The folks at the World War Two / D-Day channels have provided what will the definitive video reference of the invasion and set the benchmark for all future attempts.
Don't think anyone cares about the editing of it's correct information and content, I will watch this over an American style documentary any day (Stuart tanks for tigers lol)
@@bishop6218 As they pointed out in discussing the Dieppe raid, top secret British papers were released in 2012, which shone a new light on the thinking behind the raid. Prior to that, releases of information on Enigma in the 1980s and 1990s caused a more fundamental shift in the telling of the story of the war as a whole. Even without the release of more classified material, this series could have gone into far more depth than time would allow in 24 hours. Just think of all the millions of people (civilian and military) involved or impacted by D-Day. Only a fraction of their stories have been told here. There is vast potential for others to tell this story again, either with the benefit of material yet to be declassified, or with a focus on the perspectives of others that couldn't be included in this telling.
The convoluted links, history, connections and backgrounds regarding the Espionage behind this operation are just crazy. This couldn't have been better presented. Truly the definitive work on D-Day to date.
With only 3 hours until it has been 24 hours of D-Day, I can't help but feel the fatigue of these men yet those who have, are or are about to meet the enemy we also have a hefty dose of adrenelin! I'm already wishing you had done the first WEEK of D-Day as I don't think the boys will be getting much sleep for awhile! Thanks again for all this, it is absolutely fascinating as I knew it would be.
Getting the Germans to send a known message using the Enigma code: HEAD BLOWN! That is an incredible masterpiece of Espionage. And I had never heard about it. Amazing work, guys.
"Whole division has been replaced once, due to casualties" its actually far worse , usually only the combat units inside the division are the one doing most of the dying, so in short infantry companies have been wiped out more than once.
Now i know the time ghost army is pretty positive here in the comments, but I'd like to excuse issues in this production by mentioning two facts. First, the scale: 24 hours of content is typically this teams 1-2 years creation effort, that's a lot of work on top of regular content. Second: D-day is a go for June the 6th. H-hour is set. The army is waiting. This operation is not going to be delayed by some minor issues. And you know what, it was successful one at that
in an attempt to "Catch-up" with WW2 (watch the last episode on the day they release it), I am currently watching the 24 hours of D-Day at about 3 hours a day.
Dusko Popov (a lawyer by profession) had an older brother named Ivan ("Ivo") who also became an double agent, codenamed Dreadnought. Ivan Milorad POPOV, codenamed DREADNOUGHT, alias Mikhail POPOV, Dr Predreg IVANOVIC, Hans POHL, Hans POPER and Paula: Yugoslav. DREADNOUGHT, a native of Dubrovnik, was one of a close-knit group of Yugoslav double agents, including his brother TRICYCLE.A doctor by profession, he was recruited by the Abwehr in 1941 and was regarded as one of their best agents. In reality he was working against the Germans for the Mihailovitch resistance group and, indirectly, for British Intelligence. DREADNOUGHT's agent work involved sabotage, disinformation and the disruption of German economic and military plans and activities. Probably his most important contribution was to recruit, notionally for the Abwehr but actually for the British, a number of Yugoslavs who were sent abroad under German auspices and infiltrated into the UK and other target countries. In due course they became double agents and the operation, known as the 'slipping through operation', proved highly successful. DREADNOUGHT was twice interrogated by the Gestapo and was finally forced to escape to Italy. He made his way to the UK and was granted British citizenship. He subsequently pursued a business career mainly in France. He never returned to Yugoslavia or to his medical career. Vladan, the youngest of Popov's sons, was not as personally close as his brothers and would spend the war years in college.
I can just close my eyes and imagine people all over the world sitting around their radios following this action as it is reported-the first war to come to you in real time. I imagine by tomorrow evening, many of these same households will have pinned up a map of France with color coded pins-or at least I would! Families plotting battles and movement together like some new board game.
0:00 Opening, 9pm 2:21/2:34 Cotentin Peninsula 7:05 Orne-Dives Estuaries 8:27/8:35 Omaha Beach 8:59 Sword Beach 10:55 Gold Beach 12:26/12:42 The Three Act Drama of Utah Beach 22:45/23:02 The SOE, Resistance, and Gestapo 40:41 Ada Gobetti: "Yet it is strange how I do not feel profoundly and intimately touched..." 42:03/42:18 XX Agent Tricycle 53:55 XX Agent Lily 1:03:29 Closing, 10pm
I don't think "it held them back for a few hours/a day" is an accurate way to put it. It took allies years of planning, inventing new equipment, 100s of thousands of men to accomplish what even they considered a difficult task. If those defenses were absent - allies could have landed years earlier right in France (theoretically).
