@@Canpie55 actually they did use a bunch of early captured PPSHs as well as a very similar Czech design they seized in the occupation of czechoslovakia. Late in the war they relied more and more on captured weapons.
France: "Since Germany can't go through Belgium without invading and no vehicles can pass the belgian forest. They have to go through our defenses!" Germany: *proceeds to invade Belgium and builds armored vehicles that can go through the forest*
@@DragunovJ If it didn't work they wouldn't have had to go around it. They could have just gone through it. Just like a landmine isn't defective if no one steps on it. The true value of a landmine isn't that it explodes people, but that it forces people to avoid it. The Germans invading through Belgium wasn't a failure by the Maginot line, but by the French generals who couldn't predict such an obvious counter move.
Yes, the grappling hook/rope launchers were really used by the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc. There was simply no way to throw a grapple up that high by hand, so, they came up with a rocket propelled launcher.
They also had ladders with machine guns mounted on top coming from DUKWs. I believe only one of the ladders ended up making it. Supposed to be like a firetruck ladder.
Fun fact about the "I washed for supper" line from Saving Private Ryan. Those two "Germans" were actually Czech soldiers that were forced to fight for the German Army. Much of the units during the D-Day invasions consisted of non-German which caused communication issues, shockingly.
Yea I love that they had them speak Czech and they iirc where basically saying they didn’t shoot anyone and didn’t want to fight. Heartbreaking that I’m sure events like that happened but glad the movie highlighted it.
@@nickrouse2795 i also like the fact that in that same scene, they show American G.I's commit a warcrime by shooting unarmed surrendering soldiers. As always in historical movies they always portray US soldier as noble, but in reality a lot of them commit warcrimes. That the war department censored from the public back home using propaganda and bury these kind of things with it. So yeah this was a nice touch by Spielberg on his part.
Fun fact; throughout the entirety of Operation Overlord, the US never encountered any Tigers, despite what tank and infantry crews on the ground said, the actual German documentation shows that only 3 Tiger Is were in France at the time, and all of them fought the British in their push towards and the capturing of the city of Caen. The only Tigers the US Encountered was a train carrying those same tigers, now wrecked, back behind their lines, which was stopped by the disabling of the locomotive with the quad .50 Cal mounter on the M16 Halftrack that first spotted it
@@mrjacob5648 Panthers and Panzer IVs, or other tanks or armoured fighting vehicles. Tiger Fever was very prevelant amongst the troops for the tank's reputation, and any tank with a vaguely boxy shape would be confused for a Tiger. Because tanks tend to attack from long range, and not everyone would've been certain of what a Tiger even looks outside of the rare photo or first-hand account, and even the latter would be unreliable for the same reason.
@@coenisgreat "There were four German units equipped with Tigers in Normandy. Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 102 Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 Panzer-Kompanie 316 (Funklenk), attached to Panzer-Lehr-Division"
@@mrjacob5648 whoops, might’ve been me misremembering units as individuals. My bad. But very few tiger tanks all the same, with very few, if any at all, ever engaging the US forces.
Total Allied casualties on D-Day reached more than 10,000, including 1,074 Canadians, of whom 359 were killed. By the end of the Battle of Normandy, the Allies had suffered 209,000 casualties, including more than 18,700 Canadians. Over 5,000 Canadian soldiers died. I took that from Google tbh Edit: dang I didn't expect y'all to be having conversations about this. It's pretty cool ngl.
@@nikitazladsoskivich8709 because lots of people only associate the D Day landings with Americans and Omaha beach & Utah. While the Canadians hit Juno, and the Brits hit Sword & Gold
@@MapleMayhemGaming Because a lot of people forget that the war was mostly won by the soviets and the soviets had the most casualties...but sure lets forget about them.
@@AtillatheFun we’re talking about JUST D-Day. It’s common knowledge the Soviets spilled the most blood, everyone knows that they were the ones who got all the way to Berlin.
@@MapleMayhemGaming due to American propaganda the French went from thinking the Soviets won the war to now, due to the previously mentioned propaganda, thinking that the Americans did most of the heavy lifting.
The freedom of moving up without hands held in Allied Assault puts it for me waaay high up there. I love the chaos, and the game just let's you figure it out. We need more of that this day and age too.
Also, flamethrowers weren’t actually in the first wave at Omaha Beach. The operators landed with the Infantry and the fought with hand weapons. The heavy equipment were part of the third wave, when most of the coastal bunkers were taken out.
Search up Russel Pickett. He was a flamethrower 1st wave at Dog Green on Omaha Beach. Never made it to the bunker he was assigned to take out, until he went back for the 75th anniversary
@@adammacmillan1681 yeah I'm not surprised that a couple flamethrowers and other equipment made it with the first wave just because of an operation as large as Overlord some S.T.E.A.L will happen and also just confusion
My great grandfather, 1st SGT Franklin Lee Alford was at Normandy with the US Army 1st infantry. He went from a private to a 1st Sgt pretty quickly at Normandy. No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great, duty first!
@@Dan_the_afol it's called "God and Three Campaigns", but as of yet it's never been published. actually, after my grandfathers death my dad and uncle took the book and started to research all the events to get more information on how it all happened, in hopes to publish it one day.
In Conker, he was fighting teddy bears brought to life through mad science. At least they were teddy bears in the original Bad Fur Day. They kinda look more like normal bears in Live and Reloaded though
If anyone didn't realize with the first one the devs took heavy inspiration form the movie saving private Ryan at 3:40. Even runs and grabs the sniper.
These two are just the perfect duo and I love their gamer humor and military knowledge and experience. They are my favorite guys to watch when they review any FPS game and specifically anything to history and semi-realistic, keep it up!
To answer Camerons question on the PPSH in CodWWII Osttruppen were sometimes removed from the Eastern front and sent west with captured weapons, same with Penial Battalions the PPSH, while uncommon, was found on the beaches of Normandy.
Maginot line worked perfectly. Just so happens that the Wehrmacht decided they didn't want to go head on to the massive guns (yeah i know novel idea) so decided to head through Belgium (which the maginot line didn't cover) and encircled the French and the British Territorial Armies.
@@DragunovJ It did. The plan was to funnel the Germans into Belgium, where they would fight the Germans. The did not expect the armored assault through the Ardennes forest so the French and British were caught with their best troops in Belgium and their weaker troops near the forest. Lacking AT weapons they stood no chance against the German assault. They then turned north towards the coast encircling the best the Allies had to offer. From there the French were unable to mount a proper defense and surrendered
@@Aragorn195 Yeah IIRC the Maginot line was never breached and it only surrendered when the bunkers became impossible to supply due to Germans capturing the area behind the bunkers on the French side of the border.
Allied Assault was the first FPS I played extensively too. It’s crazy how well it still holds up today. The sound design really makes some newer games look pretty subpar. Steven Spielbergs involvement is really noticeable.
Finally, someone who also played it! It was my very first game too, I actually even still play it with my brother. He found a singleplayer co-op mod online. Truly nostalgic
@@runertje550 such a good game. GOG has a version of it that runs on modern PC’s and I finally got to replay it again recently, along with the expansions. It’s crazy how it’s still pretty comparable to modern FPS’s.
@@MrJrv1993 yeahh the one on Origin is the one you’re talking about right? The game is still so fun, Breakthrough is still my favorite campaign. Especially the silent airport mission, it’s so good
Most of the casualties from Pointe du Hoc occurred after the ascent, not during the climb. 15 rangers were lost on the beach itself, not like 150 as you suggest. They were expecting reinforcements that were diverted to Omaha. The rope launchers were real, though they had rope ladders too and only about a half dozen were successful due to the ropes being sopping heavy with ocean water which they didn’t consider in their testing. Lit fuses were attached the the grappling hooks to try to convince the Germans it was a weapon long enough to secure a foot hold and not just have the ropes cut.
