My grandad just died at 101. He was sunk three times in WWII, lost all his mates as they all joined up together and their ship got sunk by the Bismark. He never spoke about it. When I was younger I would ask him to tell me about the war but he just brushed it off. One day my mother told me he didn't want to relive it, he just wanted to get on with his life. Nicest man you could meet, but the horrors he must have seen...
History needs to remember these stories of regular men in extraordinary times. Reading it in a book is one thing, but seeing them speak of it makes it real.
That's what's called a "significant life event".......Never, ever forget !! The Greatest Generation. My Dad was in WWII as a medic, Africa, Italy, later Normandy. He along w/ his 3 bros. all came back. He saw the worst of it!
@@dabneyoffermein595 My Dad said he got hit w/ a piece of shrapnel in his eye so he got his PH...In the military it's "Life, limb, and eyesight" so he def. deserved it. One piece of shrapnel his a choc/toffee bar which when you eat it, the toffee stays w/ you for a week. It saved his life. My uncle was a MD in a black unit and he said they acted wild off-duty. My Dad also said the black soldiers ran when the tanks attacked. I kinda didn't blame the black soldiers for that since our anti-tank weapons didn't work to well. My Dad was my hero I just didn't realize it until much later and didn't have the chance to tell him. He was proud of me tho..then my other uncle who called me "the cream of the crop" since I was in combat w/ the 82nd Abn Div..... now the tears..
@@u.s.paratroops4633 -- hey, that's great stuff, glad you could share. 82nd airborne, wow, that's all you had to say! Thanks for carrying on a tradition of service in your family, the country can be thankful for that.
@@dabneyoffermein595 I will say that the blacks I served with were outstanding. I knew that our anti-tank weapons weren't near as good as the Germans. I probably would've ran too. Different generation I assume...
Much respect! 🇺🇸 My dad landed on omaha beach that morning. He was in the 147th combat engineers, 6th engineers special brigade. He never got a purple star, but he had a lot of scars from that day. Who knows, maybe your dad helped my dad? I'll always be in awe of that generation. We have much to be proud of. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I have to disagree with you there- but we can try to imagine it, so that the history is burned into our minds and not forgotten. I'm an atheist- and even i feel compelled to thank god for him, his courage to speak on it, and most of all the men he speaks about who couldn't return. Your actions aren't forgotten and your sacrifices are our salvation. Thank you for everything
Steven Spielberg went to great lengths to show the world what the reamp drops were like. The soldiers that were there honored him for it: ua-cam.com/video/xqcSY770aYA/v-deo.html
The amount of pain, suffering you can hear with each word he speaks.... If we feel this much just hearing him, we cannot possible imagine how it feels to these soldiers.
Yes Sir exactly correct. This is what a true hero looks and sounds like. Not those entitled punks of my generation out there screaming about nothing. I am ashamed of them. This is a real Patriot.
😂😂😂 whole time blacks weren’t even allowed to fight along side whites in ww2! They said we lacked the mental capability of combat 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I do feel for soldiers but they wasn’t fighting for blacks and that’s for damn sure! Blacks soldiers fought in ww2 and came home and couldn’t use the same restroom as whites and was getting lynched
If my memory serves me right it was not up until about the 3rd wave that the Americans were able to start gaining ground at Omaha. The first wave was chewed to absolute pieces with massive casualties and made near totally combat ineffective. The second wave faired a little better but also suffered massively. The whole experience must have been very sobering to the core. These men whatever anyone may think of them deserve respect they literally entered into Hell.
I'm trying to imagine what a good tactic would have been. Maybe laying low and slow crawling.. but from the testimony videos I've seen the best thing to do was keep running for the bluff. It was a numbers game then. The Odds were against you for sure.
Mr. Fazzio , there will never be a justification for what you had to witness. I was born June 7 th 1954, I attended many memorial days but it was movies that influenced my views of war, TV shows, not the people who were maybe 30 years old and also starting families. It was much later in my life when you vets were hitting your seventies that the toll of what you men did started to be better understood. Following Memorial Day wreath laying as a scout then cadet we were always invited back to our local legion for hot chocolate and cookies. We were too young to go into the main hall, but we could see many of the men some very drunk, crying, and that distant look. The women of the legion would many a times be seen putting a hand on a shoulder recognizing the reason for those tears was that they came home. Now I watch these videos and see how you men are affected all these years later , you keep those that passed on that day alive and your tears sure share that sorrow that no war movie ever conveyed. Thank you for allowing us to see the realty through your memories.
