тому +2

    What a richer world we would have it Patton was in front of these BRAVE troops and continued on to Berlin.
    Epilogue to Adolf:
    you snooze
    you lose

  • @scotty101ire
    @scotty101ire 4 роки тому

    Is it just me or is the music totally out of wack with what going on

  • @philbyd
    @philbyd 5 років тому +1

    That’s a hell of a story

  • @zizamo1
    @zizamo1 4 роки тому

    this is one of the best ive ever seen 5 stars two forks and knife

  • @kevinkeefe5528
    @kevinkeefe5528 2 роки тому

    There's one thing about ww1 and the second world war those guys weren't coming home until the war was over on both sides of the world

  • @claudiograeff6334
    @claudiograeff6334 3 роки тому

    Schow!👊💪

  • @triuman
    @triuman 2 роки тому

    Dad was part of this

  • @williamshepley9054
    @williamshepley9054 3 роки тому

    The Russians had it far worse. They fought crack troops. The Allies fought children and second grade troops. Yet this film amps up the heroism. Basically the Allies suffered of course but even Germany's second hand troops, teenagers from the