I want a game that focuses on the Canadian's pushes in the war. Vimy Ridge and the like, especially with Peggy, Leo Major, and other Canadian soldiers' stories.
I'm so peeved I lost my GameCube copy when I borrowed it to a friend and never got it back. One of my favorite WW2 shooters alongside Brothers in Arms.
Yeah, that is a unique one. I do love how, late in the level, Brooklyn actually pounds a mortar round on a crate to prime it and then tosses it at one of the Flak 88's! Cool little detail to throw in that was probably missed by a lot of people.
I just played Call of Duty WW2 for the first time and its just an inferior version of COD Big Red One. COD WW2 also felt very short, like you're playing the second half of the game and you missed the Africa and Sicily missions in the first half.
God ive been playing that game so much and every game is different. Every team pushes up the beach differently and sometimes you never even make it off the beach
The Rangers that landed and assaulted Pointe du Hoc had a cut off time to call in the rest of the battalion after they had reached the top which was at about 7. The call for the reinforcements was just a little late and the rest of the battalion was diverted to Omaha.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.. Still The First Game Had A D-Day Landing Mission.. And We Don't Forget About it.. it's The First Game About WWII FPS..
my dad and grandpa saw Saving Private Ryan in theatres and when they came out they saw an old man sitting on the bench outside of the bathroom just crying because of how well portrayed the sheer brutality of D-Day
The First U.S. Army, accounting for the first twenty-four hours in Normandy, tabulated 1,465 killed, 1,928 missing, and 6,603 wounded. The after-action report of U.S. VII Corps (ending 1 July) showed 22,119 casualties including 2,811 killed, 5,665 missing, 79 prisoners, and 13,564 wounded, including paratroopers. Canadian forces at Juno Beach sustained 946 casualties, of whom 335 were listed as killed. Surprisingly, no British figures were published, but Cornelius Ryan cites estimates of 2,500 to 3,000 killed, wounded, and missing, including 650 from the Sixth Airborne Division. German sources vary between four thousand and nine thousand D-Day casualties on 6 June-a range of 125 percent. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s report for all of June cited killed, wounded, and missing of some 250,000 men, including twenty-eight generals
Remember, the reason the Army Rangers had such a large part in the amphibious assault was because Eisenhower didn't want his army to be overshadowed by the Marines like they were due to Belleau Wood.
Allied Assault was and still is the best portrayal of the battle. But that’s also mostly because of the nostalgia I have for this game. I heard somewhere that even director Steven Spielberg kind of like directed that mission, because they wanted to recreate the scenes from Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is actually a pretty unrealistic depiction of Omaha. The 2nd Rangers weren't there in force, it was mostly 29th Infantry, while the Rangers were mainly tasked with storming Point Du Hoc to the west. The layout is completely incorrect and the type of fortifications used are also not accurate, mostly because the real Normandy beaches are now protected and turning them into a film set wouldn't be allowed by the French government, so the scene was shot on a beach in Ireland instead. The most 1:1 accurate recreation of Omaha Beach is in the Battlefield 2 mod Forgotten Hope 2.
According to the director of D Day Memorial Allied D-Day fatalities ranging from 5,000 to 12,000 and Germans have been estimated to be between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing.
During the invasion of Normady the Germans suffered 30,000 killed, 210,000 missing and 80 thousand wounded. Totalling 320,000 casualties. Americans suffered approximately 30,00 killed, 105,000 wounded and missing. UK lost 65,000. Canada lost 18,000. France lost 12,000. So yeah, alot more than what you said.
After all these years and we still can't get an accurate count of fatalities. I mean it's been 78 years how long does it take to go over all the governmental paperwork?
@@pestonbanza1956 are we talking the invasion of the whole of France or just the invasion of Normandy because the invasion of Normandy only had 2500 or so confirmed deaths and idk bout the Germans but they definitely had a lil bit more than the Americans but like I said if we were talking the whole invasion of France then those numbers probably would be pretty accurate
@@derekcox543 well to be fair a lot of the bodies were not actually found, for example the people the drowned they couldn’t identify a body so the process took a little bit longer and they did finally get a direct number with the total number of American deaths at Normandy being……. Drumroll please……. 2501, there you go that’s your exact number after those 78 years
COD2 definitely did it right. Here’s a good video with bonus scenes and a bit more history with interviews of WW2 Vets. The first 16mins are worth a watch. ua-cam.com/video/grgVwNQevsA/v-deo.html
I loved that game so much so many memories of coming so close to completing a mission just to catch a bullet from some dude 200 yards behind you you didn't even know was there lol
i STILL play the MoH Frontline version of D Day. it blew my mind completely when i first played it. it was the first game that really nailed the saving private ryan scene completely. and the graphics for the time were incredibly detailed
Maginot line actually was really tough and Germans defeated it by not fighting and it and just going around trough Belgium and Ardenes forest which was supposedly impassable by armoured vehicles. Well French command thought so. There is a story of one French tank commander taking his tanked and passing trough forest to prove it can be done, then going to the HQ and informing the command of it and they told him they are not interested, because even if he did it, that does not matter because it is impossible to do. Would not surprise me if the story was real. Just high command things I guess.
Having been to Normandy, I can say it's one of the most incredible sites I've got to tour. I stood on top of the cliffs and just imagined the Allied assault peeking through the horizon. Standing there, I remember thinking that it's incredible they ever managed to secure this beach. The heroics and bravery that day, this is why it's legendary. It still gives me chills thinking about it.
To answer Israel’s question at 22:10, the US lost approximately 2,500 people on both Omaha and Utah beaches. Roughly 2000 of those came from Omaha alone.
Fun fact about the puking. The Soldiers on the ships were given a large breakfast, stuff like steak, pancakes etc to boost morale because they knew that the beach landing was going to be brutal. The unforeseen consequence was sea sickness. Quite a few Veterans that survived the first wave attributed their survival to not eating too much before getting on the boats, because being sick is obviously very distracting in combat. What we can learn from this is don't stuff your gullet before a seaborne assault.
Both cod games got general lol. But cod always nailed the big cinematic firefights. Like MW2 and 3 both had large scale invasion missions but both were urban style missions. I'm just a cod fanboy though lol. I've loved cod since the first time I played it and now it's my go to fps game. Battlefield and apex would be up next. Then open world games are in the same spot as them... so cod then apex gta5 rdr2 tw3 and bf are all second... I think that's how that works lmfao
I’d like to see a game with a more historically accurate depiction of German defensive positions on Omaha. I get it, the two massive bunkers from Saving Private Ryan are iconic, but that’s not what Omaha beach looked like.
The German field marshal, known as Moltke the Elder, believed in developing a series of options for battle instead of a single plan, saying “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.” Today, “no plan survives contact with the enemy” is the popular reconfiguration of this concept.
For US Tank crews during WW2, you had a 6% chance of dying, and 50% of all tankers killed were killed inside the tank. you had a 94% chance of living if you were a tank crewman in the US during WW2
Wait...wait...Wait...wait...Wait...wait...Wait...wait...Wait...wait...Wait...wait... ... ...wait... Did Cam just pull all that Ranger history of D-Day out of his ass or is he a secret military historian in hiding..? Either way, that's pretty awesome.
7:56 to get more technical. The mg42 was also used fair anti ircraft. And would most of the times be on a mono pod. You can turn 360' and up and down. Most static mg42 and mg3 still have those
I like how many video games depicted the brutality of it well, but never historically accurate (COD excluded, sort of) The barrier is not as messy like this, it’s arranged with pattern and far distances. The boats were far away from each other so it’s not possible for other boats to hit each other. The act of soldiers hiding behind the barriers/ deaths immediately before a step out of the boat were almost impossible because the machine gunners couldn’t even see them. The beach is extended extremely long especially in Omaha, soldiers need to run hundreds of meters across the beach first before even getting blasted.
