Sword Beach Tour, D-Day sites in Normandy

[@SandervkHistory]

Great video Rob! One of my favorite places in Normandy!

[@sbishop6450]

Really great video Rob. So pleased to see the other allied beaches being covered. Love the American history channels and their coverage of Omaha and Utah but contrary to how it appears sometimes because of all the wonderful US sites, they were only part of the invasion force. Hope you will cover more of the UK and Canadian action in D Day and beyond.

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thank you - yes definitely more to come

[@terryshoemaker8570]

Hello I’m a french man born in 45 and living now just beside Sword beach. I often meet british tourists visiting the site and I never Forget to say « welcome to the brits » each Time I see them around. I do not Forget some lost their lives to liberate my country. Thank you for 1944 and thank you for this very recent vidéo ❤

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thanks for watching it

[@Team-fabulous]

Another fantastic video. My uncle Tom Fletcher, a Belfast man landed at Sword.. He was lucky to survive but according to my grandmother he was a different man when he returned home.. understandably..

[@historyinyourhand1787]

I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@billmccarthy9689]

Really enjoyed this video. I was at the midnight service at Pegasus Bridge last month and went to Sword Beach the next day, I took many videos some very similar to yours. I am glad you mentioed Commandant Keiffer and the FFL and his memorial. There is another at Amfreville outside Eglise St. Martin. It was good to see young French people wearing armbands bearing the Cross of Lorraine at Sword. I had a number of flags on my dash parked there including the FFL flag. French visitors were quite pleased seeing this. Many photos taken. A great day. I too was shocked seeing people living in that bunker.

[@ronaldbyrne3320]

Love this. I hope to tour all five beaches and have this on my bucket list. 🍀

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thank you

[@ncwoodworker]

Nice Sword overview. Very informative. Thanks for the presentation.

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thanks for watching!

[@edthered1971]

Very good narration Rob, I didn’t know a little about this stretch of beach before, I do now! Well done 👏👏💪

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thanks 👊

[@chrishallam602]

Great video rob

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thank you

[@alex4833]

Hey, Rob! How are you? It's cool to see a video about Sword Beach :). A lot of the videos that I've seen about D-Day were about American landings, so I'm intrigued by your video. Great map. It's cool to see the beach :). I hadn't learned about the section. It's cool to learn about them. Great info about the bunker and the efforts (and struggles) to take it. I too am glad they decided to capture it later. I'd like to visit the museum in the bunker. I think I had heard that French troops were involved in D-Day but it was a long time ago when I heard this and only learned a bit about them. The memorial is great and so is the memorial for Philippe Kieffer. It was great to learn more about French forces on D-Day. I didn't know the numbers or which beach they were on, so I appreciate the info you gave. Great statue of Lord Lovat. I hadn't seen "Longest Day" but it was also great learning about him and his troops' objective. WN18 is well-maintained. I did not know of it. Good info, Rob. Excellent info about the battle and nice job dispelling the myth that it was an easy beach to capture. That is a lot of casualties as well. (700) Beautiful memorial for the commandos. The Piper Bill Millin memorial is great too. I hadn't learned of him. You gave some great information about him too :). LOL that's quite the story! I too wonder if it's true, but it was awesome to learn about it. The Monty statue is cool. I would love to visit Sword Beach! :). Awesome tour :) Thanks so much for sharing. I learned a lot! Take care, bud :). PS. Do you still have merch available? I like the HIYH hat I got and am interested in checking out more merch :).

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Hey Alex. I'm good, you too I hope. Yes it's absolutely available. You can see the links below the video or send me a message through Instagram 👍

[@alex4833]

@@historyinyourhand1787 Hey Rob, I'm doing well, thank you :). I don't have an IG account, but didn't see the link to your merch under your video (links to the Patreon, Coffee, and gear but not the store). May you please share the link via a comment? Thank you :).

[@historyinyourhand1787]

@@alex4833 Here you go youtube.com/@historyinyourhand1787?si=TjyzYtPIH2wF1XPM

[@alex4833]

@@historyinyourhand1787 Thanks so much Rob :)

[@exploringwithjason151]

Awesome video! I think the Juno, Gold, Sword, and Utah beach are the main four that is less talked about and less known about because it is overshadowed by Omaha beach which is talked about more frequently. I would love to learn more about these particular beaches because like I said they're less known and less talked about. This is just my thoughts and opinion.

[@thenoworriesnomad]

As always Rob and thanks for doing a British view video, the amount of Day videos from the past few weeks, the unknown would think it was an America landings and the war was won by Easy Company, although im very grateful for their involvement and always will be..👍👍 Also did you know that there was a 6th landing beach earmarked for DDay but wasn't used due to the area being flooded by the Germans, it was code named "Band" and located East of Sword beach..

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Thank you - yes I did know about Band actually, I might try and get a video from there at some point

[@thenoworriesnomad]

@@historyinyourhand1787 Excellent 👍🏻

[@subaruadventures]

Thank god something different than Omaha.

[@kyledunn6853]

Play for me brother like never before Scottish Piper Bill Play Highland Laddie and Road to the Isles on your pipe of peace Scottish Piper Bill playing for peace