What a terrible thing to have to keep seeing in your mind. I pray that this interview will give you some peace. I can’t possibly put into words the amount of appreciation, respect and honor that I have for you.
God bless you for your service sir. Thanks you for your courage on D Day and with sharing your personal experience. These sacrifices should never be forgotten.
My dad landed on omaha beach that morning. He was in the 147th combat engineers, 6th engineers special brigade. He was on the LCI (L) US 91. As it neared the beach it struck a mine then was pummeled by german 88's. He went back to Omaha after the war was over & took a picture of the badly damaged 91, it was still in the same spot. (according to what I've found online, that was in the dog white sector) that pic is one of my prized possessions.
This is powerful!! I can’t imagine what this man saw! If you wanna look up the definition of a soldier for the USA and it’s allies is like... well here it is! God bless you my friend and thank you! We love u
This brought me to tiers. Our American society today doesn’t deserve the freedom that those men fought for. The hell they went threw. Those soldiers would turn in theirs graves at the sight of what we have become and it makes me ashamed!
I am surely grateful for the men and women of this time, the whole country contributed! Absolutely brought me to tears knowing people did this to protect our land
As a proud U.S. NAVY veteran I salute Mr. Fazzio and those brave men who performed their duties under fire and met their respective fates that day. At ease Mr. Fazzio, you performed your duty in the finest traditions of the U.S. NAVY. 🇺🇸
Thank you Mr Fazzio. My admiration and sincere thanks for your service! This video got me very choked up - I truly feel for you and all the brave soldiers who went through that hell. God bless you all. As for me and my house, we will never forget.
Sir thank you for your patriotism and your service. You will never be forgotten and neither will your friends that didn't make it through the day. I will always ALWAYS Keep them alive in my heart and the sacrifice they made as well as yourself. I am ashamed of my.generation today. This is what real men looked and sounded like.
I thank God for these men. Not everything in war is worth it, but what they did really was. My grandfather was dropped behind lines to set up come earlier that morning. He told me that it was like another world the amount of noise and aircraft.
Many thanks for your service. You saved us.. ❤️I'm the son of a WW2 NORMANDY VETERAN JOSEPH GRACE HOLDER OF THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR BRAVERY 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 ❤️
@@dcagepcutta6488 he’s not, he’s a failed nfl quarterback who sympathizes with communist openly. He’s a disgrace and used idiots like you to make more money.
Thank for all you did because of you an all that gave everything you saved freedom an liberty for the generations that came after I hope they realize that freedom is not free hard sacrifices must be made to protect freedom!,
My papo told me of one thing he saw on D-Day, the one thing he could remember to tell me without breaking down was seeing the bodies in the water hit by the motors
Our close friend, recently passed, Douglas Turtle was a RN / Royal Marine seconded to the US Rangers also took a landing craft into Omaha, he would also break down and cry particularly at young men drowning weighed down by their packs, the cemetary at Omaha is beautiful be so sad to see the names of all the young men who crossed the Ocean to die on a French beach...
To think Saving Private Ryan gives the closest depiction of what the landing was like. But the true horror of it all we'll never actually know, but Mr Fazzio does 😔 I pray peace on this brave man.
What he witnessed is utterly outside our comprehension. The boat next to him. So sudden, human life meant nothing. The, in his boat, all of their bodies were destroyed right in front of him inside the boat in seconds. He had to drop the ramp. Then, he is shot himself.
That WW2 generation held an awful lot inside of themselves. But you'd never think it when talking to them at work or in the neighborhood - just talking about their jobs, their families and their hobbies. We should have hugged them more.
We must not avoid these stories. They need to stay alive. The sooner they are forgotten, the sooner they will be repeated, except with deadlier weapons and far harsher results.
A handful of US NAVY destroyers saved the US ARMY at Omaha - on their own initiative those destroyers came as close to shore as possible, almost running aground - and shot the Germans to bits at point blank range with their big naval guns. Now you know.
Mr. Fazzio was probably 18 or 19 when he landed on Omaha beach, may he some day find peace.
My grandad just died at 101. He was sunk three times in WWII, lost all his mates as they all joined up together and their ship got sunk by the Bismark. He never spoke about it. When I was younger I would ask him to tell me about the war but he just brushed it off. One day my mother told me he didn't want to relive it, he just wanted to get on with his life. Nicest man you could meet, but the horrors he must have seen...
All the love in my heart isn’t enough to convey how much respect I have for these guys. Thank you!
@John Loughlin Hell no. Slaves kneel.
