D-Day Declassified: Inside Operation Overlord | FULL DOCUMENTARY

D-Day marks the start of World War II liberation efforts. For Churchill and his ally President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it was time to free Europe by organising the largest seaborne military operation in the history of mankind. 70 years after « Operation Overlord » took place, it remains one of the most heroic battle ever.
The battle first raged on the coast of Normandy. 1.5 million men and women took part in it. The film takes a closer look at the backstage of the entire set-up of the operation. Some crucial facts on logistics, some incredible secret decisions made by leaders, the involvement of top-ranking officers as well as surprising secret agents all led to the success of the operation.
Documentary: The Hidden Side of D-Day (2014)
Direction: Yvan Demeulandre, Juliette Desbois & Camille Le Pomellec
Production: Let’s Pix
#fulldocumentary #documentary #film #DDay #OperationOverlord #Normandy #WWII #Liberation #MilitaryHistory #HistoricalBattle #HeroesOfWWII #WorldWarII #MilitaryOperation #omaha #france

[@TheGrowler55]

British Soldiers, not English, my Uncle's from Glasgow fought in Normandy and they where Scottish, not forgetting the Welsh, Irish and others from the British Empire, just saying from Glasgow 💙😎🇬🇧👊

[@Taskforce1]

when tf did ww2 footage start getting blurred out? what a fuckin joke

[@samuelschick8813]

Agreed. Ways to ruin an otherwise educational and fine video: 1.) Blur images. 2.) Video in vertical. 3.) Background effects/music louder than the narrator. 4.) Make it woke/politically correct.

[@adamc27]

It keeps the video from getting demonetized by KZbin. There's plenty of docs on here that don't blur violent images but generally the account owners are here to make money

[@samuelschick8813]

@@adamc27, Then direct us to the videos that don't.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

​@@samuelschick8813trial and error...... like your conception

[@samuelschick8813]

@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg, Pretty hypocritical comment coming from the likes of you.

[@aefbNone]

new info, new interviewed persons, new footage. thanks so much!

[@trumanhw]

Agreed. What do you think the GREATEST generation would think about our SUPPORT for KIEVS REGIME? And the SNOTZEES we helped wage a coup? Do people get what caused the Cuban missile crisis!? That Russia did that bc we had our missiles in TURKEY..? Yet now, we're trying to put them in UKRAINE!?

[@therampanthamster]

this doc is 10 years old - it's interesting, but there's nothing new here ;)

[@Bmayo27]

51 min. mark; Man, good on Eisenhower!!

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

156k men going to the same beach? must be a topless one

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Nudist Dogging Spot

[@zipperpillow]

More like bottomless, and free beer.

[@Buce-ku9vx]

Nice 🫵

[@jplacido9999]

Several beaches

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

@@jplacido9999 i know but it doesnt work forthe joke

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

The way Eisenhower handled that is exactly how anytime something like that happens should be dealt with.

[@WizzRacing]

Garbo is the most interesting person of WWII.. He created a whole spy ring out of thin air.

[@Trappedinatriangle]

Dude was a chicken farmer 🤣

[@timrutkevich3222]

The most interesting stories and people will never become public. Because they never get caught

[@TDCF355]

Under the control of MI5

[@oceanhome2023]

⁠@@Trappedinatriangle You mean like ghbbnbbb ?

[@jonathanpidock3006]

Patton was there in that role because he was basically on “probation”. He had been dismissed for slapping two American soldiers but then later they brought him back for this. If he could pull this off he could get back into the actual fight.

[@minirock000]

Wasn't that for slapping "Monty"?

[@jonathanpidock3006]

@@minirock000 are you kidding me? Even he wouldn’t have gotten away with that (as much as Montgomery might have deserved it). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton_slapping_incidents

[@navret1707]

I thought Ike put Patton in charge of the “fake” buildup to lure the Germans into believing that the invasion would be at the Pas de Cali (I’m sure my spelling is off). According to the movie “Patton” the German High Command could not believe that Ike would ground his greatest general over something as “minor” as slapping an enlisted man. They were sure Patton would be leading the invasion. I realize that a Hollywood movie isn’t the best reference possible but it’s all what I got.

[@daleslover2771]

Give it thought, you have one of the most hard hitting Generals in the World!! Being reprimanded for slapping a couple of GIs😂😂😂 when you have men being blowing to bits, machine gun down by the hundreds every day, planes being shot down, cities being bomb, ships being torpedo by the hundreds, thousands of men being killed every week. Then you're gonna relieve a Titan? Because of the bleeding hearts, have a say so into how the war is progressing 😂 Over 20, 000 men lost their lives in accidents, alone Hundreds of thousands of millions of innocent cilivans were sent to the gas chambers or shot, and you're gonna CANNED the most feared conquers that would stand shoulder to shoulder with a Caesars? Way too many people frogett that the war dept hired Entertainers, Movie actors, Directors, I believe that this diversion was an act of a plan that worked out excellent.. Whose knows it might come in handy again.😂

[@capt.stubing5604]

Think what you like, but there is no way the US was going to permanently sideline one of the top generals because of a slap. He was chastised which made everyone feel good and hopefully taught him a lesson. But there was never any doubt he would lead an army again.

[@daniellepearsall4978]

The story at 50 minutes, good for Eisenhower. Respect for him.

