Terrific show J.D. A few of Paul's quotes were classic like "nuance isn't sexy its important" and "truth in history is just interpretation". Great content!
You are both awesome big fan of both your channels. Burma Week was fascinating last week and looking forward to Great Escape week starting tomorrow on WW2TV. A big thank you to you both for all of your excellent endeavours.
Great interview! Love his work. So glad I was able to spend 6 days on two different occasions in Normandy. I was able to tour both vertically and horizontally and must say, being Immersed in one sector (UTAH airborne for instance - Utah beach, St Mere, St Come Du Mont, Foucaville, Bridges over Douvre, La Fierre, Road to Carentan...) really helps one to truly get a grasp of what happened.
This is a place I visited years ago and would love to revisit. Very important that this channel keeps getting our history out there. This evil cancell culture is very much present and we need to fight back and keep this nation's history out there and alive.
I imagine there are guides who giv e private tours. People definitely have different amounts of time and interest. When I visited Shiloh, I met a guide who will take people on catered tours to follow the footsteps of their ancestors' regiments. We used a guide for one day in Normandy. For the other two, I hit more of the other sections that were not in our tour, Pegasus Bridge, Deadman's Corner, the British Cemetery in Rainville, the big German Cemetery, Merville Battery, Gold and Juno, and the museum in Caen. France is a big place. I would love to back and spend more time doing just what your guest suggested. The same kind of applies to Gettysburg, where you can see the whole battlefield in a few hours. After 7 trips to Gettysburg, though, there is much I can still learn and see. I can imagine him watching Saving Private Ryan with others. Here I almost was. Must have been fun to do though.
Fascinating, could have listened more. This gentleman has a vast knowledge and the video's you two make in the future based on fact will be priceless to the young and future students so please make the plans and make it happen. What you have done for History already, I am without words... May we never forget.
100% agree! I’ve been to Normandy many, many times. Each trip is usually 8 days. I will return to some places but each time I find a new place to go to. Watching these channels provides great ideas and I’ve used them. I like the idea of pursuing an event rather than the area highlights. I might see you there?
I've been watching both of your channels so it's great to see you two together. Since we are coming back towards June, Paul did an epic, longer than The Longest Day the movie, 12 hour live stream last June the 6th. I encourage people to watch that ...perhaps not in one sitting though. Keep up the great work JD!
I remember seeing Paul on the documentary Normandy 44' with historian and author James Holland. Even James asked Paul questions because his depth of knowledge is so extensive. Awesome conversation!!
Thank you for sharing this very very informative and interesting video with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing well here in Kansas .
I can't help but wonder, how many women are binge watching this channel. I feel like an odd ball here. But I was always that little girl that dressed up to jump in a mud hole, my granddaughter is the exact same way. I'm always realizing how much I wasn't taught in school. It really wouldn't have been that difficult, I suppose that's why I was always so very bored...even though this guy is probably young enough to be my son, I would have loved to have him as a teacher in school, thus is the difference between a profession and a passion 😊
REALLY ENJOYED this video and the fact that both of you are willing to challenge other opinions with well-researched thought. BTW, why do both you and Paul wear hats?
I like Paul :) great idea with the vetical visit of normandy. I have been there this and last year, first was Sword, Juno and the 6th AB parts, this year war Gold and Omaha as well as the 101st and 82nd AB parts. Next year I plan to do Utah and the way to Cherbourg and the Contentin. I think that this way is better, as you both said, since it gives you a better picture on what was all part of the beachheads and also the objectives like Caen and Bayeux, Carentan and so on. I know its not easy and you want to see it all at once but taking your time for each beachhead and objective really paints the picture. Also it helps when other objectives are on the way, so from Germany we had stops at Chartres, Falaise/Argentan, Paris Reims Rouen Bastogne and so on.
There are some very good points made in this video! It drives me insane when things are portrayed incorrectly! There is a local historian here that has included my 3rd great uncle as an area pioneer but excluded my 3rd great grandfather who was here as much as 10 years earlier.... also they have taken information from a man that had the same name and mixed all of their information together then published it in a book!!!!! Infuriating!!! And now for years on end it will be known as fact.
It was an intresting listen! You guys should know that you inspire me to learn more! And it's a very good mentality both of you have towards making and sharing content, I do appreciate it alot!
