Battle of the Bulge Then and Now. If you liked this video you probably will like the Battle of the Bulge Then and Now video to. Have a look here ua-cam.com/video/xXxy6oIwt8Q/v-deo.html
I visited Omaha beach a couple of years ago. It was low tide, near the time the landings occurred. I don’t know how anyone survived. No cover anywhere. Hundreds of yards to cover. I was stunned just looking at it. How anyone made it across to the bluff I’ll never know. How anyone had the courage to land there, I’ll be forever grateful.😢🇺🇸
A lot of the lucky ones to make it across and survive invasion used those Czech Hedgehogs for coverage. Those spike balls in the beach surrounded by mines.
Possibly your best upload. As I’ve gotten older I know I’ll never make it to see these sights. Truly a regret not seeing the most historical sights of WW2. Thanks for posting this as I will watch this many more times to come. Thank you 🙏
@@PanzerPicture But it's not the same as actually being there. When I'm down in Florida, it beats the hell out of just seeing it via the internet. You have to be there to experience it.
For me still the most impressive site of wo2. The cemetery on the bluff above the beach is so impressive and yet heartbraking. All those mostly young men who gave their lives far away from home. And the impressive walk to the beach below with the bunkers. The small uprising on which they hid behind before going up the dunes is also still there. Never forget those men.
I wouldn't remotely describe it as "impressive" but I know what you mean Johan. I went to Normandy in 2015 with my wife and I just helplessly broke down into tears the second I saw all the seemingly endless rows of graves. Horrendous that so many young men lost their short lives there. RIP you heroes
Originally uploaded on 3 jun. 2019. This video is a re-upload from my second channel, after getting deleted once and demonetized a few weeks ago, for extreme violence by the UA-cam failing bot system. Sadly, my second channel has been totally destroyed by YT and saw a 90% views and revenue drop off, in 24hrs after it was shadowbanned. I will probably be re-uploading more videos, from my second channel if this goes on.
Thank you for this video! We visited both Normandy and Bastogne with our kids. I showed them this video, and they were glued to it. They said the old footages are surreal and are like the photos from the books they bought at the visitor centers. I’m glad you did this video.
Just came back this friday after staying a week at Camping Omaha Beach for the first time in my life.. been wanting to go to Normandy since I was a 7 year old kid and now 20 years later it finally happened. Was an incredibly moving and emotional visit for me, always have been more involved in to ww2 as other people have. Visited everything I could in the 7 days that I had, from Pegasus Bridge on the day that I left to the batteries of Crisbecq, d'Azeville and Longues-sur-mer to the memorials of Major Winters and Easy Co. It was the most incredibly week of my life, met veterans, got a picture with Jake Larson, G3 V Corps who landed on Omaha. I'm planning on going back every year that I possibly can to honor these brave men and women, visit more locations and learn more about the Normandy campaign!
You know that Iconic D-Day landing clip, where they show the two men falling, one struggling to get up. I have probably seen it 500 times since my family had a TV in the late 50's. That beach landing is engrained in my mind. Today, I get teary eyed seeing it. I wasn't there, but I feel the pain, of the parents of those two boys, and thinking. "How can I ever forget..."
Superb video. My father, who was an MP LT. with headquarters company under Gen. Terry Huebner, Ist Infantry Division, would have been fascinated and relieved, I think, to see Normandy as it is today, knowing that the sacrifices of those who didn't make it off the beach were not in vain after all.
I've been to many of those places in Normandy a few times and it's amazing how little some of the areas have changed over the decades. It really gives you a chance to envision what went on there. It gives you a perspective that you don't see in other places like Holland for example.
Stumbled across your work tonight. Truly stunning! I am just awe struck by some of these photos. And idk that I’ve ever commented on a UA-cam video. Historically, this was, hands down, some of THE BEST work I’ve ever seen. If not THE best. Absolutely remarkable!
