D-Day: The Normandy Invasion - Operation Overlord: The Defining Battle of World War 2

Do you want to learn more about World War II, but don’t have time to listen to lengthy audiobooks? Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of the different facets of the war. In this edition, discover the true story of the Normandy Invasion, or more commonly known as D-Day.
The 6th June 1944 has gone down in history as D Day, the beginning of the end of World War II. Code-named “Operation Overlord” the Normandy Invasion took the German Army completely by surprise, as British, American, Canadian, and Allied soldiers from all over the world stormed the beaches of “Utah”, “Omaha”, “Gold”, “Juno” and “Sword”. The weather was appalling and the seas of the English Channel distinctly stormy, but by bravely taking the initiative the Allies were able to liberate France and march towards Berlin and victory.
As a military operation, “Overlord” was strategically successful, but on a personal level there are many remarkable stories of courage and heroism: The acquisition of Pegasus Bridge, the wonderful welcome given by the newly liberated French, the brave rangers at Pointe du Hoc, the desperate battle for “Omaha” beach and the extraordinary Piper Bill Millin who played his bagpipes, waist deep in water, all the way from the landing craft to shore, and then onwards inland, through France.
This was a combined offensive where Army, Navy and RAF worked side-by-side, as Allied servicemen from all corners of the globe became comrades in arms.
Autor: Liam Dale

[@user-fb8pk8fj9k]

As we watch this video and reflect on the sheer scale and audacity of the Normandy landings, let's never forget the courage and heroism of those who fought for freedom.

[@jsmcmxlvii]

As an American, I appreciate the important help that our allies in Great Britain and Canada provided.

[@user-ml2lp1sc7e]

Help? Im Canadian..I lost 3 uncles in WW2 before the Americans even thought about fighting. Im sure my uncles would say "tell those Yanks - better late than never. "

[@lizataylor88]

My grandad landed on Juno beach on DDay with 48 commando Royal Marines he was my hero and always will be ❤

[@Zorplex.Gaming]

This generation will never comprehend the carnage and atrocities experienced

[@crispyhoover8880]

And to be fair that's a good thing, isn't it?

[@Averagedad100]

Sadly. I think your wrong.

[@liamwoodman4950]

I'm not so sure...

[@animula6908]

We may. We are in world war 3 now

[@joshsteward7353]

They will have there own wars to deal with

[@TTango]

D-Day should be a national holiday in every country, do I need to say why I don't think so

[@petarswift5089]

Serbs and Russians: 😂

[@GlennMearns-xk6yo]

My grandfather served . Dunkirk Normandy. Durham light infantry. When I was about 3 he described Dunkirk he was running his friends suddenly lurching forward and stumbling. But as I grew older if I mentioned his service he flew into a rage and left the house.

[@adrianmonk4440]

D-Day.... NEVER FORGET !!!

[@matthewwilliams3827]

Just look at what today’s world is like, what a mess. This is not those soldiers fought for and went through that nightmare for. Makes me sick. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@robertmccoy9323]

Good educational video for those who are not familiar with WWII and especially D-Day. take care rwmccoy

[@jimclip2012]

Bravo sir. Never heard about the keywords in the crossword puzzle, very strange!

[@user-ml2lp1sc7e]

While the British & Americans competed for the headlines & photo ops - the Canadians Were the only ones to reach their objectives on D day.

[@vadenk4433]

Because the Canadians beach heads weren't heavily defended like Omaha and Utah were. Pretty easy to meet objectives when you walk right in. England's inability to secure Caen after weeks of fighting was asinine for sure.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