I went and subscribed to his UA-cam channel ! His channel sounds very fascinating to me ! I made the first comment here at the start of this show and now its time marker 1:00:16 !
Great Ww2 movie I don’t see people talk about is generation war. It’s German and subtitled, but seriously good. Museum recommendation: national museum of the pacific war in Fredericksburg, TX.
How long should a person who wants a the best understanding tour of Normandy allow for just doing that ? Also how much would it possibly cost to do so without the others expenses such a place to stay and places to eat at ? I guess that I should say to understand it better as what and where everything came about !
Do you or have you checked out Larry Cappetto UA-cam channel " VOICES OF HISTORY " or his UA-cam channel " ROBERT WILLIAMS " ? He has interviewed many veterans from WWII and other WARS !
Very interesting I researched bessbrook and want to visit ranville and bayeux cemetery for 3 uk death s and lt col malcolm stotts missouri. silver star. kia June 13 buried later san Francisco 2 nd infantry division 38 regiment 3 battalion based in village 1943
Grew up during the '50s, but he's right about the '70s being a WWII revival period. Vets of the war were still everywhere, lot's of movies like Patton, The Eagle has Landed, Murphy's War and TV shows like Combat, 12 O'clock High, Hogan's heroes, etc.
Don't know how I missed this on your channel. I have been subscribed to your channel for some time, and only recently discovered ww2tv. I can't say enough good things about his programs. Thanks for this interview--it was nice to get to know the man and what has driven him to this point. You guys are my go-to guys on learning about WWII. Keep up the great work you are doing JD!
On your next visit to Normandy, please do as your heart guide you and show us, who will problaby never be able to visit it ourselves, those forgotten places with deep history and sacrifices of WW2.
I had a uncle that fought in the Battle of the Bulge ! I would love go around that area not just a museum type thing but possibly walk where he might have walked back then !
What a fascinating perspective on how a film can influence society for the positive and negative, all at the same time. SPR was a absolutely stunning visual experience. Band of Brothers, to me, is a film for the ages. It brought to mainstream society the “story” of a group of men and their sacrifices. It really pushed WWII to the forefront. It further opened the avenues of ALL WWII history. Great video JD. Thank you.
I love what he said about what is happening now here in America , England and around the world ! His statement on that is very very true ! I'm a post Vietnam War veteran only 5 years after the Vietnam War when I joined the Air Force ! I was in during the IRANIAN CRISIS in the late 1970's serving until January of 1986 so all of the little things as the some people thinks about those things ! But they need to understand at that time it was a very big deal especially for all of us in the military at that time ! What I found strange is that I was in BASIC TRAINING from April of 1978 to the first of June 1978 and we was training IRANIAN TROOPS there at LACKLAND AFB , SAN ANTONIO , TEXAS ! If I remember correctly the IRANIAN CRISIS happened in 1979 ! I believe that we had the Panama , Somalia , Grenada possibly a few others and England had the Falkland Islands during the time I was in the Air Force ! I have tried to forget some of what happened during my time in the military but my nightmares at times won't let me forget !
A remarkable perspective on films and the Normandie campaign, I can 100% relate to Paul in how he got into the WW2 story, exactly the same way for my interest, but Paul went that extra mile and his life has taken off, I believe in a few years there may well be that lull once more as we loose the veterans month after month. Living in Lincolnshire I grew up around airfield after airfield and the interest of what happened there and where these men and women would have been in that momnet in time is very engaging, I can't wait to get back to follow a path exactly like the way in which Paul described as I trace the path of a Canadian Veteran who landed on Juno and Paul has very kindly pointed me in the direction of investigation I need to go, I hope one day I get to meet Paul he is a bit of a hero of mine. Keep the education coming guys.
Your articulation of what is happening to the museums and the sites is 100% I visited Pointe Du Hoc after visiting a very small museum all about the Rangers and the attack on the site in the small town of Grandcamp-Maisy which I know is no longer there, but we got to the site late evening in August and the office was closed, we read the stones and went into the site from the far right hand side, we were able to go anywhere in every bunker in every shell hole, boy some of these my house would fit into, the paths led you everywhere, we exited at the far left of the site thorugh some long wild grass and out via a lane with hedgerow either side of you. We stopped for a moment and looked back at the site trying to take in the views, suddenly the sky was filled with hundred's of butterflies one of which came and sat on my wifes shoulder It just sat there and we watched as the sun began to set and these buterflies were all over the battlefield. We wept the moment was surreal it felt like the soles of the soldiers were disappering away and this one buttefly flew close to us until we reached this lane to leave and it sat there on her shoulder for a few seconds, then it was gone and as we took a look back before walking down the lane the air was clear the butterflies were gone and there was NO sound, just peace and the sound of the sea. The hairs on the back of our necks stood up and I have never felt such emotion. That was special and I have never experienced that since we never will now because that area is now locked off.