[@jaypercy5974]

It's the old joke you walk into an intelligence room and you ask what are doing reply comes waiting for someone with intelligence 😅

[@mamdouhnakhla1027]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@gregbolitho9775]

Good stuff, nothin I didn't already know. There was a 6th Beach, some where, I haven't been able to find much on. Thanks those who served!

[@ruperterskin2117]

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@abraraybrahim7966]

Wonderful..

[@aquateenjunkie21]

Thanks!

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thank you so much for supporting us!!

[@importantname]

Every intelligence failure is caused by an intelligence success...

[@jaypercy5974]

Great story its sort of like Catch Me If You Can ha. My uncle was a navigator in WW2 and came back late from a date one night all the planes were ready to go so he missed the flight that plane got shot down no survivors never found he was thrown in the brig he married that lady who was WAAF my aunty. But he served from 1940-45 and was shot down twice 😅😮😊

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Sounds eerily like my Aunt and Uncle....a WAF and a Navigator

[@patrickyoung3503]

God moves in Mysterious ways . Honour & Respect . Lest we forget .

[@rogerb3654]

The Germans were not afraid of Patton. They did not even know he was the commander of FUSAG until AFTER D-DAY. Patton's "inspection tours" around Kent did not attract attention. The Germans were more interested in what Eisenhower & Montgomery were up too. ~Henrik Bering (Hoover Institute) commenting on the book, "Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies" by Harry Yeide

[@user-tp4ym7wu9w]

Well Henrik Berdigs (or whatever his name) book was poorly researched. The Germans ABSOLUTELY knew whom Patton was. He had been Eisenhower's boss, his audacity in war was known to the world, and it was known that he had written the book on American tank doctrine. Having raced through both German and Italian divisions in both North Africa AND Sicily AND Italy, to say they didn't know or fear him is the height of ignorance. In FACT, the Germans pulled Rommel out of North Africa to allow him to save face when it was obvious that Patton had beat him. So no doubt the German Field Marshal in charge of the Atlantic wall (Irwin Rommel) knew who Patton was. Finally, Patton was the allied general most often mentioned in German dispatches. Everything I have stated is a known historical fact. The problem with revisionist history, is people like you that believe it.

[@rogerb3654]

@@user-tp4ym7wu9w That good info. Do you have some references. ...always willing to learn more from other sources.

[@user-tp4ym7wu9w]

@@rogerb3654Patton a Biography 2006; Axelrod, Alan Patton George S War as I Knew It 1947 Stephen Ambrose- Eisenhower: Soldier and President 2007 Bkumenson: the Patton Papers 1940-45

[@user-tp4ym7wu9w]

. German general Günther Blumentritt, a key planner of the invasions of France and Poland, wrote in a study for the U.S. Army after the war, “We regarded General Patton extremely highly as the most aggressive Panzer General of the Allies, a man of incredible initiative and lightning-like action…. His operations impressed us enormously, probably because he came closest to our own concept of the classical military commander.” Alfred Jodl, who served as Hitler’s chief of operations from 1940 until the end of the war, told American interrogators, “He was the American Guderian. He was very bold and preferred large movements. He took big risks and won big successes.” General Heinz Guderian himself, after Germany’s surrender, told his Allied captors, “From the standpoint of a tank specialist, I must congratulate him for his victory since he acted as I should have done had I been in his place.”

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

This was such an interesting and fantastic documentary. Lmao them inflatable tanks were genius. Thank you for sharing!

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

thanks for watching!!

[@zero6two6]

The love story was heartwarming

[@shawnastephens1536]

This is cool. Thank you.

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@FallenAngel-it7so]

Imagine being able to talk to the walls in that war room wow!

[@Buce-ku9vx]

Hello walls

[@jplacido9999]

That wouldn't be a problem, unless the walls talked back at you....😂😂😂

[@FallenAngel-it7so]

@@jplacido9999 That would be ideal to hear what they had to say they witnessed a lot of history

[@jplacido9999]

@@FallenAngel-it7so 👍👍👍🙏

[@user-hz7pr8lc4v]

My grandad was one of them toms

[@peterturner8766]

@9:11 Where it says "KENT" is actually to the west of Kent. It is roughly the location of Gatwick which at the time was in Surrey but now in Sussex.

[@VeteranHedonist]

I've been to the war rooms. It's an interesting day out.

[@twogamer7149]

43:45 This kind of beautiful stories seem rare nowadays.

[@kevincaldwell4707]

@40:53 "Oh what a night"...yeah I can only imagine...😆

[@alexhayden2303]

Patton. much to his chagrin, was made to command a phantom army in England. It was a compliment to his pugnacious reputation.

