Normandy - The Airborne Invasion Of Fortress Europe
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NORMANDY, THE AIRBORNE INVASION OF FORTRESS EUROPE
Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - )
ARC Identifier 65988 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-19674. Summary: World War II scenes starting out with CU of Army Field Order No. 1, IX Troop Carrier Command, then shifts to a group of high ranking officers looking at Mosaic of Europe. Shows the joint chiefs of Staff at Shape Headquarters sitting around a long table talking. Shows paratroopers loading jeeps and small armament into gliders and cargo planes pulling gliders loaded with men and equipment. Also shows mass parachute drops, mass glider flight, and glider takeoffs and landing. Shows Gen Eisenhower talking with enlisted personnel. (USAF By Army Air Force Combat Film Service, WWII). Reel 1: HEADQUARTERS, ATS COMMAND, WRIGHT FIELD, OHIO. 1) CU Air Force general seated at desk-sign below same "Lt Gen William S. Knudsen." 2) CU General Knudson delivering intrduction speech about film to be presented. THE AIRBORNE INVASION OF FORTRESS EUROPE. FROM THE ARMY AIR FORCES COMBAT FILM SERVICE PICTURE, D Z NORMANDY. 3) CU Field Order No. 1, 9th Troop Carrier Command. 4) CU page of Field Order No. 1. Par. 2-"9th Troop Carrier Command will transport and resupply parachute glider elements of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division and will be prepared to transport elements of the British 1st Airborne Division as directed. 5) CS man stamping Field Order, "Top secret". 6) CS Capt. of the 82nd Airborne Division briefing men using mosaic showing terrain. 7) CS animation of location or principle cities in Europe: London, Berlin, Talais, Paris, LeHavre. 8) Animation of coastal defenses on European continent. 9) PS giant concrete coastal gun emplacement. 10) PS large German railroad coastal gun being moved up out of the concrete shelter, German gun troops preparing to fire same. 11) Several quick scenes of various coastal gun defenses showing concrete structures, sandbag structures, and shots of a concrete base gun turret revolving. 12) CS huge coastal guns protruding from concrete gun emplacement. 13) PS huge steel and concrete tank barriers stretched across land. 14) PS large concrete and steel structure built along coast preventing assault craft from landing. 15) CS interior staff officer planning level, United Nations, representatives at table. 16) MS chiefs of staff of the United Nations conferring at large table. Marshall and Arnold sit near head of table.
I am the proud son of a D-Day paratrooper- PFC Lester Jamison, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne. He also jumped into Holland, Operation Market Garden, and was in Bastogne when the 101st was surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge. All Respect to everyone who fought against the inhuman evil of the criminal Axis nations- and their millions of collaborators!
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Your father is a Hero and a great man
Dad was in the 82nd, jumped in Normandy & Holland , was in the Bulge wounded in Holland
31:21 "this trooper's leg pack will blow off the second he jumps" LOL
My mom worked at a glider factory during WW2.
Dad was a Avenger pilot, almost all my Uncles served too.
Grateful to your family.we live in freedom today because of them
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My dad parachuted in on D- Day with the 508 PIR 82nd Airbourne, Co D
My dad was in the 508th co H. Sam Jacobs He used to go out to Ohio for reunions in the 90s . JJ USN VF-142 Ghostriders CV-66 and CVN-69, 75-79
My uncle Ron jumped on D-Day with the 82nd airborne, having already fought in Italy.
He said that one of the funniest things he saw after he hit the ground with a guy from his stick, was a German soldier getting walloped by a paratroopers leg bag. He said it knocked the German out or killed him, but gave him and his buddy a good laugh for awhile. It had come loose like his had, and the majority of the paratroopers, when he jumped and never found it. The worst was coming across a glider full of guy's that were all killed when they slammed into a hedgerow. He made it through to the end, wounded during Operation Market Garden and during the Battle of the Bulge near Trois Ponts.