Great explanation on the fighting around Cherbourg. A lot of people saying Bradley and Monty didn't have a clue what they were doing in Normandy. Wasting lives. They say the Soviets were crushing armies, divisions, capturing cities and crossing hundreds of kilometres.
Small vocabulary tidbit : the maquis means either the place, the resistance movement, or the type of vegetation. A resistance fighter of the maquis is called a "maquisard" (in English pronounce it "makizar").
42:00 The Polish people (and the rest of Eastern Europe and Balkans) wouldn't be out of the woods until 1989. We got "liberated" by the Soviets, after being sold to them in Jalta.
The communications people of SOE should have all been fired, and blacklisted, at least! For repeatedly ignoring signs that their 'circuits; had been compromised, especially because they were indirectly responsible for sending these people to their deaths!
Sometime in the future, this series definitely needs to do a special on William S Stephenson; "the man called Intrepid." The person who personally handed British top secrets from Churchill to Roosevelt and American top secrets to Churchill from Roosevelt, in his role as head of the BSC. He was also tasked with changing American isolationist feelings through targeted propaganda. Ian Fleming said that James Bond was a highly romanticized portrayal of a spy; William Stephenson was a true spy. Quite the man. Quite the Canadian.
I'm so happy you're keeping Astrid on the separate series on the main channel. It's a pity I have to miss all the information from that series, but unfortunately her presentation style makes me painfully cringe every time. Great person I have no doubt, it's too much for me.
8:00 Imagine you were told for month that you'll smash the invasion at the beaches. Next thing you know they Allies are dropping tanks from the skys. Must feel pretty unfair.
Man, I love the espionage stories and insights for this whole operation, but it's so hard to listen to Astrid (and her daughter) both in regard to their script as well as their delivery and pronunciation. I'm incredibly impressed by her organizational skills to make both this special series here, as well as the entirety of the WW2 channel happening but I basically ended up missing out on all espionage stuff over the last years. I'm aware you won't suddenly replace them, not just cause family, but maybe you can still consider this for the future.
They are both very knowledgeable about the subjects, great presentation. Do you really have a problem with their accents? I would bet, very few whom watch this channel would agree with you.
Not all targets of US airborne on D Day achieved in first 24 hours. No coherant bridgehead over Merderet river was established. Of three airborne groups in west of Merderet river , two of them will be isolated and destroyed incoming days. No bridges were secured over Merderet. The bridges over Douves river were still intact and at use of Germans ro hit Allied airhead
I'm sorry, Astrid, but that unbalanced collar, earlier in the video, was driving me crazy. Blame the nuns who used to yell at me for having a sloppy necktie.
The folks at the World War Two / D-Day channels have provided what will the definitive video reference of the invasion and set the benchmark for all future attempts.
Wholeheartedly agreed. I'm gonna go back and rewatch this once its all up
Except that it's littered with editing mistakes, which is a shame.
Don't think anyone cares about the editing of it's correct information and content, I will watch this over an American style documentary any day (Stuart tanks for tigers lol)
I'm wondering if we'll really need further attempts after this one tho 🤔
@@bishop6218 As they pointed out in discussing the Dieppe raid, top secret British papers were released in 2012, which shone a new light on the thinking behind the raid.
Prior to that, releases of information on Enigma in the 1980s and 1990s caused a more fundamental shift in the telling of the story of the war as a whole.
Even without the release of more classified material, this series could have gone into far more depth than time would allow in 24 hours. Just think of all the millions of people (civilian and military) involved or impacted by D-Day. Only a fraction of their stories have been told here.
There is vast potential for others to tell this story again, either with the benefit of material yet to be declassified, or with a focus on the perspectives of others that couldn't be included in this telling.
Amazing how complex this whole operation was. Great stuff Timeghost!
Exactly
The convoluted links, history, connections and backgrounds regarding the Espionage behind this operation are just crazy. This couldn't have been better presented. Truly the definitive work on D-Day to date.
With only 3 hours until it has been 24 hours of D-Day, I can't help but feel the fatigue of these men yet those who have, are or are about to meet the enemy we also have a hefty dose of adrenelin! I'm already wishing you had done the first WEEK of D-Day as I don't think the boys will be getting much sleep for awhile! Thanks again for all this, it is absolutely fascinating as I knew it would be.
Cheers to whomever was on the production team that chose to use some of Gustav Holst's "Mars, Bringer of War" in the title card theme!
Oh yeah, been geeking out on the snippets throughout all the vids
Getting the Germans to send a known message using the Enigma code: HEAD BLOWN!
That is an incredible masterpiece of Espionage. And I had never heard about it. Amazing work, guys.
Same thing happened with the Americans fooling the Japanese with a failed water pump to find out Midway was the focus of an attack.