I always say What were you doing when you were 21 -30 YO ?
History needs to remember these stories of regular men in extraordinary times. Reading it in a book is one thing, but seeing them speak of it makes it real.
That's what's called a "significant life event".......Never, ever forget !! The Greatest Generation. My Dad was in WWII as a medic, Africa, Italy, later Normandy. He along w/ his 3 bros. all came back. He saw the worst of it!
Can you tell us some of the stories he shared with you?
@@dabneyoffermein595 My Dad said he got hit w/ a piece of shrapnel in his eye so he got his PH...In the military it's "Life, limb, and eyesight" so he def. deserved it. One piece of shrapnel his a choc/toffee bar which when you eat it, the toffee stays w/ you for a week. It saved his life. My uncle was a MD in a black unit and he said they acted wild off-duty. My Dad also said the black soldiers ran when the tanks attacked. I kinda didn't blame the black soldiers for that since our anti-tank weapons didn't work to well. My Dad was my hero I just didn't realize it until much later and didn't have the chance to tell him. He was proud of me tho..then my other uncle who called me "the cream of the crop" since I was in combat w/ the 82nd Abn Div.....
now the tears..
@@u.s.paratroops4633 -- hey, that's great stuff, glad you could share. 82nd airborne, wow, that's all you had to say! Thanks for carrying on a tradition of service in your family, the country can be thankful for that.
@@dabneyoffermein595 I will say that the blacks I served with were outstanding. I knew that our anti-tank weapons weren't near as good as the Germans. I probably would've ran too. Different generation I assume...
Much respect!
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My dad landed on omaha beach that morning. He was in the 147th combat engineers, 6th engineers special brigade. He never got a purple star, but he had a lot of scars from that day. Who knows, maybe your dad helped my dad? I'll always be in awe of that generation. We have much to be proud of.
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Jesus, i can imagine the horror after the ramps drop.
I have to disagree with you there- but we can try to imagine it, so that the history is burned into our minds and not forgotten. I'm an atheist- and even i feel compelled to thank god for him, his courage to speak on it, and most of all the men he speaks about who couldn't return.
Your actions aren't forgotten and your sacrifices are our salvation. Thank you for everything
You can't. Not at all!
i can't not even for a second.
Steven Spielberg went to great lengths to show the world what the reamp drops were like. The soldiers that were there honored him for it: ua-cam.com/video/xqcSY770aYA/v-deo.html
@@OsirisIxchel thanks for the reminder....
I visited Omaha beach many times. This summer I will be there again. I always think of the brave young men that died there. We will never forget.
God bless you sir! Thank you for your service!
And woman still say child birth is the worst thing
Wow ive watched many dday docs over the years but this one choaked me up man so raw
Imagine the pain he must’ve felt knowing as soon as he dropped the ramp that men were gonna die. Thank you for your service.
The amount of pain, suffering you can hear with each word he speaks.... If we feel this much just hearing him, we cannot possible imagine how it feels to these soldiers.
Or felt, for those now lain above the beach with their many brothers.... God Bless.
And all these young punks today that are out protesting and burning and looting need to remember one thing! This great man FOUGHT FOR YOU!!!!!!
Yes Sir exactly correct. This is what a true hero looks and sounds like. Not those entitled punks of my generation out there screaming about nothing. I am ashamed of them. This is a real Patriot.
@JeRemy um sure he would rather of been back home raising he'll than going to war!
😂😂😂 whole time blacks weren’t even allowed to fight along side whites in ww2! They said we lacked the mental capability of combat 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I do feel for soldiers but they wasn’t fighting for blacks and that’s for damn sure! Blacks soldiers fought in ww2 and came home and couldn’t use the same restroom as whites and was getting lynched
He fought for their right to protest you fuck
If my memory serves me right it was not up until about the 3rd wave that the Americans were able to start gaining ground at Omaha. The first wave was chewed to absolute pieces with massive casualties and made near totally combat ineffective. The second wave faired a little better but also suffered massively. The whole experience must have been very sobering to the core. These men whatever anyone may think of them deserve respect they literally entered into Hell.
Omaha beach is a pretty big and wide beach, there's so many open ground, the first wave against intact mg42's machine gun nests is almost suicidal.
Not almost. It was.
I'm trying to imagine what a good tactic would have been. Maybe laying low and slow crawling.. but from the testimony videos I've seen the best thing to do was keep running for the bluff. It was a numbers game then. The Odds were against you for sure.
