WWII The Liberation of Europe - Across Occupied France
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Following the Normandy landings in 1944, the Allies had the formidable task to retake France from the Nazis. The extraordinary summer-long push took place in deadly hedgerows, farmland, towns, castles and Paris itself. Across Occupied France chronicles this momentous liberation of a France, eventually dropping allied troops on the very brink of Nazi Germany.
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My father landed in southern France in September 1944 with the 103rd infantry division. They headed north in time to be involved in the Battle of the Bulge. He used an M1 Garand rifle, and a 30 caliber water cooled machine gun like the one in the cover picture on the video (the big round pipe on the gun barrel held water to keep the barrel from over heating. The gun had a tripod you mounted it on). The older I get the more glad I am he came back alive after the war, so I could be born.
Thank you, I'm Swedish and if it was not for brave young men like your dad I would eiter speak german or even russian. One of them would have occupied all Europe sooner or later. This is 80 years ago so I understand that your dad have passed but I honur his memory.
Awesome the water cooled gun you speak of was actually one of the very first machine guns.. was used in ww1 as well.. my grandfather was in as well, served under Patton in thw 3rd army and was also at the battle of the bulge,, was part of the feild artillery
my Father brought back Ike's autograph on a small piece of newsprint 'given to me by Ike at an airfield somewhere in France '44 ', and i still have it
Bless your dad's heart. My dad came in late August and helped to liberate Francr. He was the late Sgt. AR Steele
Cool. It must mean something considering it was from your father.
My grandpa fought in Europe he got a bronze star and some other metals i think a purple heart my dad got the bronze star his brother my uncle got all the other ones he fought in Vietnam, but a tank blow up and he got a big piece of shrapnel in his neck right by atums apple it was to close to arteries so they had to leave it in his neck I remember as a kid it looked like he had two atums apples he die when I was seven
Take it to Antiques Roadshow, gotta be worth something!
I always thought the plane footage was cool, it’s crazy that we can view this stuff years later…MUCH Respect to all who served and perished❤️🤞🏼
My Grandfather was in the Invasion of Southern France (Operation Dragoon) as a member of The U.S./Canada First Special Service Force.
He must have seen some hellish sights . In my eyes your grandfather was and is a hero . Both my grandfathers served in WW2 , I used to love hearing about their experiences in the war
@@aegontargaryen9322 Oh yeah he did tell me some things about it but the real nasty stuff he didn't tell me about until I was older. He passed away in 2008 unfortunately. As the old saying goes "War is Hell !" By the way thanks. Thanks to both your Grandfather's service 🙏
I like your stuff because it's so easy just to make a product using tired old stock footage...it appears that you do a deep dive into archives.
War is such an awful thing. So many people never came home and so many lives lost.
Thank you for this wonderful video. My Hero father serviced over there.
great stuff thanks heaps, keep em coming
Excelente.
I'd be having German prisoner removing mines that they placed, not US soldiers!
I don’t think Geneva convention allows it
They did that anyway, in Denmark and Norway. Badly equipped and with casualties..
Geneva convention don't allow that kind of punishment.
I think they did after the war.
@@snapdragon6601 You're right. That did happen, but it was after the war in Europe had ended. German POWs were used to clear roads of land mines.
Excellent, series. This one I haven't . aaaaaa( FRKNNew footage from different point of view of Southern France. Here we go rescuing the French. My father was there and again at the 50th memorial at Normandy to pay his respects. Gee, and what did de Gaulle do again? Besides not make it for the French basketball team.
Very interesting information, keep them coming. Thank you.
unfortunately we've learned nothing
We or Russia? I think "we" learned but Russia didn't. If Russia didn't have nukes USA alone without the rest of NATO could run over and totaly destry the Russian armed forces in two week. Lucky Putin that they have nukes or it would all be over for him and a trial in Haag throwing him in jalil for war crimes for the resst of his life.
Well, we learned a lot, but it's all turning out to not be true.
The war was won in the East. 8 out of 10 german casualties happened fighting the Soviet Union. Let that sink in!
USA manufactured 12 700 bombplanes of B17. They bombed german factories every day. Saturday and Sunday too. They destroyed Germanys ability to manufacture tanks, fighterplanes, ballberings, enginees, fuel (the Britts flew from Egypt and bombed oil fields in Bulgary every week so Germany didn't get fuel from there). What had happened to Sovjet if Germany had thousends of tiger tanks? Sovjet had T-34 a easy piece for a tiger. But Sovjet had manny and won becuse of that. They had more because of these 12 700 bomb squads who nerly everyone died since they was shot down. The only service that was more dangerous than a american bomb squad was a German submarine sailor. 1 100 subs did they make and alomst everyone lays on the bottom of the Atlantic. The war was equally won in the west by bomb squads destroying Germanys war factories. Let that sink in!!!!
Be thankful the U.S was there to keep some sanity in Europe. Had they not been the entire continent would have been controlled by either Germany or Russia.
Some how feels like I was there 😊
Me too...Since I was about 8 years old...
Me too since I was 5
I think that one battle on the Russian front = all the battles of the Western Front
ڪيف ببتفهم😂
ha ha liberation ya right more like after money
Germany invaded Polen, then Denmark and Norway, then Nederlands, Belgum and France. After that Japan attacked USA the 7 of December 1941. The day after Germany declared war against USA. USA did not enter the war them self. Japan and Germany forced them into the war. So tell me, how was it about money? Do you understand how much money USA spent during the war? Trillions. They built 12 700 of B17 bombers, ships, carriers, tanks, just millions of uniforms, weapons, fighter planes, transport planes, etc.. It was a fortune. Not mention what the Manhattan project costed. Billions to enrish Uran 235 and manufacture Pultoniumm 239. To make the bombs.
@@rickardliljekvist5983 during ww1 Poland killed over ten thousand Germans living in Poland, know your full history not the propaganda one, after ww1 jews took over Germany banks loaned only to jews
@@onlythewise1 and please give me a relyable source on that Polen killed Germans after the WW1.
@@rickardliljekvist5983 youll have to find it, this type is keep hidden .
That's just stupid. Germany took corps from hospitals and dressed them in polish uniforms an throwed them om the ground just close to the border. The 30 of August. The day after they invaded Polen. They tried to make a false flag operation but no one believes that.
Great film compilation!
great jim stevens trumbull kirby detroit