What new book 'Light of Battle' reveals about Eisenhower and D-Day
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Author and professor Michel Paradis joins Morning Joe to discuss the 80th anniversary of D-Day and his new book 'The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower'.
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I'm so glad President Biden is in France to represent the USA at the D-Day Invasion. I am proud to be an American and my father fought in WW2 in the Pacific theater. We owe so much to the brave generation that saved the world. RIP to all those heroes.
Though this was not the main objective, it was also a liberation of our nation from the evil spell of nazism. Greetings from Germany.
The lesson of that era is not lost on the majority here. Democracy matters. NATO matters.
Fascism can rear its ugly head in any nation. For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
@@robertward8035I hope you're right...average American isn't aware of this reality
I know this has nothing to do with Biden, but Man! I love him! I pray his speech on D-Day rings and brings hope to America and Europe. This Republican, hi me 👋🏻, love's Biden! He has my vote and support! God Bless President Biden!
Thank you my friend. Love from a democrat@
This short NBC-TV segment properly acknowledges that without the D-Day invasion and its success, life in the United States and the world into the 1950's would likely have been quite different.
I am 75. My father, having grown up through the Depression on a family farm in the middle of North Dakota, was an officer on one of the many LST's during the landings in Normandy, then onto the Pacific during the Leyte Gulf operation, afterward waiting there not knowing when/if the Allies would invade Japan.
Nearly all of these veterans are dead now. Their offspring are the only remaining points of contact sometimes to the smallest of details of what happened.
I like Ike.
Thank you for liberating us and give us back our freedom. Greetings from France from a 65 years old French citizen. We shall never forget
Eisenhower has much to say to us today, as well! “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, football field, in an army, or in an office.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had it. He was the last Republican president with it. "If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power” (Pres. Eisenhower, 1956).
When we no longer talk about D-day, that would be a very sad reality.
James Montgomery Doohan RIP
Just read he (Scotty in Star Trek original series) was wounded on D-Day. Respects to all in wars everywhere.
If you watch him, he's missing a couple of fingers on one hand. The camera shots try to hide it.
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Fascinating! Cant wait to read the book and learn what we were never taught in school.
“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely...... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.” - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing but utmost respect for all those brave souls who fought valiantly and honorably, and gave up their lives for something greater than themselves.
GOD BLESS SLL THOES MEN IN HEAVEN!!!
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They don't make men like Ike anymore
They do. They just haven't been asked to stand up yet.
Democrats aren't making any men or women. They're all 🏳️🌈, and the one who aren't, off their 👶's
@@Zman5146 - Someone who doesn't need it to be defined. So be one.
Times make the man.
They dont make Republicans like Ike any more that's for sure!
Churchill and Roosevelt did not meet for the first time at Cairo in 1943. They met in August 1941 in Argentia Bay, Newfoundland. After Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Churchill basically lived at the White House for two weeks.
Correct !
They met briefly during WW1. Roosevelt remembered, Churchill didn’t.
Cairo was NOT the first meeting of FDR and Churchill.
As an ex-British soldier who is now 70 years old and has been on active service and whose family members served in both world wars, I want all Americans to know that Richie Sunak, who thought that returning to the UK to record a TV interview was more important than paying his respects to all those Americans that were killed and injured on Omaha and Utah beaches and did not stand with respect and gratitude with all the other world leaders and our King and I still can't believe that a UK Prime Minister could do such a thing, our King, after recent treatment for cancer, must have been appalled?
I can also assure all Americans that he has been condemned in the British press, TV and radio as well as online for his actions, and he is unlikely to ever represent the UK again because he thought returning to the UK to record a TV interview was more important than paying his respects to those Americans that were killed and injured on those beaches for the freedom of the world and not standing to pay homage with the other world leaders, even if the Conservative party win the election, which is now even more unlikely because of his disrespect, the Conservatives will ditch him because he is now toxic, and rightly so.
@seandobson499. Thank you.
Hoping UK gets a good replacement PM.
My grandfather was his body guard
Wow! You mean that Biden is going to deliver remarks to commemorate this day and the lives that were lost there, and, UNLIKE Trump, is not worried that it might rain and his hair will be mussed? Thank goodness that we have a president who respects the sacrifices made!
So you buy the lie hook line and sinker.
The initial invasion idea was in 1942 and it was Operation Sledgehammer. The vast majority of troops would have been British, the shipping tonnage would have been insufficient and the Luftwaffe would not have been ground down and finally the few US troops would have had 0% of combat experience. There's a REASON why we went for North Africa in Operation Torch first - an early invasion of France would have been a disaster.
