I’ve been there. An interesting place with a lot of things to look at. The founder was a French underwater salvage specialist. He was hired to clear the Normandy beach area of all the wrecks. So he was paid to salvage them, kept the scrap, and opened a museum. So he was paid to haul it up and out, and he, or at least his family, is still getting “paid” decades later. Good for him!
I've always heard about the myriad of relics lost, sunk and buried on Juno and Omaha beaches. But even after 20 years of searching with metal detectors and scuba gear, I'm yet to find a single relic on or around Juno Beach Florida! Well, I guess I'll have to start searching Omaha beach in Nebraska next, followed by the beaches of Utah. 😁
Today we went out with our 18 year old grandson to see the Standing with Giants instalment at the British Memorial at Vers sur Mer. Wonderful. With my husband driving I navigated us to this fantastic museum just by Ports en Bessin. Both he and my grandson were blown away. Last year we went to the Tank Museum at Saumur, which was very accessible to Will. He is registered blind, so accessibility is so important to us. The owner of today's museum could not have been kinder, taking time to change his film in the inside part of the museum to English, so we could listen to it as we wandered around. Will was delighted to find a Sherman RD complete with propellors. We went because we had watched your UA-cam so a great big thank you. We live just outside Mortain, and we would like to let you know that a museum has just opened this year in the adjoining village of le Neufbourg. This is very well laid out and used exhibits which have been found around the area. I Love your channel and are so pleased to have found something that Will could enjoy.
😢 catastrophic what happened to these tanks and their crews. Thank you for this video to remind of this event of D-Day and of the brave men who lost their lives. Plus showing us a fascinating museum.
Have been here before, the guy working the counter was the main diver - his boat is out front and the massive anchor they used is half grown into a tree. Very cool spot, very nice people there too. Well worth a look around.
Can you imagine how many tanks, trucks and other assorted vehicles never made on the beaches all along the coast. My grandfather told me a story of a tank that fell over the side of one of the landing craft on Utah Beach. He said the water pressure was so bad, the crew couldn't get out. And it sunk. Just amazing.
thanks for sharing! i visited normandy in 94 but didn't get into the museum, it was expensive even then... I see that the outside tanks have somewhat deteriorate a lot since then
Glad you were able to see it again! Its a great place isnt't it, and surprisngly not as well known about as I would have thought given the unique artefacts they have there!
My brother was a recovery diver for the USN, and part of his training was done in Baie de Seine, where there are still over a hundred tanks, landing craft, small ships etc. He has quite the photo album of these historic wrecks, copies of which were sent to several museums. He's retired now, but says that was still his favorite part of training, getting to dive on these historic wrecks.
Oh wow! That sounds incredible! Great that he was able to pass the photos on too given how hard it is to access those wrecks and all the specialist training needed to do so!
Awesome vid - one of my favorite magazines ever was a National Geographic 60th anniversary special where they went down and took photos of all the wrecks and tanks of Normandy. Love seeing these- like little time capsules
@@WW2Wayfinder You're very welcome, my Uncle Ray Davis retired from the army back in the 80s, caught all 3 wars including 2x Vietnam, all Airborne, Sicily and Salerno 82d, Normandy throughout the 101 then DIVARTY in Vietnam that man had more fruit salad on his Class As than Ike did. SGM. Orville Raymond Davis, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Oh wow!!!! I bet he had some stories to tell!!! I grew up near the village of Quorn in England where the 505th PIR were billeted before D-Day so I bet your Uncle would have been familiar with the village back in the day!!
@@WW2Wayfinder That's the town I tried to remember, Ray was an old country boy, he'll called it Corn, D Day he was hung up in a tree, he was tall, blonde blue eyes a movie star type, he never spoke of korea, his M16 saved his life an RPG exploded, shrapnel caught the rifle. Ray had so many scars, he loved building things, his garden, yardwork. Made 97 passing away. He loved life. My grandmother was a WAC in France, Margaret Katherine Brooke, tall black hair blue eyes and tough.
