“Extraordinary!” British Paratroopers Forced To Have Passports Checked After D-Day Jump In France
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Talk’s Ian Collins is joined by communications officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Reem Ibrahim, to discuss commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
British paratroopers, who jumped into Normandy as part of the tributes, were greeted by French customs and forced to show their passports.
The soldiers queued up to have their passports checked at a makeshift customs post.
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This doesn't apply to small boat people asylum seekers.
Yes the irony
'asylum seekers' using 'small boats' to break into this country !
They are not after anything other than your money.
Millions of unvetted men from hostile countries are let in without papers, but those British paratroopers better watchout
What would they have done if they hab not brought their passports? Escort them onto a dingy!
And not one union flag flown in Londonstan
London declared independence from the rest of the uk when Khan got in.
No just pride bollox
@@Slapbladder As a Gay man I totally agree with you. D-Day commemorations should most definitely have take precedent over Pride - which as far as I am concerned is a total waste of money anyway.....
@@ShanePalmer-yo4og I am sick of pride nonces, and i am sick of people who start off with their irrelevant sexuality.
I do not care whether you stick your d*ck up other mens @rses.
You don't need to tell everyone. NOBODY CARES.
They didn't ask for passports, when we liberated them 80 years ago...
How soon they forgot 🏴
I think this is a total disgrace general degule sat out the war in our country then when we liberated them he wanted to be up the front did we ask for his passport no that sums up what they think of us they don’t like us if the truth is known I went to France once and I went in a gift shop to buy a scaf I asked the lady the price and she called me a English pig so I said at least I’m not a collaborator like you and we liberated you
The occupying Germans may not have asked the liberating allied forces for their papers but instead they mowed them down on the beaches... I know which I would prefer...
UK voted to leave the EU so must show passports, nothing to do with ww2😅
@@user-zu2dq7uj8f I entirely agree... It's all to do with the British people deciding to vote for Brexit and to end free movement... Yet another Brexit benefit !!
Wrong flag there, mate. That's why we are in this mess.
Disgraceful of the french , Yet again ! , Lack of respect and not unusual
I agree. How quick the French forget what we did for them during the second world war. Remember too, that back in 2014 for the 70th anniversary of D-Day they originally forgot to invite our late Queen to attend the various events. Which meant that the then Prince of Wales actually attended most of the events as the invitation came through very late (after quite an outcry). With the Queen and Prince Philip only attending one event. I really have very little time for the French.
Oh, for goodness sake STOP We are living in the modern World of 2024 and not 1944 when everything has to be done (or is supposed to be done) by the rule book... If we didn't want to show our passports when entering France 🇫🇷 we shouldn't have Brexited... But we did and now we have to assume the consequences of our decision... Please stop moaning... The British 🇬🇧 flags were flying everywhere this time and much respect was paid by the French 🇫🇷
@@ShanePalmer-yo4og Sorry, but you're talking absolute nonsense... I suggest you read my comments above and below... People like you are never satisfied... These things work both ways... What about all the French civilians that were killed by Allied bombs and shells... I don't remember anyone apologising to them... Caen and later on other European cities were flattened like Gaza... Old men, women, children, babies... All dead for the sake of freedom... An extremely high price but in the end worth it for 80 years of peace and prosperity in Europe 🇪🇺 If we're very careful and lucky, we may have the privilege of another 80 years...
@@AaRr-bn3xx Opinions vary
@@nicolahallsworth7135 Of course and I know what mine is... If anyone has an alternative opinion, please by all means, voice it but with valid justification and NOT just out of sheer gutwrenching Francophobia !!
And the frogs let Hitler's boys just walk in to France
They should have asked the German troops for their passports. That would have stopped them in their tracks!
Learn some history.
Real mature name calling there. Grow up!
@@Alexs.2599 ,,,, upset are you..... they let Hitlers boys WALK in
Prick if it was not for the channel the Germans would have walked into Britain
We get to live the kind of life we do because of their sacrifice. TOO bad the young generations are crapping all over it.