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@@otiscampbell2194 Thanks. It was my uncle. Regardless, check out this WW2 veteran of the 82nd airborne that is still alive, currently living in Texas, James "Maggie" Megellas. Put his name in the UA-cam search and watch the documentary about this man. He also had fought in Italy and Operation Market Garden in Holland, and the Battle of the Bulge. If you ever get a chance, I highly recommend visiting some of the places in Normandy, Holland and Belgium. What a phenomenal experience and not overly expensive if done in the fall, and ripping around in a rental car. A lot relatively cheap lodging options. But standing where they fought really puts things into and entirely different perspective, especially for me, the forest east of The Twin Villages of Krinkelt-Rocherath Belgium where the 99th infantry div. and the 2nd Inf. div. fought and died.
The Greatest Generation Was The Generation That Showed The Way For
Us Today. Generation Of Heroes
With Many Of Them Never Coming
Back To Their Home. Must Never
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from killer of humans, to heroes...we always get the dialogue way wrong
Thanks for preserving and posting this. It not only shows the courage of the men in these units but the incredible organisation involved in every operation. The training, learning from mistakes and continual improvement. It's hard to image the complexity of the invasion and all the moving parts that had to be brought together at the right time in the right place. Y
I'm a sucker for old WWII newsreels.
My dad was part of the Airborne invasion with the 82nd AB.
My dad (1922-1982 , PzGrenReg192 ) over there has been injured 1944 by an american . (1 st. Airborne Div?) Treated, rescued by an american military-doc in the legendary MilitaryLazarett Seligenstadt. Oh what a story, gentlemen. PEACE !!
My open question until today: Why supported the U.S.A. and other Nations Hitler, long before he begann the second WW..... !?
Amazing footage I've never seen, thank you from bottom of my heart
I didn't know about gliders being used until like a year ago via another youtube vid. Moly what a different era!
The “stars and stripe” museum is in Missouri.
There is an interview with Walter Cronkite . At the time he was in the reporter pool and represented the AP I believe.
Anyway the army would call for reporters to accompany troops and you just went.. if you didn’t go there was consequences ..
In operation market garden it was his turn.
They hauled him out and he was dropped off with a glider crew.
He was terrified but he was young and went.
The glider landed under fire very hard. Helmets flew off and before he left the glider he picked his back up and put it on his head.
The glider was torn to pieces. He was on the ground with several other men and one of them yelled, “ where do we gather!”
Everyone around him was looking at him.
He pointed to a low area and started running.
Everyone got into a defile and started returning fire.
A young man jumped in next to him and traded helmets with him.
He had put on the LT’s helmet...
He ended the story...
“ I can safely say I commanded troops in an airborne assault and never lost a soldier..”
My Dad flew every airborne invasion from Sicily, to Germany. His unit the 87th TCS (3X). This unit was considered the best trained of all, and was used as "the tip of the spear" on each invasion. His first flight on D-Day was flying a C-47 carrying the 82nd AB, 502PIR Pathfinders into Normandy. He was a rated power pilot, as well as being a Glider pilot. After he had dropped his troops, he returned to England and started flying Gilders into Normandy. He flew both the American CG-4A WACO and the English Electric HORSA. On D-Day, he flew the HORSA. His initial drop zones and Glider landing areas was near St. Mere Gliese, France.
Sainte Mere Eglise not Gliese -> 49°24'35.65"N 1°19'05.46"O
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Diepe buiging, groot respect !dankbaar voor de bevrijding van en de overwinning op, die vreselijke Nazi's. ..
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE LADS AND LASSES!!!! TO ALL WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME ,MAY YOU ALL REST IN PEACE!!! 🌍✌💖
Don’t forget it wasn’t just American paratroopers!
They all faced severe opposition, anti aircraft guns, machine guns, armour, well dug in troops, flooded fields, strategically placed poles to stop gliders landing in open fields, mines, wire
It was merely sheer numbers, bravery, fortune, and luck that got them their success
Having been all over Normandy and visited the sites it truly is awe inspiring what they all achieved
No, it wasn't JUST Americans.
Americans just happened to make up the VAST majority of casualties in the European theater of War beginning in June 1944, with over 90% of the Allied deaths from D-Day to Caen ALONE.
