Victory At Sea - D-Day - Episode 15

The Allied invasion of Normandy is detailed -- from preparation to execution -- to very compelling effect courtesy of vintage footage from both sides. A great victory for the Allies. Perhaps one of the most exciting episodes of the entire Victory at Sea series.

[@stanleydomalewski8497]

It is now 6 June 2023, Never forget the Brave Men and Women of All Races Involved !

[@wcguthrie]

My friend's Dad landed at Normandy Dday +7, we used to say to him "all the fighting was over by then" which always got our desired response "THE HELL IT WAS!"

[@rosem7469]

Listened to this today for my dad. These men fought for our democracy and freedoms. Amazing legacy for us........

[@robertmcgowan4312]

My Dad was on Omaha Beach on June 6th with the 4th Engineers Battalion

[@altfactor]

Today, six-and-a-half decades after it was produced, "Victory At Sea" remains the "gold standard" against which all other military documentaries are still compared.

[@davidlavigne207]

My Mother's father, Lucien LaCroix was present off shore in support of the D Day Landings aboard Patrol Craft 564, an Anti Submarine Escort vessel slightly smaller than a Destroyer Escort. They essentially provided protection to the ships off the Utah beaches. Not quite a year later, on March of 1945, he was reported missing after an engagement with a German Flotilla that launched a successful, but really quite useless at this time of the war, raid on the Port of Granville France on the southern Contentin peninsula. The object of the raid was to capture some collier ships, and to repatriate approximately 50 German POWs who were being used as labor in the port. Allegedly, Seaman LaCroix was in a group of about 24 sailors who had abandoned ship when the vessel was surrounded and overwhelmed. I don't know exactly what happened, but his body was discovered a few days later in the lifeboat as it was drifting in the English Channel. The British buried him at sea. I hope one day to visit his marker, which is in the American Cemetery in Brittany France.

[@rosem7469]

I felt such a restlessness today...although I honored and remembered my father this DDAY seeing this video made me feel what he and others did that day and time...I cried but that was the least I could do...thank you for this video. This is the 77th anniversary. ....we need to remember and we need to also feel what they did....cause modern life pushes us to fast..........this was and is something worthy of honor and slowing down.

[@andrewkendle3251]

Yes Rose, this is a Very Special time for all to remember and to raise our Flag in Honor and Glory to all those that took part. My uncle Tom was on the ship that radioed information back to headquarters.

[@allenenaufahu5119]

Nub

[@williamhamrick8616]

My mother had two of her older brother's at D-Day. One was in the first wave at Omaha Beach in the 29th I.D. and his brother was a 101st Airborne Pathfinder. My Uncle Enoch, the Pathfinder was MIA and didn't come home and my Uncle Luther, the Infantryman in the 29th was badly wounded a couple of weeks later in the hedgerow fighting and ended up spending the rest of the war in a hospital in the State's

[@wyethbaker3750]

Please look at Victory At Sea - D-Day - Episode 15 mark 26:05 to see LCT 30. LCT 30 was commanded by my cousin Sidney Brinker and landed the first wave of the 29th infantry.

[@t0mt0m2000]

My father-in-law got a purple heart at the Battle of Anzio Beach in Italy which was also an amphibious landing like Normandy. It was a dress rehearsal for Normandy as it turned out.

[@DavidM-tg1oy]

The narrator doesn't mention one of the cleverest misdirections undertaken during the Second World War; the misinformation transmitted to the German General Staff (including Rommel) that the intended invasion point was the NARROWEST crossing on the English Channel-across from Calais, rather than the six Normandy beaches actually landed upon. Many thousands of German troops were stuck in Calais-where they were altogether useless-and away from the actual invasion points. THAT WAS CLEVER!!

[@TVeres-3dRm]

Thank you, Newsmax2, So much for showing these WW2 news clips. It is imperative that Future generations understand, if they want to change the future for the Better, they need to LEARN from, and Not make, mistakes made in the past ☮️❤ I have many relatives who lived through this time. None of them could bring themselves to talk about it. Pictures are worth a thousand words. There really are no words.... There are no winners in war.