Have grown very fond and have become a great fan of ww2 TV and Paul ,love listening to him and his gang talk, and can do for hours, would love to meet him one day .
Went to Normandy with some veterans from my regiment who were there. It had only been 30 years but for them it was like yesterday. An experience I will never be able to relive as most of them are gone, but the things I heard and learned were amazing.
Terrific show J.D. A few of Paul's quotes were classic like "nuance isn't sexy its important" and "truth in history is just interpretation". Great content!
You are both awesome big fan of both your channels. Burma Week was fascinating last week and looking forward to Great Escape week starting tomorrow on WW2TV.
A big thank you to you both for all of your excellent endeavours.
Great interview! Love his work. So glad I was able to spend 6 days on two different occasions in Normandy. I was able to tour both vertically and horizontally and must say, being Immersed in one sector (UTAH airborne for instance - Utah beach, St Mere, St Come Du Mont, Foucaville, Bridges over Douvre, La Fierre, Road to Carentan...) really helps one to truly get a grasp of what happened.
This is a place I visited years ago and would love to revisit. Very important that this channel keeps getting our history out there. This evil cancell culture is very much present and we need to fight back and keep this nation's history out there and alive.
I imagine there are guides who giv e private tours. People definitely have different amounts of time and interest. When I visited Shiloh, I met a guide who will take people on catered tours to follow the footsteps of their ancestors' regiments. We used a guide for one day in Normandy. For the other two, I hit more of the other sections that were not in our tour, Pegasus Bridge, Deadman's Corner, the British Cemetery in Rainville, the big German Cemetery, Merville Battery, Gold and Juno, and the museum in Caen. France is a big place. I would love to back and spend more time doing just what your guest suggested. The same kind of applies to Gettysburg, where you can see the whole battlefield in a few hours. After 7 trips to Gettysburg, though, there is much I can still learn and see. I can imagine him watching Saving Private Ryan with others. Here I almost was. Must have been fun to do though.
I left my heart in San Francisco but jawbone in Berlin.
Next time you go to Normandy I’ll go with you. Not many people willing to do all 3 days with you.
Thanks for posting, I just subscribed to WW2TV and will be watching several videos right away!
i started here but quickly i have run through EVERY single @WW2TV content. you guys truly feed nerds like me.
Fascinating, could have listened more. This gentleman has a vast knowledge and the video's you two make in the future based on fact will be priceless to the young and future students so please make the plans and make it happen. What you have done for History already, I am without words... May we never forget.
I met JD once he’s genuinely a wholesome down to earth modest man!
Thanks!
100% agree! I’ve been to Normandy many, many times. Each trip is usually 8 days. I will return to some places but each time I find a new place to go to. Watching these channels provides great ideas and I’ve used them. I like the idea of pursuing an event rather than the area highlights. I might see you there?
I've been watching both of your channels so it's great to see you two together. Since we are coming back towards June, Paul did an epic, longer than The Longest Day the movie, 12 hour live stream last June the 6th. I encourage people to watch that ...perhaps not in one sitting though.
Keep up the great work JD!
So interesting. So many places I didn't know about. Would love to get a tour with Paul, and give him free reign. One day. It's now on my bucket list.
I remember seeing Paul on the documentary Normandy 44' with historian and author James Holland. Even James asked Paul questions because his depth of knowledge is so extensive. Awesome conversation!!
Thank you for sharing this very very informative and interesting video with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing well here in Kansas .
Hi.. miss your content.. been sooo long since I watch your videos..
