Thank you. That is very kind of you to say. I have been visiting Normandy for over 20 years. Every visit I feel humbled, it's like a pilgrimage for me.
I'm a combat vet of the second war in Iraq. But my experience was child's play compared to the horrors, and the chaos of D Day. Especially the first waves who had all the odds stacked against them. I can't help but cry every time I see the beaches of Normandy and think of what these heroes went through. Never forget what they died for.
My father-in-law was there. On June 6, my husband and I had the grandchildren over to tell them about their great-grandfather and DDay. We retold his stories and showed them his medals. I kept choking up, but it was a good experience. They knew a great deal about the war.🇺🇸
I had the privilege and honor of visiting Normandy several years ago. The feeling I had as I walked on Omaha Beach was indescribable, I truly was humbled by the endless sacrifices made so that others could live free today. Freedom isn't free, let us never forget that. Thank you to all those who selflessly give of themselves so that we may enjoy what so many take for granted, FREEDOM.
Thank you for this poignant and beautifully filmed video. THE GREATEST GENERATION whose tremendous sacrifices, heroism, fortitude and love of liberty and freedom must always be remembered. With very few now remaining, these men and women deservedly belong to The Ages. May they rest well in Paradise.
Retired D-Day Beaches (21 years) tourguide I am very grateful to see all of this from “above”. I really enjoyed it, and I thank you for posting it. Lest we forget!
Thank You. I have subscribed to your channel, I like the format of your videos. I have a video in draft covering Angoville and St Mere Eglise, so very inspiring.
Your video was very well done! I loved it so much! I’m here today because of the sacrifice of many young soldiers from 🇨🇦🇱🇷🇬🇧🇨🇿🇪🇬 countries, who were brave enough and willing to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of liberation of the people who were persecuted by the Nazis oppressors! God be with them for eternity! 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦😎
I've just left Normandy after a week attending the 80th commemorations in my 65 years of being on this earth it was the most memorable and humbling experience of my life. Well done a great film. 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇫
Thank you, ever so much! Sounds like you had e memorable experience. Normandy is my favourite place to visit. I've been attending for over 20 years and it never losses it's appeal. I'm still learning new things about the campaign and seeing new places.
👍👌👏💯🫡🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇵🪖🪂🙏🏻 ....ma merveilleuse et magnifique Normandie aujourd'hui grâce à ces valeureux et courageux soldats qui ont sacrifiés leur vie pour notre liberté...hommage et souvenirs à eux, je suis là maintenant aujourd'hui auprès d'eux, avec mes enfants et mes frères pour les honorer....🙏🏻🕊✝️🪖🪂🪖🪂🫡🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇵💙🤍❤️🇨🇵🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦🪖🪂🪖🪂👏👏👏👍🥰🙋♂️👋🏻
I find it remarkable how there are lots of flags and memorials for the allied power's soldiers, and none (as far as I have seen) for the axis powers' soldiers. Now don't ask me how a respectful and dignified way to remember these _other_ lives that were lost on that day may look like, I certainly don't have a clue and it's clearly a spicy topic. As a modern European, I simply mourn _all_ the lives lost as a result of our former dis-unity. Fantastic video by the way, really moves me!
Thank you for your comments. It's a difficult subject, but when I visit I often see contingents from Germany in attendance for many of the scheduled events.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes thank _you_ for your balanced answer. I was quite worried to write a comment like that online, as one is easily misunderstood regarding topics like this.
Belles images de ma region tant aimé ...que ces fêtes soient superbes pour le 80em anniversaire..et vive americains, canadiens, anglais et français...qui libererent la France et les autres pays européens du joug des nazis...
The Allied forces were composed of many nationalities, from what I read, in terms of the number of soldiers, Poles were the 4th or 5th force stationed in England. On June 6, all Polish fighter squadrons covered the landings in Normandy (just like in Operation Jubille in Dieppe). On June 6, one of the Polish pilots also died over Normandy. Using the term "Nazis" washes away responsibility from the country that is responsible for these crimes, i.e. Germany. Only a few percent of Germans were Nazis. However, most Germans supported Hitler's policies until they began to withdraw on various fronts (especially in the East). Most of the concentration camp guards were ordinary Germans, they were not members of Hitler's party.
Amen and honour to the fallen soldier 🖤 (s) who fought for our freedom and gave their upmost paying with their lives. May they rest in peace and never be forgotten!