Now that I think about it, that was impressive attention to detail from COD. The German soldiers that were defending Omaha beach had recently come back from fighting in the eastern front, so it makes sense that there would be a few prized PPSH 41s at Omaha.
Love seeing both of you keep up the good work. I wonder if you guys can do a review of Kill Zone it's got quite a interesting story along with interesting goods.
I really Cried a lot when "Lt.Turner" Dies in Later mission while saving other squad mates. "No mission too difficult! No sacrifice too great! Duty first"
Found this info online: "Throughout the entire Battle of Normandy, over 425,000 Allied troops and German troops were killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoners. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, 125,847 were U.S. ground troops and 83,045 were 21st Army Group men (British, Canadian, and Polish ground forces)."
Most people forget that the beaches of Normandy weren’t just a bunch of barbed wire and some bunkers with machine guns, it was a massive interlocking system where there was always fields of fire and again people forget that the entire coast was already pre sighted and for those don’t know, presighted basically means that everything was already mapped where each area is gridded off and is given a grid number and reference so in short it allowed the artillery and gunners to target enemy’s with pin point accuracy As an example FIRE AT A11 gunner reads his manual A11( range 500 meters, elevation 38• angle 10• And much like the game battleship the artillery can unload rounds onto the poor sods at A11 and the surrounding area
"Properly the most violent assaults in history" D-Day Total Allied deaths - 4,414 Battle of the Somme Day 1 British deaths - 19,240 America should learn more about WWI
You put the wrong number of casualties for D-day. 10,000 is how many casualties the allies suffered in total (Wounded, dead, missing, Prisoner). 4,414 is the number of confirmed dead soldiers. It could be more, since there’s no accurate number due to the chaos.
@@e-san6111 but during the battle of the somme most dog tags are lost to the mud, so there could be way more dead. the killed and missing of the whole battle of the somme (not casualties) is 95,675 for the whole commonwealth and 50,756 for the french. casualties are 419,654 for the commonwealth and 204,253 for the french. missing means their dog tags cannot be identified or found.
I’ll never forget a machine gunners wet dream from being beaten for not knowing it by heart. Machine gunners wet dream “when the long axis of the beaten zone coincides or nearly coincides with the long axis of the patrol”
I sincerely like all those D day levels, but I think that Omaha beach has been so overused that it is boring. They should do something other than the "American side" of the story. For example the Warsaw massacre, or the battle of Warsaw if you were a rebel. Or the bloody battle of stalingrad, in my opinion, the worst military grade mistake ever made in history (if you don't count the Emu War). Or the massacres at the other sections of Normandy. Sure Gold, Sword, and the other section which name I cannot remember, ended up well with little casualties, but Juno was a whole different story those Canadian soldiers did not saw that coming.
Or even better yet how bout showing the African campaign the Germans tore through northern Africa and it had some of the craziest tank battles in the war, it would also be dope to acknowledge all the lives lost history never cared to remember. What the nazis did to jews was so atrocious it made it so most people don't even know what happened to black people gypsies and the handicapped
@@DeShawnMcDonald I see, you are a man of culture as well. And I totally agree with you. But, as a man who was raised in Madrid, I think that they focus the games on WWII a little too much. Someone should make a game that shows the horror of the Spanish civil war. My grandfather fought on the ebro. He said that it was the most horrible experience he ever lived through. Or the Soviet revolution. There have been many conflicts other than WWII that are now forgotten.
@@MrIsaac-cc6om I agree hundred percent we've had a thousand ww2 games let's shine a spotlight on others, I like your ideas and I'd like to add one as well the slave revolutions that happened throughout the Caribbean, it would be tricky to tell honestly without upsetting certain groups but I don't think you'll ever be able to accurately tell any war story without some group of people feeling a way. Or shit another great one would be a game where you play as a Zulu warrior fighting against the British they got slaughtered and were fighting guns with leather shields spears and clubs but they still fought like crazy. There's just so much shit history sweeps under the rug that I think at this point with as many ww2 stories that have been told we should start looking elsewhere. And I know it'd work ghosts of tsushima wasn't historically accurate but it showed people are down for war stories other then ww2. But I will say the Spanish Civil War and soviet revolution would be crazy to see with today's graphics and design capabilities. And shit even if they wanna stick with ww2 instead of making another fps make a choice based story game showing what it was like to be an officer working directly under Stalin, make a survival game about being a jew trying to flee to safety, make a papers please like game showing how many nazi scientists got took in. Idk I just think if we're gonna keep making ww2 games let's switch the formula up a bit atleast
@@DeShawnMcDonald I wouldn't mind playing as a polish rebel in the streets of Warsaw. But I think that the problem with this games isn't that they use WWII. WWII is a great historical time that surely deserves the movies and games. The problem is the "American" WWII (the representation of the war that shows nothing but the American side, either on the Pacific or on mainland) I want a game that shows more than June 6 1944 to the end of the war. Like why not show the Japanese side of the story. I can't imagine something more epic than being part of a Banzai charge.
@@MrIsaac-cc6om yeah to this day most Americans still think we bombed Japan cause we had no choice when in reality the soviets were getting ready to steamroll Japan and we didn't wanna look weak in comparison by letting them beat an enemy we didn't. The American pr machine is the most powerful tool in the world
While I enjoyed the Allied Assult, Frontline and CoD 2 Omaha beach missions, my favorite is WW2’s. It was so freaking realistic and really embodies the chaos. I love CoD: WW2 and CoD 3 are probably my favorite CoD games that involve the European side of WW2. You guys should do Experts play WW2. When it comes to the Japanese side, Rising Sun is my go to and it’s really one of the only games that deal with that side.
You are half right about the Maginot line. The problem was it did not go all the way to the coast, nor did it cover the Ardennes believing that no army would be able to cover that terrain with any kind of haste. Little did the French know, 4 Wehrmacht divisions with Armor would steam roll the forest and bypass the French fortifications, which where undermanned and the personnel that where there were completely unprepared for war. Hell, weeks into the war they had no clue that they were at war.
Fun fact: a lot of the nazis weren’t even at the invasion beaches. There is an island way down the coast that we put dozens of inflatable tanks and trucks on to make it look like we were gonna invade from that area but then those nazis got word about the invasion as it was happening and they left to try to keep us out but it was too late. Another fun fact: my grandfather was a Captain when the war was over and he got his honorable discharge
"Can you imagine trying to coordinate through all that" No. As a regular enlisted soldier I respect rangers. They tackle any obstacle almost effortlessly. I'm proud to be a scout because our job is important but I understand rangers require something... more, than the average enlisted soldier.
I literally replayed Frontline about a week ago and I love that first mission. Honestly, up close, it does definitely have some limitations of a 2002 ps2 title. Still a nostalgic game though! Now that I've seen the COD 2 recreation, holy crap would that have blown my mind if I saw saw that when it came out. It seems very accurate to what actually happened too!
I always wanted one of one of these to be landing with Brig. Gen. Theodore (Teddy Jr.) Roosevelt III on Utah, where they landed in the wrong spot, he looked around and noticed it was better positioned than their actual assigned landing zone. "We'll start the war from right here." Just for the iconic image of him walking, with a cane in one hand (he had severe arthritis at this point), directing men under fire to new revised objectives. He was the oldest man in the invasion (56) and only General to land in the first wave (literally he was in the lead boat and came ashore as one of the first boots on sand). He wasn't supposed to go at all, he was suppose to fill an administrative position, but he made a personal appeal to Major General 'Tubby' Barton, who expected Teddy Jr. to die doing this was amazed when he landed later for Teddy to come hobbling up to him and everything handled already. To stop him walking everywhere on his arthritic knees MajGen Barton had a jeep permanently assigned to him, painted with the name 'Rough Rider' in reference to Teddy's father.