[@Jean-vr7vj]

Absolutely amazing feat. The allies not only having the time to play around with cool ideas creating toy equipment and managing to present all this deception to the enemy thus achieving total battlefield surprise, seizing at least air superiority (nearing air supremacy), using merely 700 vessels, were able to deploy well trained and equipped troops on target location and succeeded in causing 6000 casualties on the axis side, suffering measly 4300 allied losses and claiming all this astonishing success despite being forced to resort to the unfortunate limitations of relying on a mere 30:1 advantage. Just wow! At the same time on the opposite, eastern front the soviets suffering monumental casualties and losses. Which comes as a no surprise really, considering their leaders failed to take their time to properly train their troops before sending them into battle (assuming of course they'd be skilled enough to do, which they never were). Also all the other things like inability to design, develop, produce and deliver any military tech that could come even close to be on par with what the axis were enjoying, let alone even the lowest arms of the allies. Not only on the ground, but neither in the air. All they could do was just keep feeding meat fodder into the axis grinder and then have the audacity to claim they helped win the war, when in truth they werent even able to make a dent. Twenty two million losses for nothing! 22 000 000! Even after all the economic and military help, delivered right to their feet. Hopeless. The US lost what? Barely 400K? And that, fighting and defeating both all the combined axis forces in the continents of Europe and Africa, AND fighting and defeating the forces of the Japanese Empire in Asia and Oceania. Practically all on their own without any assistance. Not even wanting to get involved in the first place. Shamefully attacked without having any knowledge or suspicions, minding their own business, unfairly accused of causing devastating damage to the entire world by allegedly allowing (knowingly and willfully) a tiny group of individuals playing games of wealth and power chasing the emasculating feel of holding the faiths of billions of souls in their grasp? Ridiculous! Provoking the japanese by suffocating them economically (and many other means), thus scattering away any potential ideas they may have of pride, ambition or level treatment? Absurd! Desire to join the war against Germany for the same reasons - to prevent a rise of another challenging power? Nonsense! Taking advantage of the critical situation Britain has found herself in, make her beg for help, humiliating her and exploit events to break up the hold of the current leader and replace it as the new dominating power? Laughable!

[@samalam98]

Got my sub! History is often twisted and mistaken. Not here!

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@DavidLee-mp8us]

"English"? They were not just English but British which includes Scots, Welsh and Irish

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yeah but they all wish they were English.

[@scottfoster3445]

55 million english 5million scots Come on

[@TheGrowler55]

@@scottfoster3445 Check your History bud, in WW1 the Scots lost more Men per head of population than any other UK Country and punched above their weight in WW2, just saying. 😎🇬🇧

[@t.birmingham2668]

​@lyndoncmp5751 that's kinda funny 😁!

[@flemwad]

​@@lyndoncmp5751This British Scotsman lolled

[@samiam619]

At 00:37, did he put his helmet on BACKWARDS?

[@crissmith3839]

I'm glad they do not have to rely on geography to get around the UK. For one, Lake Windermere is simply called Windermere, and it is in Cumbria these days, which is definitely in England and not in Scotland.

[@samuelschick8813]

Ultra was the brain child of Alan Turing. It was Alan Turing that designed and built Ultra. It was Alan Turing that was head of Bletchley Park, Hut 8 that broke the code. Give credit where credit is due. The film " The Imitation Game" covers Alan Turing and his contributions to cracking German codes.

[@WizzRacing]

Like hell he did.. It was the Polish that broke the code. And they fled to England where they gave the British the German cypher machine they built. As the British was so far behind in the technology. They had no clue how the German Cypher machine even worked.. So you better stop getting your education off movies. As they are not historical accounts..It's why they created Books.

[@adventussaxonum448]

​@@WizzRacing The Poles gave the British a commercial Enigma machine. A far cry from the naval 4 rotor machine. The Germans were changing the codes daily, too. It wasn't just breaking codes; it was doing so fast enough to make a military difference. There was also the Lorenz code (called Tunny by the British), which caused even more difficulties. That's why Tommy Flowers built the electronic programmable computer ,Colossus.

[@WizzRacing]

@@adventussaxonum448 You seem ignorant. As everybody but the United States used Commercial Cypher machines of the time..As the United States government made export of their Cypher machines illegal.. And again. The British had no clue how the German Cypher machine worked. Hell you can go too the British Library and read the History of how the Polish broke the "Military" code machine in 1932 with the help of the French.. Now beat it. The Polish had already invented the cyclometer. Had Alan Turing not had this information. Their whole team would still be rubbing two stones to make fire.. Now go get an education..

[@samuelschick8813]