I watched the credits and did a little 'research'.... The closing credits say "2005 Castle Home Video". Castle Home Video was incorporated in 1985 and wound up in 2015. The narrator is Liam Dale. He also produced and directed it. He also filmed some of the sequences (e.g. the Spitfire I guess). Liam Dale is a Producer, Director and Author. My first search turned up that has done a lot of voice overs. No mention of him being a professional historian. Sue Hosler did the research and wrote the script. I found references to Sue Hosler as a writer and producer but whether it's the same person I don't know. Neither Liam nor Sue were listed as directors of Caste Video. LDTV provided archive footage and did post-production. It would be interesting to know the process. That is, was the narration done then the archives searched to add matching (or roughly matching, very roughly) the narration. I suspect that may have been the case. Sometimes though you may have an old French documentary for instance, that gets re-cut and has a new translated narration added. I've seen that before. The Spitfire in the opening and closing sequences is UK-based and has been converted to a two-seater. Because of it's ability to take a passenger it has made a number of TV appearances. To my knowledge there weren't two-seat Spitfire trainers (maybe some later in the war?). New pilots basically read the manual, climbed in and hoped for the best. I think this would have originally been a video release (probably on VHS). It was probably aimed at an audience of middle-aged men with an interest in, but not an in depth knowledge of, history. The Best Documentary channel is listed as location: USA. I'm assuming the Best Documentary channel bought out the rights to the videos so it could post them on youtube. I've seen that scenario elsewhere. They seem to have been set up in 2016 (just after Castle Video closed). They have a facebook account but there's not a lot of information there. Hope this puts it into context for all those who seem to be taking this as the view of the British public. It's a twenty-year old video done by some people using archive footage. I think it would be great if people asked some questions about what they are watching instead of taking it at face value. There is a lot of stuff on youtube that is not quite what you think it is. Consume intelligently. 😀

[@liamdaletv]

Nearly accurate. I'm the director and narrator. Made this IN HOUSE from my archive and shot the Spit when filming Just Jane a Lanc bomber. Production was bought by castle home video as a VHS release at the time. 20 years later, I own all the rights again.. and licenced it for distribution by the company who presents Best Documentary channel. Blurred censoring is a call by YT.. if you don't remove dead people = it doesnt get advertising and money. Simples. Personally, I have re-edited this prog and about 100 others, sanitising them for YT.. I think the blurring process is a drag. Hope that helps clarity. LD PS: NOT an actual historian.. but 4 books to date and 30 1 hour versions.. qualifies me a little.. ;-)

[@martinconnors5195]

The Allied Forces were heroes. Our ferocious angels. British, American, Canadian, French, Poles, Australian, Czechoslovak, Norwegian, New Zealanders, Belgian, Greek and South African. A bodyguard of lies

[@Satu_Supari]

Only white countries. No mention of Indians, Africans, Chinese who fought as well.

[@LTV_inc]

Very well done!

[@Knight_of_NI]

I love this channel

[@guydegregg8555]

Great documentary, excellent narration 👍

[@cheltersful]

Excellent narrator.

[@XbenX0101]

best channel on youtube

[@likesatie]

>80% of german troops were defeated in eastern front, in battle with Soviet Union

[@anishbanerjee5761]

Unequivocally true

[@HA_GGiS]

200k Russian troops defeated in Ukraine

[@brandmotivo]

... But the Germans took out 3 to 4 times the amount of Russians in comparison... The Germans were far, far superior soldiers in WW2. That's an actual fact.

[@Langerone]

In the same time >80% of all kind of supplies (first of all military ones!) for the Red army and USSR came from the US and partially from GB!

[@fedecano7362]

@@brandmotivo you are missing the point, he means that it was the red army who won ww2, not the allies, and as such overlord was not a defining moment

[@Knight_of_NI]

Awesome

[@beepyou34]

I'd argue that Stalingrad was the defining battle of World War II.

[@fullTimeVeganinOhio]

Kind of helps to be in the fight tho. With no foothold in Europe how else would the Allies contribute?

[@reviewbookskitaboficial1016]

the best chanel in the world

[@markbellew7178]

Great documentary but please don't censor the photos we're all pretty much adults here

[@smalldollars]

They have to now because of youtube. Wasn't like that a year ago

[@karenflanagan1961]

The white ✝️ above Omaha beach no matter how many times you see them are appsalutely beautiful, but knee buckling at the same time, we can never repay what they did.

[@SlowRide723]

My great grandpa served in Normandy. He brought back a Luger. Sadly i never got to meet him because he passed when i was just a baby.

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

I've never heard of the crossword puzzles words being beach name in D day, very strange. Need to look into it more now.

[@philliphamilton4782]

I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it". This was said by Rommel after the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt, where the Australian and New Zealand divisions of the British army fiercely defended themselves against German attacks.