Thank you for a fascinating video log of the ground that brave men fought and died for during the D-Day operation. I watch a lot of old films dealing with WW2 history, and of the campaigns the Allies undertook during that time, and quite a lot of Axis history as well, and it always saddens me to think of all the men and women who did not make it home. I am sure most people feel the same, particularly the surviving veterans of D-Day, and other conflicts. My own father was a veteran of the Pacific war, and he was well into his eighties before he could watch a movie about WW2. Even then, I don’t think he watched a movie all the way through. I am sure a lot of veterans that are still with us, Allied or Axis, are the same. Thank you for this upload PP - brilliant as always!
I know what you mean Gary. My father served in The North Atlantic Convoys going to Murmansk and Archangel in Russia. He never liked talking about it and I was in my mid 20s before I started getting his experiences from him. My Mother was like your Father in as much as she would never watch a war film. My family lived down by The Docks in Liverpool UK and I remember my Mum telling me that they would hear the Air Raid Warning going off and you knew what was probably going to happen next and there was nothing you could do about it, except go to the Air Raid Shelter.
At 2:33 there is a group of US soldiers, one in the front row is holding a captured Nazi flag. Just behind his right shoulder is a soldier who was my maternal uncle. T/Sgt. William J. Torpie Jr. He was killed on June 6, 1944, (according to official US Army paperwork)....maybe right after this photo was taken. The photo was taken at Marmion's Farm, Ravenoville, France. I've been looking for this location for decades even going to France and bringing the photo to see if someone could identify the location. My grandparents Nora Jordan Torpie and William J. Torpie Sr. had a framed copy of the photo hanging on a wall. When I was but a wee lad I'd see the photo, point at it and burst out crying. It was so upsetting to me and everyone else that my grandparents took it down and put it in a desk draw. Many years later they rehanged it. I now have it and now I will make a journey to that farm and honour Uncle Buddy and all of those brave young men. BTW, my grandparents had his remains brought back to Massachusetts for burial.
@@M1GarandMan3005 It was wee-little me who cried, I remember vividly the episode. My maternal grandparents are long deceased, I never saw my grandmother cry. My mother told me that when the letter/telegram arrived to tell the family that Buddy had been killed...my mother told me that "Ma" didn't cry. She held her Irish emotions deep inside. Whenever Uncle Buddy was talked about she and Papa would go quiet and quietly leave the room. My grandfather served in WW1 and saw terrible things which he once told me about when we were alone. He teared up but held it in. I wish I had been more gently forceful to ask and get answers, even recordings, about so many things. Uncle Buddy was the Elephant in the room. M1GarandMan3005, thanks for your question. As we Unitarians say, I'm Holding You In The Light
My father and my uncles fought the Nazi's and the one moment of film that i always think about is at the :40 second mark at left center when that GI falls to the ground ( presumably dead ) always wondered who he was. I think i first saw that footage from the ' Victory at Sea ' series in the 1950's. My sister still has the 9 MM Luger ( Pistole 08 ) 9x19mm Parabellum that he bought back among other items. Your film is very well done and a stunning reminder of a place in time that none of us should ever forget. Mahalo and Aloha oe
Was just there on June 23rd. Such a moving place to visit, it is still affecting me. This video shows a lot of footage I have never seen before. Thank you!!
Superb film! You have blended the before and after footage perfectly! Breathtaking and heartbreaking images, that prove that time heals all wounds, but leaves a scar. Bravo!
Outstanding footage of yesterday and today. I will be visiting these beaches in 2 weeks for the 6th time and look forward to standing in some of the same spots you filmed.
This film is so outstanding both historically and showing us the fantastic beauty of Normandy as it is today and the pivotal role it played on the 6th of June 1944 in starting the fall of Nazi Europe by highlighting scenes from the battles in and around the town of Normandy and reminding us all of the huge price in human life that was paid on that day to free Western Europe of the five years of Nazi tyranny and bring to an end the Second World War.
I love this kind of historical stuff. Comparing then and now video, pix etc. is awesome! As for me I feel so bad for the dude in the lower left corner of the video who gets shot at frame: 0:40, and again at :50 showing then and now. Very interesting to see the actual beach where the poor bugger got shot. Some of the most iconic footage of the Omaho beach invasion. This poor bugger gets hit every time! God bless his soul!