Imagine the courage it took , to get in a tank with an inflated hull around it , and then launch in that Duplex Drive Sherman .... My God ... these men of that age were like IRON.
Have been watching your videos for some time now and the topics and footage are amazing; really like the Then & Now clips and the stories behind the events, vehicles, and especially people. Cool stuff!
According to the historian Sir Anthony Beevor's work on the D-Day and Normandy campaigns, the LCT's were supposed to launch their DD's at a specific distance from the shore. Both the British and Canadian commanders realised that the sea state was far too rough at that distance and would be suicide for the tank crews so they took their ships in as far as they could before launching, risking enemy fire from the shore batteries. The result was that Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches each received around 30 tanks reaching the shore with about 3 lost en route. The American commander refused to follow them in and insisted on launching at the original position - as you mentioned, 3 made it ashore and 30 were lost.
Supposedly during filming of "The Longest day" in the 1960s they found a sherman buried in sand in shallow water. Since they had a large crew of experienced sherman mechanics and crew members at hand, they simply towed it to the motor pool and drained the water, replaced the gaskets, threw on a coat of paint and fired it up. It became one of the tanks shown in the movie.
Wow absolutely brilliant & very moving,i,m hoping to go to normandy some time next year & hopefully Oradour sur glane aswell,thank you for keeping history alive.
Thanks for sharing, fascinating! I will be in PeB around the 6th for the C47 memorial walk, and definitely visit the museum. I did not know of the museum - its very unique, but important. Great!
It does seem to be a bit hit and miss but I hope next time you’re in that area it’s open as it is a hidden gem of a museum and a very interesting part of the D-Day story!
My uncle was in the 1st. wave. He was wounded but survived. My grandmother was informed he was KIA and did not know he survived for 2 months when he sent a letter home
Thanks! It’s a fascinating museum and just far off the coast road that sadly it doesn’t get the attention it deserves but it’s definitely worth the drive to Port en Bessin and a look around as they are truly unique exhibits!
When those tanks go down (sink) they go fast and the water rushing in makes it impossible to escape. Sad end for those young men. I wonder why they didn't have a few expendable LST's that could run right up to the shore and expel the tanks.
Big kudos to this museum for preserving a part of D-day history. Knowing the harshness of saltwater these artifacts are in amazing condition, particularly the engines. Enjoyed the guided tour. Thank you
I have never understood what advantage the Allies thought they would have by launching the tanks 4 miles out to sea instead of landing them on the beach; the only thing I can think of is they were afraid the LCT would be hit and they would lose all the tanks at once.
Grandfather was part of a crew in ether a Sexton Or priest tank well after the D-day waves on Juno beach He told us Those poor buggers that were in the Sherman's had a tough time of it If they did not sink They had to deal with mines If it wasn't mines It was Panzerfaust Or Hedgerows Yup we got stuck in a ditch after blindly pushing threw the "Thickets" The Americans were taking the metal bars from the beach And welding them onto the front of the tanks like scissors Cutting threw the hedges instead of exposing the belly of the tank by climbing over the brush Pretty smart idea But I am betting they learn from a few destroyed tanks first ..
Great video again and well narrated! Would love to see this small museum, which I missed on previous visits to Normandy/D-Day sites. Are any of the Shermans lost off the beaches stil there on the seabed? I heard there were some still facing the beach, sat on the ocean floor. The British suffered the same fate with several tanks, due to the stormy seas and fear of the LCT crews to go in closer to the beaches.
US army M7 Priest : identification of the driver John H. Glass and the reconstruction of its incredible journey from North Africa to the Normandy Landings.'