[@Bigworms97]

If you hear a 80 yr old man say he fought for this country. This is what replaying in his head while watching his country go to shit. These was the reality of fighting for your home land.

[@spray7326]

Ох уж эти решающие битвы...

[@user-sz6nb1vk6q]

Back in 1973 I read the book Dawn Of D-Day by David Howarth for an English oral exam, the first question I was asked was this… What does the D stand for in D-Day? I had no idea, it was not in the book. She stated the answer was Deliverance, as in Deliverance-Day! I’ve never seen it referenced anywhere in any shape or form since! Is there any truth in it & if not why “D”-Day?? Sounds good though.

[@Greasymonkey69]

Such a good documentary right up to the point that you blurred the video such a waste of time

[@SongJLikes]

From the depths of fiery Hell, Adolf is STILL waiting for the Allies’ main assault in Calais . .

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The moment Germany failed to defeat Britain/knock Britain out of the war in 1940 was the defining period of WW2.

[@ChuckS117]

RAF changed the course of ww2

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@ChuckS117 I would say that is true, yes. The RAF also prevented the Luftwaffe from attaining air control over Dunkirk even prior to the Battle of Britain.

[@alexman8800]

1066 Normans invaded England. 6/6 Allies based in England invaded Normandy.

[@Theologic]

1066 Normans 6/6 Shermans

[@richardschneller7674]

This documentary repeats the fallacy that the Rangers mission was ineffective. The guns, though moved to an inland location, were found and destroyed. This kind of inaccuracy made my father, who was a 2nd battalion ranger, very disappointed to say the least. The mission at pointe du hoc was one of very few that were actually successful in the early hours of the beach landings.

[@slavianskiy]

The decisive battle of the Second World War? Seriously? Have you heard anything about Stalingrad? If the Soviet Union had lost in Stalingrad, then the Americans would have landed somewhere in Florida - this is the maximum.

[@drmarkintexas-400]

Thank you for sharing 🏆🤗🙏🇺🇲🎖️

[@AIIA23]

i wonder if it made any difference for the allies that the soldiers were largely 'fresh'. In other words, it wasn't as if all the soldiers had been starving and shocked in weeks if trench warfare or something. Or maybe they weren't all like that?

[@THD32]

Love the warcraft 1 theme xD

[@stormrider1375]

"If the British soldiers in 1944 could look forward to the end of the century and see what England has become, they would not advance another 40 yards up the beach." - David Irving (British historian)

[@horatius6929]

"Решающая битва второй мировой войны"? Не хочу обидеть и недооценить вклад стран союзников, но по-моему вы преувеличивайте.

[@enriquemireles8947]

I believe he meant it as it allowed a stronghold on European soil which had been occupied by Germans.

[@shawndunlap714]

Stalingrad was the defining battle of WW 2

[@-----________-----]

Yes… and no !

[@Andrea-1998]

@@-----________----- It was, battle of Moscow turned the tide but Stalingrad showed that the German Army could be defeated & annihilated in battle.

[@brandmotivo]

@@Andrea-1998 Wrong. The battle for Moscow had nothing to do with turning the tide. It was completely inconsequential. The distance from Germany, drop in arms manufacturing, cold weather and lack of supplies are what turned the tide for the war in Russia. The German soldiers took out twice as many Russians, far, far superior fighting soldiers. Those are facts.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

No it wasn't.

[@fedecano7362]

@@brandmotivo you are wrong, any serious historian will tell you it was in fact the failure of Barbarrossa\Typhoon what marked the final outcome of the war. Germany needed to knock out the USSR during 1941 because they literally had oil reserves only for that push. Why do you think the 42' spring offensive was directed to the oil fields on the Caucas and was way smaller in scope (only the south front moved) while Army Group Center and Army Group North remain static, why do you think the 43' offensive was even smaller (Kursk) Also the attrition suffered by the German forces during Barbarrossa and the subsequent winter counter attack by the Soviets proved to be too much for the German army to cope. Im talking about staff officers, materiel, man power and so on. It also meant Germany was now involved in two fronts at the same time. Everything depended on the succes for the Germans of getting rid of Russia during 1941, wich never happend. You should watch TIK here on YT, give a look to his content, specially the ones talking about OIL and LOGISTICS. Because they were the deciding factors

[@Walmartwentbroke]

Nice

[@1978JonBullock]

WW2 Russian casualties between 22 million/24 million China lost around 20 million remember the United Kingdom lost 384,000 soldiers. America lost 405,000 soldiers. So tiny in comparison. The whole world suffered terribly.