I mean, Allied Assault did the Omaha beach waaaay better than COD WWII. In COD, the higgins boat doesnt even have engine sound, the beach Is like 10 times smaller than it should've been and Its just way too easy, i mean cmn... They made tutorial on Omaha beach? And how the hell does germans have PPSH's? I think Medal of honor still has the best Omaha beach in gaming history.
Btw, about PPSH 41. Cod WW II actually made it right because PPSH historically was pretty popular by Germans after Barbarossa and In 44 you may probably find it in Normandy.
I swear the normandy landing in COD WW2 is the most quiet portrayal of that operation in a videogame, you could literally hear a German farting in the bunkers from the higgins by how quiet it is
@@453543ification I don't think Germans would send Russian equipment across the Reich, i mean they surelly used some allied equip at Omaha but i don't think there would be PPSH's
Also, it wasn't just the 1st Infantry Division that hit the beaches at Normandy, but also the 29th Infantry Division. And after the guns were discovered to have been moved at Pointe Du Hoc', the 2nd Rangers were assigned to the landings as conventional infantry.
The 2nd Ranger battalion was initially told to assault Point Du Hoc. Since the 2nd rangers didn't send a signal back to the USS Texas about securing point Du Hoc, the remainder of the 2nd and the 5th Ranger battalion were to support the rangers already at point Du Hoc but due to confusion on the beach, they ended up on Omaha beach by mistake. 5th Ranger Battalion, Dog company were the first ones to actually blow the seawall with the bangalores. The Rangers were attached to the 29th ID, 116th Infantry Regiment in Normandy before being attached to the 6th cavalry later in the war. The bunkers shown in allied assault and Frontline never existed either. Steven Spielberg made them up for saving private Ryan and have been used since as a representation of Normandy.
The landing crafts used by the 2nd Rangers at Point Du Hoc did have the grapples. Used to shoot the rope ladders. They were told some of the biggest guns in Normandy were on top of Point Du Hoc. When they got up there they found out that they were moved to the Maisie battery a few miles inland. 225 rangers fought at Point Du Hoc, and after 2 days of fighting, only 90 were still able to bear arms.
My history teacher in High School said that the D-Day invasions will be talked about for eternity because its unlikely any single operation of that size will ever be taken up ever again, and nothing like it had happened since the Crusades. He said it was like when Cavemen actually managed to bag a wooly mammoth... it was so rare and so unlikely to work that the 1 time it did, they talked about it for generations. Painted it on walls and today its an iconic image of the stone age that likely didn't occur nearly as often as we imagine. Same thing as D-Day. It is iconic because its so unbelievable that it worked. And 9 of 10 things went wrong... and it still succeeded. So we will talk about it for as long as there are Americans to be proud of it.
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i wish you guys did the medal of honor vr game
so it turns out in cod ww2 germans would steal USSR's weapons and use them that's the explanation for the ppsh 🧐
@@Canpie55 actually they did use a bunch of early captured PPSHs as well as a very similar Czech design they seized in the occupation of czechoslovakia. Late in the war they relied more and more on captured weapons.
The normandy operation was actually called "Operation: Overlord"
Ackshually, the Maginot line worked just fine. The problem was just that the Germans simply went around it through Belgium.
Came here to say this lol. The line was a beast problem is they didn't cover the border with Belgium...
France: "Since Germany can't go through Belgium without invading and no vehicles can pass the belgian forest. They have to go through our defenses!"
Germany: *proceeds to invade Belgium and builds armored vehicles that can go through the forest*
@@FireMobius not really there was plan for a belgian part but the belgian refuse
Then it didn't work, did it?
@@DragunovJ If it didn't work they wouldn't have had to go around it. They could have just gone through it. Just like a landmine isn't defective if no one steps on it. The true value of a landmine isn't that it explodes people, but that it forces people to avoid it.
The Germans invading through Belgium wasn't a failure by the Maginot line, but by the French generals who couldn't predict such an obvious counter move.
Yes, the grappling hook/rope launchers were really used by the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc. There was simply no way to throw a grapple up that high by hand, so, they came up with a rocket propelled launcher.
Only they didn't account for the ropes getting soaked from sea water and were too heavy in most cases to work.
@@hollownaruto2340 thank you for saying it.
@@hollownaruto2340 was just about to reply saying I watched a video about the ropes being to heavy due to water lol. I bet we watched the same video
They also had ladders with machine guns mounted on top coming from DUKWs. I believe only one of the ladders ended up making it. Supposed to be like a firetruck ladder.
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Fun fact about the "I washed for supper" line from Saving Private Ryan. Those two "Germans" were actually Czech soldiers that were forced to fight for the German Army. Much of the units during the D-Day invasions consisted of non-German which caused communication issues, shockingly.
Yea I love that they had them speak Czech and they iirc where basically saying they didn’t shoot anyone and didn’t want to fight. Heartbreaking that I’m sure events like that happened but glad the movie highlighted it.
@@nickrouse2795 i also like the fact that in that same scene, they show American G.I's commit a warcrime by shooting unarmed surrendering soldiers. As always in historical movies they always portray US soldier as noble, but in reality a lot of them commit warcrimes. That the war department censored from the public back home using propaganda and bury these kind of things with it. So yeah this was a nice touch by Spielberg on his part.
Reading up on the Ost Legions and Battalions is quite interesting because you get all walks of life in those Battalions.
If it didn't stop the bastards then it didn't do it's goddamn job
Yeah or that or decimated units that were taking a "vacation" from the eastern front
Fun fact; throughout the entirety of Operation Overlord, the US never encountered any Tigers, despite what tank and infantry crews on the ground said, the actual German documentation shows that only 3 Tiger Is were in France at the time, and all of them fought the British in their push towards and the capturing of the city of Caen. The only Tigers the US Encountered was a train carrying those same tigers, now wrecked, back behind their lines, which was stopped by the disabling of the locomotive with the quad .50 Cal mounter on the M16 Halftrack that first spotted it
Really? So all the tanks they were going against were panther IVs then?
Thank God
@@mrjacob5648 Panthers and Panzer IVs, or other tanks or armoured fighting vehicles. Tiger Fever was very prevelant amongst the troops for the tank's reputation, and any tank with a vaguely boxy shape would be confused for a Tiger.
Because tanks tend to attack from long range, and not everyone would've been certain of what a Tiger even looks outside of the rare photo or first-hand account, and even the latter would be unreliable for the same reason.
@@coenisgreat
"There were four German units equipped with Tigers in Normandy.
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 102
Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503
Panzer-Kompanie 316 (Funklenk), attached to Panzer-Lehr-Division"
@@mrjacob5648 whoops, might’ve been me misremembering units as individuals. My bad. But very few tiger tanks all the same, with very few, if any at all, ever engaging the US forces.
Total Allied casualties on D-Day reached more than 10,000, including 1,074 Canadians, of whom 359 were killed. By the end of the Battle of Normandy, the Allies had suffered 209,000 casualties, including more than 18,700 Canadians. Over 5,000 Canadian soldiers died.
I took that from Google tbh
Edit: dang I didn't expect y'all to be having conversations about this. It's pretty cool ngl.