Thanks for posting yet another of your excellent videos. The "Then And Now" video you posted really is excellent as it showed what happened on June 6, 1944 on D-Day and now what it looks like 77 years later.
I'm converting a minibus into a camper and next year I'd like to spend a couple of months just looking around Normandy. I've already been once but it's just so incredible. The 6th airborne sites on the east are mind blowing
We just came back from visiting and paying our respects at Normandy. It was a solemn experience and a 'to-do' item on my list before I go. We visited Caen, Abbaye d'Ardenne where a group of captured Canadians were murdered by Kurt Meyer and his SS troops, Sword Beach, Juno Beach (I'm Canadian), Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. In addition, we visited the Canadian, American and German cemeteries. We placed Canadian flags throughout the cemetery and also at Abbaye d'Ardenne. To see what the Allied troops had to endure, the low-tide dash through from the beach heads, the immense cliffs to scale at Pointe du Hoc, etc., we could not appreciate more of what these brave individuals did for us. If you're planning a trip to Paris, the three hour drive to Normandy is so worth it. It was the highlight of our trip to France. My children will never forget this.
very Interesting. I have some pics from the 70s from when some of my relatives went to France. Thankfully the pillboxes and concrete bunker hadn't sunk into sand like many have now.
EXCELLENT film, thanks for posting this! I finally checked off the last thing on my bucket list (which was odd as I hadn't yet turned 50) by visiting Normandy and walking on Omaha Beach, in 2018
I was there about 15 years ago and I visited ALL of those host places. The pictures are wonderful to see but you can’t really see the scale of these sites if you’re not there in person. I was lucky enough to be there for three days on June 6-8.
Looking at the video of Omaha beach where there was little to no cover except maybe for anti-landing craft barriers. All that distance to clear off the beachhead and then your facing a cliff wall that's at least 12 to 15 feet high that gives you some cover but doesn't allow you to easily get off the beach. I'm surprised that there wasn't a greater number killed on D-Day. For the Americans, British and Canadians to overcome those defenses, take the beachheads and towns further inland and fight off repeated attacks, they truly were a great fighting force.
Amazing film comparing DDay 1944 to 70 odd years later.Seeing original buildings in both sets of film,if only walls could talk,the things they would say.My grandfather landed on Sword beach then he was put with the Canadians since he was fluent in French,sadly passed away when I was a kid.
Great video. I might be off on the numbers but in the US, there are roughly 168K world war 2 veterans still alive, including just under 3K from D Day itself. Obviously the total veterans from all countries involved is higher but sadly declining as years go by. My bucket list is to visit Normandy, Foy, other 101st related places, Pearl Harbor, just to name a few of the many.
Awesome video. We visited the long cannon bunkers. Gives a sense of how immense this war was. How much planning the Nazi engaged in. How powerful the cannons could shoot at ships 20 miles away. I appreciate your due diligence.
I can't even imagine what those people went through. Unfortunately as so many of the players are gone the memory of why this happened and the sacrifice these people made for freedom is being lost on the younger generations. Loss of freedom is just a generation away.
We still teach today’s kids in school the history / horrors & sacrifice of WW2 . The benefits of defeating Nazi Germany are there today a peace loving great Germany stands , one that Angela Merkel fully welcomed migrants to Germany when she was Chancellor . If Hitler had a grave he’d be spinning in it
Does anyone know what happened to the guy at 0:40? There's a soldier just walking casually around to the far right of the screen while those men are trying to get up the beach
@13:25 everything is said that needs to be said. I was born in 1939 and can remember certain things & events from the tim I was approximately 3 ~ 4 Y/O. I remember the flags in the windows of the families who had sons/daughters/cousins/aunts/uncles & Moms & Dads in the service, silver for those still living and gold stars for those who were not. I remember sitting around the radio while listening to Wm Shirer, E R Morrow, Churchill, FDR & others. Many times over, I've read Shirer's "Rise & Fall of the Third Reich". I had an uncle aboard the Tennessee in Leyte Gulf, another uncle who was a tail gunner in a B29, a cousin who was a medic in Erope and another cousin in the infantry in Italy. They ALL came home. I remember what life and the people were like then. America is now suffering a disease from which it may not recover. I'm an old(83) USN vet and will ALWAYS see the "Greatest Generation" as better men and women than I am. America desperately needs those like them RIGHT NOW!
