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Woah 😳
Battle for castle itter, please
needs more Canada content 😉
what
You guys should make a separate video on the airborne drops cuz u have it less then 3 minutes
Similar but better in the American one
For some reason, there is never any content about the British and Canadian landings. Good to see someone making it.
Because 'muricans
True. All we hear about is Omaha.
Hollywood
The sheer insanity of planning involved for D-Day is mind blowing.
Over 5 years worth of intelligence simplified into one single landing. Absolutely astounding how they pulled it off
Tankies complain that we didnt invade France in 1942 or 1943. They have never heard of logisitcs.
@@titanlord9267 It was a raid, not an invasion. It was to test the strength of the Atlantic wall and the feasibility of a full amphibious invasion and to capture an enigma machine
@@UsuallyTrolling
As a great man once said; "If your infantry is the fist, the rest of the arm is your logistics."
Suffer a fracture anywhere between the wrist and the shoulder, you won't be striking anything.
Edit: Personally think the significant role played by the Mulberry harbours is grossly overlooked by a lot of D-Day docs/posts.
"Plans are useless, however planning is indispensable"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As an American, I would love to see both WW1 and WW2 from the Canadians perspective. The soldiers of Canada were argued some of the fiercest combatants by their adversaries and ally’s. Yet seemingly go unannounced by many of the allied powers history books
Thank you!
That likely has to do with their status as a Dominion under the British Empire. Doesn’t help that they had some particularly brutal encounters with the Germans that can’t be shelved in with the imagery of the “honorable soldier” that most nations try to paint.
Thank you for your appreciation of the Canadian contribution to the world wars by Canada 🇨🇦
@@EnigmaEnginseer : hmm it is a possibility, but no mention is made of the contribution of the Polish Navy, or Airforce on D day at Juno. Most historians after the war, only included the major powers at the time. Even early Utubers just followed what the old historians did.
Even today, UA-cam creators leave out pertinent info, to make their country look good.
This morning a video was released saying that the Uk was training Ukrainians. That is true, but there are other NATO countries involved with the UK, including Canada, Sweden, and Poland. I call this nationalistic history, ( which all countries do), not real history: ie what actually happened.
Bet you didn’t know that the landings in North Africa was supported by the Navies from Australia, Canada and the Netherlands, or that the two islands in the Aleutian’s were liberated by Americans and Canadians.
( BTW I am 🇨🇦, and comment about missing pieces of history that is left out)
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@sirdavidoftor3413
I agree completely, so many WW2 films are always set in Europe & either follow US, UK soldiers or European Resistance against everyone's favourite Nazis.
Burma, North Africa, Philippines, Singapore, even Vietnam, all of these places suffered during the war & hardly get a mention - I want WW2 films of each of these places, not goddamn Europe again, in fact, I ain't watching another WW2 film if its set in Europe.
As a Brit, I love that you've covered the D-Day landings from multiple perspectives. The Americans usually get all the attention in the mainstream media so I'm glad you're teaching us a different point of view
Yeh it’s probably because of movies and the fact they got absolutely massacred in d day and just the war in general they suffered a lot worse than we did which you wouldn’t think that since we was in the war longer than them
@@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xl who are you talking about?
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Could’ve swore I asked you to stop calling me babe! 😂
she would leave you if you tried this. just like your father
People still say this??
Fantastic video to get home to!
Wow, that intro was actually amazing. The music was really fitting, the background and animation/pan was smooth, and it all looked really clean and fitting for the WW2 lesson theme. Well done
I can't wait to see Juno. I'm Canadian, and my two great-uncles were there. One was in the 3rd Canadian Infantry, and his brother was in the 4th Canadian Armoured, the latter working as part of a crew in a lend-lease M4 Sherman. My great-grandfather also served in the war as part of the 408th "Goose" Squadron as a tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber.
I like how those Canadians died for freedom then, but now arrest people if they misgender a mentally ill person.
@George To think, he risked his life for the Canada you have today. So sad.
@@derekweiland1857 not needed
@@UsuallyTrolling Needed now more than ever.
Really interesting, Big Bob. My own great-uncles, two of them as well, landed on Juno beach as well, as part of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade (27th Armoured Regiment - The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment). My third great-uncle, several years older than his two brothers, had volunteered to fight in Spain as part of the Internationale Brigades, was captured and spent the entire war in Mauthausen, from 1939 to 1945. He survived and lived to the grand old age of 96.