(2,500 American deaths on Omaha Beach ALONE, and over 3,000 taking the City of Caen, when the British forces proved to be unable to up until that point. While the British and Canadian troops strolled off of their landing crafts on Sword, Gold, and Juno to have tea.)
For every one soldier that wasn't American killed in WWII following D-Day, 100 American soldiers lost their lives.
And, the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions who landed behind enemy lines during Operation Overlord WERE Americans, all of them.
There were non-Americans parachuting in the European theater, but that was primarily for Operation Market Garden, months later in Belgium as directed by General Montgomery.
(Although some would argue Market Garden was a catastrophic failure, as an Operation. One that left Montgomery quite embarrassed following the crossing of the Rhine.)
Of course the invasion was made up of many thousands of soldiers from various Allied Nations, but it was objectively, FACTUALLY the Americans who spent the most and lost the most, throughout the campaign.
You'll have to forgive the Yankees for always wanting to claim a certain sense of, "ownership," to these struggles, especially since it was the SECOND time in the 20th Century that Americans crossed the Atlantic to sacrifice her young people for the cause of EVERYBODY'S lasting Liberty.
A Liberty they all enjoy to this day, as well. ✌
@@twstf8905 whilst agreeing with most of what you have to say, also spare a thought for the tens of thousands of french civilians killed by allied (mostly american) bombings after d-day.
Night glider operations: 50% casualties considered acceptable = Flying Coffins ⚰️. My father was 82nd AB in WWII and said he’d rather be shot out of a cannon than be in a glider, even in training.
God bless all of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in this event. May those killed during the invasion and thereafter rest in peace. We owe so much to them for their sacrifices.
How can the dead rest in peace when they know nothing? It's very sad, but these men died for capitalism, nothing more.
Heroes and real men, everyone thank them for their lives today
Thank you for freeing us from the beast. Eternally grateful, R (Belgium)
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From an American that had many uncles and a grandfather that fought for you and us too, you're welcome!
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God bless every one of these guys they are America's best. They had balls of steel!!!! They got into those planes knowing they might get shot down........... They went anyway. I call that love of country!!!!
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I have just viewed this film, once again, and I am anxious to totally express my admiration for the valiant prowess for the troops of the 82nd and 101st American Airborne Division who displayed such courage and fortitude, against the same opposition that the 6th Airborne Division faced.
Between us, the United Nation Forces, who were so admirably led by 'Ike' and his team at 'SHAEF', against such stubborn resistance from the Werhmacht and powerful units of the SS, so successfully managed to terminate the horrific war in Europe, and eventually, the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific Arena.
WILL WE EVER LEARN?
I speak, as I approach, my third quarter century.
I like this for the most part but why are they showing a daylight drop when everyone knows it was a night time drop for D-Day??
It's training!! I was in the 82nd Airborne 69-71, did low altitude night jumps all of the time!! Very scary, didn't know if we would land in water, swamp, land, trees, or high tension wires. Had to prepare for all. I'm sure they still do.
I notice it is stated at about 02.20 of this film, that the British 1st Airborne Division would be landed. This is INCORRECT. It was the British 6th Airborne Division, who were to be landed by parachutes and gliders, in the early hours of the morning of 6 June 1944, as part of 'Operation Tonga' on the extreme eastern flank of the Normandy Landings.
The first elements of the 6th Airborne Division, after 'Pathfinder' units were dropped, (whose role was to 'mark out' the area), was a company of the Ox @ Bucks (Oxford and Buckingham Regiment) and associated specialists. Their mission, commanded by Major John Howard, was, as part of 'Operation Deadstick', to 'Take and Hold' the bridges across the Ouistreham - Caen Canal and the River Dives. This was a vital role, in order to prevent the German troops sweeping westwards, across those bridges and attacking the vulnerable eastern flank of the British 3rd Infantry Division, who were to land at 'Sword Beach.'
This was accomplished with what has been described as one of the most professionally achieved landing by a glider-borne unit in the Second World War.