It would have forced the Wehrmacht to sift their forces from the East to deal with the threat in the West. The goal was to lift some of the pressure off of the Russians. Besides you can't win a war without some risk.
just an arm chair warrior opinion but it seems like the battle of atlantic, neurtralization of german atlantic submarine fleet, had to happen before DDay and that really didn't happen until well into 1943. DDay required massive supplies to Britian to make DDay and its breakout occur. Just look at the supplies to make the redball express function.
Mass production of Liberty cargo ships. Great steam powered designed by Great Britain. Built all over, in the US, even in Canada. In 1943, they were building 3 a day. By the end of the war, the convoy system and the range of planes was enough to suppress U boat operations.
@@AlbertMark-nb9zo I had an uncle involved in building liberty ships. But the Germans were hoping to sink them as fast as they were built. And crossing the Atlantic was really dangerous until fall of '43.
No mention of the Trident Conference in May 1943 - which established a date for Overlord - nor the fact that any cross channel operation requires victory in the Battle of Atlantic and the systematic destruction of the Luftwaffe through Operation Pointblank. The Allies simply weren’t ready, and this just comes across as Brit bashing when discussing the Mediterranean Campaign.
Just got that book today...really look forward to starting it tonight.
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He never saw combat
However he was appointed
Supreme commander for his
Organising skills
Sosabowski who was two years younger jumped into
Arnhem!
Eisenhower should have just remained Supreme Commander and shouldn't have taken over from Montgomery as C-in-C of all allied ground forces as well.
Under Montgomery the allies moved 600km in 3 months June to September 1944 and were 400km ahead of schedule by the start of September. Eisenhower took over from Montgomery at the start of September and then the allies stalled and barely moved anywhere for the next six months with his broad front disaster and even suffered a retreat in the Ardennes.
We have a list of people that we’ve been at war for for the last six years. We have a hit list for the past to bring prosperous horizons. That’s what Dwight Eisenhower was talking about time travel
The greatest generation's sacrifice.
A British general was the man who's team did the first planning from 1943. The US came in much later, certainly in fo car as planning is concerned.
General George Marshall's name should be included in any discussion of this historic day.
Stirring words, Ike.
I don't understand the 50/50 success prediction of Overlord.
The allies had an 8:1 manpower advantage, Naval superiority, air supremacy, and an almost outrageous logistical advantage.
Certainly there were going to be large numbers of casualties, not to belittle this but it WAS a world war, and if you look at the losses taken by Russia, the losses should NOT have been unexpected.
4,000 dead allies in the first 24 hours.
Your are attacking a fortified position. And you can only attack limited targets with an extremely limited amount of your forces. One of the main targets after the D-Day invasion was the port of Rotterdam. Yes, the allies were bigger. But you needed to the men and material to the mainland of Europe to do any good.
@@AlbertMark-nb9zo I agree with your evaluation of the German position, fortified and with restricted area of movement.
However the Allies DID have the forces, and the ability to target the overwhelming force against those fortified positions.
The air power severely restricted the German counterattack and Naval bombardment was able to reach 10 miles inland providing important protection to the beachhead.
I'm not disagreeing with the German position just the ratio of power that vis-a-vis the combat ratio.
I doubt that the people of the country of Guatemala would consider Dwight Eisenhower s presidency as “boring”. Both Alan Dulles CIA chief and his brotherJohn Foster Dulles urged”IKE” to overthrow the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz. , which led to 40 years ofRight Wing dictatorships and the deaths of at least 150,000 Guatemalan Civilians.
Thank you to all of you who went before me. 😘😘😘😘
If anybody watching this knew what kind of President he was? I feel he was a great soldier and Commander so can somebody tell me.
He was a largely popular president and is regarded by historians in the top quartile of presidents. Some experts at the time, however, regarded him as a 'do-nothing' president.
He was a very solid, effective, no BS, but "un-flashy" President who was never fully embraced by the GOP because he was rather "moderate" on several issues. Nevertheless, his reputation has grown considerably since he left the Presidency in January 1961. An excellent bio of Ike from several years ago that I can highly recommend is: "Eisenhower in War and Peace", by the late, esteemed historian Jean Edward Smith.
He balanced the budget and greatly improved the economy by building a modernized highway system. He didn’t provide short-term handouts to the elites, so some questioned his handling of the free-market; but his competency helped companies more than any lobbyist.
@@AYVYN thank you.
3:00 "pursuing British imperial interests in the Mediterranean"?
What a load of nonsense.
The predictions in the case of a possible failure in DDay just don't make sense.
Eisenhower was given that position because he was a great administrator. And the awesome knew that it was up to the manliness and the bravery of those men that landed on the beach to succeed. If any country on the planet should be paternal to their soldiers, its America. Our country derives all its power from the great body of the people.