@@WizzRacing, Within weeks of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical machine called the bombe, which could break Enigma more effectively than the Polish bomba kryptologiczna, from which its name was derived. The bombe, with an enhancement suggested by mathematician Gordon Welchman, became one of the primary tools, and the major automated one, used to attack Enigma-enciphered messages. The bombe searched for possible correct settings used for an Enigma message (i.e., rotor order, rotor settings and plugboard settings) using a suitable crib: a fragment of probable plaintext. For each possible setting of the rotors (which had on the order of 1019 states, or 1022 states for the four-rotor U-boat variant), the bombe performed a chain of logical deductions based on the crib, implemented electromechanically. The bombe detected when a contradiction had occurred and ruled out that setting, moving on to the next. Most of the possible settings would cause contradictions and be discarded, leaving only a few to be investigated in detail. A contradiction would occur when an enciphered letter would be turned back into the same plaintext letter, which was impossible with the Enigma. The first bombe was installed on 18 March 1940. Pretty arrogant and hypocritical of you to call anyone ignorant.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@WizzRacing Ultra was SO much more than Alan Turing. It's like saying that Wilbur and Orville Wright built Concord. Since 1932 the Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski & Jerzy Różycki worked within BS4 (the Polish general staff cipher Bureau focussed on German decryption & intelligence), and together with VITAL assistance given by the French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand (who had cultivated a German informant codenamed "Asché" who had provided French Intelligence with tons of vital data including a full nazi procedural manual for use of the enigma encryption device), had by the purchase of a commercial version of the early enigma device and LOTS of analysis eventually broken into German army and air force 3 rotor encryption networks, this was a fantastic achievement, but it is true to say that they at no time did they crack German Kriegsmarine encryption due to the additional layers of security employed by the German navy. In December 1938 the nazis introduced a further 2 interchangeable encryption rotors to the enigma system, which immediately brought the vast majority of Polish decryption efforts to a grinding halt, which is where it remained up until the outbreak of WW2. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of WW2 the Polish research work was passed to the French, who in the six months they had it in their possession added little to the accumulated knowledge, and to the UK where the British government seized it with both hands, and made its study top priority. So was instigated the British "ULTRA" project. Jerzy Różycki elected to stay behind and work in Vichy France where, unknown to the Germans he worked on a seperate secret encryption system, which bore no tangible fruit before his death in 1942. Marian Rejewski & Henryk Zygalski were, for security reasons, not included in the UK "ULTRA" project, and so took no further part in British decryption efforts. The British "ULTRA" project took the non working foundation research of the Polish decrypters and from there MASSIVELY expanded that research to once again break into nazi 3 rotor enigma, this was followed in 1942 by the cracking of the improved kriegsmarine M4 enigma (the 4 rotor enigma device, codenamed "SHARK"), as well as simultaneously breaking into the FAR more complex "lorenz" cipher device used by the German army & navy high commands (TUNNY), before finally cracking the "Geheimschreiber" encryption device used by both the Luftwaffe high command as well as the top level of the nazi government (STURGEON), on top of these British achievements another product of the ULTRA program was the building of the world's first programmable electronic computer (COLOSSUS) to speed up the breaking of German codes. This was designed and built by a British team led by Alan Turing and the telephone engineer Tommy Flowers, which transformed British decryption from a process which often only gave results days or even weeks after the message was eavesdropped on by the British, to a state of affairs towards the end of WW2 where the British were reading a LOT of top level communications at the same time as the intended German recipient. The early Polish codebreakers did indeed provide the "acorn" from which the British cultivated the "mighty oak" of ULTRA.

[@MYRRHfamily]

This is great. This documentary makes me realize that intelligence won the war.

[@zipperpillow]

I think Hitler's Walther P-38 fired that bullet.

[@MYRRHfamily]

@@zipperpillow what bullet is that? I don’t remember the reference. If it was there.

[@robert-zj7ef]

Ill tell you who won the war. It was all those guys on the ground with guns on their way to Berlin!

[@zipperpillow]

@@MYRRHfamily The 9mm that Hitler put into his own skull.

[@Buce-ku9vx]

@@zipperpillow the p-38 was made by Lockheed not Walther, and it had many guns that shot really really fast, duuuh.

[@timphillips9954]

Lets have a bit of ballance here please the American role on D Day was a junior partner to the Brits and Empire forces on land, in the air and most importantly at sea.

[@zogzog1063]

'Today the two are still together' How wonder is that!

[@HerbertTowers]

What did the author mean when he used the word "declassified"? This is just another repeat of a story that's been told thousands if not millions of times.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

The special "LBGQT" unit's that terrified the Germans

[@stuartgmk]

​@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg😅

[@jplacido9999]

Light Batle Ground Quality Tanks ?!!!!😂😂

[@GIJoe3333]

I always heard it was five housand ships. Now it's seven thousand. Now i can see some leeway here of a couple hundred. But 2000 is too much of a stretch without some proof.

[@simonshotter8960]

Lots more info out there saying 7000, think you should divert your proof request at the fucker who said 5000

[@Buce-ku9vx]

Actually it was 46 ships, 4000 boats, 53 dingys and an armored canoe

[@Shytot-1]

Patton was feared because he didn't care how many men he lost. he would do whatever it took to win, regardless.

[@jucadvgv3449]

patton was supposedly furious about this. it's been said that ike was punishing him for slapping a private scared of fighting. he'd already been taken away from fighting and bradley put in his place for having done this.

[@jplacido9999]

Not scared, PTSD....

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

How does life continue without the Geniuses of the comment section 😂

[@japhfo]

‘ “A lot of us were killed…” At Utah Beach, 200 of John’s comrades were struck down by German bullets.’

 A little misleading. Without wishing to diminish John Roman’s experience, the documentary has been edited to give a false impression. I’m not sure why. A total of 197 casualties, killed and wounded, were suffered by the troops of 4th Infantry Division landing on the beaches code-name ‘Utah.’ 8th & 22nd Infantry Regiments together suffered 12 killed. They encountered sporadic shelling and small arms fire, with losses from mines on the beach and offshore but the strongest defences had been sidestepped by a fortunate error. (The footage mostly shows landings at the more heavily defended ‘Omaha’ beach). By a grim irony, 4th Division had suffered far worse casualties when training exercises had gone terribly wrong. Over 800 alone died one night in April 1944, when German E-Boats raiders had chanced upon troops preparing to land on the Devon coast. They also suffered badly entering Germany later that year.