Really concerned with those Canadians lol
@@nikitazladsoskivich8709 because lots of people only associate the D Day landings with Americans and Omaha beach & Utah. While the Canadians hit Juno, and the Brits hit Sword & Gold
@@MapleMayhemGaming Because a lot of people forget that the war was mostly won by the soviets and the soviets had the most casualties...but sure lets forget about them.
@@AtillatheFun we’re talking about JUST D-Day. It’s common knowledge the Soviets spilled the most blood, everyone knows that they were the ones who got all the way to Berlin.
@@MapleMayhemGaming due to American propaganda the French went from thinking the Soviets won the war to now, due to the previously mentioned propaganda, thinking that the Americans did most of the heavy lifting.
The freedom of moving up without hands held in Allied Assault puts it for me waaay high up there. I love the chaos, and the game just let's you figure it out. We need more of that this day and age too.
Or they should at least turn off the hints by default.
i hate how they're stupildy demanding. Ranting it under the worst MOH ever, frontline really? stupiud tastes.
I was shocked when I saw Allied Assault in the intro; played the absolute hell out of it back in the day.
Yup, like I get it, you don't need to tell me in an "objectives" popup to get into cover... yea I get it, war and stuff.
you can walk all the way up and down the beach in all directions in Forgotten Hope 2.
Also, flamethrowers weren’t actually in the first wave at Omaha Beach. The operators landed with the Infantry and the fought with hand weapons. The heavy equipment were part of the third wave, when most of the coastal bunkers were taken out.
Search up Russel Pickett. He was a flamethrower 1st wave at Dog Green on Omaha Beach. Never made it to the bunker he was assigned to take out, until he went back for the 75th anniversary
@@adammacmillan1681 took him 75 years but he finally took out that bunker lol
@@holyterrashall787 I think the video is on youtube from the Best Defense Foundation, check it out
@@adammacmillan1681 yeah I'm not surprised that a couple flamethrowers and other equipment made it with the first wave just because of an operation as large as Overlord some S.T.E.A.L will happen and also just confusion
The movement and the gun animation are a bit different in call of duty 2 in this video. I'm pretty sure they installed a mod.. looks amazing!
yeap
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It’s called CoD 2 Back2Fronts, it’s an epic mod.
@@edm240b9 Absolutely!
The mod makes the M1 Garand and Thompson sounds sound like those of Allied Assault.
My great grandfather, 1st SGT Franklin Lee Alford was at Normandy with the US Army 1st infantry. He went from a private to a 1st Sgt pretty quickly at Normandy. No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great, duty first!
my grandfather was there. he was an artillery operator, wrote a whole book about it too. quite a unique perspective from one who was truly there.
@@nybergsgarage do you have the name of the book I’d love to read it
@@Dan_the_afol it's called "God and Three Campaigns", but as of yet it's never been published. actually, after my grandfathers death my dad and uncle took the book and started to research all the events to get more information on how it all happened, in hopes to publish it one day.
@@nybergsgarage if love to read it if they ever publish it
@@Dan_the_afol it's certainly a fascinating read. I hope it does get published.
In Conker, he was fighting teddy bears brought to life through mad science. At least they were teddy bears in the original Bad Fur Day. They kinda look more like normal bears in Live and Reloaded though
One of the most f*ed up games with very dark humor. Love it!
They were called Teddiz I think
@@binary1123 You are correct.
@@stevenmaitland3536 the tediz that sound like unholy demons.
Nerd
If anyone didn't realize with the first one the devs took heavy inspiration form the movie saving private Ryan at 3:40. Even runs and grabs the sniper.
Yeah, I heard Spielberg himself “directed” this mission
@@runertje550 fortnite Arizona packer Winfrey
@@Moswanson what
These two are just the perfect duo and I love their gamer humor and military knowledge and experience. They are my favorite guys to watch when they review any FPS game and specifically anything to history and semi-realistic, keep it up!
To answer Camerons question on the PPSH in CodWWII
Osttruppen were sometimes removed from the Eastern front and sent west with captured weapons, same with Penial Battalions
the PPSH, while uncommon, was found on the beaches of Normandy.
i should also add the ppsh fired 7.62×25mm Tokarev which was the same size as 7.63×25mm Mauser used in the c96 Mauser pistol.
Yeah but COD WW2 made it like it so common to find it on Omaha and Utah Beaches.
@@TheKiingkiller the issue is that pretty much EVERY german npc had a PPSH & SVT in the game, which was just truly emmersive breaking
Definitly a very unknown fact (or myth depending if sources are true). As well some PPsh were retooled to use 9mm.
from wht i heard the Germans used captured Russian weapons only from the eastern front
Maginot line worked perfectly. Just so happens that the Wehrmacht decided they didn't want to go head on to the massive guns (yeah i know novel idea) so decided to head through Belgium (which the maginot line didn't cover) and encircled the French and the British Territorial Armies.
Same question:
It didn't work, did it?
@@DragunovJ It did. The plan was to funnel the Germans into Belgium, where they would fight the Germans. The did not expect the armored assault through the Ardennes forest so the French and British were caught with their best troops in Belgium and their weaker troops near the forest. Lacking AT weapons they stood no chance against the German assault. They then turned north towards the coast encircling the best the Allies had to offer. From there the French were unable to mount a proper defense and surrendered
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@@Aragorn195 Yeah IIRC the Maginot line was never breached and it only surrendered when the bunkers became impossible to supply due to Germans capturing the area behind the bunkers on the French side of the border.
@@SampoPaalanen They're French so of course they surrendered
*please have the gun expert react to Wolfenstein or Homefront: The Revolution.*
I remember homefront being called a flop but I honestly enjoyed the campaign and the multiplayer was actually challenging
Wolfenstein first
Homefront the Revolution would be intresting trying to explain interchangeable uppers and lowers, plus modularity in the current weapons market.
Wolfenstein weapons would be cool
@@mr.drowzeetsnpclanleader2754 interesting or annoying ahah
BF1942 Omaha was amazing MP. When you had a full server with all the rockets, nades, artillery strikes it was so nuts.
U.S soldiers who died in D-Day was a little over 2500. That's just U.S deaths and not all forces or wounded. MIA ect
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Allied Assault was the first FPS I played extensively too. It’s crazy how well it still holds up today.
The sound design really makes some newer games look pretty subpar. Steven Spielbergs involvement is really noticeable.
Finally, someone who also played it!
It was my very first game too, I actually even still play it with my brother. He found a singleplayer co-op mod online. Truly nostalgic
@@runertje550 such a good game. GOG has a version of it that runs on modern PC’s and I finally got to replay it again recently, along with the expansions.
It’s crazy how it’s still pretty comparable to modern FPS’s.
@@MrJrv1993 yeahh the one on Origin is the one you’re talking about right?
The game is still so fun, Breakthrough is still my favorite campaign. Especially the silent airport mission, it’s so good
Most of the casualties from Pointe du Hoc occurred after the ascent, not during the climb. 15 rangers were lost on the beach itself, not like 150 as you suggest. They were expecting reinforcements that were diverted to Omaha. The rope launchers were real, though they had rope ladders too and only about a half dozen were successful due to the ropes being sopping heavy with ocean water which they didn’t consider in their testing. Lit fuses were attached the the grappling hooks to try to convince the Germans it was a weapon long enough to secure a foot hold and not just have the ropes cut.
conker is an easy S tier, very accurate
Adolf Hedgehog
27:46 Always putting a smile on my face. I seriously love this channel. You guys rock!
@@chrisgodfrey2846 Absolutely! Thanks for the recommendation. Heading over there right now to check 'em out n_n !
18:25 I believe the saying you were looking for was "No plan survives contact with the enemy"
In case anyone is wondering: the CoD:2 gameplay has a mod installed on it called the Back2Fronts mod. There’s also the Hardcore Tactical Mod 2.0.