[@ObviousTroll69-i6k]

You don’t win wars by dying. The west tend to make the other side take all the casualties.

[@user-globus85]

И когда это вторжение в Нормандию стала решающей битвой второй мировой ?

[@bl00dline360]

Once they got there it became decisive specially since the Russians was accusing them of not trying to open a second front and was letting them do all the fighting and dying,you didn’t know this? or you’re asking this questions because you thought that Russia could win without any help without the plenty supplies these western countries provided them with ?

[@bl00dline360]

It’s good to love one’s country but it’s also good to give flowers and respect 🫡 to those that was brave enough to cross an ocean to fight other peoples wars,and I salute 🫡 all those that fought for their country,wether they thought that the wrong that they was doing was good like in 🇩🇪and🇯🇵 case they still fought when their country called upon them 🇷🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵🇩🇪 all deserve respect every single battle that they fought and won against their enemy was decisive because it weakened them one way or another

[@VictorGarcia-ww5bo]

Imagine if America unleashed their hell dogs the marines on Normandy

[@234cheech]

thay did we taught you americans in ww2 we briitsh camandos witch became the royal marines you later AM

[@Foods_style]

DDay was an overwhelming Allied front in every way. Meanwhile the German troops were mostly in the East interacting with Soviet soldiers. So DDay is not decisive, it will still happen due to the exhaustion of German soldiers.

[@arstotzkianarmedforces1057]

Not mostly, they were causing so much losses on the Soviets, way more than themselves. German Soldiers fighting Britian had annihilated the enemy in almost every way, the Germans were ready and strong, D-Day was the reason you get to post whatever you want in a mostly free world today.

[@David-ln8qh]

@@arstotzkianarmedforces1057 Way more Soviet losses was still a German loss, you shouldn't view it as 1:1. The West accelerated the Nazi collapse.

[@ObviousTroll69-i6k]

Then why was Stalin begging for a second front. Why did the eastern front freeze in early 1944.

[@David-ln8qh]

@@ObviousTroll69-i6k War is complicated, obviously they'd want pressure taken off the most deadly invasion ever carried out.

[@jasonwilson-nw5pe]

My Grandad used to say he could still hear the noise of the Mg42 and mg34 machine guns him and his friends cuddling each other terrified before they stormed the beach . My hero real Brave men who we owe a huge debt of gratitude to . I wonder if they saw Britain today with the capital only 30% white British people carrying isis flags where a man can use a woman’s toilet or changing room and a place where freedom of speech is unlawful. Sorry gentlemen.

[@raghunandanbs2005]

When you realise that most of the camera men died in the same day it becomes scary

[@liamdaletv]

50 + crews on the beaches that day...

[@stingingmetal9648]

Now That would make a great Hollywood blockbuster.

[@tazzovader8043]

40:42 gostek z pozdrowieniem V nie jest zbyt zadowolony zwyzwolenia

[@ericmichoulier3709]

Il est vrai que Stalingrad n'a été qu'un détail dans cette guerre . Soyez un peu OBJECTIF SVP !

[@arturshaihlislamov4541]

«День Д - решающая битва Второй Мировой Войны»???🤦🏼‍♂️ А как же Битва под Москвой в 1941 году? А как же Битва за Сталинград в 1942 году? А как же Курская битва в 1943 году? Про эти битвы вы забыли???😮

[@thogusdonatus4607]

The battle that change the outcome for ww2 was on the soviet meatgrinder frontlines that took care most of the german troops

[@illusive1805]

The arrogance of the Japanese emperor,instead of having only on Bomb dropped! Another was dropped because of it!!

[@mjb3141592]

La batalla decisiva fue en Kursk.

[@thomasbrixa3186]

Wenn schon die Überschrift bzw. der Dateiname in Deutsch ist, so kann man annehmen, dass der Reporter Deutsch spricht. Leider falsch.

[@stevenlindly6249]

Your information is wrong, FDR was not Theodore Roosevelt's son.They were cousins.