This action is depicted in the film 'The Longest Day,
Soon to come is the new movie "Pegasus Bridge" which will concentrate on this D-Day action to take the bridges.
I watch these news clips that depict mainly Americans landing on D day. I have news for you more Brits landed on D day than Americans. The Germans threw their main forces against the British.
Richard Todd who plays Maj. John Hoawrd was apart of the assault on the Orne River Bridge. Also the beret that he wore in the movie was his own.
Interesting. Well, I stand corrected. I only knew from what my Grandfather told me. I guess stories were easily mixed in times like those. Thanks for clearing it up!
Thanks to all the Americans, British and others for the liberation of Europ.
Does not matter what religion you were or what color you had. We as Europeans can not thank you enough for this liberation.
very nice. I like to see more of this movies.
Nicely Said -
My Dad trained many of the glider pilots who landed in Normandy on D-Day. He flew C-47s.
@nuclearvault It's amazing how those glider pilots landed with all that extra weight in the rear. That must have been a real task in and of itself :D
A WWII veteran I knew where I worked told me how they landed in a glider on D-Day. He was on an anti-tank gun team. The anti-tank gun strapped down in the back broke free on the landing, smashed through the cockpit and killed the pilot and copilot, crushing them.
My father Dominick DiBattista was with the 82nd Airborne Division E Co 505. I am named after General James Gavin and have worn that name proudly my whole life. My pop landed in the field near the church that John Steele got stuck on the steeple of at St. Mere Eglise. I met Mr Steele and have a picture of myself shaking General Gavin's hand at a dinner at Atlantic City around 1965. Those men were brothers and we would go to the picnics in the summer in central New Jersey and they'd have Christmas parties every year for us kids I have a letter that General Gavin sent to my parents after I was born and he sent his brass cup and field bowl to me, both of which I still own. In that letter General Gavin says to my dad "the last time I saw you you were being carried off the field by 2 German prisoners, wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. I used to stick my pinky in that bullet hole in my dad's back when we would hang together on the living room floor. Boy do I miss my dad, He died August 16th 1982 a day that Don Lassen who published the Paraglide wrote is a day that was saved for great people to be born or died on: People like Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth Bluesman Robert Johnson, Clark Gable, General Halsey, Bela Lugosi and since his passing in 1982 Aretha Franklin, and Peter Fonda
nice i like it...
I'm not sure this current civilian generation has the courage, physicality, and order taking ability to successfully execute a war like the greatest generation of 1940s.
Young Men in America seem to always answer the call. My dad in ww2, me Vietnam, my son in Iraq and Afghanistan. I hope my grandson doesn't have to. But l'm sure he will!! How about your family??
This video would be well worth watching except for the abusive amount of commercials, greedy.
I can just hear the music from BoB in my head when the C47s were taking off.
Of course it's MOHAWK haircuts, not Apache.
Gliders the original Heavy Drop.
The 509th PIR jumped into N Africa in 1942 during Operation Torch. That was the first allied Airborne combat jump in combat.
2 divisions dropped in Sicily. The British 1st were slaughter, but the 82nd, although scattered, were very successful.
The 82nd jumped again in Salerno.
When we actually had faith in our government
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." -- John 15: 13
Thank God they pulled it through.
Those Ike military jackets are cool 14:55 in.
I wore my dad thru high school, less all the unit/division rank patches,, Just the jacket ,, some low life swiped it from me.
Correction there was no lying that was an error
History made by the brave. The Mohawk. RIP 🙏✌️🇦🇺
Seems on the internet Americans would rather praise the nazi's than their own troops. These American soldiers deserve all the praise they get anyway...
Hahaha, maybe they were afraid of the Germans fullstop.
Maybe some of us realize NOW, the folly of having fought on the wrong side in that war..
@@jimwalker3890 Only a racist nazi-loving scumbag would say that you piece of shit! In other words, a traitor-trump supporter.
@@jimwalker3890 Fighting WITH the Nazis was NEVER the Right thing to do!! BTW...the Nazis declared WAR on the USA when the US NEVER ATTACKED Germany....so WHY would we say..."OK..let's be Allies"!!??