From your highlighted paragraph: _"No contact has since been made, however, with the command of the 741st Tank Battalion, so no accurate figures are available. It might be observed at this time that the action reports of all officer-in-charge of "DD" LCT's in Force "0-1" submitted to this command state that they were amazed when the order came to launch. They were all ready go to the beach and unload there."_ So - it was not *_LIKE YOU SAID_* that the Navy Crews of these LCT's didn't want to go in to the beach. Maybe that is why you included the highlighted part of the report? Did you realize the error you had made after getting the video done and tacked this on to make up for it? The LCT's for the other Battalion did all go to the beach and their commander had been amazed when he saw the other LCT's launch. The Army Officer who was in command of both battalions - was with the other battalion - and maybe that is why they launched. So - this was NOT the Navy Crews being afraid to go to the beach. It was the Army Commander of the tanks that chose to launch - and - the first ones off the ramps didn't all immediately sink. In fact I am under the general impression that most of them did not immediately sink and were trying to swim ashore. The one LCT that did deliver it's tanks to the beach - DID have the first one immediately sink - and so the Officer commanding that LCT - decided not to launch the other 3. So - the problem as I understand it - was not with the Launch - but with the journey to the beach. There were in fact 2 or 3 of these tanks that swam ashore. All of these DD Tanks that were able to swim in - were commanded by people who had Small Boat Experience - and knew how to steer the tanks diagonally into the current so it didn't catch them from the side and sink them. None of the other swimming DD Tanks of this battalion had commanders with Small Boat Experience - and thus did not know how to deal with the water conditions - and their tanks all sank. That some of these Tank Commanders had Small Boat Experience - was purely coincidental - and I would imagine from their Civilian Lives before the war. There was no training in Small Boats that was given to any of the Tank Commanders and all the practice runs - and they did practice swimming these tanks - were in calmer water. The real mistake here - was in allowing the Army Officer to make the decision to launch - when the Navy knew better. Where that decision was made - I don't know - but that was the real mistake. The decision to launch should have been with the Navy Commander of that Boat Unit. Now - the problem with Omaha Beach - was that it had a very strong current that was sweeping along the coast. That Current is what sank these tanks. It caused the rough seas to hit these vehicles from the side and swamp them. That is why the Tank Commanders with Small Boat Experience knew to steer into the current rather than let it hit them from the side. When they practiced landing these tanks - they were not in such a current - this was only on Omaha Beach - so the other Beaches did not have this problem - and - they planners may not have realized the trouble this current would cause. This current also played a part in the wrecking of the Artificial Harbor that was erected off Omaha - though - the main reason for that - was the inaccurate weather report it received. The British got an accurate weather report of what was coming - and pulled in all their small boats used by the harbor. The Americans - with that bad weather report didn't pull their small boats in - and these boats were slammed into the piers wrecking them. That said - yes - I can see that it occurred to someone that there was a lot of wrecked equipment off that beach and they should go out and salvage it. Overall this was a very good video and I'm glad to see the mention of this museum which I did not know about. I was just not happy at the apparent slight against the courage of the Navy Boat Crews ... . There were a lot of those guys that got killed in WWII. The closest thing those landing craft had to any armor at all - was the steel ramps on the bow. Those had to be steel as driving a vehicle down a plywood ramp - like what the rest of the boat was made of - would have just collapsed it. If you want to watch a good movie on the Navy people that did things like this - watch _Away All Boats_ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_All_Boats This movie was based on a book by the author Kenneth M. Dodson who served on a Navy Attack Transport in WWII. Oh - and OMT ... the Navy offered the Army Amphibious Tractors but since there were no Coral Reefs - just sand beaches - the Army said they didn't need them. The Navy - needed all it could get in the Pacific so that was that. Montgomery did use some in crossing the Rhine though - as well - I believe - as some DD Tanks. .
Bloss das Pro Abschnitt von 21 Panzern die zu Wasser gelassen wurden,es nur 2 Panzern es ans Land geschafft haben..19 Panzer gingen vorzeitig unter,weil zu viel Wasser in den Panzern rein kammen,und der Motor abgesoffen ist..