[@rocketscientisttoo]

What a horrible coincidence, a winter storm in the beginning of June. But then a brief respite as determined by British RAF Group Captain and Meteorologist James Stagg after a one day delay. I wonder why the changing weather was not mentioned in this video but instead the emphasis was man-centered and spoke of the steely resolve of the Allied Commanders. Hmm, just who does control the weather? Maybe that's why it wasn't mentioned.

[@omartorres6621]

El frente occidental paralizado por 3 años porque así les convino, la segunda guerra mundial fué prácticamente el frente oriental , muy de acuerdo, el 80%de las bajas alemanas fueron vs la URSS

[@cherylmoss3632]

Will never understand the ridiculous sound effects drowning out the narrator

[@euanreid6682]

Canada landed more men and equipment pert ca-pita and penetrated the furthest on D-Day and they were all volunteers... yet the French got a sector in Germany.😂

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

I doubt very much that the Canadians would have particularly wanted a sector. Most would probably prefer to go home. France had been invaded in 1870, 1914, and 1945 and it was important to the other allies to help re-build French pride because the alternative might be communism. That was a factor in the French going back into Viet Nam, and the consequences that had. You might want to check your facts about them all being volunteers. I've heard that often repeated but a quick look at wiki says that's not strictly true. Like most things in life, it's complicated. Personally I think it's more the economic support, the logistics, the equipment, the training, the motivation, the tactics and strategy that are the important factors in the effectiveness of a military rather than where they happen to have been born. If you're shot in the head it doesn't really matter what language you were speaking when the bullet hit. Sorry, I'm not a big fan of nationalist jingoism of any flavor I'm afraid. It kind of has a bad history. People are people.

[@euanreid6682]

​@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 The 3rd CID that stormed the beaches on D-Day was an all volunteer outfit.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

@@euanreid6682 I misunderstood. I thought you were saying all Canadian forces were volunteers. Before I checked, my impression was that they were. I'm not sure when conscription was brought in during WW2 in the different countries but during WW1 the troops for the first couple of years were volunteers. Volunteers will tend to be more effective because it was their choice to fight. Evidenced by the combat effectiveness of troops in Ukraine. Conscription tends to be brought in when you've run out of volunteers. I still think that where you were born is the bottom of the list of factors that really count. I'm not a great fan of nationalism of any particular flavor. It hasn't had a great history and it tends to be based on picking which facts to highlight.

[@euanreid6682]

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I would agree with your assessment that Canadians wouldn't want to have a sector in German... just not a Canuck thingy even after all the lives they gave to liberate France... conscripts accounted for 1/6 of the entire forces... irony is conscription did come into play during WWII because the Frenches from Quebec weren't volunteering in the numbers they should have to go liberated their kin folk... then afterwards Charles de Gaulle the clown had the nerve to came over and proclaimed "Vive le Québec libre!" ... another note Canadians were first to go over and last to come home... they got so pissed off waiting that they had full scale riots for days in there camps... because the Americans got first dibs on rides home.

[@LarsCarlsen-or6ky]

Too bad they and the British stopped too soon, giving the Germans the time to regroup

[@RR-uj2vx]

At 43:30: "German bombers continued to wreak havoc with V-1 and V-2 rockets." Who wrote this BS? The V-1 was a flying bomb and the V-2 was a rocket, neither of which was dropped by German bombers.

[@joebudi5136]

Did the sword beach bag pipper make it to the end of the war?

[@MegaBloggs1]

lots of stereotypical errors-most of the dunkirk evacuation was performed by the destroyers

[@louislacend9989]

5:20 5:35 5:37 5:47 6:16

[@ILOVEBACONBOY2018]

Im glad they fought for our rights but we are doomed.

[@RedShift112]

I hope it makes you seethe knowing these men died for every single one of our rights and that includes the right for people to be transgender. The men who paid the ultimate sacrifice would be ashamed of you.

[@brandmotivo]

​@@RedShift112They fought for our freedom and being transgender is part of that... but any fighting soldier in WW2 would be fairly disgusted if they could see how the world has become. I'm sure if they could see where we are today they would of mostly mutinied.