I can't help but wonder, how many women are binge watching this channel. I feel like an odd ball here. But I was always that little girl that dressed up to jump in a mud hole, my granddaughter is the exact same way. I'm always realizing how much I wasn't taught in school. It really wouldn't have been that difficult, I suppose that's why I was always so very bored...even though this guy is probably young enough to be my son, I would have loved to have him as a teacher in school, thus is the difference between a profession and a passion 😊
REALLY ENJOYED this video and the fact that both of you are willing to challenge other opinions with well-researched thought. BTW, why do both you and Paul wear hats?
I like Paul :) great idea with the vetical visit of normandy. I have been there this and last year, first was Sword, Juno and the 6th AB parts, this year war Gold and Omaha as well as the 101st and 82nd AB parts. Next year I plan to do Utah and the way to Cherbourg and the Contentin. I think that this way is better, as you both said, since it gives you a better picture on what was all part of the beachheads and also the objectives like Caen and Bayeux, Carentan and so on. I know its not easy and you want to see it all at once but taking your time for each beachhead and objective really paints the picture. Also it helps when other objectives are on the way, so from Germany we had stops at Chartres, Falaise/Argentan, Paris Reims Rouen Bastogne and so on.
There are some very good points made in this video! It drives me insane when things are portrayed incorrectly! There is a local historian here that has included my 3rd great uncle as an area pioneer but excluded my 3rd great grandfather who was here as much as 10 years earlier.... also they have taken information from a man that had the same name and mixed all of their information together then published it in a book!!!!! Infuriating!!! And now for years on end it will be known as fact.
Normandy invasion is a part of our history,always interested in learning more,thx HT🖒..
My dad could really put my history teachers to shame on a lot of things about Normandy, and way more interesting in his delivery..😊
It was an intresting listen! You guys should know that you inspire me to learn more! And it's a very good mentality both of you have towards making and sharing content, I do appreciate it alot!
I went and subscribed to his UA-cam channel ! His channel sounds very fascinating to me ! I made the first comment here at the start of this show and now its time marker 1:00:16 !
Really great JD thanks ,absolutely brill..
Great Ww2 movie I don’t see people talk about is generation war. It’s German and subtitled, but seriously good.
Museum recommendation: national museum of the pacific war in Fredericksburg, TX.
Wow awesome episode and you too also eventually did hook up to do some great episodes together keep up the good work guys y'all rock
I Love History and would definitely go to the out of the way places.
Fantastic talking points.
MOST Amazing story. Australia needs to really tell the Story of WW2
How long should a person who wants a the best understanding tour of Normandy allow for just doing that ? Also how much would it possibly cost to do so without the others expenses such a place to stay and places to eat at ? I guess that I should say to understand it better as what and where everything came about !
Honestly, to do Normandy fully requires multiple visits. But a week would get you around both the beaches and some of the key inland locations
Do you or have you checked out Larry Cappetto UA-cam channel " VOICES OF HISTORY " or his UA-cam channel " ROBERT WILLIAMS " ? He has interviewed many veterans from WWII and other WARS !
Very interesting I researched bessbrook and want to visit ranville and bayeux cemetery for 3 uk death s and lt col malcolm stotts missouri. silver star. kia June 13 buried later san Francisco 2 nd infantry division 38 regiment 3 battalion based in village 1943
He left his jaw in Germany ha ha brill …hmm
first comment 3rd view whoo ho
Guy is a tyrant who blocks people who don't agree with him.
Apart from the first 20 minutes saving private Ryan is awful. Hanks and Spielberg bashing the Brits as they continued to do on bob. Love Woody though.
Grew up during the '50s, but he's right about the '70s being a WWII revival period. Vets of the war were still everywhere, lot's of movies like Patton, The Eagle has Landed, Murphy's War and TV shows like Combat, 12 O'clock High, Hogan's heroes, etc.
And you also had the Army surplus stores.
Don't know how I missed this on your channel. I have been subscribed to your channel for some time, and only recently discovered ww2tv. I can't say enough good things about his programs. Thanks for this interview--it was nice to get to know the man and what has driven him to this point. You guys are my go-to guys on learning about WWII. Keep up the great work you are doing JD!
Thank you so much for this interview a lot of great information!!
On your next visit to Normandy, please do as your heart guide you and show us, who will problaby never be able to visit it ourselves, those forgotten places with deep history and sacrifices of WW2.
Good stuff.
Excellent Content, Thank You for sharing this interview 🇺🇸
So interesting. Sorry about the bayonet.