I want a game that focuses on the Canadian's pushes in the war. Vimy Ridge and the like, especially with Peggy, Leo Major, and other Canadian soldiers' stories.
There's valiant hearts the great war that has the battle of vimy ridge at the end
Call of Duty 3 (Playstation).
Ah they missed the one from Call of Duty 2 Big Red One! In my opinion that had the most unique Normandy mission!
I'm so peeved I lost my GameCube copy when I borrowed it to a friend and never got it back. One of my favorite WW2 shooters alongside Brothers in Arms.
Yeah, that is a unique one. I do love how, late in the level, Brooklyn actually pounds a mortar round on a crate to prime it and then tosses it at one of the Flak 88's! Cool little detail to throw in that was probably missed by a lot of people.
I just played Call of Duty WW2 for the first time and its just an inferior version of COD Big Red One. COD WW2 also felt very short, like you're playing the second half of the game and you missed the Africa and Sicily missions in the first half.
4:00-4:03 I like how he included that line from one of, if not, the greatest WW2 movies of all time.
Allied Assault, was my first experience with a first person shooter game. Loved re-watching clips from it.
16:57 That dude on fire walking out of the landing craft literally haunted me for days when I saw it for the first time and I was like 10 at the time.
"The old they can't stop all of us" made me laugh for some reason. It's totally accurate.
None of this compares to the game "Hell let loose" beach landing. No scripted scenes and pure pvp carnage.
Or Post Scriptum Utah Beach. Had one of, if not my best games on it. Went on for hours as well. Tons of awesome moments.
God ive been playing that game so much and every game is different. Every team pushes up the beach differently and sometimes you never even make it off the beach
wish it was on console
@@stealthotrapo9123 it is
@@dom1091 only next gen tho
The Rangers that landed and assaulted Pointe du Hoc had a cut off time to call in the rest of the battalion after they had reached the top which was at about 7. The call for the reinforcements was just a little late and the rest of the battalion was diverted to Omaha.
My favorite version of Omaha was on big red one , Brooklyn was my boy !
Jeez, now I'd like to play Cod 2 again, this game, amongst CoD 1, CoD:UO, Finest Hour, is one of the best games of my childhood
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.. Still The First Game Had A D-Day Landing Mission..
And We Don't Forget About it.. it's The First Game About WWII FPS..
my dad and grandpa saw Saving Private Ryan in theatres and when they came out they saw an old man sitting on the bench outside of the bathroom just crying because of how well portrayed the sheer brutality of D-Day
A suggestion to the gamology: maybe find a retired general or a high rank officer from the army and have them analyse strategy games?
The First U.S. Army, accounting for the first twenty-four hours in Normandy, tabulated 1,465 killed, 1,928 missing, and 6,603 wounded. The after-action report of U.S. VII Corps (ending 1 July) showed 22,119 casualties including 2,811 killed, 5,665 missing, 79 prisoners, and 13,564 wounded, including paratroopers.
Canadian forces at Juno Beach sustained 946 casualties, of whom 335 were listed as killed.
Surprisingly, no British figures were published, but Cornelius Ryan cites estimates of 2,500 to 3,000 killed, wounded, and missing, including 650 from the Sixth Airborne Division.
German sources vary between four thousand and nine thousand D-Day casualties on 6 June-a range of 125 percent. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s report for all of June cited killed, wounded, and missing of some 250,000 men, including twenty-eight generals
Remember, the reason the Army Rangers had such a large part in the amphibious assault was because Eisenhower didn't want his army to be overshadowed by the Marines like they were due to Belleau Wood.
Allied Assault was and still is the best portrayal of the battle. But that’s also mostly because of the nostalgia I have for this game.
I heard somewhere that even director Steven Spielberg kind of like directed that mission, because they wanted to recreate the scenes from Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is actually a pretty unrealistic depiction of Omaha. The 2nd Rangers weren't there in force, it was mostly 29th Infantry, while the Rangers were mainly tasked with storming Point Du Hoc to the west. The layout is completely incorrect and the type of fortifications used are also not accurate, mostly because the real Normandy beaches are now protected and turning them into a film set wouldn't be allowed by the French government, so the scene was shot on a beach in Ireland instead. The most 1:1 accurate recreation of Omaha Beach is in the Battlefield 2 mod Forgotten Hope 2.
Do this with ww2 vets next! I would like to see them react how real it looks.
I also believe that the 1st infantry division "The bloody first" were involved in the D-day landing as part of their mission to take the Rhine
Yeah moh frontline made me feel a bit in the bunker when you go past a german at the door you can actually see him holding his friend as he fires
I miss those flamethrowers man
5 seconds later
That is a horrible way to die man lmao
According to the director of D Day Memorial Allied D-Day fatalities ranging from 5,000 to 12,000 and Germans have been estimated to be between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing.
I think there is more
During the invasion of Normady the Germans suffered 30,000 killed, 210,000 missing and 80 thousand wounded. Totalling 320,000 casualties. Americans suffered approximately 30,00 killed, 105,000 wounded and missing. UK lost 65,000. Canada lost 18,000. France lost 12,000. So yeah, alot more than what you said.
After all these years and we still can't get an accurate count of fatalities. I mean it's been 78 years how long does it take to go over all the governmental paperwork?
@@pestonbanza1956 are we talking the invasion of the whole of France or just the invasion of Normandy because the invasion of Normandy only had 2500 or so confirmed deaths and idk bout the Germans but they definitely had a lil bit more than the Americans but like I said if we were talking the whole invasion of France then those numbers probably would be pretty accurate
@@derekcox543 well to be fair a lot of the bodies were not actually found, for example the people the drowned they couldn’t identify a body so the process took a little bit longer and they did finally get a direct number with the total number of American deaths at Normandy being……. Drumroll please…….
2501, there you go that’s your exact number after those 78 years
COD2 definitely did it right. Here’s a good video with bonus scenes and a bit more history with interviews of WW2 Vets. The first 16mins are worth a watch.
ua-cam.com/video/grgVwNQevsA/v-deo.html
Thank you for letting me know about this. Loved it!
looks like this cod2 version had some mods on (the one they were reviewing), got any idea what type of mod was used?
@@Turbulencje I think its called the Back2fronts mod
Should react to Operation Flashpoint: dragon rising, I think they would love to see how realistic that game is especially with radio communication.
I loved that game so much so many memories of coming so close to completing a mission just to catch a bullet from some dude 200 yards behind you you didn't even know was there lol
@@DeShawnMcDonald just something about your team calling out a rifleman ~200m behind you then getting shwacked hits different
@@cosmicwolf4240 raflemen 150 me... friendly hit
@@DeShawnMcDonald lol
i STILL play the MoH Frontline version of D Day. it blew my mind completely when i first played it. it was the first game that really nailed the saving private ryan scene completely. and the graphics for the time were incredibly detailed
I wish we'd get some Juno Beach love sometime for us Canadians.
23:57 "The first Infantry division was pretty much the ones doing this assault with the 2nd rangers"
29th Infantry: Okay then
Maginot line actually was really tough and Germans defeated it by not fighting and it and just going around trough Belgium and Ardenes forest which was supposedly impassable by armoured vehicles. Well French command thought so.
There is a story of one French tank commander taking his tanked and passing trough forest to prove it can be done, then going to the HQ and informing the command of it and they told him they are not interested, because even if he did it, that does not matter because it is impossible to do. Would not surprise me if the story was real. Just high command things I guess.
Having been to Normandy, I can say it's one of the most incredible sites I've got to tour. I stood on top of the cliffs and just imagined the Allied assault peeking through the horizon.