That will do a lot for British/French relations ..... disgraceful. But they have no problems with questionable young men from dodgy countries with no passports or visas. Highly insulting.
why? They need that stamp when they leave France again, Just like you'
Cancel all French fishing licences in UK waters. When they ask why. Tell them.
Better yet, shut down the French Embassy and send the ambassador back! And refuse any French visitors from stepping on sacred British soul! No ferries or channel trains! The insidious Frogs have been a thorn on our side for too long!
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Lmfao good luck the licenses are now owned by the French not the British ,
@@Gary-le7dz The territorial waters belong to the UK. Licenses can be cancelled. And if you think otherwise, why was there so much begging and so many threats for the licenses to be granted?
@@bobbailey7024 if you think taking back licenses illegally will just be a shrug of the shoulders you need help , there would be international law cases against the uk and trade barriers put up against the uk
My grandfather came back from D Day a ruined man his wife daughters (my mum) were beside themselves.years later I'd go on holiday with him and noticed he didn't like being around people anymore 🥵 He was a Royal Marine Commando 😊
My father was a Royal Marine Commando. He arrived in time to do peacekeeping duties in Hong Kong and Malta. He was the new boy among men who fought through Italy. We know nowadays that the scars are often mental as well as physical but I wish I could make plain to you his undying admiration and regard for these men.
One more thing. If you do not see the wider cost of liberation having been paid by your family at large and this includes yourself, then perhaps you should.
Above all D-day was a momentous event in the advancement of mankind. I read the following on the headstone of another Royal Marine in Normandy and it has stuck with me “One precious piece in the mosaic of Victory”
Both my grandfathers fought in WW2 and neither of them would ever talk about their experiences. As a kid growing up in the 60's I remember asking both of them some very stupid questions, like "how many men did you kill in the war". Now I realise how stupid that was of me. But as a 5/6 year old it probably seemed OK. But neither of them even answered me. I can only guess at the horrors they may have seen.
This doesn't look like victory to me it looks like utter defeat hello migrants, looks like the wrong side won
you need to try growing a few braincells if you really think "the wrong side won."
The words to properly express how disgustingly disrespectful it is to say this on the anniversary of D-day would get my comment auto-deleted. You seriously do not deserve to breath the same air as us all.
Macron needs to remember if it wasnt for Britain and its allies he would be speaking German.
and reading the Quran
If they hadn’t have declared war on Germany, they wouldn’t have been invaded.
@@DavidSmith-fs5qj sure they 100% would have never gone after Alace-Lorraine ever, germany post ww1 clearly were very happy with it going back to France and there is no precedent for them attacking other countries over claims on their land in general nevermind land lost in ww1.
You seem like you have a good comprehensive grasp on the history of the period.
Thank you. I have been doing some reading recently, I would recommend Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War by Pat Buchanan and The Forced War by David . L. Hoggon. These books and others put a different slant on the “good war” myth that we have had rammed down our throats for decades. The authors are not pro Hitler or pro Nazi, they simply believe that it was beyond tragic that million lost their lives because politicians blundered into a devastating world war at the behest of powerful interests who never took part in the fighting.
@@DavidSmith-fs5qj I'd also suggest that people should watch the 1970's ITV documentary The World At War, something like 26 x 1 hour episodes. So some serious watching. But it really gives you what WW2 was about from those who were in the thick of it. Interviews with the likes of Eden, Rab Butler, Bomber Harris, Speer, Doernitz, Adolf Galland, and many more. I believe all school kids should watch this as part of their history education. Watching this documentary would put anyone off war for the rest of their lives...
This is a total disgrace.
Checking passports of our armed forces.
Shame on Macron
No passport No entry. Why cannt we adopted this policy on out beaches.
Elderly veterans aren't entitled to special treatment.