[@user-hf7hn9rl5g]

Think we need to remember that it was ‘ Britain ‘ under attack and not just England or the ‘ English ‘ - Also monumental efforts were made by all the British empire , which isn’t just ‘English ‘ as portrayed here

[@blackrabbit212]

Thank you for pointing that out. I am tired of listening to the 'Britain stood alone' nonsense, unless of course people mean 'alone except for Newfoundland, Canada, NZ, Australia, India, Kenya, Jamaica, etc., etc., etc.'

[@jerseywalcott6408]

85% of the equipment?

[@tandemcompound2]

French women of no Resistance bedding GIs.

[@gibson617ajg]

As the GI's were coming through the front door the Krauts were running out of the back one. Sloppy Seconds.....ewwww.

[@tandemcompound2]

@@gibson617ajg Deutschemarks, Dollars. Makes no difference to the dames. Buying Power does.

[@MrWorf53]

We will never know but this may have been Patton's greatest contribution to the war. I'll bet it ate him alive.

[@gullybull5568]

FUSUC ❤

[@partygrove5321]

"ultra sophisticated and powerful artillery" cast off naval guns and captured old field guns

[@bluemu]

Why no lics?

[@janiceduke1205]

🫡 Thank you for your service!

[@markfomenko8873]

Nothing new to see here for an old history buff.

[@jameswhitbread7173]

Thanks to GARBO without him thier might have been a completely different result. I think he's easily overlooked

[@donrobertson4940]

Interesting how allied soldiers from all over the world fought and died together to liberate Africa, Italy, western Europe, Asia from the axis, but their grandchildren can't acknowledge the sacrifice without squabbling over who did more.

[@SLICE_Full_Doc]

Thank you for saying that, we noticed it too and were very unsettled..

[@playasurf1000]

0:35 you put your helmet on back to front buddy

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

On D-Day the British and Canadians put 75,215 troops ashore, the Americans 57,500. As an indication of the weight of armoured forces the allies were facing after the D-Day landings here are the German armoured dispositions around the Normandy bridgehead by the middle of July 1944. British 2nd and Canadian 1st Armies facing Caen and the eastern portion of the Normandy bridgehead were opposed by: 1st SS Pz Div (Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler) 9th SS Pz Div (Hohenstaufen) 10th SS Pz Div (Frundsberg) 12th SS Pz Div (HitlerJugend) 21st Pz Div 116th Pz Div 101st Heavy SS Pz Abteilung 102nd Heavy SS Pz Abteilung 503rd Heavy Pz Abteilung The American 1st & 3rd Armies on the Contentin peninsular and in the western portion of the Normandy bridgehead were opposed by: 2nd SS Pz Div (Das Reich) 17th SS PzGr Div (Götz von Berlichingen) Pz Lehr Div While focussing as usual on US losses during the Normandy Landings, you should remember to say a respectful "Thank you" to the British and Canadians who took the brunt of the German defensive reaction, and far greater casualties AFTER D-Day & shielded you from the worst of the fighting while the yanks flailed about in the "Bocage" against mostly "stomach divisions" and were allowed to amass for "Cobra" in relative peace and quiet.

[@stuartgmk]

👍

[@billmoretz8718]

I am amused by the twisting of the effort. Beyond Caan was good tank country and therefore the bulk of armor from both sides were concentrated in this area. The Americans had to fight through hedgerow country which heavily favored the defense. Their primary goal was to capture Cherbourg and give the allies a working port. The initial plan called for the British and Canadians to break through in Caan. Instead they became the lightening rod and drew the bulk of German forces. Cobra was the key, but like all the initial operations were expensive in men and material. After the breakthrough casualties fell considerably until the Germans were able to establish defenses on their frontier area with France, Belgium, etc. There they gathered the last of their power to delay the inevitable.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@billmoretz8718 I don't for one second question that "Cobra" was decisive, but it was the US "sword" to the British and Canadian "shield" that had taken the brunt of the German assaults for the first 2 months, a shield without which D-day would have been driven back into the English Channel.

[@billmoretz8718]

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I was simply stating that that was not according to the original plan. The original plan was for British and Canadian troops to break out in Caan. Cobra was made as a regional adjustment that lead to the liberation of France. Neither would have been likely without the other. And let's not forget about French resistance fighters that so disrupted the road and rail systems to stop Germans from reinforcing quickly. That also lead to the success.

[@MaximBatcho-fk5dr]

Я полностью согласен но ещё не нужно забывать что союзники используют своё полное превосходства в авиации и выражение ковровые бомбардировки произошло именно оттуда то как тысячи бомбардировщиков бомбили немцев перед Каэн, Котэнтан, и перед холмом Коттбус , без вашей бомбардировочной авиации немцы были бы очень рады повоевать ещё и потеряли бы вы намного больше...тем более что были полностью уничтожено дороги и железные дороги и немцы никакой возможности не имели перевезти помощь и танковые дивизии.А так да спасибо всем за помощь в этой войне. Из России с любовью.

[@user-mn5gg5cr6q]

If china tries this with Taiwan it's 3 times as far against an enemy who has had decades to prepare - just saying

[@keithmitchell6548]

Fyi: D-Day was primarily a British operation. Would be nice to change the perspective that it was mostly American…

[@janmale7767]

Launched at 6 o'clock the morning on the 6th day of the 6th month 1944 called operation 'overlord'.....who is that Overlord?......let your imagination run wild!!

