HEDGEROWS, NO. 1 ENEMY IN NORMANDY,CERISY FORET, FRANCE, FIELD OPERATION, US ENGINEERS - LMWWIIHD193
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Mounting Hedgerow cutters on Sherman Tanks in the Cerisy Foret, France, Field Operation, US Engineers clean up Valognes, France, July 1944
Slate - July 17 1944 France - Hedgerows Man welding hedgecutter WELDING HEDGEROW CUTTERS TO SHERMAN TANKS Men carry hedgecutter away Slate - July 18 1944 - Mounting Hedgecutter - France Tank - Men carry hedgecutter over to tank MOUNTING PLOW ON TANK CU of tank hedgecutter - tank pushes through bush TANK DRIVING THROUGH HEDGEROW CU hedgecutter same shot men carrying hedgecutter over to tank - men put hedgecutter on tank MOUNTING PLOW ON TANK CU hands mounting hedgecutter to tank Tanks rolls by Soldiers stiching up a wounded soldier's face Slate - Valognes Eng. Clearing 7-13-44 FV Loader picking up rubble WOW US SOLDIERS TREATING WOUND ON FACE CLEARING RUBBLE OIN VALOGNES COLLAPSING RUINS WS building being broken down View of destroyed town - parts of buildings collapse AMERICAN SOLDIER WITH JACKHAMMER Soldiers lifting broken parts of houses Sign MONTEBOURG MOUNTEBOURG Sign VALOGNES - CHERBOURG Road sign MONTEBOURG - trucks drive past Trucks drive by soldiers on side of road Soldiers gathered around man drilling into the ground TS soldier drilling into ground Crane lifting rubble and dropping it in back of truck CLEARING RUBBLE DEBRIS Part of building collapses Soldier directs slow moving tank Soldier throws ropes over balcony FV of crane - peices of building fall behind it BUILDING COLLAPSE WS Tank pulls rope and breaks down building Soldier directing army vehicles CU shoveling rocks Soldiers shoveling rubble US SOLDIERS WORKING ON RAILROAD IN VALOGNES Soldiers celaring out rubble with collapsed road sign VALOGNES Trucks driving through town sign VALOGNES on wall Crane removing rubble - dropping in back of truck Road sign VALOGNES - CHERBOURG VALOGNES Sign - Les Hauts - Vents CU stone VALOGNES Trucks drive past road signs VALOGNES - CHERBOURG CU sign VALOGNES 8k CHERBOURG 28k CU sign COLOMBY COLOMBY CU sign VALOGNES 6k CHERBOURG 26k CU sign nach Valognes 4k Trucks drive by rubble CU post VALOGNES Manche Soldiers clearing rubble from railroad TS Soldiers shoveling rocks WS crane moving rubble , civilians walking along rubble, destroyed buildings US SOLDIERS CLEARING RUBBLE DEBRIS TS crane picking up rubble dumping in truck Truck drives through puddle with ruins behind WS loader removing rubble , destroyed buildings, soldiers working in background, trucks go by Soldiers place rope on building CU soldier tying rope - Фільми й анімація
These films are priceless. Reminds me why youtube is actually an amazing resource. Of course we can’t forget all the garbage posted on as well but this channel and a bunch of others are truly amazing. Encourage others to watch!
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My father served with the 903rd Ordnance Battalion and was one of the guys that welded the teeth on the tanks after D Day. He was always so proud of that...
Thanks for posting this. My dad was in the FSSF in WW2 and these films show what it was really like and not just the "exciting" stuff the news media show. My dad was colonel Fredericks radio man and sent letters home almost every day. Unfortunately he burned them all after the war. Great job.
3:24 guy is in so much pain but he doesn't move a muscle. Tough boys we sent over
Notice the medics, no concern about the blood on their hands, just stitch him up. In the day when bloodborne pathogens were not a concern.
I'm sure he was so loaded up on morphine that he didn't feel a thing.
morphine
3:32.....the “blood” on the hands of the helper is fake
@@joelshack85 It is called coagulation!
Today, that modification would take a year to avoid a court martial for unauthorized modification of government property. 364 days of paperwork and one day of fabrication.
The guy who welded made it back alive. Skills. Its all 'bout skills.
My dad was in 29th infantry division. He was wounded on June 17 as a forward observer for 110 field artillery and was embedded with 116. He said hedgerow fighting was worse than storming the beach. Psychologically it was almost unbearable.
Amazing! Making rhino's for the Shermans!
Watching the medic patch up that wounded GI reminds us that war is no game.
But still everyone believes it is, when all they know of war is through a game..
wow amazing seeing such high def history pictures. I feel bad for the guy withe the headwound :(
Yeah... looks like a round went in his cheek and exited below his ear....