[@RedShift112]

@@brandmotivo It was more directed at the pos i was replying to. Take a look at his pathetic profile.

[@stingingmetal9648]

Deranged comment

[@tonyscott1066]

Enough Poor and Hopless People-Dictators Are/Will be Born /Rise

[@Ibrahim-nt9sn]

the beginning of the end for Germany when they attaked Russia

[@samsung1samsung286]

Bolja kvaliteta slike nego BHT1 danas...

[@adrianmonk4440]

D-Day, if they don't teach that in school, what are they teaching those dang kids ?? Would you rather learn advanced German ??

[@limjaiescobar]

The beginning of the end was Stalingrad, period.

[@jessicawinslet684]

back when online multiplayers were more realistic LOL

[@adrianmonk4440]

You French owe us WAAAAY more than your sureliness !!!

[@steincheers6031]

Agreed.. And the arrogance of Charles De Gaulle to not let the Americans or Brits lead the march into a freed Paris is mighty baffling and confusing… who gave him a say and seat at the table? He was a defeated people.

[@adrianmonk4440]

@steincheers6031 // The problem is that the French are like a bathtub drain (think similar ana-logy). On June 6, 1944, D-Day occured FOR A ONE SHOT, ALL THE MARBLES DEAL. Heaven helped us that we did not incur heavy major losses. MY POINT, Allies were attempting to install a president to their liking instead of de Gaulle. He and the French Underground (marginal as they were) threatened to withhold intelligence, reconnaissance, and sabotage activities if we did agree to de Gaulle as president. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ ALSO AFTER THE MASSIVE WITHDRAW FROM DUNKIRK, the French WOULD NOT place their ships under Allied command. French ships AND sailors were sent to the bottom of the sea. WE COULD NOT RISK THOSE SHIPS BEING CAPUTURED BY GERMANY. They are still pretty steamed about that.

[@MOHAMMEDCOBRA101]

❤

[@shahidkorotanaadv8146]

Poor sound quality

[@belli7639]

Well tbh defining battle of ww2 was battle for stalingrad and kursk ...

[@nunyabidnis5407]

I don't think these men, when they returned home, would have a hissy fit if the boss wanted them to return to work 3 days a week. Just sayin'.

[@capt.Daniel1]

Go be at peace

[@PhoenixAscending]

The gaul of the creators naming overlord as being the defining battle of WW2 is just insane. It may have been for the US, Britain, and France, but the defining battle of WW2, (in Europe at least), was no doubt Stalingrad.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Stalingrad was A defining battle but there are plenty of other contenders. Typhoon. Kursk. Bagration. Tunisia. The Atlantic. Plus many others. That's not counting the war with Japan. This is something historians debate to this day. Stalingrad was obviously a major defeat, but not the only one. But for many of these other battles Stalingrad wouldn't have even happened. I think saying there was one defining battle is too simplistic and, post Cold war, D-Day's importance is being rebalanced. Having said that there's no denying it was important. Just not as important as previously believed. There's also danger of swinging the other way and treating Stalingrad like D-Day was treated. The credits say the documentary was from 2005. It was also made for video release. It seems more like something from the 80's. I've seen a few of these video releases and they do tend to have a certain perspective. It you think this is bad watch the American equivalents. The Russian ones are even worse. I agree that it has a 'western front bias' but then again it is about D-Day. To me it sounds a bit dated and was a pretty shallow history. I'd expect something from this century to have a little bit more, but, as I say, it was a video release. When I looked up the author the first hit I got described him as a prolific narator rather than a historian. Personally I was more upset that when talking about German panzer attacks it showed footage of French tanks. Unfortunately that kind of stuff is pretty standard for documentaries. Most rely on stock footage and will use anything that's in the ball park of what the naration is saying. Often they seem to figure a tank is a tank, a plane is a plane, a ship is a ship, and the viewers are too stupid to know the difference. It's kind of insulting to the audience I think, but they all do it. I view most as entertainment rather than history. If you're expecting proper well-researched history you're looking in the wrong place. It is what it is.