Great content. Both absolutely passionate historians sharing ideas and opinions is top viewing
I had a uncle that fought in the Battle of the Bulge ! I would love go around that area not just a museum type thing but possibly walk where he might have walked back then !
What a fascinating perspective on how a film can influence society for the positive and negative, all at the same time. SPR was a absolutely stunning visual experience. Band of Brothers, to me, is a film for the ages. It brought to mainstream society the “story” of a group of men and their sacrifices. It really pushed WWII to the forefront. It further opened the avenues of ALL WWII history. Great video JD. Thank you.
I love what he said about what is happening now here in America , England and around the world ! His statement on that is very very true ! I'm a post Vietnam War veteran only 5 years after the Vietnam War when I joined the Air Force ! I was in during the IRANIAN CRISIS in the late 1970's serving until January of 1986 so all of the little things as the some people thinks about those things ! But they need to understand at that time it was a very big deal especially for all of us in the military at that time ! What I found strange is that I was in BASIC TRAINING from April of 1978 to the first of June 1978 and we was training IRANIAN TROOPS there at LACKLAND AFB , SAN ANTONIO , TEXAS ! If I remember correctly the IRANIAN CRISIS happened in 1979 ! I believe that we had the Panama , Somalia , Grenada possibly a few others and England had the Falkland Islands during the time I was in the Air Force ! I have tried to forget some of what happened during my time in the military but my nightmares at times won't let me forget !
What do you think of Rick Atkinson's trilogy on the U.S. Army's maturation (for lack of a better term) in WW II?
WW2TV is the best channel I have ever found on UA-cam. History or otherwise.
Fantastic!
“Failings of the past and hope for the future”. I couldn’t have said it better.
There are some Europeans that can fire rifles!! Haha! Love it!
I didn't say I owned one though, because I don't and never have
Mr Woodadge is a fascinating man. Thanks for introducing him to us.
I’ve added at least 10 of the books your guests talk about. I’ve a lot of books that I’m looking at now with “Critical Thinking”. 👍🏻
A remarkable perspective on films and the Normandie campaign, I can 100% relate to Paul in how he got into the WW2 story, exactly the same way for my interest, but Paul went that extra mile and his life has taken off, I believe in a few years there may well be that lull once more as we loose the veterans month after month. Living in Lincolnshire I grew up around airfield after airfield and the interest of what happened there and where these men and women would have been in that momnet in time is very engaging, I can't wait to get back to follow a path exactly like the way in which Paul described as I trace the path of a Canadian Veteran who landed on Juno and Paul has very kindly pointed me in the direction of investigation I need to go, I hope one day I get to meet Paul he is a bit of a hero of mine. Keep the education coming guys.
Your articulation of what is happening to the museums and the sites is 100% I visited Pointe Du Hoc after visiting a very small museum all about the Rangers and the attack on the site in the small town of Grandcamp-Maisy which I know is no longer there, but we got to the site late evening in August and the office was closed, we read the stones and went into the site from the far right hand side, we were able to go anywhere in every bunker in every shell hole, boy some of these my house would fit into, the paths led you everywhere, we exited at the far left of the site thorugh some long wild grass and out via a lane with hedgerow either side of you. We stopped for a moment and looked back at the site trying to take in the views, suddenly the sky was filled with hundred's of butterflies one of which came and sat on my wifes shoulder It just sat there and we watched as the sun began to set and these buterflies were all over the battlefield. We wept the moment was surreal it felt like the soles of the soldiers were disappering away and this one buttefly flew close to us until we reached this lane to leave and it sat there on her shoulder for a few seconds, then it was gone and as we took a look back before walking down the lane the air was clear the butterflies were gone and there was NO sound, just peace and the sound of the sea. The hairs on the back of our necks stood up and I have never felt such emotion. That was special and I have never experienced that since we never will now because that area is now locked off.
Have grown very fond and have become a great fan of ww2 TV and Paul ,love listening to him and his gang talk, and can do for hours, would love to meet him one day .
You both show passion and this communicates. Thanks for the engagement
1:02:00..Thank you Paul!!You nailed it my friend
You two are the best!
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Went to Normandy with some veterans from my regiment who were there. It had only been 30 years but for them it was like yesterday. An experience I will never be able to relive as most of them are gone, but the things I heard and learned were amazing.