This series wouldn't be the same without Indy .
This Canadian is enjoying your marathon show.
Astrid is awesome 👏🏼
She's terrible
What an amazing presentation of D-Day! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
John Macalister and Frank Picklesgill are the two most Canadian names I've ever heard.
Oh Lily 🥺, at least she got to hear about the liberation of Paris (and the end of the war too 🥺)
"Whole division has been replaced once, due to casualties" its actually far worse , usually only the combat units inside the division are the one doing most of the dying, so in short infantry companies have been wiped out more than once.
Now i know the time ghost army is pretty positive here in the comments, but I'd like to excuse issues in this production by mentioning two facts.
First, the scale: 24 hours of content is typically this teams 1-2 years creation effort, that's a lot of work on top of regular content.
Second: D-day is a go for June the 6th. H-hour is set. The army is waiting. This operation is not going to be delayed by some minor issues.
And you know what, it was successful one at that
Yeahhhh I'm gonna need to come back and watch all of this in a span of a month 🤣
Elbowing reminder :) ...taking me a month...
in an attempt to "Catch-up" with WW2 (watch the last episode on the day they release it), I am currently watching the 24 hours of D-Day at about 3 hours a day.
Hats off to all on this outstanding series. Standing ovation for Astrid in this episode though, you were amazing⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dusko Popov (a lawyer by profession) had an older brother named Ivan ("Ivo") who also became an double agent, codenamed Dreadnought. Ivan Milorad POPOV, codenamed DREADNOUGHT, alias Mikhail POPOV, Dr Predreg IVANOVIC, Hans POHL, Hans POPER and Paula: Yugoslav. DREADNOUGHT, a native of Dubrovnik, was one of a close-knit group of Yugoslav double agents, including his brother TRICYCLE.A doctor by profession, he was recruited by the Abwehr in 1941 and was regarded as one of their best agents. In reality he was working against the Germans for the Mihailovitch resistance group and, indirectly, for British Intelligence. DREADNOUGHT's agent work involved sabotage, disinformation and the disruption of German economic and military plans and activities. Probably his most important contribution was to recruit, notionally for the Abwehr but actually for the British, a number of Yugoslavs who were sent abroad under German auspices and infiltrated into the UK and other target countries. In due course they became double agents and the operation, known as the 'slipping through operation', proved highly successful. DREADNOUGHT was twice interrogated by the Gestapo and was finally forced to escape to Italy. He made his way to the UK and was granted British citizenship. He subsequently pursued a business career mainly in France. He never returned to Yugoslavia or to his medical career.
Vladan, the youngest of Popov's sons, was not as personally close as his brothers and would spend the war years in college.
I can just close my eyes and imagine people all over the world sitting around their radios following this action as it is reported-the first war to come to you in real time. I imagine by tomorrow evening, many of these same households will have pinned up a map of France with color coded pins-or at least I would! Families plotting battles and movement together like some new board game.
Great episodes, I can't wait for VE day 24 hours
0:00 Opening, 9pm
2:21/2:34 Cotentin Peninsula
7:05 Orne-Dives Estuaries
8:27/8:35 Omaha Beach
8:59 Sword Beach
10:55 Gold Beach
12:26/12:42 The Three Act Drama of Utah Beach
22:45/23:02 The SOE, Resistance, and Gestapo
40:41 Ada Gobetti: "Yet it is strange how I do not feel profoundly and intimately touched..."
42:03/42:18 XX Agent Tricycle
53:55 XX Agent Lily
1:03:29 Closing, 10pm
I don't think "it held them back for a few hours/a day" is an accurate way to put it. It took allies years of planning, inventing new equipment, 100s of thousands of men to accomplish what even they considered a difficult task. If those defenses were absent - allies could have landed years earlier right in France (theoretically).
Great explanation on the fighting around Cherbourg.
A lot of people saying Bradley and Monty didn't have a clue what they were doing in Normandy. Wasting lives. They say the Soviets were crushing armies, divisions, capturing cities and crossing hundreds of kilometres.
i am still working on it, great work ww2 crew!
Thank you so much for this wonderful video!
Thank you.
The Airborne trooper on a horse with a grease gun is one hell of an image.
Astrid really has a talent with this spy stuff. When the war is over(if it ever ends) she should do a series on famous spies before and after the war
Small vocabulary tidbit : the maquis means either the place, the resistance movement, or the type of vegetation.
A resistance fighter of the maquis is called a "maquisard" (in English pronounce it "makizar").
I sense a: "The Battle wasn't over. Tony took his pants off. Don't be like Tony" meme out there, somewhere.
