America's WWI Sites: You Won't Want To Miss These!

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  • Опубліковано 1 лис 2022
  • At Battle Guide Virtual Tours we pride ourselves on our vast experience of visiting and exploring battlefields across the globe and we just love sharing these experiences to those who are unable to personally visit the sites, or, for others to use as a taster of what these sites contain prior to their own travels.
    We have put together our Top 5 Must See American WW1 Sites and are excited to share with you some of the hidden gems we have come across in the course of our work.
    We hope you enjoy this video and please do let us know what sites you think should have made it into this Top 5.

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  • @joemcelroy2118
    @joemcelroy2118 9 місяців тому +8

    My Grand Father fought at Bellicourt Tunnel with the Old Hickory 30th Infantry. He brought back his helmet which I now have in safe keeping.

  • @JonathanLindsay
    @JonathanLindsay Рік тому +14

    This is very moving. Thank you from the US for helping us learn our own history.

  • @davidnemoseck9007
    @davidnemoseck9007 10 місяців тому +7

    Another thing to add to my bucket list! From the US, thanks for sharing this!

  • @williamschuber5894
    @williamschuber5894 Рік тому +19

    Proud to have visited all 5 sites. Awesome and so moving at the same time. Great work Battle Guides. Cantigny is also interesting as well as sites associated with Sgt Alvin York and also the Lost Battalion.

  • @sylversyrfer6894
    @sylversyrfer6894 Рік тому +7

    Excellent and moving video, especially the last site of the cemetery of thousands and thousands of (mostly) young men, who died because of the stupidity and greed of rulers seeking to aggrandize themselves. So utterly tragic and futile.

  • @adamp5879
    @adamp5879 9 місяців тому +3

    The 234 steps at montfaucon are no joke but the view from the top is amazing!

  • @jonshellsr.7900
    @jonshellsr.7900 Рік тому +12

    Awesome! My grandfather, part of the 3rd m.g. bttn, was wounded at Cantigny May 29, 1918. One day we hope to visit the places you suggested and Cantigny as well.

  • @jamesfletcher279
    @jamesfletcher279 10 місяців тому +5

    My grandfather was fighting in the are he was mustard gassed the day before that famous photograph by the bridge he had a weeping scar the size of a tennis ballon his forehead for all his life up till his death in 1984

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 9 місяців тому +1

      The photo is of the 137th Brigade. No idea what it’s doing in an American battlefield history.

  • @Shalom_Sesame
    @Shalom_Sesame Рік тому +8

    I hadn't heard of most of these locales, and do hope to visit them one day!

  • @jeffelzey
    @jeffelzey 4 місяці тому +1

    Nice, both of my grandparents were in the 79th Inf division, and at Monfaucon. Great to visit 👍

  • @sourcactus7350
    @sourcactus7350 Рік тому +5

    This was fantastic I thoroughly enjoyed it

  • @CJ87317
    @CJ87317 11 місяців тому +4

    I really enjoyed the Saint Mihiel area as well. My favorite cemetery was probably the one there in Thiaucourt.

  • @eze8970
    @eze8970 9 місяців тому +1

    Moving & informative video, well done & thank you! 🙏🙏

  • @mjinnh2112
    @mjinnh2112 9 місяців тому +1

    Great tribute to the men and the ABMC's amazing work. My great uncle was a Marine at BW. Another beauty is the Blanc Mont monument at Somme Py and Navarin Farm.

  • @Chris_0803
    @Chris_0803 Рік тому +4

    Awesome and very informative video. Why does the youtube algorithm gods bury such admirable efforts...

    • @BattleGuideVT
      @BattleGuideVT  Рік тому

      It seems to be a bit of a mystery, but thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it!

  • @richqualls5157
    @richqualls5157 Рік тому +3

    Great video!!!

  • @alex4833
    @alex4833 Рік тому +1

    Great video! I want to visit Europe again and I would like to visit the sites you mentioned. I also need to check out your website.

  • @bikenavbm1229
    @bikenavbm1229 5 місяців тому

    thanks very much learned a bit here

  • @carldycer
    @carldycer Рік тому +1

    Great little video. Cheers.

  • @Chiller01
    @Chiller01 11 місяців тому

    Excellent video.

  • @bobgills2552
    @bobgills2552 10 місяців тому +1

    Incredible and humbling for those that gave the ultimate sacrifice

  • @richardzellers
    @richardzellers 2 місяці тому +1

    I've been to 3 on this list.

  • @tomk4879
    @tomk4879 9 місяців тому

    What do you mean incorrectly the source of Marines being called Devil Dogs? Can you tell me what the correct source is then? Because that is what I was taught in Marine Corps boot camp about Marine Corps history.

  • @GioTummy3463
    @GioTummy3463 11 місяців тому +1

    Seeing all those white crosses is really humbling. God bless the fallen.

  • @Slackboy72
    @Slackboy72 10 місяців тому +2

    Nothing for Hamel?

    • @BattleGuideVT
      @BattleGuideVT  10 місяців тому

      Not this time, reltatively little US involvement and we felt the others were better visits.

  • @brianduffy4682
    @brianduffy4682 8 місяців тому

    More maps

  • @davegball
    @davegball 10 місяців тому +1

    Just curious but are there monuments and graves for the German soldiers?

  • @seanlander9321
    @seanlander9321 9 місяців тому +2

    No Hamel? Suppose that’s because two thirds of the Americans did a runner just before going over the top, rather than being a part of the first successful combined arms victory of WWI.
    Pershing later accepted battle honours from the French for the victory and shunned the Australians who were in command of the Americans, what a lying coward he was.

  • @anthonycaruso8443
    @anthonycaruso8443 10 місяців тому

    Many needlessly killed in frontal attacks .Man vs.machine gun .Advantage machine gun

  • @finaloption...
    @finaloption... 8 місяців тому

    As an American, don't expect us to do it again. We've given enough.

  • @SebastiaanKr
    @SebastiaanKr 9 місяців тому

    48 states of the US

  • @geoffjones4285
    @geoffjones4285 10 місяців тому

    4 years to late

  • @burrellbikes4969
    @burrellbikes4969 7 місяців тому

    When the French hear about the 100k losses of the Americans 😂😂😂 come back when you REALLY suffered.

  • @DTex.45ACP
    @DTex.45ACP Рік тому +3

    Amazing. Can't believe you don't have more likes. It's an insult and disgrace.

  • @DTex.45ACP
    @DTex.45ACP Рік тому +3

    There were not 50 states in the period of WW1.

    • @CJ87317
      @CJ87317 11 місяців тому

      True. I'm nearly sure both Alaska and Hawaii had troops in the service though.

    • @anthonycaruso8443
      @anthonycaruso8443 10 місяців тому

      Good Job

  • @lukycharms9970
    @lukycharms9970 Рік тому +1

    Military dentists seem to really know how to go balls to wall when the need arises…

  • @lukeskywalker3329
    @lukeskywalker3329 Рік тому +3

    Fantastic.
    Great info .
    Could you do the same type of documentary for other allied nation's battlefields tour ?
    . 🙂🦘🐨