Doesn’t get mentioned much but the entire naval element for all d’day beaches was commanded by a single British admiral, Bertram Ramsay. The planing and coordination of hundreds of ships, including landing craft, troop transports, destroyer escorts and a massive shore bombardment was incredibly complicated.
Yep, also the man who coordinated the Dunkirk evacuation. Unfortunately he died in a plane crash before the wars end.
Love the addition of Divisional insignia and Naval heraldry for the ships. Gives perspective and helps to better understand the battlefield. Keep it coming Griffin. Love your work.👍👍
Pegasus Bridge, a target of the 6th Airborne, was the site of some of the earliest action of the Normandy landings. The bridge was replaced in 1994 by one similar in appearance, and the original is housed on the grounds of a nearby museum complex. The British Normandy Memorial above Gold Beach was designed by the architect Liam O'Connor and opened in 2021.
You should know how hard the team worked for this, definitely worth a subscription if you see this comment!
@Kitty 🅥 nice try, I ain't clicking that
@Content_enjoyer damn he is gone, gonna try this method later
It isn't hard when you look at someone else's work and go "Sure, I'll copy that."
@@sirjamessommer where did he copy this from other then the sources? Was he suppose to invent what happened lol. Tell me, where did they copy the animations from?
@@spacemichael9090 Other than the sources? What're you on about? Clear and simple c&p of another YTbers style.
You guys have been putting in a lot of extra effort into your videos and it’s really been paying off. Good work!
I appreciate your videos!
The assault on Pegasus Bridge was by Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, Airlanding infantry from 6th Airborne Division, not paratroopers. The clue is in the mode of delivery, gliders, not parachutes. D
“I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!” Winston Churchill
You were born asthmatic. You're going to choke hard.
You really love that line, don't you?
Really appreciated this second look at DDay, it’s insane to me how seemingly little coverage the British Landings get.
Could you guys do a video about the siege at Tobruk? It’s a real source of pride for many Australians and the details of that campaign are pretty interesting.
I'm loving the new intros of these videos. Splitting the documentaries up into different sections is also a welcome addition. Keep it up!
My Step-Grandfather landed just after D-Day, and he crossed the famous Pegasus Bridge on his way into Caen, and he took photos of the city after the battle my family still have.
About 10/12 years ago when I was a kid and was in high school. I was fortunate enough to go to the 5 beaches with my mum, dad and grandparents. It was a sight that I never forgot. Scaring at the beaches and just imagining what they had to go through. When I went to the cemetery’s, I was hurt that the American grave stones looked well looked after but the British ones didn’t.
The Pegasus bridge capture was an amazing effort
Having visited the various DDay sites I must say the fact that still astounds me is the precise landing of the gliders carrying the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry when they attacked what is now known as Pegasus Bridge. Metal plinths mark their landing points and I remember well that three were less than a stone’s throw from the bridge, and that landing was by moonlight! They were almost on top of each other.
As a military historian I found the main difference between the WW1 and WW2 British military cemeteries to be of particular social significance. The large cemetery at Bayeax for WW2 has all ranks buried in the same rows, side by side. At the WW1 cemetery near Etaples the officers are all buried separately from the other ranks, two by two. In my opinion this illustrates an imperfect but most significant social change brought about by the Great War.
Yes, a very well done part of the movie The Longest Day. I read Joseph Balkoski’s book about Utah Beach that also covered the American Airborne divisions. One thing that I found a bit ridiculous was that their glider troops didn’t get the same hazard pay as the paratroopers did. That was changed after the Normandy invasion. I’m just wondering if it was the same situation with the British glider troops? I don’t think our Canadian Airborne had any glider troops. Not that I’ve ever read about.
Excited for your next vid on Canada’s Juno beach landing! Awesome video, as always! 👍
Good to see that the Americans realise the British and Canadians were involved too… hopefully putting a slow end to the “if it wasn’t for us you’d be speaking German” claims
Mind you if it wasnt for the British Americans would be speaking French.. 🤷🏼♂️
And if it wasn't for the French the Americans would still be British. lol
@@skunkbucket101 No, Americans would still be American. They would have become like Canada
well, you would be considering how germans were steamrolling europe
@@MrPaxio and yet they didnt steamroll their way across the channel, didnt steamroll the RAF, didnt steamroll the Navy in any waters AND their army with one of their best generals was held to a initial stalemate in North Africa then beaten back. I think the English language would have been ok in England
@@seany8787 but, if it wasnt for the USA sending supplies at a rate of 10,000 ships per day, they would of gotten steamrolled. and if usa didnt counterattack, they would of eventually landed across the channel
My great grandfather was a soldier involved in the Dunkirk evacuation, Sicily landing and sword beach landing. After the war he never set foot on a boat ever again.