[@dewood9463]

My dad drove Higgins Boat at North Africa and Anzio.

[@granskare]

my uncle was an mp at a general hospital in England.

[@doriley13]

Being Victory at Sea they left out a very important fNaval fact! The Soldiers on Omaha Beach were pinned down and could not advance ! The generals were about to scrap the invasion at Omaha beach. Then Allied Destoyers took the chance of running aground to get close enough to shell German Machine Gun nest and other gun emplacements allowing the Soldiers to advance off the Beach!

[@patrickconnolly9807]

Also the U.SS Texas flooded half of the ship to be in firing range of the beaches

[@user-bs2pq1qn8h]

My uncle al was on Omaha beach with the first wave with his m1 rifle

[@altfactor]

One of the few "Victory At Sea" episodes to concern itself with the war in the Atlantic. Most of the episodes reviewed naval battles in the Pacific.

[@videodistro]

Because the war in the Pacific was mostly a naval battle. It was not so in the Atlantic. Makes sense. still, there are whole episodes devoted to fighting in the Atlantic theater. Have you bothered to watch them?

[@model-man7802]

The Pacific is three times or more the size of the Atlantic lots of Islands,reefs, Typhoons and more.Perfect for a Naval war.

[@garyschreckengost2925]

Are 6 more that sorry are concerned with the economy. Have you seen any of those.

[@robertyoung3992]

Operation Overlord/ Neptune (The actual beach assault)

[@thehumancanary131]

Victory at Sea is not the "gold standard" against which all other military documentaries are compared. This honor must surely go to the BBC series "The World at War."

[@2000toddowen]

Remember!

[@captainobvious9233]

This was an amazing series, but unfortunately they dropped the ball on this episode. D-Day was perhaps the greatest event of WW2 and this episode jumped all over the place with it and was very confusing. It should have started with the planning, then the buildup for half the episode and had the last half devoted to the invasion and aftermath. As a kid, most episodes got my heart pumping with the combination of music, narration and battle scenes. Here, you don't really get that, it starts to build up when it shows parts of the invasion, then jumps to before the invasion, and back to the invasion...

[@leoschvaa]

what song were the bagpipes?????????

[@Aristaeus1]

there is always a nut around.

[@davidrowley8251]

at 5:10 in the foreground are large tracked vehicles that I can't identify. Are they for towing fuel wagons or artillery? They do not seem to be retrievers or engineering vehicles. I Would appreciate any enlightenment possible. Thanks. Found this is an artillery tractor: M4 18 ton high speed tractor, based on the M3 light tank chassis, and built by the Allis Chalmers company in my home town of Milwaukee Wisconsin, and powered by a Waukesha I6 engine built just west of Milwaukee. At 5:28 I recognize the amphibious 6x6 2 1/2 ton trucks or ducks (DUKW). They are still used to give tours in the Wisconsin Dells area of Wisconsin.

[@SabraStiehl]

For 3 years the German General Staff did nothing about arming or placing obstacles along the beaches of Western Europe, then at the suggestion of Rundstedt, who commanded in the West, in a letter to Hitler, Rommel, who had been out of work for about 6 months after his return from N. Africa was given the job of supervising the beach defenses, a job he sunk his teeth into heartily.. By D-day he had accomplished about 52% of the potential defenses at the Pas de Calais, the shortest way across the Channel and about 18% of the potential defenses at Normandy. The general staff believed the Allies would come across using the shortest route, so they fostered defending that ahead of Normandy where both Hitler and Rommel thought they'd come. This was a tendency injected several times into the fray, the generals thinking they knew better than Hitler and undermining his objectives. Note in the shots of the beach obstacles that there's nothing atop them. The mines, etc. were removed in early May for overhaul from the effects of sea water and had not been returned by D-day.. Rundstedt was in charge in the West until the invasion and then Rommel took over. Both of course were limited by Hitler who had to approve major decisions. Hitler was sleeping and not awakened when the Germans discovered Neptune in progress.

