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  • @bikenavbm1229
    @bikenavbm1229 2 роки тому +3

    very well done Sir, I have visited a few times been struck how busy it is, a very different experience to some of the smaller CWG sites I have visited. Thank you for your work.

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday 2 роки тому

      Thanks for the appreciation.

  • @cactusrose9601
    @cactusrose9601 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent effort, Sir. Thank you.

  • @richardallen3289
    @richardallen3289 9 місяців тому +2

    My wife's father is the youngest buried on the beach.Pvt. Roy Talhelm,"G"Co. 506 101st.still 17.God bless them all.🇺🇸

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday 9 місяців тому

      Thanks for the feedback. He was 16 when he signed up.

  • @debroahisaacs2452
    @debroahisaacs2452 2 місяці тому

    I thank you with a grateful heart for your video. I knew of Normandy but not alot of the history and i learned greatly from you dear sir. God bless you greatly.❤

  • @jamesallen8418
    @jamesallen8418 2 роки тому +6

    Well done. A difficult project, handled with tact and respect. Not to mention much research.

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday 2 роки тому +1

      It actually took months of visits as the cemetery only opens a block of graves at a time, to protect the grass.

  • @ralphscottiii
    @ralphscottiii 2 місяці тому

    The next time I’m At Colleville-sur-Mer I will definitely view the cemetery differently. Excellent information and video

  • @archiebald4717
    @archiebald4717 Місяць тому

    So fascinating!

  • @nigelbarrett4741
    @nigelbarrett4741 2 роки тому +2

    Really interesting, informative and sensitively portrayed, thank you.

  • @markdraskovics1962
    @markdraskovics1962 2 роки тому +2

    HELLO, COLIN Well
    I just wanted to thank you for all your Attention to the American soldiers and all the Information on theses Missing military men and women who are now rest in peace at this cemetery there are not very many documentaries like your on the cemeteries of Normandy there are some but I really did enjoy your videos of the war on D-Day so thank you very much for your time and effort on these videos take care stay safe God bless and will see you on your next video project

  • @johnmarlin4661
    @johnmarlin4661 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this very moving video from start to finish .

  • @mossbrg5
    @mossbrg5 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you as always for a great and thoughtful narration. I visited in September 2019. I have never felt so alive while walking around and between the marble markers. But I could also feel the real sense of sacrifice.

  • @francisjohnification
    @francisjohnification 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent work. Very interesting, very informative and VERY respectful. Brilliant and thanks. I just had to re play the ending again. Beautiful bugle work, what a tone.

  • @teddunn3625
    @teddunn3625 10 місяців тому +1

    What brilliant documentary been there . Very sad that so many had been killed well put together ❤
    very sad that so many killed

  • @XxBloggs
    @XxBloggs 2 роки тому +1

    Very very nicely done video. Interesting and respectful.

  • @marcwebb687
    @marcwebb687 2 роки тому +1

    A very informative video Colin, as always. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge

  • @bolton737
    @bolton737 2 роки тому +2

    I came over a couple of weeks ago for a few days and Remembrance Day .
    Thanks to your videos I had a much better understanding of the places I visited.
    I went to the Normandy British Memorial on 11-11 to pay respects.
    Then to the American cemetery via overlord museum on the Friday.
    On Remembrance Sunday I went to the cemetery in Bayeux and surprisingly I was the only one there. Do they not do Remembrance Sunday in France ?
    Thanks again for the knowledge 👍

  • @steeltown1001
    @steeltown1001 2 роки тому +2

    😶 respect 😶

  • @GraveVisitations
    @GraveVisitations Рік тому

    R. I. P to all 🙏

  • @fatsacks70
    @fatsacks70 2 роки тому +1

    Great video but the placement of the giant thumbs up over the gravestones was unfortunate.

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday 2 роки тому +1

      Yes, I see what you mean.

  • @kerrydennison7947
    @kerrydennison7947 3 місяці тому +1

    I have a question if the French government succeeded the American graveyards to the Americans indefinitely. What about the British Commonwealth and German graveyards were they also succeeded to the British Canadian polish and German governments also? I would like you to someday when you have time do one on the notorious Germans that are buried in the Normandy cemeteries. You show Michael Whitman's grave along with his tank crew what about doing one on the SS Commander dyckman? I had duty as a very young lieutenant at the Normandy American cemetery as part of the ceremony teams. And I also participated in the parachute jump reenactment in 1976 anniversary of D-Day. Your videos are very informative and they are very respectful to all parties involved in this horrendous conflict. You could do a story on the parachute dress girls of the D-Day re-enactment the young ladies that had their dresses made out of parachutes to look like American flags at the one year anniversary of D-Day. I believed her father still owns a bar there somewhere in the Normandy countryside name the D-Day bar. Enjoy your videos on the French Resistance and also the ones on the normal French civilians that were very helpful and guiding the Americans in the Normandy countryside. Very well done my hat is off to you🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday 3 місяці тому +1

      Videos on the German and Commonwealth cemeteries are in the pipeline line.

  • @philipryan25
    @philipryan25 2 роки тому +2

    👍

  • @kerrydennison7947
    @kerrydennison7947 2 місяці тому

    A very well done documentary. I have a question you stated that the families were allowed the choice of removing the remains back to United States of the American soldiers what about the British and Commonwealth families in the German families were they allowed to have their families remains removed back to their country of origin?

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday 2 місяці тому

      The commonwealth troops and Germans were buried in France and remain there. The families weren’t given the choice.

  • @TheBezaleel
    @TheBezaleel 2 роки тому

    I visited in 2018, however, as it had been a wet period with more rain than normal the grass was cordened off. Also, it is my understanding that cemetaries in the Netherlands donated to the U.S.A. are their property and under U.S>.laws and regulations.

  • @kerrydennison7947
    @kerrydennison7947 Місяць тому

    I have a odd question that related to cemeteries. On your story of the paratrooper Joe Bailey. You said once he was captured a German took his dog tags and uniform and tried to cross into the American lines and was killed. And I'm assuming that Joe's family was notified that he was killed in combat. My question is where was the pretend American paratrooper that was actually a German buried at and was he buried as Joe Bailey? And from what I understand there was two Americans that were allegedly killed during the Battle of the bulge but they were actually part of that German secret unit that crossed over into American Lines dressed up in American uniforms n was shot by some military police at a roadblock but they still had the American dog tags and the American uniforms that had been taken off of pows in a POW camp in Germany. We sure enjoy your d day series here in Michigan.. and I had the honor of meeting Joe Bailey at a veterans conference down in Lansing Michigan some years ago myself being a 101 from the Vietnam war.. truly a very modest humble gentleman...

    • @WalkingDday
      @WalkingDday Місяць тому +1

      That’s good question. I’ll try to find out.

  • @suzannepatterson5548
    @suzannepatterson5548 Місяць тому

    Grandiose?

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 Рік тому

    When President DeGaulle had France leave NATO he demanded all American military leave France. The American ambassador asked DeGualle if that included the American dead who died liberating France?