Standing there, I remember thinking that it's incredible they ever managed to secure this beach. The heroics and bravery that day, this is why it's legendary.
It still gives me chills thinking about it.
Wish they'd been shown bits of the first mission from Company of Heroes as well. It's not just shooters that have covered the Normandy landings.
To answer Israel’s question at 22:10, the US lost approximately 2,500 people on both Omaha and Utah beaches. Roughly 2000 of those came from Omaha alone.
Damn, they didn't show CoD 2: Big Red One's Omaha Beach mission. The only one in an FPS (I think) that doesn't try to recreat Saving Private Ryan.
Also had a whole bunch of band of brothers actors in it.
16:57 The line your looking for is "no plan survives contact with the enemy."
-General Moltke
Now Battlefield Bad Company 1 & 2, Battlefield 3, 4, 1, and 5.
Fun fact about the puking. The Soldiers on the ships were given a large breakfast, stuff like steak, pancakes etc to boost morale because they knew that the beach landing was going to be brutal. The unforeseen consequence was sea sickness. Quite a few Veterans that survived the first wave attributed their survival to not eating too much before getting on the boats, because being sick is obviously very distracting in combat.
What we can learn from this is don't stuff your gullet before a seaborne assault.
I love these guys man, they’re so much fun to watch.
16:57 Okay why are those guys running away from the water while they’re on fire 🔥 😂
Both cod games got general lol. But cod always nailed the big cinematic firefights. Like MW2 and 3 both had large scale invasion missions but both were urban style missions. I'm just a cod fanboy though lol. I've loved cod since the first time I played it and now it's my go to fps game. Battlefield and apex would be up next. Then open world games are in the same spot as them... so cod then apex gta5 rdr2 tw3 and bf are all second... I think that's how that works lmfao
The enemy soldiers in Conker's Bad Fur Day/Conker Live and Reloaded were teddy bears called the 'Teddiz' instead of the 'Nazis' lol
I’d like to see a game with a more historically accurate depiction of German defensive positions on Omaha. I get it, the two massive bunkers from Saving Private Ryan are iconic, but that’s not what Omaha beach looked like.
It is iconic, even so much that I would almost even refuse the actual historical way it was
The German field marshal, known as Moltke the Elder, believed in developing a series of options for battle instead of a single plan, saying “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.” Today, “no plan survives contact with the enemy” is the popular reconfiguration of this concept.
For US Tank crews during WW2, you had a 6% chance of dying, and 50% of all tankers killed were killed inside the tank. you had a 94% chance of living if you were a tank crewman in the US during WW2
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Did Cam just pull all that Ranger history of D-Day out of his ass or is he a secret military historian in hiding..?
Either way, that's pretty awesome.
Favorite duo! Nice video as always. May I suggest Spec Ops reacts to……videos of people trying to be tacticool in daily life?
7:56 to get more technical. The mg42 was also used fair anti ircraft. And would most of the times be on a mono pod. You can turn 360' and up and down.
Most static mg42 and mg3 still have those
I like how many video games depicted the brutality of it well, but never historically accurate (COD excluded, sort of)
The barrier is not as messy like this, it’s arranged with pattern and far distances. The boats were far away from each other so it’s not possible for other boats to hit each other. The act of soldiers hiding behind the barriers/ deaths immediately before a step out of the boat were almost impossible because the machine gunners couldn’t even see them. The beach is extended extremely long especially in Omaha, soldiers need to run hundreds of meters across the beach first before even getting blasted.
Now that I think about it, that was impressive attention to detail from COD. The German soldiers that were defending Omaha beach had recently come back from fighting in the eastern front, so it makes sense that there would be a few prized PPSH 41s at Omaha.
For the conker gameplay, they were fighting Tediz. Just nazi teddy bears.
They were fighting the evil teddys lol one of the greatest games for n64
show them Hell Let Loose and Post Scriptum
*YES!*
“Hell Let Loose” is awesome.
Conkers Bad Fur Day was my jam in the day. Tediz v squirrels was badass
United states: Unknown, estimated 10000
Canada: 1074
British: 3300
German: Unknown, estimated 4000-9000
French civilians: Unknown, estimated 20,000
Total: 40404
I've always loved that in conkers bad fur day/live and reloaded the enemies are called tediz. that always got a good laugh out of me
Love seeing both of you keep up the good work. I wonder if you guys can do a review of Kill Zone it's got quite a interesting story along with interesting goods.
I really Cried a lot when "Lt.Turner" Dies in Later mission while saving other squad mates.
"No mission too difficult! No sacrifice too great! Duty first"
please have a mechanic react to the weapons and cars they build in dead rising
Found this info online: "Throughout the entire Battle of Normandy, over 425,000 Allied troops and German troops were killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoners. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, 125,847 were U.S. ground troops and 83,045 were 21st Army Group men (British, Canadian, and Polish ground forces)."
Rangers doesn't lead the way... They lead the fucking victory !!! !
Most people forget that the beaches of Normandy weren’t just a bunch of barbed wire and some bunkers with machine guns, it was a massive interlocking system where there was always fields of fire and again people forget that the entire coast was already pre sighted and for those don’t know, presighted basically means that everything was already mapped where each area is gridded off and is given a grid number and reference so in short it allowed the artillery and gunners to target enemy’s with pin point accuracy
As an example
FIRE AT A11
gunner reads his manual
A11( range 500 meters, elevation 38• angle 10•
And much like the game battleship the artillery can unload rounds onto the poor sods at A11 and the surrounding area
"Properly the most violent assaults in history"
D-Day Total Allied deaths - 4,414
Battle of the Somme Day 1 British deaths - 19,240
America should learn more about WWI
Yeah, battle of Stalingrad - 800 000 approximate Axis cassualties and over a million Soviet.
You put the wrong number of casualties for D-day. 10,000 is how many casualties the allies suffered in total (Wounded, dead, missing, Prisoner). 4,414 is the number of confirmed dead soldiers. It could be more, since there’s no accurate number due to the chaos.
@@e-san6111 but during the battle of the somme most dog tags are lost to the mud, so there could be way more dead. the killed and missing of the whole battle of the somme (not casualties) is 95,675 for the whole commonwealth and 50,756 for the french. casualties are 419,654 for the commonwealth and 204,253 for the french. missing means their dog tags cannot be identified or found.
@@wahtx7717 Oh, Definitely. It’s just that they put the wrong casualty numbers.
I mean he said one of the most not the most.
11:46 That guy’s experience in the Airborne was short lived lol
Spec Ops react to FEAR, pls.
I’ll never forget a machine gunners wet dream from being beaten for not knowing it by heart. Machine gunners wet dream “when the long axis of the beaten zone coincides or nearly coincides with the long axis of the patrol”
I sincerely like all those D day levels, but I think that Omaha beach has been so overused that it is boring. They should do something other than the "American side" of the story. For example the Warsaw massacre, or the battle of Warsaw if you were a rebel. Or the bloody battle of stalingrad, in my opinion, the worst military grade mistake ever made in history (if you don't count the Emu War). Or the massacres at the other sections of Normandy. Sure Gold, Sword, and the other section which name I cannot remember, ended up well with little casualties, but Juno was a whole different story those Canadian soldiers did not saw that coming.
Or even better yet how bout showing the African campaign the Germans tore through northern Africa and it had some of the craziest tank battles in the war, it would also be dope to acknowledge all the lives lost history never cared to remember. What the nazis did to jews was so atrocious it made it so most people don't even know what happened to black people gypsies and the handicapped
@@DeShawnMcDonald I see, you are a man of culture as well. And I totally agree with you. But, as a man who was raised in Madrid, I think that they focus the games on WWII a little too much. Someone should make a game that shows the horror of the Spanish civil war. My grandfather fought on the ebro. He said that it was the most horrible experience he ever lived through. Or the Soviet revolution. There have been many conflicts other than WWII that are now forgotten.