One of my favourite parts of WW2 history is the whacky tanks the british used to surpringly good affect during the invasion of france, have a read up on Hobart's Funnies if you're interested
And the Americans didn't want to use them, except the swimming Shermans, which they launched too far out to sea.
@@lyndoncmp5751it was more complicated than simply not wanting to use them - they would have to train crews and re plan their landings to accommodate them.
I feel like if anyone the British mostly get underrepresented when it comes to people talking about ww2 which is sad because in 1940 we stood alone against the Germans
Alone…. With but a quarter of the world. Soooooo looonely!
But seriously I admire the British role in the war and agree with you.
Thank you for mentioning the Paras (6th Airborne) at Merville Battery. My Father, Cyril Leggett, was there and always said they were forgotten. So many documentaries just mention the US Paratroopers, not the British.
I’m happy the Armchair Historian is gonna make a separate video on the Canadian landings.
I'd like to wish all British families a very pleasant evening; No one can crack a smile while bombs are flying overhead like you guys! May your heads remain cool, and your cups of tea hot. 💙🦅🗽❤
Wow, thank you for the video!
can't wait for Juno! 🦁🇨🇦🦫
Really looking forward to Juno Beach. As a Canadian, it's an oft forgotten part of D Day. It's a point of pride that Canada was treated as a near-peer ally at that moment in its history by the much larger United States and its dominion overlords in England.
theyre not forgotten
We were a peer at that point, we started the war with 6 ships and ended it with 434 - second largest navy in the world. Both sides knew the Canadians were not to be fukked with from our effort in WWI and we didn't let that reputation down in WWII.
@@slcpunk2740 Second largest navy in the world? Bigger than either the Royal Navy or the US Navy?
@@CIMAmotor he is mistaken. Canada finished the war with the 3rd largest navy behind the US and The royal navy
Dominion overlords? Canada was an independent nation. Britain never even forced Canada to join WW2 and had no power to conscript its soldiers.
Love the recognition 🇬🇧🇬🇧
My great great great uncle died in d-day at age hornine ( it wasn’t actually d-day it was early stage of operation overlord) he was in the 1st Battalion royal ulster Rifles Lance corporal Thomas chambers.
I love that you cover these different perspectives, please keep it up!
Dont forget to mention the RAF at Omaha. Brit being only medic on the beach at the time seeing to 76 Americans and 25 brits. Also gavering stranded troops and leading them of the beach ❤
The animation in this video is amazing. Congratulations team, this is pure quality!
Just got out of school on Friday and got home to this, thanks ACH team you guys made my day
Another fascinating video!!! Looking forward to the next one.
Gotta love hearing Hampshire and Yorkshire being pronounced correctly :)
i was supposed to comment this a while ago but FINALLY our favourite historian got his armchair
Another masterpiece, Thank God for you and your team for delivering great content
love the content, and the animations you do a great job, we all appreciate you helping us to understand and interpret history
'Hold until relieved. Hold until relieved'. Awesome video. Well done!! 👏
The quality of this is just unbelievably good 😊 thanks for such great content.
The American and British videos were great! Really looking forward to the Canadian video!
Cool, good timing on break at work
I love this, thank you
For king and country !
I'd love to see you do Operation Neptune. We never hear about the huge navy operation that took place behind D-day itself, the landings, the bombardments and the immense logistic operations. There were also, I believe, Allied ships involved that don't often get much credit because they didn't have boots on the ground.
Looking forward to the Canadians.
I feel like I’m watching a old flash game, it such a interesting design for units moving around.
Way to make me nostalgic for flash games
Excellent documentary, the armchair historian does it again!
Just at the right time 👍
Shout out to this channel awesome crew.
I am Prussian, my great grandfather was at Gold beach. Got captured by the Poles/Brits or Canadians. SS panzer divisions were plentiful in the British landing
This should be on TV!
The entire D-Day mission sounds like an over-the-top plot from a war-thriller novel, yet it actually happened. Not just the mind boggling logistics of the invasion (even bringing their own harbour!) but all that went on before, the remarkable breaking of an "unbreakable" coding machine, the many secret night-time beach visits by special forces to determine which would be right for tanks and infantry, the unbelievably risky operations of the Resistance in Occupied France, none of them knowing exactly what would happen or when, but carrying out those missions regardless, because they knew it would count in the end. The ingenuity and courage shown by them all is beyond humbling.
