#8 D-Day Normandy wrecked German and Allied tanks and vehicles footage.

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@geofri1747 6 ай бұрын

I thought I would share a fun fact about my family. After D.day and the fighting had moved inland, my mother and my two aunts went and collected as many parachutes they could get, and for the next 27 years, every wedding dress made in my family came from those parachutes😊

@princeofcupspoc9073 3 ай бұрын

8:50. It's good to familiarize yourself with the enemy's weapons, but I don't think I'd be playing around with a land mine. Disarmed or not.

@michaelporzio7384 7 ай бұрын

Excellent video, I noticed the poles planted in the ground by the Germans to wreck gliders trying to land. I wonder how effective they were, a lot of wrecked gliders, but generally gliders are wrecked when they land or scrapped soon after.

@wullieg7269 7 ай бұрын

rommels asparagus

@LeveretteJamesClifford1955 7 ай бұрын

Your videos are excellent! It would be a big help to us amateur historians if you could also post the photograhers' name, date and location that was usually found at the beginning of a new reel or when the photographer had film left and moved to a new location. I don't know how the British did this but it appears at the beginning of American Signal Corps reels. Thanks for considering it.

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Place and date is in de video, but the name is another great idea to place in the video.

@warwarneverchanges4937 7 ай бұрын

8:47 how does this work Stephen, I dont know mate Im trying to get FM signal here

@iamgermane 7 ай бұрын

Some of those looks like recent battles, as they are still smoking!

@eric-wb7gj 7 ай бұрын

TY 🙏🙏

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

You're welcome.

@jlawsl 7 ай бұрын

I find the damage to the vehicles interesting. I wonder if there were heavy bombs(1000-2000lbs), battleship shells or a mixture of both. Artillery and tank guns can't rip apart vehicles as seen in these images. Even a direct 203mm(8in) HE howitzer shell hit would not sheer metal away like that while leaving the paint intact, with the vehicle thrown in every direction. In other words, there was no secondary explosion, the initial strike ripped whole tanks apart.

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Most of them were probably pushed to the side by bulldozer, could be part of the damaged.

@jlawsl 7 ай бұрын

@@PanzerInsight True, but what about the hull damage. I have taken part in a few armored vehicle recoveries and never found metal ripped apart this much apart from firing ranges.

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Do you have a timestamp for me?

@JamesQuirk-g1k 7 ай бұрын

Terrible 😔 destruction of Allied and German equipment during the Normandy campaign.

@grandpatim8352 7 ай бұрын

I could be wrong, but the tanks in that first 3 minutes of your video of wrecked tanks don't look like tanks, but look suspiciously like gliders.

@riff2072 7 ай бұрын

Nothing gets by you. Sorry for that but, I just could not help myself.

@markthomas506 7 ай бұрын

Their inflatable tanks! Cleverly disguised to look like smashed up gliders to fool the germans, at any moment sherman tanks will pop out and go "ta da!!".

@jamesellis2784 7 ай бұрын

My name is human . .

@nr5vtjustpeter 7 ай бұрын

Thats probably why it says vehicles.😅

@gdwlaw5549 7 ай бұрын

We all look forward to you posting all your comments on a new KZbin channel….we could call it the stupid comment channel? Have a good one 😊

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 6 ай бұрын

The french made a fortune out of the scrap!

@joevicmeneses8918 7 ай бұрын

at 12:01 is that a King tiger ??

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 7 ай бұрын

Modified by a battleship or cruiser perhaps?

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

That's indeed a Tiger II.

@ilhanolcay3836 7 ай бұрын

Indeed, looks like with a Porsche turret too!

@MrWoWgaming 7 ай бұрын

@@ilhanolcay3836 We can see that although inaccurate, there is a logic to the common names. The ‘Porsche turret’ is so named because it was intended for (but never fitted to) a tank hull designed by Porsche, and the ‘Henschel turret’ because it was fitted to a hull designed by that firm. i dont think its a porsche turret its yust a early production turret

@madigorfkgoogle9349 7 ай бұрын

Tiger II or Tiger B yes, King Tiger no, Germans never had such a tank...

@trashdupasse3597 7 ай бұрын

Nice video Some pictures were taken in villages i know Le plessis grimoult is same actually So i say you a big thanks

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, can you point out some of the vilages you know please. .?

@erwinfijneman1035 7 ай бұрын

At 5.00. What the hell is that Totenkopf cufband doing in this footage in France in 1944. During the Normandy campaign in 1944 the Totenkopf division was on the eastern front fighting near Warschau not in Normandy. The only 2 explanations I can think of is that some one fought The Totenkopf division during the invasion of France in 1940 and kept this trophy all this time. But I doubt that is the case. Or it was kept by former Totenkopf members who took command over some units like the 12'e SS HJ panzer divisionas NCO's or officers. It's known that eastern war veterans from the 1st SS panzer division (LSSAH) took command over the units from the 12e SS HJ panzer division and some still carried their old cufband from the LSSAH in Normandy. But a Totenkopf cufband in Normandy in 1944 I have never seen before. So If some one has the real answer to this question let me know so I can learn some more about this war, this operation, and who was involved during this operation on teh German side.