42:00 The Polish people (and the rest of Eastern Europe and Balkans) wouldn't be out of the woods until 1989. We got "liberated" by the Soviets, after being sold to them in Jalta.
Its a lot to take, and time to commit in lads.. But it worth the whole watch! 10/10 series..
If the Week by Week wasnt enough!
7:02 The pilot is about to blow the captains foot off with that trigger control....
What did Pujols think of the fictional spy, supposedly modelled on him?
All I can say is... Danke'.
I don't see hour 23 does anybody have the link?
I can't find it either.
It's listed
m.ua-cam.com/video/A5WeIpaKCuw/v-deo.html
The communications people of SOE should have all been fired, and blacklisted, at least! For repeatedly ignoring signs that their 'circuits; had been compromised, especially because they were indirectly responsible for sending these people to their deaths!
Amazing
"He's dead, I'm crippled and you're lost. I suppose that's what war is."
10/10
Sometime in the future, this series definitely needs to do a special on William S Stephenson; "the man called Intrepid." The person who personally handed British top secrets from Churchill to Roosevelt and American top secrets to Churchill from Roosevelt, in his role as head of the BSC. He was also tasked with changing American isolationist feelings through targeted propaganda. Ian Fleming said that James Bond was a highly romanticized portrayal of a spy; William Stephenson was a true spy. Quite the man. Quite the Canadian.
Stevenson’s book about Stephenson has been called “utterly worthless” by historians
I recommend “The Quiet Canadian “ H Montgomery Hyde.
04:48 : "NUTS !"
0:37 those two guys on the right got their lines tangled.
at least their 'chutes didn't collapse.
I'm so happy you're keeping Astrid on the separate series on the main channel. It's a pity I have to miss all the information from that series, but unfortunately her presentation style makes me painfully cringe every time. Great person I have no doubt, it's too much for me.
Wow
8:00 Imagine you were told for month that you'll smash the invasion at the beaches. Next thing you know they Allies are dropping tanks from the skys. Must feel pretty unfair.
You get there and find out it's been a total waste of men and time. Yeah, I know the feeling.
I think I have heard every episoce but not in the correct order. Is there somewhere I can go and get them presented in the correct order?
www.youtube.com/@D-Day24Hours-sm5pe/videos
Astrid seems to be a ball of fire.
...waiting for her to bicycle to Saigon when the war's over.
29:41
Audio: Roger Sabourin
Photo caption: Romeo Sabourin
Which is his real name?
Man, I love the espionage stories and insights for this whole operation, but it's so hard to listen to Astrid (and her daughter) both in regard to their script as well as their delivery and pronunciation. I'm incredibly impressed by her organizational skills to make both this special series here, as well as the entirety of the WW2 channel happening but I basically ended up missing out on all espionage stuff over the last years.
I'm aware you won't suddenly replace them, not just cause family, but maybe you can still consider this for the future.
They are both very knowledgeable about the subjects, great presentation. Do you really have a problem with their accents? I would bet, very few whom watch this channel would agree with you.
Strange, I as a yank have never had a problem following either of them…
Same here, Astrid presentation style is just unbearable for me :-( Not because of pronunciation, but because of overacting everything
12:15 This is Saint-Malo
Judas Priest, Astrid said "horny girls"! I don't know whether to clutch my pearls or go to my fainting couch!
Or envy Sparty
Not all targets of US airborne on D Day achieved in first 24 hours. No coherant bridgehead over Merderet river was established. Of three airborne groups in west of Merderet river , two of them will be isolated and destroyed incoming days. No bridges were secured over Merderet. The bridges over Douves river were still intact and at use of Germans ro hit Allied airhead
64th, 19 June 2023
Beep boop beep boop!
I wanna know what Serbian partisans are up to. Haven't heard about them in a while.
That's proof of their cunning.
This is DDay so focused on Normandy, not rest of Europe.
@@archstanton6102 haven't heard about them on the weekly episodes in a while either
Does this double agent "Popoff" have any relationship to Peter Popoff, a tv preacher who was born in occupied Berlin in 1946?
They should just have used all those heavy bombers to drop lots more paratroopers at the start instead of killing all those French civilians.
18:40 Chechen troops? Really? How did they end up fighting for the Germans?
Female spy is 29 but looks like she's in her forties!
I'm sorry, Astrid, but that unbalanced collar, earlier in the video, was driving me crazy. Blame the nuns who used to yell at me for having a sloppy necktie.
I really like you TimeGhost, but PLEEEEEEASE no more Astrid! 😩
Where is the Deinhard!? I need one to sit through the rest of the video. 😉
lolz😂
Totally agree! It's like she's speaking to a group of 5 year olds. Very condescending sounding to my ears.
...it's why I don't watch Spies and Ties.