[@lornerogers5178]

All this bickering, like this was facebook about who"s first. I will tell who was first. Fifth Field Company Combat Engineers, 3rd Canadian Division. Landed an hour and half before the first wave of assault troops. 'They cleared the way for those who followed.' Sappers, unarmed so to carry more explosives, blew up anything that impeded or imperiled the landing. Landed under heavy fire and continued to do their assigned duty under heavy fire. Some working in neck deep water to destroy obstacles. They were first unit on the beach and the last. After D Day who cleaned the beachs of unexploded ordinance and picked up the body parts? The sappers who were declared as wiped out by the planners. Those sappers rebuilt bridges and roads all the way to Germany.

[@Lucysdad66]

Pattons pistol grips were not ivory.They were plastic painted white.

[@madaro504]

the US, Our Italians. French, both conquered & collaboration

[@gullybull5568]

IF YOU CANNOT WIN A WAR CREATE A WAR TO WIN. ❤

[@bold810]

These days I am more concerned how to profit from Cyber Monday 😐

[@Irish_For_Life1842]

The problem of rape absolutely has to be discussed as it is part of the history. Including both good and bad is correct. I am very happy to hear how Eisenhower handled the situation. Horrible that it ever happened. Here is one observation. By some reason ONLY rapes perpetrated by Americans were discussed. Evidently all the other soldiers from the many allies in the invasion were not human as not one item of misbehavior is recorded. I also noticed that the entire background of D-Day only involved the British. Again all the others allies involved, including the overall commander, must have sat on their hands during D-Day if this is believed. I understand that when one country writes its story there can be a tendency to overlook everyone else but this is ridiculous.

[@dalj4362]

Most of the commonwealth nations come under British. Just makes it easier than stating every single nation. This video is a French production, with an English narrator.

[@sugarnads]

Its hilarious hearing an american whining about someone understating american involvement. You guys forget the british even were there. 3 of the 5 beaches. British. The overall plan? Montgomery. The country it launched from? Ahem. Most of the naval support? RN. Most of the air support? RAF. The majority of troops on the day? British. The intelligence that allowed it to be done? Enigma intercepts (british). Watch a US war movie or read a us book on D day? There was noone else present. Gtfoh. Bet you think your lot won the nth african campaign too? There jussst long enough to claim credit. Wankers

[@jameswhitbread7173]

History is written by the victorious. The Russians on thier own would have eventually beaten the Germans

[@Clash_CT_Rocker69]

"Full Documentary"??!! This is perhaps 20% of the tricks that "fell from the back of lorry of history", compared to the total amount used in the preparation of Operation Neptune (Overlord was the name for all future operations on the European continent). Not to mention Lord Bevan's flight to Moscow, where he and his associates went to try to synchronize some of the war deceptions (but so as not to reveal their modus operandi to the Soviets!), and where they waited for days and weeks to meet the Russian general who was responsible for war deceptions of the Red Army. In the end, they came to pick them up late at night and took them to General Kuznetsov, who was responsible for the Soviet war deceptions or "maskirovka", as the Russians call it, the deployment of military deception and deceiving the enemy. Lord Bevan briefly told him the reason for his arrival and some of the actions undertaken. The Russian general made a strong impression on Bevan because of the speed with which he absorbed the information, speaking openly about the measures that the Soviets were already taking with the same purpose, and which were already being carried out in order to, with a short period of time, lead to the Western Allies and the Soviets in a very short time deliver decisive blows to the Nazi aggressor within the time limit; The Western Allies with Operation Neptune, and the Soviets with the launch of the huge "Bagration" offensive.

[@aircrew705]

Huge numbers of rapes also occurred in areas under German occupation, such as France, Poland or regions of the Soviet Union. German soldiers were perpetrators there. There were also perpetrators among the Allied forces in post-war Germany.

[@johnhopkins6260]

Conclusion: The British soldiers were nothing less but the very finest of gentlemen, worthy of sainthood.

[@charlesmartella]

France. The great capitulators and the great collaborators. Should have left them. They capitulated and collaborated to save their antique Paris while the Poms fought for them and had London destroyed.

[@Buce-ku9vx]

Word

[@charlesmartella]

@@Buce-ku9vx ?

[@Buce-ku9vx]

@@charlesmartella agree

[@justanaussie2822]

Can you imagine the 19 yo of today storming the beaches.

[@tonyclifton265]

wish we hadnt bothered

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Why ever not? Would you instead have preferred nazi death camps in the Cotswolds, Pennines and Scottish Highlands? Or to have been deported to the reich to be slaved to death in a German armaments factory? Strange !!!

[@Dovietail]

Joshua Lavine looks like he just woke up from a three day drunk. Dude, comb your hair, at least!

[@keithmitchell6548]

I think the commentator thinks the UK is only filled with ‘English’.

[@timrutkevich3222]

This was the largest meat attack, or human wave attack in history

[@susanwhite7474]

Probably not, unfortunately. Hope you're right though

[@trianglewhips]

6 month 6 day 6 hour. Devils day.