The young men who did what they had too that day, and for the next 10 months or so, ill be forever grateful, because without them, me, my wife, my 3 now adult children, and my 3 grandchildren would never of even existed...
It always makes me wonder how many people walk along that beach, and think to themselves, this very ground, was the last thing that many young men walked on, this air is the last bit of air they took in, The beach was the cold wet sand was the last thing they felt, the dark sky was the last thing they looked at and the sounds of death and destruction was the very last thing they heard, before they were no longer. if they think every foot I walk could be where a man spent his last seconds on this earth. Idk maybe I'm odd, but watching this, that's all that I could think.
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Battle of the Bulge Then and Now.
If you liked this video you probably will like the Battle of the Bulge Then and Now video to.
Have a look here ua-cam.com/video/xXxy6oIwt8Q/v-deo.html
Exacly, i like
I visited Omaha beach a couple of years ago. It was low tide, near the time the landings occurred. I don’t know how anyone survived. No cover anywhere. Hundreds of yards to cover. I was stunned just looking at it. How anyone made it across to the bluff I’ll never know. How anyone had the courage to land there, I’ll be forever grateful.😢🇺🇸
A lot of the lucky ones to make it across and survive invasion used those Czech Hedgehogs for coverage. Those spike balls in the beach surrounded by mines.
They survived because there were only a few German defenses.
Possibly your best upload. As I’ve gotten older I know I’ll never make it to see these sights. Truly a regret not seeing the most historical sights of WW2. Thanks for posting this as I will watch this many more times to come. Thank you 🙏
It's sad that sometimes it's hard to see places, at least we actually see more in a lifetime then any other generation can see thanks to the internet.
thank you ! My sentiments exactly.....
It’s on my bucket list
You ate never to old to travel.....where are you now?
@@PanzerPicture But it's not the same as actually being there. When I'm down in Florida, it beats the hell out of just seeing it via the internet. You have to be there to experience it.
For me still the most impressive site of wo2. The cemetery on the bluff above the beach is so impressive and yet heartbraking. All those mostly young men who gave their lives far away from home. And the impressive walk to the beach below with the bunkers. The small uprising on which they hid behind before going up the dunes is also still there. Never forget those men.
I wouldn't remotely describe it as "impressive" but I know what you mean Johan. I went to Normandy in 2015 with my wife and I just helplessly broke down into tears the second I saw all the seemingly endless rows of graves. Horrendous that so many young men lost their short lives there. RIP you heroes
Those soldiers getting cut down at the beginning gives me chills. Never forget.
Originally uploaded on 3 jun. 2019.
This video is a re-upload from my second channel, after getting deleted once and demonetized a few weeks ago, for extreme violence by the UA-cam failing bot system.
Sadly, my second channel has been totally destroyed by YT and saw a 90% views and revenue drop off, in 24hrs after it was shadowbanned.
I will probably be re-uploading more videos, from my second channel if this goes on.
UA-cam really needs to fix their system, because nothing about these channels is offensive. And it makes me anger that they shadow bann your channels.
Absolutely one of the best D-Day videos then and now out there. Keep you the fantastic work and research.
Thank you Joseph.
The wounds may be healed, but the scars remain.Lest we forget.
Thank you for this video! We visited both Normandy and Bastogne with our kids. I showed them this video, and they were glued to it. They said the old footages are surreal and are like the photos from the books they bought at the visitor centers. I’m glad you did this video.
Glad your kids enjoyed the video so much, I also did a Battle of the Bulge then and now video maybe you guys will enjoy that one to.