@@keyweststeve3509 Get real DB...Trump has NEVER said ANYTHING in support of the Nazis. So where are Trumps CONCENTRATION CAMPS? His DEATH CAMPS?...Where is his GESTAPO?.(Secret State Police) .Where is .his SS?? . BTW...so WHAT PROOF do you have he's Traitor? ...let the Democrats have it as they can't seem to find any after a wasteful $35 MILLION investigation that went NO WHERE!!
Is the rest of the video so inaudible as the remarks by the general?
Never thought about how much trial and error they went through before figuring out how to do this.
Still my #1 heroes all times
I like the acid music, man. Drives me crazy!!!! WTF?
The glider borne shock troop infantryman unit. Imagine crash landing an aircraft on purpose, you in it.
If still alive, piling out of a winged wooden crate firing a gun and throwing hand grenades the moment you got out, having to be ready to have bullets and metal shards destroy your body.
There is no way we can grasp this, the reality of life and death, by the minute and second.
The airborne paratroops. Jumping out knowing very well you had no supply line to you. You had everything on you and had to survive a terrifyingly equipped wehrmacht long established and entrenched everywhere, for a very long time. Until any friendly units would even reach you. There was only one thing you could do to be of any contributive use. You went to find and kill, and come to terms with yourself that you were going to die doing this.
The Second World War.
Sunny Island you know I can see me jumping out of a plane or landing in a glider under fire.
That really doesn’t take a great deal of courage because it is just going to happen..
What I have trouble visualizing is getting into the plane or glider knowing what the end of the ride was...
101st airborne. Thanks heaps!
Tinha mais paraquedas no céu doque estrelas!
No Teleprompters "back in the day".....
it is heroes for ever.....airborne to american unit..
we're still on chute shakeout from that airborne operation
30:05 What is that sidearm the Jump Master is wearing?
Stephen Shoobert
P 08 Luger parabellum ; German semi-auto pistol. Probably captured in Africa or Italy.
I have a lot of jumps, but damn. Can you imagine landing in a Glider a ton of times in training? You were lucky to live once.
The Glider Infantry Regiments were no joke because them guys had to ride in a box with wings.if the pilot messes up then everybody inside had to bite the old shit sandwich.The pilots if they survived had to fight with them until ordered to be evacuated.Im not sure but i believe that these pilots were also awarded CIBs also.Back in that time the Paratroopers gave the Glider guys alot of shit for being "legs"and called them"Glider Riders"and did not even get jump pay but that changed i believe after D-Day in Normandy.The G on their Glider Pilot wings stood for glider but they say it was for "guts".
Just looked it up.The Glider Infantrymen got CIBs not the pilots.
My grandfather was a member of the 17th and 82nd Ariborne. He was an master sergent with the M.P.s He jumped and came in using gliders. Check my vids. He was in Europe from mid 43 till the wars end.
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The AAF Glider Pilots were not infantry, so thus not qualified to receive the CIB. Tankers likewise did not receive the CIB because they were/are not infantry. One reason why that the modern award "Combat Action Badge" was created, so that troops who were in combat can get some kind of recognition despite not being infantry.
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The Glider troops also did not volunteer like the paratroops did. They were drafted and shuffled around to different troops like troops in any other infantry division. They were simply "lucky" enough to be sent to the 11th, 101st, 82nd, 17th, or 13th divisions, or a handful of independent battalions like the 550th, which saw action in Southern France in Operation Dragoon.
The title of this film is misleading. As the film does not include any information about the British airborne landings it should be called 'Normandy - 'The American part in Airborne Invasion Of Fortress Europe'.
Here Here to the comment from Spentastic - nicely said
I like the two tow glider pilots getting seating in,, Behind them are all combat ready troops and these two guys are in casual uniforms,,, Where do they think there going after they land behind enemy line? Not like there going airborne again and landing back at base? Of course this is a film, to show in theaters in the US,, Great recruitment tool, Fancy uniforms and such.
At 23:19 that looks just like my father.
82nd Airborne 508 PIR Easy Co.