[@PhoenixAscending]

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 no offense, but I ain't reading all that. I thought about kursk as well, but Salingrad is really where the tide turned on the Nazis. God bless

[@clanmccroneartist6049]

@@PhoenixAscending well if nothing else it made D-Day possible: all those German troops, esp. tanks, panzergrenadiers, fallschirmjägertruppen, etc., not to mention Waffen-SS, who wouldn’t be taking any further part in the war, let alone being transferred back to Europe in a hurry or an emergency, practically crippled German capacity for any further major offensives (not counting of course the counteroffensive in Holland, the Ardennes, and the Vosges, but apart from that Hitler’s army was crippled as anything more than a desperate defensive force, and the initial defences in Normandy in June ‘44 was mainly Osttruppen (Eastern European conscripts from occupied territories, in fact two of the frightened young conscripts at Pegasus Bridge didn’t even fire their guns, but instead ran and hid spending the night under a bush, and were captured the next morning) and Static divisions consisting of “Stomach” and “Foot” regiments (old men with gut problems or in the latter case dodgy knees, hips, etc.), only one unit at Omaha was standard infantry, which is why it was so costly), and nearer Sword beach, a Panzer brigade under one of Rommel’s former favourites, Von Luck, who ironically after the war would befriend his adversary Maj. John Howard)

[@clanmccroneartist6049]

In short, without Stalingrad and Kursk D-Day would have failed

[@PhoenixAscending]

@@clanmccroneartist6049 exactly. I don't even think the allies would have tried it if Germany had defeated the Soviets, or were winning against them.

[@moonryan3908]

It's a pity the Soviets didn't attack Europe.

[@VinyZikss]

are you insane?

[@HHH-yy3cy]

First photo. Author, poor diletant! Why are all your photos mirror converse? Really are you so hungry?

[@Zorplex.Gaming]

Imagine if the Japanese didn't hit pearl harbor, would we have joined ww2

[@rogerspeters2978]

Good question

[@refealibazeta7886]

Eventually Ihink so.

[@enriquemireles8947]

With Uboats sinking American supply ships it was just a matter of time.

[@rogueriderhood1862]

Probably not.

[@scottmurphy650]

The British Beaches, Juno, Gold and Sword, were a walk in the park compared to Omaha and Utah.

[@ObviousTroll69-i6k]

Utah was the easiest beach. Omaha was deadly because the planners f**ked up. Troops were offloaded in the wrong positions, right infront of the german strong points. The preliminary bombardnment also failed to soften up the defenders

[@dalj4362]

Sword Beach was the most fortified. And Juno was the Canadian beach. The reason Omaha was so bad is because the Naval and Air bombardment prior to the landing failed to hit the German defences. Learn some history!

[@scottmurphy650]

@@dalj4362 And the Americans took the _worst_ casualties of the invasion. YOU need to learn some history. I have 2 second cousins I never got to meet who lie beneath crosses in the American Normandy Cemetery and two more who survived the invasion and the war. From them I got the first hand accounts of what went down that day. I put a whole lot more weight in their accounts.

[@dalj4362]

​​​​​​​@@scottmurphy650 Did you miss the the part where I said the reason Omaha was so bad? I never said the U.S had less casualties at all. And Utah had the lightest casualties. But to say it was a walk in the park for the Canadians, British, French and Polish is just wrong. It's disrespectful to class the other beaches as a walk in the park!! to every man that lost their lives on the other beaches.

[@PauloCezar-ty8on]

Long live Europa & Deutschland!

[@d.g.2896]

Stalingrad?

[@randolacle]

Defining battle for the future of Western Europe. The Eastern Front at that time was already in Soviet hands. And if not for D-Day, they would have controlled full Europe after the war.

[@fedecano7362]

You are dead right sir, DDay didnt save Europe from the Nazis, wich by 1944 was an already decided outcome, it saved post war Europe from being totally under the Soviet block. Many westerners (North Americans mainly) believe after years of false anti commie propaganda that they were the only reasons the Nazis were put in check. And that they alone liberated Europe..

[@Rohn-56]

​@Fede Cano That's exactly right, the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk turned the tide in the European theater.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The moment Germany failed to defeat Britain/knock Britain out of the war in 1940 was the defining period of WW2.

[@Rohn-56]

@Lyndon CMP If Germany had focused all it's resources on the British they would have been annihilated, Germanys ultimate goal was Russia

[@yanfojdu4748]

​@@lyndoncmp5751 stalingrad? Moscow? Kursk? Bagration? No?