[@Rob_R_Jonny]

The British and Canadians were fighting all of Germanys best troops in Caen and Normandy etc. 600 plus tanks and most Waffen SS divisions . USA only faced 150 tanks max

[@brandonbarr2784]

Who financed it?

[@nickdanger3802]

12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend No combat experience. 21st Panzer Division (Heer) Formed 1943 with French trophy armour. German Tanks in the US sectors of the Bocage would have as useless as US tanks were until field modified into rhino tanks.

[@MisterKatz]

Why this big ass logo?

[@philipambler3825]

Just 2 infantry divisions and 2 Flack divisions in full strenght and D Day was a flop...an American worked that out. Surprise was crucial...and Eisenhower ensured that: Out of a Storm Destiny Arises

[@trumanhw]

What do you think these men of the GREATEST generation would think about our SUPPORT for KIEVS REGIME?? And the SNOTZEES WE helped commit a COUP? Do people understand what caused the Cuban missile crisis!? Cuban crises was CAUSED by our missiles in TURKEY! We now think Russia wouldn't mind them in UKRAINE !??

[@gullybull5568]

the germans knew this was all a setup

[@richardcaves3601]

No, they were completely fooled. As post war documents showed, they kept the bulk of their panzer divisions at Pas de Calais for two months after Dday.😊😊😊😊

[@sugarnads]

The hidden side of D Day? 3 of the 5 beaches were taken by commonwealth troops. Never hear about that tho. Its like the a ericans did it all themselves. Oh yeah like the 1st ww they were only involved in for the last 2 minutes and which was basically won without their ground troops utterly minor involvement...

[@nickdanger3802]

Reception of President Woodrow Wilson on his Arrival in Paris 1918 kzbin.info/www/bejne/poi1n4lnrsR9irM

[@mattesrocket]

This is an old story, nothing new. Why selling it as something barely known?

[@thomascochrane4922]

Just for the record, British and Canadian troops outnumbered the Americans on D Day.

[@jameswebb4593]

And in Navy and Airforce .

[@billcrawford9562]

@@jameswebb4593ok oooo😊ooo😊

[@stuartgmk]

👍🇦🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦

[@derekhorlock1976]

Guess they couldn't find a Canadian or British or Australian veteran to interview? and a bias documentary

[@donhayman45]

If that's the truth, then so be it. But I hope that all remember w/o America finally entering WWII as an ally, France, definitely, and likely the rest of Europe, including England, would all be speaking German today. Let's not forget the magnitude of the sheer number of American GIs, especially those who perished, who fought in WWII. D-Day was but one battle (the largest) on the beaches of Normandy

[@Haveaniceday123kick]

Can someone make some documentarys where the historions arent pompus asses

[@williammartin2593]

I have the same reactions. A couple of my favorite amateurs are modest and talented. I like History Time and, Fall of Civilizations.

[@elevenb1991]

I nominate The Fat Electrician

[@johnhopkins6260]

"Atlantik Wall": German Maginot line?

[@marcuslinkerhand1415]

Not in reality... In Hitlers Dreams only for lack of ressources

[@antoinemozart243]

The fate of all Europe had already been decided.....in the East.

[@nickdanger3802]

In 1939 when USSR started selling oil, wheat and manganese ore to Germany, invaded Poland 16 days after Germany then invaded Finland. The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 18, 1940 Molotov summoned me this evening to his office and expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet Government on the splendid success of the German Armed Forces. Thereupon, Molotov informed me of the Soviet action against the Baltic States. He referred to the reasons published in the press and added that it had become necessary to put an end to all the intrigues by which England and France had tried to sow discord and mistrust between Germany and the Soviet Union in the Baltic States. Germany ambassador Molotov June 1940 Avalon

[@antoinemozart243]

@@nickdanger3802 may I remind you a little bit of History ? When in 1938 the Soviet Union proposed to help Tchekoslovakia by sending troops , the poles and English.....refused. They preferred to dismantle the country to preserve a so called...peace. The Russians are not stupid. They believed then that the western countries would never stop Germany and would no nothing to help Russia. Stalin said : we will never again fight for them ( referring to WWI). He knew perfectly that Germany would attack Russia. He saw a golden opportunity to sign a pact with Germany ( it was Germany who did all they could to sign whatever would be the cost). He took it and just after attacked German allies, the Baltic States. And the Germans had to yield. This created a de facto alliance between the UK and Russia after the fall of Poland. You are so naive.

[@nickdanger3802]

@@antoinemozart243 LOL

[@Desperado070]

Why do we remember hitler but forgot about spain? Francisco Franco Because he was brown and was 10 times worse than hitler. We just living in a f joke

[@jameswhyard2858]

D Day was D+1, June 6th not phuking June 5th, what a croc of shite...

[@richardcaves3601]

Wrong, Dday was officially postponed 24 hours on June 4 by Eisenhower, until June 6.

[@zanepalmer8347]

Why do you have to dig up and tarnish the history of brave guys who battle well. Shame on you!!

[@annoyingbstard9407]

When will third rate KZbinrs stop pretending they have some new information when all they do is repeat what’s been done a million times?