I don’t at the moment. I’m looking into it though but it won’t be this year as I’m changing my day job, moving house and some other stuff but might look at it for 2025 onwards
I’ve been there. An interesting place with a lot of things to look at. The founder was a French underwater salvage specialist. He was hired to clear the Normandy beach area of all the wrecks. So he was paid to salvage them, kept the scrap, and opened a museum. So he was paid to haul it up and out, and he, or at least his family, is still getting “paid” decades later. Good for him!
I've always heard about the myriad of relics lost, sunk and buried on Juno and Omaha beaches. But even after 20 years of searching with metal detectors and scuba gear, I'm yet to find a single relic on or around Juno Beach Florida! Well, I guess I'll have to start searching Omaha beach in Nebraska next, followed by the beaches of Utah. 😁
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Today we went out with our 18 year old grandson to see the Standing with Giants instalment at the British Memorial at Vers sur Mer. Wonderful.
With my husband driving I navigated us to this fantastic museum just by Ports en Bessin. Both he and my grandson were blown away. Last year we went to the Tank Museum at Saumur, which was very accessible to Will. He is registered blind, so accessibility is so important to us. The owner of today's museum could not have been kinder, taking time to change his film in the inside part of the museum to English, so we could listen to it as we wandered around. Will was delighted to find a Sherman RD complete with propellors.
We went because we had watched your UA-cam so a great big thank you. We live just outside Mortain, and we would like to let you know that a museum has just opened this year in the adjoining village of le Neufbourg. This is very well laid out and used exhibits which have been found around the area. I
Love your channel and are so pleased to have found something that Will could enjoy.
😢 catastrophic what happened to these tanks and their crews. Thank you for this video to remind of this event of D-Day and of the brave men who lost their lives.
Plus showing us a fascinating museum.
Have been here before, the guy working the counter was the main diver - his boat is out front and the massive anchor they used is half grown into a tree. Very cool spot, very nice people there too. Well worth a look around.
OMG thank goodness that somebody took the time to preserve that history. Very sobering. Enjoyed the episode. Stay safe Jon.
Thanks Mike! Was really interesting to finally visit the place after driving past it every time I visited Normandy!
Can you imagine how many tanks, trucks and other assorted vehicles never made on the beaches all along the coast. My grandfather told me a story of a tank that fell over the side of one of the landing craft on Utah Beach. He said the water pressure was so bad, the crew couldn't get out. And it sunk. Just amazing.
Just happened on this museum with my dad touring Normandy about 15 years ago. Great little museum and a must see.
thanks for sharing! i visited normandy in 94 but didn't get into the museum, it was expensive even then... I see that the outside tanks have somewhat deteriorate a lot since then
I"d recommend going back if you have time as from memory it wasn't too costly to get it and the exhibits are fascinating.
Nice one. I was at that museum too, back in 2010, whilst doing a tour of the Normandy beaches. Thanks for bringing back the memories👍
Glad you were able to see it again! Its a great place isnt't it, and surprisngly not as well known about as I would have thought given the unique artefacts they have there!
My brother was a recovery diver for the USN, and part of his training was done in Baie de Seine, where there are still over a hundred tanks, landing craft, small ships etc. He has quite the photo album of these historic wrecks, copies of which were sent to several museums. He's retired now, but says that was still his favorite part of training, getting to dive on these historic wrecks.
Oh wow! That sounds incredible! Great that he was able to pass the photos on too given how hard it is to access those wrecks and all the specialist training needed to do so!
Awesome vid - one of my favorite magazines ever was a National Geographic 60th anniversary special where they went down and took photos of all the wrecks and tanks of Normandy.
Love seeing these- like little time capsules
Oh nice! Knowing Nat Geo I bet they did an amazing job of documenting the wrecks there!
@@WW2Wayfinder I’ve tried for years to find it again, it really was awesome
Another excellent video on a museum that most would bypass. Thanks Jon..
My pleasure!