@@Craig121000 The paras weren't veterans of D Day landings, they were were services service men..
@Craig121000 Sad little boy.
@@Craig121000how stupid are you?
@@Craig121000they were young service men as part of the ceremony. The elderly gentlemen all showed their passports. Before being so incredibly rude, it might pay to understand what you are commenting about.
They didnt need to show their passports on D Day. There were no french authorties to show them to 😅
Allied soldiers illegally entered France on D-Day.
@Craig121000 Still a sad little boy.
Allied soldiers used small boats to enter by way of French beaches.
@@Craig121000yes they did to save the country you sad little soy boy
@@Craig121000might I politely suggest you get back in your box😂😂😂
I better idea would have been for all Para’s to say ‘no passport’… and see what the outcome would have been. Embarrassing incident perhaps. Massive trick missed.
Judging by your own opinions about undocumented people, you'd be okay with the French government enforcing their own border laws and refusing entry.
Right?
Let me guess, you're just another frothing at the mouth right-winger who seems to think everyone else should bow down and make special rules for a NON-EU country?
You're all such disgusting hypocrites it's a wonder you can function in life.
Complete disrespect,no decent person would think this was a good idea,,
Dinghies allowed to leave French shores in overcrowded dangerous boats.
No passport checks for them of course
I suspect that this is just more sour grapes regarding Brexit. Just don't mention the Vichy government!
French didn't ask the
German 6th army that. 😂
Maybe the French thought we were trying to drop a few illegal immigrants back to where they came from 😂
the french dont seam to minded allowing all the crap using the channel to come to the UK ...No chqs there
Does this mean the French will be checking and stamping the Illegal Immigrants passports just before they leave for England
There's no bureaucrat like a French bureaucrat. They actually invented bureaucracy during the Revolution. Non-elected officials love exercising their 'authority'.
That's more than what a lot of people arriving our beaches are faced with... When you arrive in the UK you can just walk right in...
I've been hearing about this all day and now seeing it I'm speechless. They really are something else, how dare they. 🇬🇧
Didn’t ask for their passport 80 years ago when we freed them from Germany disgraceful he can’t check the migrants but he can check our military for passports 🏴🇬🇧✌️
Just shows you every government hasn't a clue how to treat good people, evil doesn't like to treat nice people with niceness
Disgusting!!
Incorrect, elderly veterans aren't entitled to special treatment.
@@Craig121000 autism
@@Craig121000 Nor are the disabled, hey craig.
i bet no one checked the German Army for passports when the French wrapped their hands in, in 1940
And some people are thinking of rejoining the EU dictatorship .
treachrous ungreatful french! remember it was britian alone that in mid 1940, had to undertake a costly ww2 war debt to our then neutral & isolationist american cousins, just to be able to continual on the fight after the french gave up & hoisted up their white flag! a war debt that the british tax payer did not pay back to the usa till 2006! (with no help from the ungreatful western europeans that that debt that the british alone took out enabled to be free from facist dictators mussolini & hitler) what genoration our uk father were, for out of a bombsite, ration book britian they still managed to leave us, their britiah kids, a free at the point of use, NHS! free from cradle to grave, fantastic!
Expect nothing else from the French
What an absolute disgrace. Support Our Paras
Did they ask the Americans too? They were there. Wow, imagine if this was WWII and the liberators would be welcome not by flowers but by Police and asked for Passport.
just taking the piss
It will be a historic stamp to have in their passports
Didn't check their passports 80 years ago did they.
Were the Yanks paras subjected to the same humiliation?
They left without a passport check
No the weren't
My time in the Army, France was the only country that would not let British army troops to pass through using only the Military I.D. Cards.
That is interesting. You have to wonder 'what were they thinking'?
@@BelloBudo007 It’s because they’re jealous of us
It was also the case that though France was part of NATO they never took part in NATO exercises.