[@srothbardt]

What studio did this print of the series? I have the cheap one on Mill Creek. Your's looks better, I think.

[@unitedwestand5100]

srothbardt NBC, 1952

[@altfactor]

Although NBC News produced this series, I believe it's fallen into the public domain, so many companies have recently released DVD sets of this series, with varying levels of picture and sound quality.

[@Moredread25]

I'm surprised the D-Day episode is one of the less popular ones.

[@captainobvious9233]

Well for me, the episode jumped all over the place. It seemed to talk about the invasion, go back to before the invasion, then back to the invasion again, etc.

[@telephonetlm]

Sounds like MrBilly needs some professional help.

[@granskare]

perhaps it is YOU who needs help. I have a degree in psych so maybe I could help YOU?

[@unitedwestand5100]

What kills me, I don't understand, is the British evacuated 350 k from Dunkirk. (unless they exaggerated) Yet D Day had 156 k involved in the beech assault. More than 100 k were American. Some of the 56k were Poles, Canadian, and French.

[@jimwolaver9375]

I hope I understand your question correctly. At Dunkirk, the whole of the German offensive military was massed on a single front and had the initiative. By the time Normandy happened, Germany was engaged on two other fronts (Italy and Russia), having committed huge forces attempting to halt allied advances. If the question is, "Why were so few British forces available for D-day?" The answer is a little different, but not much. They had deployed forces to North Africa and Italy for attacks against the Germans and they had deployed forces to their South Pacific and Indian holdings to combat the Japanese (who were not yet thought to be a serious threat to GB when Dunkirk happened.

[@pressureworks]

350 k obviously not needed.

[@pressureworks]

Plus it's unthinkable how much support would be needed for 350k men.

[@unitedwestand5100]

@@jimwolaver9375 ,. A lot of the British troops used on D-Day were 8th Army troops. They had been removed from Italy after Salerno.

[@garyschreckengost2925]

Because , the French, and royal navies evacuated only troops, no heavy weapons at all. Nor were they evacuated 8n sense of order. On d day 6 full infantry divisions and all of their equipment were landed on 6 beaches, and 28 full strength divisions were on the brit coast ready to follow on immediately. Thank god Alan Brooke was able to get ikes idiotic plans for sledgehammer canceled in aug of 42. The logistics for the campaign in Nw Europe were staggering, and it all started with seizing those 6 beaches successfully.

[@unitedwestand5100]

Screw the King!

[@vernonbrowne6127]

All I know is that Hitler was not sh**ing around when he had the wall put in.😳😳😳

[@fathertime1331]

Tom Brokaw is the worst thing to ever come out of South Dakota.

[@williamjackson5942]

Does the FSB pay well?

[@minoutv885]

Isn't Tom Brokaw, the boy who doesn't respect women, nor himself, the two go hand in hand!!!

[@SabraStiehl]

The Normandy landings on D-day were named Operation Neptune. Overlord was the name given to the campaign in Western Europe.

[@unitedwestand5100]

Sabra S The amphibious part was Neptune, the airborne part was Tonga. Together they were Overlord! The British made a distinction between the two. The Americans did not.

[@renard801]

Nonsense! Overlord was the entire D-Day operation. Neptune was the naval element.

[@robertyoung3992]

Overlord was the entire D-Day campaign Neptune the beach assault

[@LeonMaurer]

I totally agree. What annoys me more is that the narration is frustratingly short on detail -- especially in this episode. We're shown an amphibious invasion, then the artificial harbors being destroyed by a storm, and then an amphibious invasion again. This gives the impression that the first invasion nearly failed due to the storm and it had to be followed up by more landings! The video footage is great fun to watch and has solid music to go with it, but the narration needs serious work...

[@georgefleblanc1]

the closed caption writers made mistakes they mention president Obama in the 1944 film.