WW2 Battlefield Tours - Normandy Beaches - Day One - July 2022 - Normandy, France

[@martinpill8603]

All of these brave people have gone now never to be seen again my dad was one of them

[@tracymesser296]

We Thank Him For His Service

[@bssd.europa]

Indeed!

[@premierhoner614]

May we never forget them... We salute you all you brave souls. May you all rest in peace..............

[@bssd.europa]

Indeed. Thank you for the comment.

[@stevecampbell4118]

What a beautifully presented tour. Thank you.

[@bssd.europa]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Sh4dow682]

What a beutiful location despite the horrors that happend there all those years ago.. May the soldiers rest in peace

[@bssd.europa]

Thank you.

[@Frank-vr9pw]

Nicely done. Thank you

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks!

[@relaxingtravel-LosAngeles]

very detailed video.. thank you.. we will try to take the same tour w our family.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks so much. Have a great trip!

[@freddygasman6635]

We should never forget all of the young men who so bravely came ashore that day. It makes no difference if they were Americans, Canadians, French, or British or any other country, they fought for one thing, to end fascism and the reign of terror by the Nazis. May we all remember that thanks to their sacrifice, we are here today living free.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment.

[@rogerstanton8192]

When you look at modern politicians leading with Trumpf you wonder why they bothered !!!it

[@mcddetectrespect.7467]

Very well put together thanks,

[@bssd.europa]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@northerngannetproject3147]

As french born near these beachs, it's a nice depict... good job.

[@bssd.europa]

Many thanks!

[@2Brandec]

Beautiful video.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks!

[@halstaples2469]

Beautiful monuments. Thank you.

[@bssd.europa]

Our pleasure!

[@carlahays7724]

We went there with our son in 2019 - very moving!

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment, it was a once in a lifetime experience.

[@subhasispaulvlogs4078]

LOVE THIS .

[@bssd.europa]

Thank you for the comment.

[@HistoryWorldWar2Channel]

👌👌👌

[@rthoc71]

Nicely put together as motorcyclist with avid love of history war it's only seeing these things in real life as way makes u realise horrors of war. Not just brave souls who landed on beaches lot of these amazing monuments to see, your video given me a good idea what include on my solo adventures trip see these things.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the kind words.

[@ghostofmatrix]

Bel video like buona serata

[@bssd.europa]

Thank you

[@educargo815s]

Obrigado por compartilhar com a gente...

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks!

[@jimclarke1108]

And some leaders never learn💙🧡

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment.

[@educargo815s]

Gostaria de conhecer todos esses lugares..

[@bssd.europa]

It is definitely worth the trip, we loved it.

[@chop3625]

Not enough quality content on KZbin. Thank you for this…

[@bssd.europa]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@MF3180-d2v]

...un giorno ci andro'...!!! ONORE ai caduti !!

[@bssd.europa]

Definitely worth a visit. Set aside at least a week.

[@reggriffiths5769]

Sorry to correct you; it's been made by Americans, and if you look at the series, it's called "Normandy." Well, Normandy consisted of Four Allies, but the series only shows Omaha, Utah, St Mere Eglise, Ponte du Hoc, La Fiere. Longues, Colleville and all-American cemeteries. When you call up Normandy or D-Day on your browser, you will be fortunate to find a single upload that isn't all-American. Occasionaly a very brief mention is made of British, Canadian or French forces, but every episode is chock full of "Our brave American Soldiers," American Zones, American Paratroopers, American Cemeteries, American museums, and American flags flying in zones where no Amertican ever set foot. Where is the honour paid to the others? You can't get away from the plethora of American vainglory. I watched one episode of A "Normandy" Tour - covering Pegasus Bridge. The first scene was an American flag in pride of place of all others; the second scene was an American rifle marking a fallen American soldierm topped with an American helmet. The third scene was a group of American troops digiing a grave for a fallen comrade. we then had a ten-minute brief on what happened at Pegasus before we were shown part of the museum - concentrating mainly on American American artefacts and mannekins. The next fifteen minutes was all about the Americans talking about the removal of a section of the bridge to take back tro the US. I actually challenged the producer of the series, and brought several of these scenes to his attention. Within a week he had cut oout some of them, but still left in more than he'd taken out. So I don't make any apology, nor do I accept every effort you've made to undermine my claims. I've been a military historian for over fifty years, so I'm no armchair general or amateur battlefield guide. I know the American history of warfare, I know their successes and failures. and one thing comes to the top every time - their love of self glory and their didtate of everything British. Now I'm done with you!