The one scene that gets me every time is when he turns to his wife to ask him if he was a good man. I won't lie it makes me cry every time
Some great bits of film for then and now footage.
Thanks for this! My Uncle was one of about 100 survivors of the first wave at Omaha Beach. On my bucket list to visit!
Just came back this friday after staying a week at Camping Omaha Beach for the first time in my life.. been wanting to go to Normandy since I was a 7 year old kid and now 20 years later it finally happened. Was an incredibly moving and emotional visit for me, always have been more involved in to ww2 as other people have.
Visited everything I could in the 7 days that I had, from Pegasus Bridge on the day that I left to the batteries of Crisbecq, d'Azeville and Longues-sur-mer to the memorials of Major Winters and Easy Co.
It was the most incredibly week of my life, met veterans, got a picture with Jake Larson, G3 V Corps who landed on Omaha.
I'm planning on going back every year that I possibly can to honor these brave men and women, visit more locations and learn more about the Normandy campaign!
Thank you,, we all owe you so much.
You know that Iconic D-Day landing clip, where they show the two men falling, one struggling to get up. I have probably seen it 500 times since my family had a TV in the late 50's. That beach landing is engrained in my mind. Today, I get teary eyed seeing it. I wasn't there, but I feel the pain, of the parents of those two boys, and thinking. "How can I ever forget..."
Those men trained for months and for them it was over in moments.
Must have been a load of hard work matching up the locations with the original footage. Awesome job! 👍
Superb video. My father, who was an MP LT. with headquarters company under Gen. Terry Huebner, Ist Infantry Division, would have been fascinated and relieved, I think, to see Normandy as it is today, knowing that the sacrifices of those who didn't make it off the beach were not in vain after all.
Magnificent!
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
I've been to many of those places in Normandy a few times and it's amazing how little some of the areas have changed over the decades. It really gives you a chance to envision what went on there. It gives you a perspective that you don't see in other places like Holland for example.
You should check out the Normandy map in Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2
Stumbled across your work tonight. Truly stunning! I am just awe struck by some of these photos.
And idk that I’ve ever commented on a UA-cam video.
Historically, this was, hands down, some of THE BEST work I’ve ever seen. If not THE best.
Absolutely remarkable!
this is a masterpiece
EXCELLENT documentary. The best I have seen. CONGRATULATIONS. Greetings from Mexico City.
Great contribution against the forgetting and horror of war. Thank you for your contribution.
Cant imaging how long this took, its brilliant thank you.
You're welcome my friend
This is the best video of it’s kind I have seen! Truly remarkable and a credit to the creator.
Thank you for the comment 👍
Thank you for a fascinating video log of the ground that brave men fought and died for during the D-Day operation. I watch a lot of old films dealing with WW2 history, and of the campaigns the Allies undertook during that time, and quite a lot of Axis history as well, and it always saddens me to think of all the men and women who did not make it home. I am sure most people feel the same, particularly the surviving veterans of D-Day, and other conflicts.
My own father was a veteran of the Pacific war, and he was well into his eighties before he could watch a movie about WW2. Even then, I don’t think he watched a movie all the way through. I am sure a lot of veterans that are still with us, Allied or Axis, are the same. Thank you for this upload PP - brilliant as always!
I know what you mean Gary. My father served in The North Atlantic Convoys going to Murmansk and Archangel in Russia. He never liked talking about it and I was in my mid 20s before I started getting his experiences from him. My Mother was like your Father in as much as she would never watch a war film. My family lived down by The Docks in Liverpool UK and I remember my Mum telling me that they would hear the Air Raid Warning going off and you knew what was probably going to happen next and there was nothing you could do about it, except go to the Air Raid Shelter.