I am not sure why the British Press has got the outrage bus out over this. The rumour is the United States wanted some way of their Paras getting a special memento of the 80 Anniversary jump so requested that French provide a special D-Day 80 stamp for their passports. Within all NATO countries, NATO troops from other countries do not need passports because of something called the Status of Forces Agreement which allows service personnel and in some circumstances their families to use Force ID cards in lieu of passports, in the case of British troops the MOD 90, France is a member of NATO so adheres to the agreement, I've been to a training area in the South of France when I was in the TA, never had a passport just my MOD 90, same as going to Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Poland
Put money on not one passport was checked on D-DAY. A bunch of jobs worths. Funny they do not check passport checks to the rubber boat people.
The lesson here for those who are a bit slow on the uptake - is Don't let your kids do national service.
Bollocks.
My advice would be to redeploy those French Customs Officials to Calais
I’m very liberal about immigration bet she is
Should be shown in every school in ENGLAND the D Day Landings to make them realise what ENGLAND STANDS FOR
England? Wow, and here was me thinking they were from the UK. I did not realise that the paras discriminated within the UK and only accepted English.
What's that, Jewish oligarchal wars like WW2? Lay off the news propaganda.
@@bobgoddard5489 The person posting this comment is clearly English.
She is talking about HER country, and what she would like to happen in HER country.
You sound like a very twisted loony lefty @bobgaydard5489 !!
You're the problem, Susan
They should of claimed they were asylum seeker's 😅
I would cherish that stamp as proof that I was there on this day. I would be taking pictures like mad. I am not offended. And please, I’m a vet so spare me your anger. Disagree, but be polite.
Did they check the papers of the Wermacht as the marched in with their Jackboots on. What a disgraceful act of deliberate and engineered disrespect.
Absolutely disgusting, disgraceful and shameful on them.
If I hadn’t have seen this with my own eyes I’d of thought it was a joke of some sort.
To be able to send forces into the EU, in the event NATO is attacked, as part of a Article 5 response, we recently had to sign EU's Military Mobility agreement with the EU to allow our forces to enter the EU without passport and customs controls. Politco wrote -
"The U.K. has joined an EU military mobility project aimed at easing the transport of troops and equipment across Europe, signaling closer EU-U.K. defense cooperation after Brexit.
*Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, announced Wednesday that the bloc has accepted Britain’s application to join the project *, one of the biggest steps in cross-Channel cooperation since the U.K. left the union.
The project, led by the Netherlands, is intended at cutting red-tape which hinders troop deployments, such as customs rules on transport of military equipment." NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Passport and customs control when one of the EU's own NATO members is under attack ? Really!
Passport checks!! Disgusting, despicable, disgraceful.
In our local town no flags were flown for D-Day 80 but today the town is festooned with flags Union Jacks and Pride…
Never expected it but all had there passports to hand it was most probably bring your passports and they will be stamped with a special d day stamp you can cherish
As a french, I know that it's quite ridiculous and unrespectable due to circumstances. But as many persons are saying, UK voted to leave the EU with Brexit so now British citizens must show their passports, nothing to do with ww2. Furthermore, the security with the presence of all presidents and personnalities, plus the attentats risks can excuse that.
But to be fair and honnest, I really think that it's stupid.
Disgraceful from the French
What a ridiculous farce.
As a third country UK citizens must have passports recorded on entry to any EU state. The American soldiers came from US base in Germany where paperwork is completed there. The fact is in any EU Schengen member such as Belgium they do not have to show an EU pasport
Gentlemen your papers please
Now where have I heard that before .
I think those paras will have a very special stamp with this special date on their passports.
The Royal Marine Commando's waded ashore whilst the Para's queued up politely...🤣
Not surprising at all. There was a time when France introduced a visa regime because of international terrorists striking on their mainland, and US veterans visiting Omaha Beach on June 6th for the annual commemoration ceremony had to apply for a visa well in advance and pay for it, of course.
The French didn’t check the Americans passports though….