[@aotearoawhanau7211]

Best day in the life of my Western European relatives. The ones in Eastern Europe had to wait for another 45 years.

[@a.p.3004]

There are mistakes. The final intrument of surrender in the presence of commanders from England, the US and the USSR was signed on the 8th may (not the 7th) that's why the 9th may is celebrated as the day of VICTORY over fascism. With all due respect to the men and NCO's and dead of D-DAY they did a tremendous job second only to the efforts of the Red Army.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

I think that's what you call a back-handed complement. Ha ha. I don't think it matters where you come from if you have shells raining down on you and bullets whizzing by you ears.

[@RR-uj2vx]

And the Soviets would never had succeeded without Lend-Lease.

[@a.p.3004]

@@RR-uj2vx You seem to not understand Russian history. Wether Lend lease or not they would have won. How ? For the Russian people it was a question of freedom or death. So in order to avoid the destruction of Slavic culture they had to use ANY METHODS to achieve the destruction of the enemy. More casualties, more losses, unfortunately. Russian willingness to sacrifice themselves, is what brought them victory. Tragic, but at the same time truthful.

[@owensymons3181]

they also said the Dresden bombing was equal to v1 and 2 rockets lol

[@amarjitsonu5388]

Soviets single-handedly turned the tide.

[@wabia1217]

Perang bukan keputusan yang baik Menambah penderitahan Rakyat.dan bangsa itu sendiri

[@robertnay336]

The Allies INVADED occupied France in WWII so why are you using a photograph of Allied soldiers fighting from a defensive trench during WWI ? You need to pay attention. Makes me wonder how accurate your content is.

[@covert0overt_810]

is there anywhere i can watch this uncensored... im not an npc sjw

[@jamesfiaco4922]

Very easy simple concept basic logic if life is not free why the hell would death be any cheaper it's not. So the question one may wonder is the spiritual cost to one's own soul and spirit for having lived and died only using the smallest percentage of A fraction of the true potential they were first born with equally as reckless neglectful at the same time to the lowest standards of quality for so many years now global pollution has diminished the quality of life to the point where today's people are living, dying and yielding the worst spiritual kickback that has ever been manifested since the beginning of life only getting worse. The polar opposite extreme to that is today's people should be living and dying to the highest standards of quality which would make each and every moment physically, mentally, financially and spiritually beneficial rewarding constantly consistently S.R.F.

[@spacesloth6496]

D day 1492.for the beginning of the end of native culturele exsistense

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

The guys who fought so we could be replaced in our own countries. The Anglo union fought on the wrong side in Europe.

[@californiadreamin8423]

Yes it’s such a shame Oswald Mosley didn’t become Prime Minister, and then you could strut about alongside him, and practice your German.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

You sound a little insecure there dude. Hope you're OK. What you are thinking of as the right side had some interesting 'replacement' policies of their own you might want to consider.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

@@californiadreamin8423 You have brainwashing isssues.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 You must be fenale of a leftist, they are the same thing. You need to stop projecting.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Please share your ignorance of history.

[@wabia1217]

Perang itu tak berguna.tidak ada yang untung.semua Rugi besar Kedua pihak yang perang.itu namanya diperbudak emosi dan nafsu tak terarah yang benar.iiiiiiihhh Iiiiihhhh.akulah setan selalu memperbudak manusia.aaaaahhhhh Aaaaaaahhhhh

[@pratyushtripathi8071]

Churchil the killer of millions of Indians in Bengal, was also equivalent to hitler, Hitler killed jews and Bloody Churchil led to Bengal Famine nd hence millions of Hindus in Bengal died due to starvation as Churchil ordered food to be reserved for British Soldiers.

[@orgovang]

Katasztrófálissan gyenge és alig értelmezhető a magyar szöveg!Miért nem lehet oda figyelni mit írnak ki magyarul?

[@j.d.c.777]

🇺🇸 🫡 …❤😣

[@tigerstripey4885]

They fought and died for NOTHING

[@dexterroy]

Overhyped operation. Germans had poor defence, only few MG nests and fewer soldiers manning them. Casualties would have far higher than a few thousand otherwise.