3:28 - Kids, that is the fucking face of war, it`s not a clean screen in your cozy room.
@2:55 gotta be an Ice Hockey Player
Nobody knew (of the Bocage) huh? Is ignorance the prerequisite for being an officer? It seems so. Add in the DD sinkings, Mulberry II, the bombers who dropped their loads too far inland, the multi-step-release jump harnesses, the later supply shortages...
That's not the point though. Is it? The real issue is the concentration of decision-making power in too few older, slower, more calcified minds. I would recommend from age 35 on all officers should annually have to prove their ability to cope with Field decisions. Why? 'No battle plan survives after the first shot.' Also a more rigorous (youthful, user-oriented) inspection of the battle methods and plans may have made a lot of difference. Would make a modern difference. Keep them (the better ones) around though, solely as advisors on a battlefield/theatre strategic level.
Maybe you should be running the Pentagon, you're so smart. The next Bapolean, you are. So start a contracting business. I'm sure all the generals will come flocking to you for advice You'll became a zillionaire.
Decisions were made rapidly and they were made by very aggressive generals, who shoved men and materiel into the battle, on both sides. Officers who didn't perform were rapidly replaced, often within a day. It's easy to second guess something in which you didn't take part, I suggest more reading and studying of the topic. Remember, all of these fellows had combat experience in North Africa, or elsewhere, there were few green commanders, and many were quickly replaced or killed in battle. Many of the troops were green and were rapidly used up. My father landed in Cherbourg while the harbor was still badly damaged, and had quite a number of stories. He wasn't a water cooler general, he drove a jeep flat out across France. Don't forget, Montgomery had been in combat since Dunkirk, I'm sure he had a good idea of what he was doing. Most officers were young men in their twenties and thirties and didn't survive.
"Is ignorance the prerequisite for being an officer?"
No one, I repeat no one, had ever done anything on this scale with that many unknowns. That U.S. forces adapted and did what it took to overcome all the obstacles in their path is a wonder to this very day.
They had only aerial photos to go by. They saw what looked like English hedgerows, which are much shorter. Aerial photos didn't show how high they were. It was a surprise even to the photo analysts.
There was no good excuse for the bomb delays. Many cows and civilians were killed and the coastal defenses were left pretty much intact. Until the destroyers starting shelling the crap out of them from the English Channel.
If only we had had satellite photos, drones, and cruise missiles. There would be fewer armchair generals criticizing our actions 76 years after the fact.
@@VictorySpeedway so no one had ever visited that part of the continent and had to take a leak on the side of the road? You have missed the point. There were probably many thousand memories that could have been tapped: but for the insularity of senior command. That is repeated in every campaign you care to analyse.
Stoopid counter .............
3:32....you can tell the blood on the hands of the guy helping is fake.
only black peopel working in this video
Sure as shit beats getting shot at.
yes and with very nice equipment. Germans could never figure out a bulldozer and still used horses.
A graphic record of the needless (over) destruction of French history & community perpetrated by the Allies relentless advance post D Day. Most 'resistance' could have been gone around, cut off from supplies, & eliminated without the carpet bombing & shelling. Remember. German military resistance was in rapid decline - to the point they were fielding under strength units filled with kids. Yes; there was fierce fighting, but Allied superiority was near total - on the ground, & in the air. The (last desperate through of Germanys' 'dice') Ardennes Offensive was only possible because poor weather stopped Allied air cover for a few days.
I’d rather blow up every church steeple from Normandy to the Rhine than let one American kid get killed. Hindsight’s always 20/20 for the armchair generals like you.
More like an armchair buck private.
I strongly recommend you read the United States Army in WWII series, one book describes the hedgerow fighting in detail. (Amazon, they're dirt cheap and you can read them using Kindle software on your computer) Germans snipers shot officers first. Casualties were massive on both sides. The offensive had stalled. A very limited road network prevented your so-called go-around. Spend more time in school and less watching cartoons on youtube. Right now you sound like a water cooler general and a troll.
Maybe, just maybe, if the French had been willing to FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY, and not surrender with most of their armed forces intact and whore themselves to the Germans for four disgraceful years, we wouldn't have had to fire a single bullet over there. Gawd, these arrogant morons who blame the U.S. for every sin that Europeans commit, including those against themselves. Sickening. Twice within 25 years America had to save Western Europe from itself. And since the end of WWII, who do you think rebuilt Western Europe, and then stayed in it, at vast cost, to keep the Russians out of it? You're welcome, Mr. Palmer.
@@roscoefoofoo don't forget that the Brits got off the beach at Dunkirk because a French Army was sacrificing itself. In WWI over 20% of French males died or were injured and the population of the country declined.