The marines didn’t though as they landed by dinghy, they were given tea blankets and taken to migrant accommodation
That’s what Brexit is …USA soldiers had to show passports as well , the uk is a third country OUTSIDE the EU
If it wasn't for us Brits the "Frogs" would all be called "Fritz"
Paras did expect the check...it happened on a previous anniversary...I saw it myself on the 60th
So they weren't expecting to see french passport controls but luckily had their passports on them? Of course they were expecting that you tool!
Absolutely disgusting and absurd treatment. as so many have said ' no1 checked any passports 80 years ago. doubt thd German army would have stopped to check passports!
The fact that all the troops had their passports with them, makes me think that it was a stamp to remember the day by. I'm very patriotic, but I think this is an overreaction by our press.
They were told to have their passports with them.
It's not something you would normally have in your top pocket, whilst jumping out of the back of a plane.
Gun, ammo, rations, hypersonic shovel, oh don't forget your passport.
If it was a gesture by the french, could it have been done after the memorial, rather than during it.
Passport desks in the middle of a field !! Great reminder of such an important day !!
This could have been done long before the jump or at least away from the drop zone!
Exactly. This could have been done discretely, with respect, away from cameras.
Not in a f*cking field.
I wonder if the frogs demanded American Para's show their passports?
Didn't ask for them 80 years ago shame on them
The Paras should have arrived without passports; claimed asylum; said they were 10 year olds from Syria; invoked the human rights act! This same nation tried to seriously charge rent to the British Government for the trenches our troops occupied in WW1, FFS! Lest we forget?
Our forefathers were never asked for passports on D-Day as most of the French had retreated
If you watched Guy Martin's TV program about his training with the Parachute Regiment to do the 2019 D Day celebrations. He jumped into Normandy and had to show his passport to Customs when he landed. It was two Gendarmes at a table. So it's not new
They weren't "forced", they asked for it, to get their passports stamped to mark the day. At least this is what i'm hearing, of course the media can't help riling things up.
Utter rubbish. Blatant lie.
That could have been done at any time of the day.
Not right in the middle of the f*cking memorial.
It was done out of french pettiness.
@@DreadnoughtXXL Well that's certainly what they want you to think, and if there is another truth, our media certainly won't report it and thus the only people who will know are friends/relatives of those men.
Just another example of media manipulation.
Absolutely everything that it is wrong with the EU, when their next day of need comes, and it will, just leave them and we can all just learn Russian.
They should have asked the customs for their passports because technically they don’t have a country, we won it while they ran.
Its like a Monty Python sketch. 😅
It's an excellent joke and as frogs we have known how to annoy rosbeffs for almost 1000 years.😂😂👍👍
Run away. We surrender. White flag. Onion muncher.
It's so they got 6th June stamped in their passport...wallys
Utter rubbish.
That could have been done at any time of the day.
Not right in the middle of the f*cking memorial.
It was done out of french pettiness.
They should have said name rank and number
They did not worry about passports 80 years ago....
Of course they expected to have to show passports. Why else would they bring passports and why else would there be a mobile French passport unit unit waiting for them?
Funny they didn't ask for them in 1944
I was furious when I heard this story, but seeing in the video of what happened I have changed my mind. Could it be that the French welcomed our lads and STAMPED their passports with a smile and a lovely greeting? Or am I being sentimental? I always wanted my passport to be stamped when I travelled the world with work, but didn't always get one. It felt to me as I had not been their. I always wanted the STAMP of approval.
This was done during the memorial to commemorate the heroes of D-Day. Not afterwards.
The couldn't even let the British soldiers get off the muddy field, away from the camera's.
It was a deliberate petty act.
Highlights of D-Day 80th anniversary. "And here we have the brave paratroopers queueing up in a field to get a stamp from a petty french bureaucrat."
Nobody gives a sh*t about the stamps in their passport. I've never thought about them, looked at them, or shown them to anyone.