James Pletsch they knew winters?
my uncle was in c company, 508, he survived d day and a bridge too far but the bulge killed him 7 Jan 45, pvt Donald C Mead of Cleveland ohio
that's actually how General Pratt died. They put him with his Jeep and a big metal plate for armor under the jeep. It was doomed from the start. When they let the tow line go it just plummeted and killed everyone on board.
Another FUBAR situation.
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Yes that's right they were the greatest
Thanks to all the men of the invasion forces, wether it be airborne, rangers, para's, infantry men and sailors!
Great effort that will stand forever by these young men............ God Bless them..I have know many who jumped on D-Day..... a slaute for the freedom we have today.
Airborne Alll The Way ! TCUNC76 !
Es un buen video sobre Normandía en materia de el desempeño de la aviación estadounidense anglo
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Popayan cauca Colombia .
Beautiful calm killers being eloquent
Whats with the side ways map??!!!!
pathfinder paratroopers barely stand under the weight of gear. seing them laugh n eat b4 hand is tear jerkey ...proud to be free
So funny, how in the beginning he writes on the document and puts away the pen then. Very dramatic. Very 40s style. Of course, he just finished writing the document he then reads. ;)
Is it any wonder why these people are referred to as America’s Greatest Generation.
No one made such film of 82nd Paratroops? were not the first Pathfinders in France 82nd?
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This general only has 3 services ribbions YIKES!
He is probably wearing only the top row of ribbons. In some cases that is allowed, from what I understand.
25:55 mark when Ike visits the 101st paratroopers, I know Robert G. Cole is in there someplace as there is a still with him talking to the SC. Medal of Honor winner from his actions after the landing. Unfortunately was picked off in September. Oh yes, 26:20 mark. 47:40 is St. Marie du Mont and I just returned from there. Inside of the church has bullet holes in the confessional. Just down the road is Brecourt Manor; I had the privilege of speaking with the daughter of Michel de Vallavieille, who as the son of the then owner, was shot five times, possibly by Ronald Spiers but who knows. He survived and went on to single-handedly found the Utah Beach Landing museum, became Mayor of St Marie Du Mont and now his son is mayor. If Normandy is on your bucket list, do go. I only waited until I was an old man to visit Europe. 48:23 shows the WWI monument in the square of Carentan and there are lots of pics and silent film of the soldiers there, including a medal ceremony (I heard there were two about 7-9 days apart and one of them was shelled by the Germans!). Really cool to stand in that spot with all the same buildings surrounding you.
If I was a German and seen all those planes I just take my ball and go home,
What home. It's probably a pile of bricks.
Deverian poner subtítulos estoy en Chile sud América y no entiendo me gustan muchos estos vídeos haber si pueden hacer algo gracias
Si, se puede.
My dad during world war II what station on a small island in the South Atlantic. They were with air transport command.basically they were lying when they was a staging area for flights .
The gliders seem awkward to me. I've seen other videos that show them crashing and running into other gliders like they showed here. Seems like they should have come up with other ideas.
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They did. They invented the helicopter.
3 days earlier brit commandos were ashore miles behind german lines creating havoc.
An interesting documentary, however Operation Deadstick was not mentioned, which was the 1st allied assault just after midnight 6th June, probably because it was British troops who successfully completed it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deadstick
395905 french 6rpima very good
Does anyone know who the narrator is? Voice sounds a lot like Stuart Whitman.
My dad.....THE GLIDER INFANTRY.... PARATROOPER...JUNE 1944. Those Men were TOUGH ASS WITH BALLS OF STEEL....
Did the tow planes also carry troops?
The gliders did carry troops as well as equipment. However, the troops were not Airborne qualified.
They carry sheeps and cows.
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Biggest mistake in Overlord : airborne drops at night. Gave the Germans 6 hours notice of the landings (which were supposed to be a surprise, and would have been had the airborne drop occurred at first light.). Night drops resulted in practically every unit lost and fighting in unplanned locales against objectives they had never heard of. The later American airborne drops in Market-Garden were at first light and 100% more effective than those during Overlord. Airborne commanders should have known better after the disastrous night drops in Sicily, but convinced themselves through self-hypnosis that pathfinders were the answer. Right....., the pathfinders also all got lost on D-Day.