The great thing about time travel is u can stop the wars
50-50... does this mean anything other than yes or no, succeed or fail, 1 or 0?
We have a list of people that we’ve been at war for for the last six years. We have a hit list for the past to bring prosperous horizons.
Handsome gentleman
We have a list of people that we’ve been at war for for the last six years. We have a hit list for the past to bring prosperous horizons. That’s what Dwight Eisenhower was talking about time travel it’s just Einstein’s equation of relativity and then you go to time travel which is light speed
Eisenhower the Last of the Great Republicans !
Shocked MSNBC didn’t call this white supremacy
Dwight Eisenhower would have been a second lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces.
What are you talking about?
Ike has one ace in the hole with Churchill...he would threaten to resign...and Churchill knew he was irreplaceable. No British General was acceptable or capable and the other US Generals did not have the diplomatic skill to keep it all together. PS: Churchill and FDR were actually distant cousins.
funny, UK and France had a treaty with Poland and when Germany invaded they declared war on Germany... and then did nothing....but USSR also invaded Poland and somehow they did not have war declared on them...
Back row, 2nd from left.
Frank Burns father?.
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History according to the US
That’s what Dollarhide was talking about. Bring the boys back home.
If someone thinks ANYONE in the trbump family would have been able to man one of those Higgins landing craft, please expound on your delusion. I want to hear why you believe they would be on that Higgins boat and how they would behave during combat.
How bout the Biden family?
While General Eisenhower was Supreme Commander Allied Forces, the troops of all allied forces landing on D Day (21st Army Group) were under the overall command of General Montgomery, sea forces were commanded by Admiral Ramsey, and air forces by Air Chief Marshall Leigh-Mallory. We tend to overlook that.
The UK wasn't the per-emininent empire and they knew it. During WW1, while there were blockades of the UK and European allies, just like WW2 but not as bad. At this time, the world wide balance of trade shifted to the US. The factories, it controlled, furnished the goods, the rest of the world wanted. US controlled ships carried them. And it was the sinking of a US ship that ushered the US into WW1. WW2 is always been pushed as the more important war, but the innovations of modern war, the tactics, the seeds of WW2, really had their beginnings in WW1.
Winston Churchill is Alistair Crawley
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The fifty-fifty chance is at best debatable. Lost me in the first few minutes.
I have to undo what my father did
Remember it is always easy to look back, remember England was close to bankruptcy
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So many errors from this historian. It’s a total misread to claim delaying d day and focussing on north africa was about british imperial interests. It was a strategic decision ref suez and the med because of oil supply and lack of shipping tonnage to meet demand via cape. The newly expanded US army was also untrained and too inexperienced for the task by 42/43. See Alanbrooke diaries.
That’s what Dollarhide was talking about. Bring the boys back home. And now I can because I have the equation to do so.
I'm a proud American, but I'm also a realist. D-Day was not that important and America didn't win WW2. Even if D-Day never occurred the Russians still would have beaten the Germans. 85% of the entire German military was on the Eastern front throughout the war. The war in the west was merely a sideshow. I know that will make Americans angry, but it's true. Stop being blinded by patriotism and face the facts on the ground in WW2. Russia won the war and would have even if D-day never happened. In a way America is actually stealing Russia's valor in WW2. In just 2 weeks after D-day the Russians launched a massive offensive that DWARFED D-day, yet in the west we never hear about that. And please dont give me that BULL that D-day made that possible for the Russians. It would have happened with or without D-day.
I really doubt your opening statement. Without the US the Soviets wouldn't have defeated the Germans, see Zhukov or Khrushchev. Without the Allied landing Bagration would doubtfully been as successful with Germanys best Panzer divisions in the West. It took a total Allied effort to win the war. Not the individual efforts by the Soviets or the Ango Americans. Ps it was the Soviet Union, not Russia.
Not only American men were on those beaches. Canadians were there too , and Brits.
Our alternate universe is here
It just took an alternate route
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Wants to try on Hitler's boots
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Also for the bums and tramps
Hey, they're not completely soulless
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To clean up anyone
Who make the good folk nervous
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Gi-normous marching boots
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Wrong! They first met in 1918, fdr thought winnie was a snob. They meet in Quebec before Cairo and brought up d. Day among other things like five eyes... you yanks and your week grasp of the facts
Dwight David Eisenhower and Donald John Trump. My fellow Americans, what is wrong with that picture? VOTE BLUE AMERICA as if your life depends upon it.
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Eisenhower was a great president. He knew that every unnecessary dollar used for war came out of the mouths of the middle class and poor people. That for every bomber and airplane meant schools that would not be built, hospitals that would not be built, I think he is one of the best presidents we've ever had.