[@fodilakbi8746]

Thé réd army béat germany.not thé anglo américain.hypocrits

[@nickdanger3802]

The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Schulenburg) to the German Foreign Office; June 18, 1940 Molotov summoned me this evening to his office and expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet Government on the splendid success of the German Armed Forces. Thereupon, Molotov informed me of the Soviet action against the Baltic States. He referred to the reasons published in the press and added that it had become necessary to put an end to all the intrigues by which England and France had tried to sow discord and mistrust between Germany and the Soviet Union in the Baltic States. Germany ambassador Molotov June 1940 Avalon

[@marjon888]

Patton has a horrible facial resemblance to DJ Trump

[@igorpustsin]

All of Europe at stake... 1944. Absolut American propaganda 😅

[@charlesmartella]

That was a true statement

[@venividiviking]

A political correct history channel?? I´m out of here and will never return.

[@VeteranHedonist]

Americans going too far as usual 🙄

[@maxpowers3494]

Europe would be speaking German if not for the US, you clown.

[@ryanreedgibson]

@@gunsandpoker7432 He's a troll. Putin is feeling weak so he's upping the asymmetrical warfare.

[@Daculaboy]

If by going too far you mean going against our own interests to keep coming to the rescue for ungrateful Europeans every time they get their asses kicked by a new boogey man and beg America to do something then I agree. America's biggest fault and putting the world's interests over it's own citizens every time a population and politicians start waving American flags and crying for America's help.

[@FOMC6780]

The narrative of the Great Generation portrayed them as Heros without Sins but in actuality they were just Sinful adolescent Males fighting in a War.

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

The Commonwealth and Britain did all the planning and logistics. Supplied 85% Naval + Military equipment. America claim sole responsibility for invasion.

[@irvinelawrence2733]

Woah woah woah... what is this based on?🤔 "All" is a serious claim... This suggests that all the US did was supply materiel... Huge omission of French intelligence and various other contributions in the JOINT effort... That blanket statement is like saying the RAF and USAAF were the reason for its success with no recognition of the RN and USN (navies)... I am awaiting comfirmation that this was the case vs their DESIGNATED task vs peacock posturing and grandiose hubris and self agrandisement🤔 Neither allied side did this alone, which marks it as a fantastic event when such juvenile egos nearly resulted in its failure... Thankfully, Dolphus had greater delusions and even more distrust in his advisors and his micromanagement thwarted any counter measurements that may have repeĺled the Normamdy landings... That and the German ethos of an attack skewed manner of combat vs (perish the thought) defense...not even allowing tactical retreats... Add in a false sense of invincibility and poor logistical soundness...outstripping their supplies while blitzkreiging their way across Europe. Then stupidly fighting on 2 fronts and despite claiming to be a student of history- suffered the same fate as Napoleon at the hands of a Russian winter... So school me and enlighten us all🤔

[@randalloliver3673]

Yeah right with what resources at that time of the war. America supplied 95+ percent of all logistics, equipment, ships, armor, artillery, troops, etc. Britain was on the verge of being invaded if not for America's involvement.

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

@@randalloliver3673 Totally wrong.

[@ryanreedgibson]

Wow, you must be slow or a Russian troll. I suggest you go tell your mommy she doesn't know what she's talking about. And NO America didn't go it alone and no American I know has ever said it was only them.

[@MYRRHfamily]

This is interesting. Were each spoon feeding each other what we’ve been told aren’t we? I can’t quote stats, but in the documentaries I watch, I don’t feel like Americans make any claim to be solely responsible for the victory. So maybe I disagree with that. It’s clear that it wouldn’t have been possible for either army to do it on their own. All allies countries’ propaganda will naturally claim they were the most heroic or whatever. That’s normal.

[@tomquinn607]

America sent 73,000 troops to the Normandy Invasion which was more than any other single allied nation.

[@stuartgmk]

54.000

[@Hew.Jarsol]

Incorrect. See above comment.

[@smartbomb7202]

the Russians would have beat the germans with out d-day...fact

[@Daculaboy]

Bullshit. The Russians were getting their asses kicked that's why Stalin kept pressuring Roosevelt and Churchill to open a second front. Hitler and his Generals knew the Americans and British would open a second front and so he didn't commit his full forces in the eastern front. On top of that without the trucks, jeeps, planes, tanks, food, medical supplies, rifles, artillery, etc being supplied to the Soviet Union by the US the Russians wouldn't have been able to even tread water long enough to survive until the Americans, British and Canadians but mostly the Americans opened the second front. 😂 You tards try your best to rewrite history.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The European Axis would have beaten the USSR in 1942/43 without the British Commonwealth in the war preventing this Axis from growing larger, more powerful, with more resources and controlling everywhere from the Azores to Iran. Fact.

[@rogerbobrowski5741]

Without lend/ lease the Russians would have been fighting Germany till.1950. That they would be victorious is open to debate. Fact

[@mm221163]

@@lyndoncmp5751 the Russians would have reached Berlin without the allies. But there would habe been no surrender before Hurtgenwald and it was the allies who took that load. Fact?

[@sblack48]

Yes but it would have taken a lot longer. The germans pulled a lot of divisions out of the eastern front before and after the invasion and moved them west. Don’t forget that Stalin was screaming for a second front for 2 years.

[@obradknezevic7758]

what a f.... russian libereted Europe... not 160k... normandy landings

[@richardcaves3601]

No they only got as far as the Elbe River - that's barely half way. Check your facts 😊😊