@hansgruber650 7 ай бұрын

My Uncle's cousin was an Officer in Totenkopf and fought from Poland to Russia and when the 9th SS Panzer Division was formed he was a Sturmbannfuhrer highly decorated.

@eric-wb7gj 7 ай бұрын

Quite possible armband belonged to an NCO or Officer who was transferred over to an SS division in France as you say.

@JMark-zk5pj 7 ай бұрын

Many instances of former unit titles still being worn from Totenkopf, Reich, Wiking etc. This 222 is from 17.SS.

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Like people pointed out it's probably a souvenir.

@belleriffraff 7 ай бұрын

So you think the Allied soldier, went over to the eastern battlefields and picked the insignia up, and then carried it around just for filming purposes while in France? jeez why did'nt I think of that unrealistic answer!!!

@anthonybush607 7 ай бұрын

Seems very unusual for a Totenkopf cuff band to be found in Normandy.

@LeveretteJamesClifford1955 7 ай бұрын

I thought so, too. Perhaps the film was made elsewhere and got mixed into the Normandy batch.

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

@@LeveretteJamesClifford1955 pretty much impossible, the clipboard points out the date on the spot in this real.

@dinosauralan.9486 7 ай бұрын

What is the vehicle in left hand side of the frame @ 0.28? With VVSS as per an early Lee/Grant or Sherman??

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

That's a blown up Marder I.

@kevinkent6184 7 ай бұрын

Was that a British soldier putting a panzerfaust into the end of a bazooka?

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Indeed, but in the entire reel they seem to be confused by the other German weapons as well.

@Ebash-Banderu 7 ай бұрын

dementia and courage)))

@WorksOnMyComputer 7 ай бұрын

That's what used to happen before computer games and we all became experts on weapons.

@YVON-qb7tn 7 ай бұрын

Oui apparemment, il cherche peut-être à comprendre le système ? Peut-être ne sait il pas que les deux engins ne se complète pas.

@paulwee1924dus 7 ай бұрын

Nicu footage.

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@alex-rx2vu 7 ай бұрын

les fics, pendant l'occupation ils collaborent, ensuite ils passent de l'autre coté...

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 6 ай бұрын

Just like the french collaborators!

@billballbuster7186 6 ай бұрын

A lot of the German stuff looked to be in working condition as if they just ran off and left it. The Horsa and Waco gliders were not as trashed as some I have seen at Arnhem,

@TheFunkhouser 7 ай бұрын

Those allied soldiers guessing how the Germans weapons worked lololol

@しばたしげいえ 7 ай бұрын

放棄されたシュビームワーゲン自家用車に欲しいですね。

@txalapartakatugorri2012 Ай бұрын

Todo eso que se fundio ,hoy en dia pagarian cifras astronómicas, por uno de esos vehículos o tan solo por piezas

@BobSchofield-el4hj 7 ай бұрын

Gee smart boy...you can tell the difference between a tank and a glider...the world??

@PanzerInsight 7 ай бұрын

And you can"t read a title and know what a vehicle is. :)

@Ebash-Banderu 7 ай бұрын

3:20 soviet Maxim machine gun

@flitsertheo 7 ай бұрын

Still used in 2024.

@Ebash-Banderu 7 ай бұрын

@@flitsertheo да до сих пор.

@robertsessoms 7 ай бұрын

I wonder how effective the Glider missions where? Seems like a lot broke up on landing

@Chris-mh3vf 7 ай бұрын

Glider glider glider tank, no just an anti tank gun bazooka machine gun tank ,no a swim wagon boared turned off

@Spartan902 7 ай бұрын

Rommel sure chose a bad time to go back home to take care of a few things. He knew he had made a huge mistake!

@lucas82 7 ай бұрын

It is impossible to tell if he could have had any impact though. The man was known for his agressive fighting style, which may have backfired in case of Normandy. The 21th Panzer division immediately counter attacked the British on the afternoon of June 6th but got clapped despite the fact that the British were still organizing their defense. Had the OKH have given Rommel permission to have his Panzer reserves spred out along they beached things would have likely got worse for them as the Allies could then not only hit them with naval artillery (like they did at Sicilly) but they could also take on the Panzer forces in piecemeal fashion. Mind you that the Germans did not know for sure that the invasion would even take place in northern France, so spreading the armour out along the Normandy and Brittany coastlines made very little sense strategically. Armoured attacks only worked if the armour was concentrated, Rommel opted for the opposite. His subordinate in the West, Geyr von Schweppenburg, realized that the armour should be kept in reserve if a serious counter attack was to be attempted even though this meant exposing the Panzers to air attack. I think Geyr was right and Rommel was wrong.

@Spartan902 7 ай бұрын

@@lucas82 I agree that it is likely that his presence wouldn't of changed much. Geyr was right in wanting to keep the Panzers in reserve.