Mr. Fazzio , there will never be a justification for what you had to witness. I was born June 7 th 1954, I attended many memorial days but it was movies that influenced my views of war, TV shows, not the people who were maybe 30 years old and also starting families. It was much later in my life when you vets were hitting your seventies that the toll of what you men did started to be better understood. Following Memorial Day wreath laying as a scout then cadet we were always invited back to our local legion for hot chocolate and cookies.
We were too young to go into the main hall, but we could see many of the men some very drunk, crying, and that distant look. The women of the legion would many a times be seen putting a hand on a shoulder recognizing the reason for those tears was that they came home. Now I watch these videos and see how you men are affected all these years later , you keep those that passed on that day alive and your tears sure share that sorrow that no war movie ever conveyed. Thank you for allowing us to see the realty through your memories.
What a terrible thing to have to keep seeing in your mind. I pray that this interview will give you some peace. I can’t possibly put into words the amount of appreciation, respect and honor that I have for you.
Well said.
My Father In Law was on HMS Orion A light Cruiser during Anzio and D-DAY Landings . His Ship is logged as the first to Fire upon the beaches
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This stopped my heart a full beat.
Really tough to see.
The Inhumanity of all of it.
Seared onto his memory.
God bless you for your service sir. Thanks you for your courage on D Day and with sharing your personal experience. These sacrifices should never be forgotten.
My dad landed on omaha beach that morning. He was in the 147th combat engineers, 6th engineers special brigade. He was on the LCI (L) US 91. As it neared the beach it struck a mine then was pummeled by german 88's. He went back to Omaha after the war was over & took a picture of the badly damaged 91, it was still in the same spot. (according to what I've found online, that was in the dog white sector) that pic is one of my prized possessions.
There has GOT to go be a special wing in Heaven for these dudes!!!!! Seriously!!!!😢
It's called Valhalla.
I salute you sir
No words can say it any other way
God speed and thank you
Retired
Cpl kola
I43 squadron
royal engineer's
British forces
This is powerful!! I can’t imagine what this man saw! If you wanna look up the definition of a soldier for the USA and it’s allies is like... well here it is! God bless you my friend and thank you! We love u
This brought me to tiers. Our American society today doesn’t deserve the freedom that those men fought for. The hell they went threw.
Those soldiers would turn in theirs graves at the sight of what we have become and it makes me ashamed!
I am surely grateful for the men and women of this time, the whole country contributed! Absolutely brought me to tears knowing people did this to protect our land
Thank you for your sacrifice. Thank goodness the Nazis were defeated thanks to people like yourself thank you
As a proud U.S. NAVY veteran I salute Mr. Fazzio and those brave men who performed their duties under fire and met their respective fates that day. At ease Mr. Fazzio, you performed your duty in the finest traditions of the U.S. NAVY. 🇺🇸
Every year I remember the 6th of June and remind my Family of its significance.
Thank you
Thank you Mr Fazzio. My admiration and sincere thanks for your service! This video got me very choked up - I truly feel for you and all the brave soldiers who went through that hell. God bless you all.
As for me and my house, we will never forget.
It’s truly amazing that you survived such a day. Praise god
God bless this man and those with whom he served...
Sir thank you for your patriotism and your service. You will never be forgotten and neither will your friends that didn't make it through the day. I will always ALWAYS Keep them alive in my heart and the sacrifice they made as well as yourself. I am ashamed of my.generation today. This is what real men looked and sounded like.
Your 'brothers' wouldn't seem that much different if put through similar travails.
You will never be forgotten
I’m so sorry! Thank you so much for our freedom! I can’t imagine what you saw and went through! God Bless you and your family !
I can’t even begin to imagine what these brave men went through. Thank you sir!
My father was in the first wave @ Omaha. He never talked about it. But I know it haunted him.
God bless you sir. Thank you and all your fellow soldiers for your sacrifices. May we never forget.
Pray that there is no more war !!!
USA is No. 1 war-nation in the world!
Salute to all my fellow veterans . And prayers 🙏🙏🙏
Who the hell are the people who gave this video a thumbs down?
Agonizing memories to have for many years.
Every American should hear this story and many of the other stories of sacrifice during World War II.
God bless you sir. I personally thank you for your service!
Thank you Sir for telling this.
Thank you sir for sharing this with us.
So we never forget.
War must be outlawed. My Dad's brother was wounded behind enemy lines. He came in on a glider.
I wish I could hug. Him I’m praying
Thankyou Sir.Thankyou to all your comrades.
Thank you so much for serving our country. You all are THE GREATEST GENERATION that came before us.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL
Thank you Mr. Fazzio. America, and the free world, owe you a debt we can never repay.