Merci pour cet hommage à tous ces soldats qui sont pour la plupart morts noyés , atroce fin pour nos libérateurs 🙏🙏🇨🇵
Your videos are so touching, heartfelt and emotional, well done indeed.
Thank you!
@@WW2Wayfinder You're very welcome, my Uncle Ray Davis retired from the army back in the 80s, caught all 3 wars including 2x Vietnam, all Airborne, Sicily and Salerno 82d, Normandy throughout the 101 then DIVARTY in Vietnam that man had more fruit salad on his Class As than Ike did. SGM. Orville Raymond Davis, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Oh wow!!!! I bet he had some stories to tell!!!
I grew up near the village of Quorn in England where the 505th PIR were billeted before D-Day so I bet your Uncle would have been familiar with the village back in the day!!
@@WW2Wayfinder That's the town I tried to remember, Ray was an old country boy, he'll called it Corn, D Day he was hung up in a tree, he was tall, blonde blue eyes a movie star type, he never spoke of korea, his M16 saved his life an RPG exploded, shrapnel caught the rifle. Ray had so many scars, he loved building things, his garden, yardwork. Made 97 passing away. He loved life. My grandmother was a WAC in France, Margaret Katherine Brooke, tall black hair blue eyes and tough.
Very interesting pictures and research about D-Day 1944. Thank you for your good and valuable work.
You’re most welcome! Hopefully something a little different given the nature of the museum!
Got to get there...bucket list stuff
Its a great museum and definitly a good place to spend a couple of hours reading all the associated stories they've collected there.
Imagine the courage it took , to get in a tank with an inflated hull around it , and then launch in that Duplex Drive Sherman .... My God ... these men of that age were like IRON.
First time hearing of this museum. Thanks for getting boots on the ground for us.
This is awesome. Didn’t know this museum existed. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! It's just south of Port en Bessin so easily missed but well worth a detour to it if you're heading back over there.
Have been watching your videos for some time now and the topics and footage are amazing; really like the Then & Now clips and the stories behind the events, vehicles, and especially people. Cool stuff!
Awesome place and information of the historical items rescued from the sea..!
Good stuff as always, very awesome collection. Another stop I need to make whenever I get to go back over to Normandy. Thanks Jon. 🫡
Brilliant little tour mate. Thank you
According to the historian Sir Anthony Beevor's work on the D-Day and Normandy campaigns, the LCT's were supposed to launch their DD's at a specific distance from the shore. Both the British and Canadian commanders realised that the sea state was far too rough at that distance and would be suicide for the tank crews so they took their ships in as far as they could before launching, risking enemy fire from the shore batteries. The result was that Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches each received around 30 tanks reaching the shore with about 3 lost en route. The American commander refused to follow them in and insisted on launching at the original position - as you mentioned, 3 made it ashore and 30 were lost.
Exactly that. Sadly not thinking on their feet cost a lot of good men their lives that day!
Supposedly during filming of "The Longest day" in the 1960s they found a sherman buried in sand in shallow water. Since they had a large crew of experienced sherman mechanics and crew members at hand, they simply towed it to the motor pool and drained the water, replaced the gaskets, threw on a coat of paint and fired it up. It became one of the tanks shown in the movie.
Oh wow I wasn't aware of that! Thank you!
What a surprise - another great video! Thanks!
Really nice, I'm glad the familly keeps running it
Wow absolutely brilliant & very moving,i,m hoping to go to normandy some time next year & hopefully Oradour sur glane aswell,thank you for keeping history alive.
Excellent video, thanks for bringing this wonderful museum to light.
Thanks for sharing, fascinating! I will be in PeB around the 6th for the C47 memorial walk, and definitely visit the museum. I did not know of the museum - its very unique, but important. Great!
Thank you sir for sharing the tour...