@@MrIsaac-cc6om I agree hundred percent we've had a thousand ww2 games let's shine a spotlight on others, I like your ideas and I'd like to add one as well the slave revolutions that happened throughout the Caribbean, it would be tricky to tell honestly without upsetting certain groups but I don't think you'll ever be able to accurately tell any war story without some group of people feeling a way. Or shit another great one would be a game where you play as a Zulu warrior fighting against the British they got slaughtered and were fighting guns with leather shields spears and clubs but they still fought like crazy. There's just so much shit history sweeps under the rug that I think at this point with as many ww2 stories that have been told we should start looking elsewhere. And I know it'd work ghosts of tsushima wasn't historically accurate but it showed people are down for war stories other then ww2. But I will say the Spanish Civil War and soviet revolution would be crazy to see with today's graphics and design capabilities. And shit even if they wanna stick with ww2 instead of making another fps make a choice based story game showing what it was like to be an officer working directly under Stalin, make a survival game about being a jew trying to flee to safety, make a papers please like game showing how many nazi scientists got took in. Idk I just think if we're gonna keep making ww2 games let's switch the formula up a bit atleast
@@DeShawnMcDonald I wouldn't mind playing as a polish rebel in the streets of Warsaw. But I think that the problem with this games isn't that they use WWII. WWII is a great historical time that surely deserves the movies and games. The problem is the "American" WWII (the representation of the war that shows nothing but the American side, either on the Pacific or on mainland) I want a game that shows more than June 6 1944 to the end of the war. Like why not show the Japanese side of the story. I can't imagine something more epic than being part of a Banzai charge.
@@MrIsaac-cc6om yeah to this day most Americans still think we bombed Japan cause we had no choice when in reality the soviets were getting ready to steamroll Japan and we didn't wanna look weak in comparison by letting them beat an enemy we didn't. The American pr machine is the most powerful tool in the world
if we do a part 2 can we get them to rank company of heroes recreation of the landing?
Yes they should.
While I enjoyed the Allied Assult, Frontline and CoD 2 Omaha beach missions, my favorite is WW2’s. It was so freaking realistic and really embodies the chaos. I love CoD: WW2 and CoD 3 are probably my favorite CoD games that involve the European side of WW2. You guys should do Experts play WW2. When it comes to the Japanese side, Rising Sun is my go to and it’s really one of the only games that deal with that side.
i prefer CoD: WaW over rising sun
You are half right about the Maginot line. The problem was it did not go all the way to the coast, nor did it cover the Ardennes believing that no army would be able to cover that terrain with any kind of haste. Little did the French know, 4 Wehrmacht divisions with Armor would steam roll the forest and bypass the French fortifications, which where undermanned and the personnel that where there were completely unprepared for war. Hell, weeks into the war they had no clue that they were at war.
Fun fact: a lot of the nazis weren’t even at the invasion beaches. There is an island way down the coast that we put dozens of inflatable tanks and trucks on to make it look like we were gonna invade from that area but then those nazis got word about the invasion as it was happening and they left to try to keep us out but it was too late. Another fun fact: my grandfather was a Captain when the war was over and he got his honorable discharge
Fun fact : Most where just German soldiers and NOT nazi's.
"Can you imagine trying to coordinate through all that"
No. As a regular enlisted soldier I respect rangers. They tackle any obstacle almost effortlessly. I'm proud to be a scout because our job is important but I understand rangers require something... more, than the average enlisted soldier.
I literally replayed Frontline about a week ago and I love that first mission. Honestly, up close, it does definitely have some limitations of a 2002 ps2 title. Still a nostalgic game though!
Now that I've seen the COD 2 recreation, holy crap would that have blown my mind if I saw saw that when it came out. It seems very accurate to what actually happened too!
I always wanted one of one of these to be landing with Brig. Gen. Theodore (Teddy Jr.) Roosevelt III on Utah, where they landed in the wrong spot, he looked around and noticed it was better positioned than their actual assigned landing zone. "We'll start the war from right here." Just for the iconic image of him walking, with a cane in one hand (he had severe arthritis at this point), directing men under fire to new revised objectives. He was the oldest man in the invasion (56) and only General to land in the first wave (literally he was in the lead boat and came ashore as one of the first boots on sand). He wasn't supposed to go at all, he was suppose to fill an administrative position, but he made a personal appeal to Major General 'Tubby' Barton, who expected Teddy Jr. to die doing this was amazed when he landed later for Teddy to come hobbling up to him and everything handled already. To stop him walking everywhere on his arthritic knees MajGen Barton had a jeep permanently assigned to him, painted with the name 'Rough Rider' in reference to Teddy's father.
I mean, Allied Assault did the Omaha beach waaaay better than COD WWII. In COD, the higgins boat doesnt even have engine sound, the beach Is like 10 times smaller than it should've been and Its just way too easy, i mean cmn... They made tutorial on Omaha beach? And how the hell does germans have PPSH's? I think Medal of honor still has the best Omaha beach in gaming history.
Btw, about PPSH 41. Cod WW II actually made it right because PPSH historically was pretty popular by Germans after Barbarossa and In 44 you may probably find it in Normandy.
I swear the normandy landing in COD WW2 is the most quiet portrayal of that operation in a videogame, you could literally hear a German farting in the bunkers from the higgins by how quiet it is
@@453543ification I don't think Germans would send Russian equipment across the Reich, i mean they surelly used some allied equip at Omaha but i don't think there would be PPSH's
@@marve_vole7462 well, I don't wanna argue with ya. Just give some historically accurate ( may be) facts about the weapon.
But better than CoD 2 no
“Game over man, game over!” - Hudson (Aliens movie)
google sons of the forest :)
Also, it wasn't just the 1st Infantry Division that hit the beaches at Normandy, but also the 29th Infantry Division. And after the guns were discovered to have been moved at Pointe Du Hoc', the 2nd Rangers were assigned to the landings as conventional infantry.
The 2nd Ranger battalion was initially told to assault Point Du Hoc. Since the 2nd rangers didn't send a signal back to the USS Texas about securing point Du Hoc, the remainder of the 2nd and the 5th Ranger battalion were to support the rangers already at point Du Hoc but due to confusion on the beach, they ended up on Omaha beach by mistake. 5th Ranger Battalion, Dog company were the first ones to actually blow the seawall with the bangalores. The Rangers were attached to the 29th ID, 116th Infantry Regiment in Normandy before being attached to the 6th cavalry later in the war. The bunkers shown in allied assault and Frontline never existed either. Steven Spielberg made them up for saving private Ryan and have been used since as a representation of Normandy.
The landing crafts used by the 2nd Rangers at Point Du Hoc did have the grapples. Used to shoot the rope ladders. They were told some of the biggest guns in Normandy were on top of Point Du Hoc. When they got up there they found out that they were moved to the Maisie battery a few miles inland. 225 rangers fought at Point Du Hoc, and after 2 days of fighting, only 90 were still able to bear arms.
My history teacher in High School said that the D-Day invasions will be talked about for eternity because its unlikely any single operation of that size will ever be taken up ever again, and nothing like it had happened since the Crusades. He said it was like when Cavemen actually managed to bag a wooly mammoth... it was so rare and so unlikely to work that the 1 time it did, they talked about it for generations. Painted it on walls and today its an iconic image of the stone age that likely didn't occur nearly as often as we imagine.
Same thing as D-Day.
It is iconic because its so unbelievable that it worked.
And 9 of 10 things went wrong... and it still succeeded.
So we will talk about it for as long as there are Americans to be proud of it.