Only the US cadre!
Col Mosby: I tend to agree with you but you have to take into consideration that D-Day and Operation Market-Garden were two different types of operations. I think that casualties would have been as twice as much during a daylight drop in Normandy due to the high concentration of AA fire that they suffered during the night operations. I put the blame the high casualty rates on the pilots who were flying the transport planes for dropping off troops in the wrong designated locations during the operation, many of them in areas flooded by the Germans. I believe that in spite of all the mishaps and casualties, the Airborne troops did a marvelous job as the purpose of the use of Airborne troops was to secure important bridges and strategic road junctions and to certain degree create confusion behind enemy lines and that was achieved. It was very fortunate for the Allied landing forces that Hitler held the reserves far from the front and that the beach defenses were manned by second class rated troops otherwise the losses would have been horrendous.
You can't compare Market Garden with D-Day. And the night drops weren't a mistake, the paratroopers knew their objectives very well.
Col Mosby
A navy landing of this size will give the defending troops on the land already a couple of hours to prepare. Especially the scale it was at Normandy. Do not think the early airborne landings brought more Axis troops to the beaches. The airdrops just brought more chaos behind the beaches and the Germans troops on the beaches who got sooner in position and just needed to wait longer for action.
I'm sorry but when analysing the 3 Airborne divisions involved in the Neptune operation it becomes clear this isn't the case. Almost all of the objectives where captured, in addition the misdrops confused the hell out of the Germans. The soldiers where briefed 3 times a day on objects and geography of the area, they conducted themselves extremely well due to this. The paratroop drops led the Germans to assume there was some kind of large scale raid as had been done earlier, in addition communications between the Germans in sectors weren't very efficient and the large gap between 6th AB and 82nd, 101st led to no clear news arising of the mass of Paratroops dropped on a certain area. Also not all the pathfinders where lost and those that set up light ties generally had fairly accurate success on troops landing on the DZ (DZ N) that was marked efficiently. In the case of the British this similarly becomes obvious.
at 4:18 this is Italy
28:23 "This unit has enough (Apash) blood to justify their haircuts..." Is that some wierd way to say Apache? (A-patch-chee)
oldcremona sounds just like a mispronunciation.. the *che as ashe
MAN we needed some C130's up in there!
Is it game "Medal of Honor Vanguard" the final mission ?
Olá brasil aqui vovô 1 dos 24 mil brasileiros ele era prasinha e faleceu a 5 anos
If you really want to be technical. We could have not been successful if it weren't for Agent Garbo and Operation Fortitude.
Or the drunken German clerk that gave the Enigma secrets to the Poles...not very good clerks or painters really.
Nós anos 90 a máfia achava muitas armas no lago da Normandia pra vender!
if it soothes your conscience any, anyone who knows anything about this conflict knows that the US didn't win this war on their own. This was a film produced by the U. S. and if they feel like tooting their own horn I think they have the right to. The war would not have been won without the help of the Americans.
Of course the war in Europe would have been won without the U.S you obtuse individual. The only difference would have been that it, Europe would have been overrun and conquered by the USSR. Europe would have simply swapped one dictator for another who formerly only lorded over the East. Without the U.S Stalin would have controlled Europe as well but Germany would have had as much success in Russia as Napolean did. Have a think about things fully before opineing on matters that you obviously haven't fully explored.
And the USA sat and done nothing for 3 years same as ww1
@@Skinny_Karlos Try again, after you have a think about things fully.
All of you need to STFU and be thankful for all the Allied troops!!!
No they didn't win the war by themselves. There is a line that John Wayne has the movie The Longest Day .... and I'm paraphrasing , but he said that the US were fairly newcomers to the war and that the British had been at war since 1939 and they'd gone through the Dunkirk and the blitz just to say a few battles.
yes but not all pilots made it safely !!
AATW!!
Open door to Europe
29:31 name Joseph F Gorenc ??