@@DreadnoughtXXL Cut from different cloth. I latest passport has 24 stamps from 24 different countries as I visited 196 cities. Yes I am showing off, but why not. I have an incredible job. Stamps of approval. But, I do understand where you are coming from, I honestly felt the same at the time but sort changed it.
@@Lee.Willcox It used to be a thing, collecting passport stamps, a Boomer thing. These days, everyone has been everywhere. Friends and family prefer to see a few good photo's than the contents of a passport !!
I also travel with work. I'm more interested with the Business Lounge, than a stamp. I think maybe that is the difference here.
Maybe we are cut from different cloth, you seem to be in awe of travelling, whilst the rest of us just get on with it.
@@DreadnoughtXXL You are lovely. Good luck and all the best.
@@Lee.Willcox You sound like an old gay man.
the fact that Americans weren't asked to produce their passports sounds like discrimination against the British to me
As a french Canadian that have being staying in France several times and also visited England, i am ashamed that our great allied and brothers were treated that way by the the French customs.
I understand the feeling since i was subjected to a similar experience during my Air force years with the Canadian Armed forces.
I was coming back from an exercice at Barbers Point Naval Air Station in Hawaii to our own station at Canadian Forces Base Comox in British Columbia.
As soon as the propellers stopped turning on our CP 107 Argus patrol aircraft who was waiting for us at the bottom of the aircraft staircase?
You got it, ....our own Canadian Customs officers to greet us without the welcoming flowers necklace that greeted us in Hawaii where no one bother us with our passport but with a nice cold beer.
The senior French Customs officer could have easely made a friendly arrangement with the British paratrooper senior officer for this special event.
No wonder the Vichy government cooperated with the Nazi, they have an ego bigger than their head.
They were getting a special stamp in their passports. They were expecting it, you can see they were getting stamped. Honestly , check it out
Reem has her little party political broadcast ... her yearning for open boarders is going well !
As much as it pains me to say this. We have never been in the schengen agreement. We have always had to show our passports to get in to Europe. Now whilst I agree they could of made an exception for the troops yesterday. Rules are rules. and personally I like getting stamps in my passport. It gives me a little history and memory jogger for when I'm getting on a bit and my memory is foggy. Plus I had to go everywhere on a NATO travel order during my military service as i didn't have a passport
What a non story we have bigger problems than this do some journalism
If they did not then why was there passports to hand when they landed
😮😮 the french doing what...?..better come over to Germany....your Saxon brothers you are always welcome👍🇩🇪🇬🇧❤❤❤❤❤❤
It may have given each person a stamp giving them VIP status if ever again visitinng France.
Before jumping to conclusions get the true facts.
The resumption of innocence is the basis of English law.
@johnbenett7065 You have a childish interpretation of events. A parachute jump doesn't give VIP status. 🤡
* Did you mean 'presumption' of innocence ? 😂😂 (or are you sticking with 'resumption') 🤣🤣
The french can't be bothered checking the passports of untold thousands of dingy migrants.
But they find the time to check passports in the middle of D-Day commemorations.
They knew millions would see para's queued up in a muddy filed at pathetic little desks.
That's a disgusting way to celebrate D-Day heroes.
I don't know why we have anything to do with these cowards.
Dont forget guys these are our great friends and we are really missing out not being stuck in the same club as them. What a shame we left excuse me while I cry myself to sleep.
Why are we even in NATO with allies who hate us and actively hope we fail and shatter as a country???? Didnt exactly do us much in the Falklands when were attacked and the enemy used French missiles against us and the US called up to ask us to just give up cus they wanted to be buddies with a dictatorship.
Why would they have their passport on them .
Because the french are petty tw@ts.
Booooo a disgraceful act on the paratroopers...and the boat people come and go as they like booooo
Shows how weak our leadership is
Did they do the same in 1944 ?
I’m guessing not…..
Disgusting behaviour