Awesome as always guys
Hyped that you're looking at the Canadians in this series.
I can't wait to see it
My great uncle used to always say, "I was there with the boys on sword beach in June 1944"...and he was: 2 weeks later driving a supply truck
Well done!!!
Oh lovely thanks alot ah, feel a bit like a muppet about being annoyed this wasnt covered in your last dday video
I love the new intro's
Visited all these places years ago but thankfully under better circumstances
Jolly good show!
Brilliant!
The fact you pronounced the regiment names correctly is worth 100 points.
Great video!
Great work, keep it up. Wonder what other military operations might feature in Bird’s Eye View
I love these Bird's Eye View videos!
Thanks for this, I've heard the story of Omaha and Utah time and time again, but it's difficult to get anything on the other 3 beachs
I like that someone finally acknowledges that there were more than just the US Army on D-Day. 👍
most people with a some history knowledge know there were brits and canadians on D Day
British Commonwealth forces were actually the majority on D-Day, including ships and planes.
Wow that cool
Great vid!
Please make on from the Canadians perspective!❤
very good video so interesting and well put together!
The video i never knew i needed.i'll watch it when i wake up
D-Day from the Seagull perspective: _endless screaming_
Can you cover up on what Vichy Soldiers doing when Liberation of France happened?, why they just like vanished when the Allied landing in France?
Following the American/British landings in North Africa during Operation Torch in 1942, the Germans decided that Vichy couldn't be trusted. They promptly invaded, hoping to seize the large French fleet in Toulon. The French, however, managed to either scuttle or evacuate the various warships before the Germans could get them. Vichy ceased to exist after that as Germany occupied all of France.
On D-Day, Free French commandos parachuted into Normandy and Brittany, while an elite French commando force landed alongside the British at Sword. Later, in September, an entire army of 250,000 French troops (most of them colonial troops) landed in the south of France alongside US forces. They drove the Germans back with relative ease, linked up with Allied forces in the north and and liberated various crucial port cities that were badly needed to bring in supplies.
Oh, one final note? The unit that liberated Paris was the French 2nd Armored Division.
Love the videos! Keep up the good work!
The Canadian Beach was originally named Jelly,, the Canadians insisted on a different name for such a historic landing.
wish youd mentioned the battle of port en bessin, what a feat of arms
Nicely done video. Can't wait to see the video on the Canadian perceptive of this assault. I also hope to see one on the German perspective too. That would be nice.
I hope the french prespective comes next
Great idea for a video!
is the thumbnail a reference to the mission from the original COD game? or was that mission in an IRL town that the whole battle there actually happened in?
Highly recommend reading pegasus bridge by Steven Ambrose
D-Day is like the ultimate answer to the evacuation of dunkirk for the british
I can't believe this channel doesn't get more views. UA-cam is definitely down ranking.
The french series The very long holiday was set in a village near Juno beach
great vid.
Can you do the battle of Midway please
Very good
The fact that a free and professionally animated historical documentary doesn’t have a million views is killing me
i honestly wonder what the birds thought flying overhead, and if they probably wondered, *what the heck is going on?*
8:00 Hold on.... Is that Mad Jack on the bag pipes?
Bill Millin
Gloryhogging Americans may like to know that during Normandy, British naval personnel delivered your Iowa farmboys to their beaches, British warships like HMS Black Prince, Talybont and Tanatside helped guard American beaches oh and head of land armies was British, head of air forces was British and head of naval forces was British, the British and Canadians faced the majority of German armour in the Normandy countryside, oh and Britain's Mulberry harbour survived because they built their harbour correctly. Womp womp.
When I was in high school we had a guest speaker, a USAAF veteran who flew bombers on D-Day. He told us he once met a Pole who had been captured by multiple sides, multiple times, and forced to fight on both the Allied and Axis sides. So he asked him who he hoped would win the war. The Polish man pulled out his wallet and showed him a picture of his wife and daughter, and said "whoever gets me back to them". The Polish man was subsequently captured by the Nazis and forced to defend Normandy. He wondered, as he did his bombing runs, if he was dropping them on the man he had met not so long ago. And I remember, this 91 year old man, he had this far off haunted look in his eye. Like he could see far into the distance, far beyond the walls and windows and lawns. That has always stuck with me. The horror he still lived with as an old man. Remember that scene from Saving Private Ryan? That.
Bird's Eye View Videos are cool, thanks
When is the Yugoslav wars video coming out? I mean all videos are interesting but i really wanna see this one. Keep up the good work!