Thanks for sharing!!✌️🇺🇲
very interesting history and thank you for posting. very nice video
Thanks for the tour mate, nice one 😉👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video .Cheers pal 😮😊
Excellent. I'm hoping to visit this year.
merci pour la vidéo, on se croisera peut-être dans 15 jours en Normandie!!!
This museum was closed when I was in the area a few weeks ago. Must go there again one day.
It does seem to be a bit hit and miss but I hope next time you’re in that area it’s open as it is a hidden gem of a museum and a very interesting part of the D-Day story!
My uncle was in the 1st. wave. He was wounded but survived. My grandmother was informed he was KIA and did not know he survived for 2 months when he sent a letter home
Oh wow. Hard to imagine those kind of emoitions.
Outstanding! Very interesting video! I’d love to visit there. Maybe oneday.
Thanks!
It’s a fascinating museum and just far off the coast road that sadly it doesn’t get the attention it deserves but it’s definitely worth the drive to Port en Bessin and a look around as they are truly unique exhibits!
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My pleasure 😊
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Amazing Work Brother, Thank You.
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Near the PLUTO lines? Reminiscent of Virginia where there are a number of small but remarkable private CW museums.
That’s the spot. They ran past the museum and headed west along the roads.
Wow that's very good indeed nice 😊
Thank you! Cheers!
When those tanks go down (sink) they go fast and the water rushing in makes it impossible to escape. Sad end for those young men. I wonder why they didn't have a few expendable LST's that could run right up to the shore and expel the tanks.
Big kudos to this museum for preserving a part of D-day history. Knowing the harshness of saltwater these artifacts are in amazing condition, particularly the engines. Enjoyed the guided tour. Thank you
They’ve done a great job haven’t they preserving it all, not to mention the recovery effort in the first place!
Great Vid.
Thanks!
I have never understood what advantage the Allies thought they would have by launching the tanks 4 miles out to sea instead of landing them on the beach; the only thing I can think of is they were afraid the LCT would be hit and they would lose all the tanks at once.
Which do you think is easier to hit a floating canvas(DD Tank) or a huge LCT...
The Brits found that out the Hard way during the Dieppe Raid.
Been there in 2013, they didn't had a toilet for the visitors.
Grandfather was part of a crew in ether a Sexton Or priest tank well after the D-day waves on Juno beach He told us Those poor buggers that were in the Sherman's had a tough time of it If they did not sink They had to deal with mines If it wasn't mines It was Panzerfaust Or Hedgerows Yup we got stuck in a ditch after blindly pushing threw the "Thickets" The Americans were taking the metal bars from the beach And welding them onto the front of the tanks like scissors Cutting threw the hedges instead of exposing the belly of the tank by climbing over the brush Pretty smart idea But I am betting they learn from a few destroyed tanks first ..
Great video again and well narrated! Would love to see this small museum, which I missed on previous visits to Normandy/D-Day sites. Are any of the Shermans lost off the beaches stil there on the seabed? I heard there were some still facing the beach, sat on the ocean floor. The British suffered the same fate with several tanks, due to the stormy seas and fear of the LCT crews to go in closer to the beaches.
7:22 - devastating.
US army M7 Priest : identification of the driver John H. Glass and the reconstruction of its incredible journey from North Africa to the Normandy Landings.'
Other Normandy D-Day beaches are available.
Yes you’re absolutely correct, however the majority of the wrecks were recovered from the Omaha Sector.
From your highlighted paragraph:
_"No contact has since been made, however, with the command of the 741st Tank Battalion, so no accurate figures are available. It might be observed at this time that the action reports of all officer-in-charge of "DD" LCT's in Force "0-1" submitted to this command state that they were amazed when the order came to launch. They were all ready go to the beach and unload there."_
So - it was not *_LIKE YOU SAID_* that the Navy Crews of these LCT's didn't want to go in to the beach.
Maybe that is why you included the highlighted part of the report? Did you realize the error you had made after getting the video done and tacked this on to make up for it?