R.I.P 🕊️
At 2:33 there is a group of US soldiers, one in the front row is holding a captured Nazi flag. Just behind his right shoulder is a soldier who was my maternal uncle. T/Sgt. William J. Torpie Jr. He was killed on June 6, 1944, (according to official US Army paperwork)....maybe right after this photo was taken. The photo was taken at Marmion's Farm, Ravenoville, France. I've been looking for this location for decades even going to France and bringing the photo to see if someone could identify the location. My grandparents Nora Jordan Torpie and William J. Torpie Sr. had a framed copy of the photo hanging on a wall. When I was but a wee lad I'd see the photo, point at it and burst out crying. It was so upsetting to me and everyone else that my grandparents took it down and put it in a desk draw. Many years later they rehanged it. I now have it and now I will make a journey to that farm and honour Uncle Buddy and all of those brave young men. BTW, my grandparents had his remains brought back to Massachusetts for burial.
Did you burst out crying, or did your grandparents?
@@M1GarandMan3005 It was wee-little me who cried, I remember vividly the episode. My maternal grandparents are long deceased, I never saw my grandmother cry. My mother told me that when the letter/telegram arrived to tell the family that Buddy had been killed...my mother told me that "Ma" didn't cry. She held her Irish emotions deep inside. Whenever Uncle Buddy was talked about she and Papa would go quiet and quietly leave the room. My grandfather served in WW1 and saw terrible things which he once told me about when we were alone. He teared up but held it in. I wish I had been more gently forceful to ask and get answers, even recordings, about so many things. Uncle Buddy was the Elephant in the room. M1GarandMan3005, thanks for your question. As we Unitarians say, I'm Holding You In The Light
@@markobrien16Well I thank both of them for their services, sir.
@@markobrien16 Did you ever meet your uncle before WWII?
@@M1GarandMan3005 No. He was born in erly 1921, I was born in the 50s
My father and my uncles fought the Nazi's and the one moment of film that i always think about is at the :40 second mark at left center when that GI falls to the ground ( presumably dead ) always wondered who he was. I think i first saw that footage from the ' Victory at Sea ' series in the 1950's. My sister still has the 9 MM Luger ( Pistole 08 ) 9x19mm Parabellum that he bought back among other items. Your film is very well done and a stunning reminder of a place in time that none of us should ever forget. Mahalo and Aloha oe
I absolutely love this! Thank you for sharing!
Historic video. Congratulations for making it.
Thank you 👍
Thanks for posting this video. 🙏 This is one of the historical sights of WW2. It's a brilliant video. Thank you.
Thank you for the comment 👍
Thank you for this!
No problem.
Excellent work! Many thanks for sharing this!
You're welcome.
EXCELENTE VIDEO !!
Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷!
Was just there on June 23rd. Such a moving place to visit, it is still affecting me. This video shows a lot of footage I have never seen before. Thank you!!
I did a motorcycle tour around the five beaches last week. So much to see.
Superb film! You have blended the before and after footage perfectly! Breathtaking and heartbreaking images, that prove that time heals all wounds, but leaves a scar. Bravo!
This is absolutely amazing!! I love this stuff. I visited Iwo Jima and was in awe walking around the island knowing what happened there.
Hero’s from the MEN of the greatest generation. God bless them.
Fantastic. Thank you for creating this.
Truly the greatest generation
Very nice ...💪...👍....you finding all locations of the battlefield on WORLD WAR 11 .....THE D DAY HISTORIE'S.....✌️...😭
Outstanding footage of yesterday and today. I will be visiting these beaches in 2 weeks for the 6th time and look forward to standing in some of the same spots you filmed.
Great footage thank-you
This film is so outstanding both historically and showing us the fantastic beauty of Normandy as it is today and the pivotal role it played on the 6th of June 1944 in starting the fall of Nazi Europe by highlighting scenes from the battles in and around the town of Normandy and reminding us all of the huge price in human life that was paid on that day to free Western Europe of the five years of Nazi tyranny and bring to an end the Second World War.
I love this kind of historical stuff. Comparing then and now video, pix etc. is awesome! As for me I feel so bad for the dude in the lower left corner of the video who gets shot at frame: 0:40, and again at :50 showing then and now. Very interesting to see the actual beach where the poor bugger got shot. Some of the most iconic footage of the Omaho beach invasion. This poor bugger gets hit every time! God bless his soul!