On both sides. When I was stationed in Germany I met several families whose grandfathers were in France. They all wanted to be home in Germany. The were conscripted, given the most basic of a couple weeks training and shipped off. The young have always paid the price for old politicians wars.
Been to all of these places but seeing it from the air is so much better! You even showed the cafe where I left my Ted Baker Jacket on Dog Green sector on Omaha Beach 😂. Absolutely fantastic. Well done!
Great footage. You can still clearly see the bomb craters at around 16:30. Very sobering and chilling to still see. Lovely to see the people enjoying their day on the beach, and we must not forget that it was their day on the beach on D-Day that gave them the freedom to enjoy their day on the beach today. RIP to all the heroes of D-Day, not one of us can begin to imagine the hell, horror and terror and shock that they went through on the 6th June 1944. I for one will always be infinitely grateful beyond words and I regularly think of them throughout the year, of those heroes who gave their life, and I will never forget what you did.
This is really nicely done. I'd really like to see this without the current day trees/shrubbery and memorial buildup in order to get a more complete sense of what I looked like to those who went through the D-Day ordeal. I can only imagine the memories those men had coming back at later dates.
@ theshadow ...Hello ! I agree with you !!! Je suis française et totalement d accord avec vous. Nous sommes baignés ds la mythologie américaine depuis 70 ans et surtout depuis 40 ans . Mais il y a quand même des historiens qui se battent pour rétablir la vérité et aussi beaucoup de français âgés qui veulent transmettre la vérité des faits avant de mourir. Et nous avons les écrits de De Gaulle. Cordialement.
The aerial perspective tells it all, particularly on Omaha, where the tide must go out at least a third of a mile. Surprised anyone survived traversing that distance under fire.
What a Great video thank you. I noted that the ground at Pointe Du Hoc is still scared with the craters from the Assault 80 years ago. how sorrow fills the air. I wish the leaders of the world would take a good look at this and remember the cost before embarking on yet another Great and Terrible War.
I wish the authority would recreate 100M of the beach and landing the way it was June 6, 1944so visitors would get an idea of the hardship facing the soldiers arriving. I mean there are plenty of artifacts lying everywhere.
On the dunes in front of the British memorial I saw while watching the ceremony yesterday an installation of several hundred black silhouettes of soldiers representing those who were killed on June 6th. I don’t see it here. Was it just a temporary installation or is it just not visible from the air or was it just installed recently? Great video
Great video..... I was able to go walk those beaches, and that was the first thing that catches you off guard - the scale of it. Books and movies don't capture that. But in person, you see just how HUGE the area was where they went ashore. I wish you had gone inland just a bit from Utah, and caught some of the areas where the US Airborne came in. But, I haven't looked at your site yet, you may have that, I'll check it out Really really good video thank you for capturing this
Thank you for watching. I have a video coming in the next few days about the US Airborne. It has drone footage of Brecourt Manor, La Fiere, St Marie Du Mont, and Marmion Farm. Also lots of handheld footage on the ground.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes Fantastic. Looks like you toured the area like I did. I did it before you had drones (2001). Lots of ground level pics and vids though. I really appreciated the overview of the cemetery at Colleville. It was pretty breathtaking walking that on the ground, it humbles you to see how big the cemetery is when you visit it.
It's more strict than the UK but flying is allowed in more places than there are restrictions. Dronespot is a good French website showing the restrictions. The beaches are mostly fine.
Great footge, thank you. How close or far away were sectors or beaches from one another. Would it had been likely that they cound get visulal contact from sector to sector? Does every sector is a portion of a continious beach? Thank you!
Mostly there were large gaps, miles between the beaches. Juno and Gold were the closest together and units linked up quickly. The Germans were unable to exploit these gaps. The Allies were quicker at bringing in reinforcements.
Great footage!
Glad you enjoyed it
This is a brilliant way of paying tribute to all those service people who lost their lives on D-day 😢❤
Thank you. That is very kind of you to say. I have been visiting Normandy for over 20 years. Every visit I feel humbled, it's like a pilgrimage for me.
Allen ??
I'm a combat vet of the second war in Iraq. But my experience was child's play compared to the horrors, and the chaos of D Day. Especially the first waves who had all the odds stacked against them. I can't help but cry every time I see the beaches of Normandy and think of what these heroes went through. Never forget what they died for.
Thank you for your service, Sir!