I thank God for these men. Not everything in war is worth it, but what they did really was.
My grandfather was dropped behind lines to set up come earlier that morning. He told me that it was like another world the amount of noise and aircraft.
The things that this man went through as a young man
Incredible. ..
Many thanks for your service.
You saved us.. ❤️I'm the son of a WW2 NORMANDY VETERAN JOSEPH GRACE HOLDER OF THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR BRAVERY 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 ❤️
My gratitude goes out to you sir for our freedom that we have today. God bless you and please take care.
Bless your service Mr. Fazio.
And just think Colin Kaepernick is considered a hero for some people into today's world !!
He is. So are these guys. Remember trump is the guy who didn’t have the coheres of this guy. Good day.
@@dcagepcutta6488 Another Trump Obsessor !!
@@dcagepcutta6488 he’s not, he’s a failed nfl quarterback who sympathizes with communist openly. He’s a disgrace and used idiots like you to make more money.
How do you brink kaepernick into this?, you freaking idiot. Show some respect.
And what's wrong with that? Kaepernick has a good cause and so did this guy.
Thank for all you did because of you an all that gave everything you saved freedom an liberty for the generations that came after I hope they realize that freedom is not free hard sacrifices must be made to protect freedom!,
Can't amagine what he went through nothing but respect
I can’t imagine how horrible to have been there and seeing it happen right in front of you. Let’s pray that it never happens again to anyone
God Bless you man
My papo told me of one thing he saw on D-Day, the one thing he could remember to tell me without breaking down was seeing the bodies in the water hit by the motors
Bless you Richard.
id like to think of myself an agnostic man.but nothing better fits here then thank an god bless your service an life Mr.Fazzio
Thank you Mr. Fazzio
Thank you sir for your service and for sharing your story God bless you
Thank you Sir.
Thank you, andthose who were there
There are no words ,
Our close friend, recently passed, Douglas Turtle was a RN / Royal Marine seconded to the US Rangers also took a landing craft into Omaha, he would also break down and cry particularly at young men drowning weighed down by their packs, the cemetary at Omaha is beautiful be so sad to see the names of all the young men who crossed the Ocean to die on a French beach...
My fss as ther was there too 4th infantry , but he was lucky they hit Utah beach. God bless
THANK YOU, SIR...🇺🇸
To think Saving Private Ryan gives the closest depiction of what the landing was like. But the true horror of it all we'll never actually know, but Mr Fazzio does 😔
I pray peace on this brave man.
Thank you for your service!!!
Thank you Sir
What he witnessed is utterly outside our comprehension.
The boat next to him. So sudden, human life meant nothing.
The, in his boat, all of their bodies were destroyed right in front of him inside the boat in seconds.
He had to drop the ramp.
Then, he is shot himself.
We salute you and thank you Sir!
Thank You for your service.
God bless you and thank you dear sir
Thank you .
Is ricard fazzio still with us today
Dear God.
Imagine hearing all those shells going over your head and you are going where they are landing
That WW2 generation held an awful lot inside of themselves. But you'd never think it when talking to them at work or in the neighborhood - just talking about their jobs, their families and their hobbies. We should have hugged them more.
Thank you all
Thank you for speaking about it.
Bless you.
God Bless these men. And to think how we denigrate men today in this country, as a society
I didn't like hearing that story. It was too real. I don't need to watch these things anymore. Pray for peace.
Terrible times. May they never come again.
We must not avoid these stories. They need to stay alive. The sooner they are forgotten, the sooner they will be repeated, except with deadlier weapons and far harsher results.
Where in new England is he from? I'm assuming he's from new England..
Thank you for serving 👍
Thank you for your service...what else can you say?
God bless you sir, I am so grateful to you and your fellow soldiers
I can imagine. That would be a sight to see. A sad and scary sight to see. So fucking crazy
No we have to give trigger warnings and safe spaces. It’s unbelievable.
they wouldn’t last 1 minutes in these guys boots
Our present day cabal needs to be accountable for all of these wars perpitrated on the people of the planet. It needs to end.
Beyond comprehension how anyone could function under that kind of pressure.
God Bless them all
Damn. What do you say to that except give him a hug and listen
Show
thank you for this
The American Government needs to do more for their veterans no matter the color of the skin
A handful of US NAVY destroyers saved the US ARMY at Omaha - on their own initiative those destroyers came as close to shore as possible, almost running aground - and shot the Germans to bits at point blank range with their big naval guns. Now you know.