Thanks for posting yet another of your excellent videos. The "Then And Now" video you posted really is excellent as it showed what happened on June 6, 1944 on D-Day and now what it looks like 77 years later.
I visited the beaches ten years ago. Very sobering. I wish US history was taught more vigorously in schools today.
Magnificent - like time travelling in an instant. Thank you
You're welcome.
I'm converting a minibus into a camper and next year I'd like to spend a couple of months just looking around Normandy. I've already been once but it's just so incredible. The 6th airborne sites on the east are mind blowing
Outstanding, thank you for sharing
This was such a great video! Thankyou Soo much for your time and effort you put into this video. You greatly are appreciated! 🤝
Merci beaucoup !
Outstanding video thanks for this.
You're welcome Mike.
all soldiers ..... R.I.P
We just came back from visiting and paying our respects at Normandy. It was a solemn experience and a 'to-do' item on my list before I go. We visited Caen, Abbaye d'Ardenne where a group of captured Canadians were murdered by Kurt Meyer and his SS troops, Sword Beach, Juno Beach (I'm Canadian), Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc.
In addition, we visited the Canadian, American and German cemeteries. We placed Canadian flags throughout the cemetery and also at Abbaye d'Ardenne. To see what the Allied troops had to endure, the low-tide dash through from the beach heads, the immense cliffs to scale at Pointe du Hoc, etc., we could not appreciate more of what these brave individuals did for us. If you're planning a trip to Paris, the three hour drive to Normandy is so worth it. It was the highlight of our trip to France. My children will never forget this.
Outstanding!
very Interesting. I have some pics from the 70s from when some of my relatives went to France. Thankfully the pillboxes and concrete bunker hadn't sunk into sand like many have now.
EXCELLENT film, thanks for posting this! I finally checked off the last thing on my bucket list (which was odd as I hadn't yet turned 50) by visiting Normandy and walking on Omaha Beach, in 2018
Excellent work.
Excellent video👏👏
Super votre then and now vraiment très bien, les vues et les angles 👍
I was there about 15 years ago and I visited ALL of those host places. The pictures are wonderful to see but you can’t really see the scale of these sites if you’re not there in person. I was lucky enough to be there for three days on June 6-8.
Went summer of 1971. I was 13 and Normandy and Dachau are the only memories of the whole Europe trip.
Looking at the video of Omaha beach where there was little to no cover except maybe for anti-landing craft barriers. All that distance to clear off the beachhead and then your facing a cliff wall that's at least 12 to 15 feet high that gives you some cover but doesn't allow you to easily get off the beach. I'm surprised that there wasn't a greater number killed on D-Day. For the Americans, British and Canadians to overcome those defenses, take the beachheads and towns further inland and fight off repeated attacks, they truly were a great fighting force.
The cliff actually saved a lot of soldiers and gave cover for a attack on the strongpoints.
Amazing film comparing DDay 1944 to 70 odd years later.Seeing original buildings in both sets of film,if only walls could talk,the things they would say.My grandfather landed on Sword beach then he was put with the Canadians since he was fluent in French,sadly passed away when I was a kid.
This is amazing videos thanks
You're welcome.
Great work. Enjoyed that. heroes every one of them !
Well done!
Excellent video !! Many congrats
Thank you 👍
Great video. I might be off on the numbers but in the US, there are roughly 168K world war 2 veterans still alive, including just under 3K from D Day itself. Obviously the total veterans from all countries involved is higher but sadly declining as years go by. My bucket list is to visit Normandy, Foy, other 101st related places, Pearl Harbor, just to name a few of the many.
13:22 What kind of gun was used to make that Battle Cross?
Awesome video. We visited the long cannon bunkers. Gives a sense of how immense this war was. How much planning the Nazi engaged in. How powerful the cannons could shoot at ships 20 miles away. I appreciate your due diligence.
Please do more of these when you can. It’s nice to see side by side comparison
I will do one on the Battle of the Bulge.
We really need more of these.
Having visited there several times, your presentation is magnificent!