My father-in-law was there. On June 6, my husband and I had the grandchildren over to tell them about their great-grandfather and DDay. We retold his stories and showed them his medals. I kept choking up, but it was a good experience. They knew a great deal about the war.🇺🇸
I had the privilege and honor of visiting Normandy several years ago. The feeling I had as I walked on Omaha Beach was indescribable, I truly was humbled by the endless sacrifices made so that others could live free today.
Freedom isn't free, let us never forget that.
Thank you to all those who selflessly give of themselves so that we may enjoy what so many take for granted, FREEDOM.
I completely agree. We must never let those men down, for all they sacrificed.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes Thank you to all of you Americans, Canadians and English for your sacrifice.
Thank you for this poignant and beautifully filmed video.
THE GREATEST GENERATION whose tremendous sacrifices, heroism, fortitude and love of liberty and freedom must always be remembered.
With very few now remaining, these men and women deservedly belong to The Ages.
May they rest well in Paradise.
Well said! Thank you!
There is no greater gift than one who lays down his life for another, so that we maybe free today. RIP
Well said. Thank you!
Retired D-Day Beaches (21 years) tourguide I am very grateful to see all of this from “above”.
I really enjoyed it, and I thank you for posting it. Lest we forget!
Thank You. I have subscribed to your channel, I like the format of your videos. I have a video in draft covering Angoville and St Mere Eglise, so very inspiring.
Your video was very well done! I loved it so much!
I’m here today because of the sacrifice of many young soldiers from 🇨🇦🇱🇷🇬🇧🇨🇿🇪🇬 countries, who were brave enough and willing to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of liberation of the people who were persecuted by the Nazis oppressors! God be with them for eternity! 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦😎
Many Thanks! We owe them our gratitude!
Oublié le 🇨🇵. Merci pour eux tous.
Jaw dropping incredible
To think what the hell was June 6, 1944
Thank you to all of our heroes who gave everything to restore Freedom
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed the video. We Will Remember Them!
Most moving drone footage I have ever seen...wow.
Thank you, I’m really pleased you enjoyed it.
I've just left Normandy after a week attending the 80th commemorations in my 65 years of being on this earth it was the most memorable and humbling experience of my life. Well done a great film. 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇫
Thank you, ever so much! Sounds like you had e memorable experience. Normandy is my favourite place to visit. I've been attending for over 20 years and it never losses it's appeal. I'm still learning new things about the campaign and seeing new places.
👍👌👏💯🫡🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇵🪖🪂🙏🏻
....ma merveilleuse et magnifique Normandie aujourd'hui grâce à ces valeureux et courageux soldats qui ont sacrifiés leur vie pour notre liberté...hommage et souvenirs à eux, je suis là maintenant aujourd'hui auprès d'eux, avec mes enfants et mes frères pour les honorer....🙏🏻🕊✝️🪖🪂🪖🪂🫡🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇵💙🤍❤️🇨🇵🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦🪖🪂🪖🪂👏👏👏👍🥰🙋♂️👋🏻
Merci d'avoir regardé
Very well done. Much sadness for our heroes that died.
Thank you! Very much so. They gave their today for our tomorrow.
Eure Helden ???
Tears………..so moving……..
Thank you for watching!
Video is so beautiful and yet so sad . How many men lost their lives on those beaches
Thank you. Visiting Normandy brings mixed emotions, joy and sadness in equal measure.
Hits hard. They made the ultimate sacrifice so that the sun could rise on a free Europe.
Salute to the heroes.
So true. Thank you for watching!
The first house liberated in France on D-DAY was the "Café Gondrée" ... a café, french cultural symbol ... 🤗
Some say the Cafe Picot opposite was the first. The Cafe Gondree has that recognition.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes I heard that, café Gondrée is just the "official" first liberated building.
From Canada:
To the producers of this video, thank you.
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Its my pleasure to showcase the Canadian beaches. Canada's contribution to WW2 was outstanding.
Thank you for posting.
We will remember them.
Amen 🙏
Beautiful and emotional, excellent work
Thank you for watching!
The fly over brings everything into perspective, good job well done.
Thank you for watching. I'm really pleased you enjoyed the video.
I find it remarkable how there are lots of flags and memorials for the allied power's soldiers, and none (as far as I have seen) for the axis powers' soldiers.
Now don't ask me how a respectful and dignified way to remember these _other_ lives that were lost on that day may look like, I certainly don't have a clue and it's clearly a spicy topic.
As a modern European, I simply mourn _all_ the lives lost as a result of our former dis-unity.
Fantastic video by the way, really moves me!