The LCT's for the other Battalion did all go to the beach and their commander had been amazed when he saw the other LCT's launch. The Army Officer who was in command of both battalions - was with the other battalion - and maybe that is why they launched. So - this was NOT the Navy Crews being afraid to go to the beach.
It was the Army Commander of the tanks that chose to launch - and - the first ones off the ramps didn't all immediately sink. In fact I am under the general impression that most of them did not immediately sink and were trying to swim ashore. The one LCT that did deliver it's tanks to the beach - DID have the first one immediately sink - and so the Officer commanding that LCT - decided not to launch the other 3.
So - the problem as I understand it - was not with the Launch - but with the journey to the beach.
There were in fact 2 or 3 of these tanks that swam ashore.
All of these DD Tanks that were able to swim in - were commanded by people who had Small Boat Experience - and knew how to steer the tanks diagonally into the current so it didn't catch them from the side and sink them. None of the other swimming DD Tanks of this battalion had commanders with Small Boat Experience - and thus did not know how to deal with the water conditions - and their tanks all sank.
That some of these Tank Commanders had Small Boat Experience - was purely coincidental - and I would imagine from their Civilian Lives before the war. There was no training in Small Boats that was given to any of the Tank Commanders and all the practice runs - and they did practice swimming these tanks - were in calmer water.
The real mistake here - was in allowing the Army Officer to make the decision to launch - when the Navy knew better. Where that decision was made - I don't know - but that was the real mistake. The decision to launch should have been with the Navy Commander of that Boat Unit.
Now - the problem with Omaha Beach - was that it had a very strong current that was sweeping along the coast. That Current is what sank these tanks. It caused the rough seas to hit these vehicles from the side and swamp them. That is why the Tank Commanders with Small Boat Experience knew to steer into the current rather than let it hit them from the side.
When they practiced landing these tanks - they were not in such a current - this was only on Omaha Beach - so the other Beaches did not have this problem - and - they planners may not have realized the trouble this current would cause.
This current also played a part in the wrecking of the Artificial Harbor that was erected off Omaha - though - the main reason for that - was the inaccurate weather report it received. The British got an accurate weather report of what was coming - and pulled in all their small boats used by the harbor. The Americans - with that bad weather report didn't pull their small boats in - and these boats were slammed into the piers wrecking them.
That said - yes - I can see that it occurred to someone that there was a lot of wrecked equipment off that beach and they should go out and salvage it.
Overall this was a very good video and I'm glad to see the mention of this museum which I did not know about. I was just not happy at the apparent slight against the courage of the Navy Boat Crews ... . There were a lot of those guys that got killed in WWII. The closest thing those landing craft had to any armor at all - was the steel ramps on the bow. Those had to be steel as driving a vehicle down a plywood ramp - like what the rest of the boat was made of - would have just collapsed it.
If you want to watch a good movie on the Navy people that did things like this - watch
_Away All Boats_
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_All_Boats
This movie was based on a book by the author Kenneth M. Dodson who served on a Navy Attack Transport in WWII.
Oh - and OMT ... the Navy offered the Army Amphibious Tractors but since there were no Coral Reefs - just sand beaches - the Army said they didn't need them. The Navy - needed all it could get in the Pacific so that was that.
Montgomery did use some in crossing the Rhine though - as well - I believe - as some DD Tanks.
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Bloss das Pro Abschnitt von 21 Panzern die zu Wasser gelassen wurden,es nur 2 Panzern es ans Land geschafft haben..19 Panzer gingen vorzeitig unter,weil zu viel Wasser in den Panzern rein kammen,und der Motor abgesoffen ist..
We now live in the most evil point in history.
Do you by chance offer tours of the Normandy battle ground area?
I don’t at the moment. I’m looking into it though but it won’t be this year as I’m changing my day job, moving house and some other stuff but might look at it for 2025 onwards
@@WW2Wayfinder Please let me know if you do. Thank you.
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Will do, I’ll put it out on here and Facebook/instagram too!