Thank you
I can't even imagine what those people went through. Unfortunately as so many of the players are gone the memory of why this happened and the sacrifice these people made for freedom is being lost on the younger generations. Loss of freedom is just a generation away.
We still teach today’s kids in school the history / horrors & sacrifice of WW2 . The benefits of defeating Nazi Germany are there today a peace loving great Germany stands , one that Angela Merkel fully welcomed migrants to Germany when she was Chancellor . If Hitler had a grave he’d be spinning in it
Very impressive 👌🏻🙏🏻
Awesome video
Interesting sights! 👍
FANTASTIC
Thank You.
You're welcome. 👍
Does anyone know what happened to the guy at 0:40? There's a soldier just walking casually around to the far right of the screen while those men are trying to get up the beach
I don't think there is actual information on these man.
wonderful work !
Where did you find the footage taken at Utah Beach of WN100? I'd like to look at the reel myself
From my one archive, it isn't available on UA-cam anymore.
Fascinating, thank you. 🙂
LOVE THIS .
Is there any film of merville battery, pegasus Bridge, Falaise gap and Caen before and after?
There is only footage from Caen and the Falaise cap.
@@PanzerPicture that's a shame. Would of been good to see what the Polish armour positions where like.
Great movie 👍🏻💪🏻.
Next week we have to go there. Thx.
@13:25 everything is said that needs to be said.
I was born in 1939 and can remember certain things & events from the tim I was approximately 3 ~ 4 Y/O.
I remember the flags in the windows of the families who had sons/daughters/cousins/aunts/uncles & Moms & Dads in the service, silver for those still living and gold stars for those who were not.
I remember sitting around the radio while listening to Wm Shirer, E R Morrow, Churchill, FDR & others.
Many times over, I've read Shirer's "Rise & Fall of the Third Reich".
I had an uncle aboard the Tennessee in Leyte Gulf, another uncle who was a tail gunner in a B29, a cousin who was a medic in Erope and another cousin in the infantry in Italy.
They ALL came home.
I remember what life and the people were like then.
America is now suffering a disease from which it may not recover.
I'm an old(83) USN vet and will ALWAYS see the "Greatest Generation" as better men and women than I am.
America desperately needs those like them RIGHT NOW!
Just…outstanding.🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇨🇦
beatifuel video, congrats
Brilliant to see
The young men who did what they had too that day, and for the next 10 months or so, ill be forever grateful, because without them, me, my wife, my 3 now adult children, and my 3 grandchildren would never of even existed...
Great great!
Super interessante esses antes e depois !
It always makes me wonder how many people walk along that beach, and think to themselves, this very ground, was the last thing that many young men walked on, this air is the last bit of air they took in, The beach was the cold wet sand was the last thing they felt, the dark sky was the last thing they looked at and the sounds of death and destruction was the very last thing they heard, before they were no longer. if they think every foot I walk could be where a man spent his last seconds on this earth. Idk maybe I'm odd, but watching this, that's all that I could think.
Bonjour
Vous avez parfaitement raison
Les gens ne respecte plus rien .il son incapable de dire et s'imaginer le nombre de morts sur toute les plages du débarquement
MOI JE TROUVE TOTALEMENT ANORMAL QUE L'ON AI LAISSER RECONSTRUIRE DES MAISONS DERRIÈRE LA PLAGE LA PLUS SANGLANTE .CELA AURAI DU RE.STER VIERGE SAIS UN SITE HISTORIQUE
QUAND JE VOIT DES GAMINS MONTER SUR LE MONUMENT DÉDIÉ AUX MORTS JUSTE A CÔTÉ DU PREMIER CIMETIÈRE
J'AI UNE ENVIE DE FRAPER SAIS IDIOTS ET SURTOUT LES PARENTS
HONTE A SE PAYS QUI FAIT PAYER AU CANADIEN. AMÉRICAINS ANGLAIS LES MUSÉES POUR REPRÉSENTER LEUR PAYS KING-AIR-148
thank you
Great Job.
Génial le avant et après super 👍
Was looking for my grandfather, he was there RIP Grandpa.
Excellent viewing🎥