Thank you for your comments. It's a difficult subject, but when I visit I often see contingents from Germany in attendance for many of the scheduled events.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes thank _you_ for your balanced answer. I was quite worried to write a comment like that online, as one is easily misunderstood regarding topics like this.
Belles images de ma region tant aimé ...que ces fêtes soient superbes pour le 80em anniversaire..et vive americains, canadiens, anglais et français...qui libererent la France et les autres pays européens du joug des nazis...
Merci. Je suis tellement content que ça vous plaise.
The Allied forces were composed of many nationalities, from what I read, in terms of the number of soldiers, Poles were the 4th or 5th force stationed in England. On June 6, all Polish fighter squadrons covered the landings in Normandy (just like in Operation Jubille in Dieppe). On June 6, one of the Polish pilots also died over Normandy.
Using the term "Nazis" washes away responsibility from the country that is responsible for these crimes, i.e. Germany. Only a few percent of Germans were Nazis. However, most Germans supported Hitler's policies until they began to withdraw on various fronts (especially in the East).
Most of the concentration camp guards were ordinary Germans, they were not members of Hitler's party.
Every square foot of those beaches is sacred.
I get goosebumps just being there. These beaches in Normandy are very special.
Amen and honour to the fallen soldier 🖤 (s) who fought for our freedom and gave their upmost paying with their lives. May they rest in peace and never be forgotten!
On both sides. When I was stationed in Germany I met several families whose grandfathers were in France. They all wanted to be home in Germany. The were conscripted, given the most basic of a couple weeks training and shipped off. The young have always paid the price for old politicians wars.
I live here, let me tell you they are building wind turbine in the sea just in front of it !!!!!!!!
@@romainhebrenoooooo!😔
Been to all of these places but seeing it from the air is so much better! You even showed the cafe where I left my Ted Baker Jacket on Dog Green sector on Omaha Beach 😂. Absolutely fantastic. Well done!
Thank you for watching. I'm really pleased you enjoyed the video.
Great footage. You can still clearly see the bomb craters at around 16:30. Very sobering and chilling to still see. Lovely to see the people enjoying their day on the beach, and we must not forget that it was their day on the beach on D-Day that gave them the freedom to enjoy their day on the beach today. RIP to all the heroes of D-Day, not one of us can begin to imagine the hell, horror and terror and shock that they went through on the 6th June 1944. I for one will always be infinitely grateful beyond words and I regularly think of them throughout the year, of those heroes who gave their life, and I will never forget what you did.
Thank you so much for your very thoughtful reply. I agree with you 100%.
I weep at how far they had to run while under fire and artillery.
It's truly sad to see how wide the beaches were, particularly at Omaha, its almost 600 meters at low tide.
This is really nicely done. I'd really like to see this without the current day trees/shrubbery and memorial buildup in order to get a more complete sense of what I looked like to those who went through the D-Day ordeal. I can only imagine the memories those men had coming back at later dates.
Thank you! You may be interested in my 90th Anniversary video featuring footage from D-Day - ua-cam.com/video/scW1VprsFK8/v-deo.html
So Many gave so Much for Our Freedoms.
We Will Remember Them. We owe it to their memory.
Mind blowing, really is
Thank you. A wonderful and moving film.
Thank you, so much, for watching.
This is amazing.
Thank you!
Excellent!
Thank you!
@ theshadow ...Hello ! I agree with you !!! Je suis française et totalement d accord avec vous. Nous sommes baignés ds la mythologie américaine depuis 70 ans et surtout depuis 40 ans . Mais il y a quand même des historiens qui se battent pour rétablir la vérité et aussi beaucoup de français âgés qui veulent transmettre la vérité des faits avant de mourir. Et nous avons les écrits de De Gaulle. Cordialement.
Lest we forget...
🙏We Will Remember Them!
Thank you. Superb film showing all the beeches and Pegasus Bridge. Respect!
Many thanks! I really appreciate your comment. Pegasus Bridge is one of my favourite places in Normandy.
awesome
Thank You!
Juno warmuseum looks like sea-shells from 1942.
It certainly does! It gives you a completely different perspective when viewed from the air.
Amazing footage 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷
Thank for your comment. It was a pleasure to film these special places with my drone.
Excelente video!!! Muchísimas gracias por subirlo y por el tiempo que le dedico a realizarlo.👍👏👏👏
Muchas gracias!
The aerial perspective tells it all, particularly on Omaha, where the tide must go out at least a third of a mile.
Surprised anyone survived traversing that distance under fire.
@@nicholasroberts6954 over 400 meters at Omaha, very wide.
What a Great video thank you. I noted that the ground at Pointe Du Hoc is still scared with the craters from the Assault 80 years ago. how sorrow fills the air. I wish the leaders of the world would take a good look at this and remember the cost before embarking on yet another Great and Terrible War.
How true. Thank your for watching!
Great video, thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for watching!
Never forget!
I wish the authority would recreate 100M of the beach and landing the way it was June 6, 1944so visitors would get an idea of the hardship facing the soldiers arriving. I mean there are plenty of artifacts lying everywhere.
LEST WE FORGET HAND SALUTE FOR ALL WHO SERVED IN THE WAR, BOTH AMERICAN AND OUR ALLIES.
Well said! We Will Remember Them!
Enjoyed that, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Спасибо.Отличные кадры (Узбекистан)
Спасибо
F H Durrell Royal Regina Rifles, RIP Dad
We will always remember your Father and all our Canadian allies who gave so much for victory in WW2. 🇨🇦
Acredito que essa ponte seja a que foi tomada pelo batalhão do Major Howard, que chegaram em planadores. Façanha extraordinária !
Yes, the first operation of D-Day.
Great video !!!!
Thank You!
Very well done . Thank You .
Thank you!
Wow that was pretty powerful.. thank you..
Thank you for watching!
Ordinary Men/Women to do Extraordinary things.
Very true. Thank you for your comment.
On the dunes in front of the British memorial I saw while watching the ceremony yesterday an installation of several hundred black silhouettes of soldiers representing those who were killed on June 6th. I don’t see it here. Was it just a temporary installation or is it just not visible from the air or was it just installed recently? Great video
I filmed this last year, the silhouettes were only erected in May this year. I believe they will be there until September.
Great video..... I was able to go walk those beaches, and that was the first thing that catches you off guard - the scale of it. Books and movies don't capture that. But in person, you see just how HUGE the area was where they went ashore. I wish you had gone inland just a bit from Utah, and caught some of the areas where the US Airborne came in. But, I haven't looked at your site yet, you may have that, I'll check it out
Really really good video thank you for capturing this
Thank you for watching. I have a video coming in the next few days about the US Airborne. It has drone footage of Brecourt Manor, La Fiere, St Marie Du Mont, and Marmion Farm. Also lots of handheld footage on the ground.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes Fantastic. Looks like you toured the area like I did. I did it before you had drones (2001). Lots of ground level pics and vids though. I really appreciated the overview of the cemetery at Colleville. It was pretty breathtaking walking that on the ground, it humbles you to see how big the cemetery is when you visit it.
This made my eyes misty. What those boys went thru is beyond belief....
It is very sad when you visit the cemeteries, Allied and German.
@@InTheFootstepsofHeroes It reminded me of sending guys home in body bags....
Onore per sempre❤
Smart you started at Pegasus bridge where first military action was at 1 am
Also one of my favourite places to visit when I visit Normandy. Thanks for watching!
See you one day my friend 🇺🇸🫡
Wow!!!!!
Thank you!
Pas mal 👍 😉
Merci!
sword beach: *and where this racetrack is where five of my buddies got blown up, one of their limbs are still under the ground somewhere there*
Great footage, but I thought flying a drone over these D-day areas is forbidden by French law...!
It's more strict than the UK but flying is allowed in more places than there are restrictions. Dronespot is a good French website showing the restrictions. The beaches are mostly fine.
Great footge, thank you. How close or far away were sectors or beaches from one another. Would it had been likely that they cound get visulal contact from sector to sector? Does every sector is a portion of a continious beach? Thank you!
Mostly there were large gaps, miles between the beaches. Juno and Gold were the closest together and units linked up quickly. The Germans were unable to exploit these gaps. The Allies were quicker at bringing in reinforcements.
Debbie. I Have Pepples @ Shells From DDay Beach's. ❤
Wo ist Maisy ??
Die Wahrheit ist eine völlig andere
Wow cant belive they built a gokart track on their graves thats messed up
It's nice that the area is used by the locals, especially the children. I know what you mean, given what happened there 80 years ago.
Как же все по людски сделано. Никаких помпезных 300метровых баб с мечами и лицом трансвестита.
Thanks, i wants it to see at long time 👍💪💪💪
I hope you get to visit. It's a beautiful place.