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for stopping by again @reggriffiths5769. I'm planning some trips to UK next summer and would like to see some WW2 history while there if I can swing it. I'd sincerely appreciate any towns or locations you might recommend as worth a look.

[@reggriffiths5769]

@@bssd.europa It depends entirely on where you're going in the UK - and for how long! Do you mean UK or England, or Scotland, or Wales or Northern Ireland? Give me a rough itinerary and I might be able to help; The UK may be a small-ish island, but you won't get more than a few cities and their sites of interest in a week. If you're going to London there's plenty of choice - The War Cabinet rooms near Whitehall, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey,The Guards Museum by St James Park, HMS Belfast (D-Day Command Ship) near London Bridge, The "Blitz" Tour runs virtually every day in London, but the Blitz was also a feature in Belfast, Glasgow, Liverpool, Hull. Cardiff, Swansea....... Take a close-up look at Google Maps City of London area, and you'll find more memorials to WW1 & WW2 than you can visit in a day!

[@bssd.europa]

We'll certainly hit London for a week or so, but we're planning several trips up to a week in some of the other areas. Thanks for those sites, will see if we can get some of those on the itinerary.

[@rog9601]

Beautiful video of a beautiful place that had some ugly events taking place, but it had to be done, it was a very significant world event.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment Rog.

[@MrSopel77]

👍🏻

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks!

[@BitterBlossom1]

Thanks for the nice video!! I am wondering how much time was allocated to the airborne museum? Was it enough to see all things?

[@bssd.europa]

Thank you, I believe we were there for a little over an hour. It was combined with lunch in town. We had enough time to walk through and see everything we wanted. If you want to do more browsing and reading, it may be a little short of that.

[@joenop3393]

6:08 That must have been a massive bomb!

[@bssd.europa]

Yes, it was a giant crater, they were like that all over the place. Some from aerial bombardments and some from the Navy before the landings.

[@LMTDDS]

I notice they have a mannekin to represent the actual airborne troop who got entangled and caught up in the church steeple.

[@bssd.europa]

Yes, very popular and a part of almost everything you read or video you see about the town.

[@videowillplayafterads8437]

When the men were on the beaches seeing their fellow comrades dropping like flies.. they probably thought they had no chance of winning. Shame the dead heroes didn't get to see the outcome. RIP.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for watching

[@visheshsolanki645]

We can't imagine the horrible site of that day of invasion in these beautiful green fields where a lot of bunkers, aa guns, dead bodies, soldiers fighting,artillery was all around there. May the great souls of comrades rest in peace.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment.

[@trevororegan]

Hi. How long to see all this? 1 day...2 days? Thanks

[@bssd.europa]

This video covers one full day. We spent 4 full days in Normandy.

[@trevororegan]

@bssd.europa thanks. Heading there in a few weeks so I'm gathering info from youtube 😄

[@bssd.europa]

Awesome, have a great time. We highly recommend overlord tours. They were outstanding, and worth every penny in my opinion.

[@trevororegan]

@@bssd.europa I'll check them out. Thanks for the tip😁

[@dmb3428]

sacred ground

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment, was amazing to be there.

[@susieq9801]

@3:43 I see US and British flags but no Canadian flag. Why? Did see one @7:40.The beaches and fields looks so peaceful now. Very sad what the soldiers had to face including for months after landing. We owe our freedom to all of them, Americans, Brits, Canadians, Anzacs, Free French, Poles, South Africans, Indians, Russians, the underground (including women spies) and everyone who fought with the Allies.

[@bssd.europa]

I believe the flags closest to the windows were Canadian but they were a bit hard to see. Thanks for the comment!

[@lawrencequave7361]

I guess this just shows how much the WHOLE WORLD 'didn't cotton to' Germany saying, "We're the superior race, and we're gonna be in charge of EVERYTHING." Yet the world still has people today who want to be king of the world or at least king of a mountain. You didn't learn a damn thing, did you?

[@bssd.europa]

As the world does... Thanks for watching.

[@LMTDDS]

Not sure how so many of those batteries remained active even after all the prelanding naval bombardment.

[@bssd.europa]

They'd have a lot harder chance of that these days.

[@BlueSky-1111]

В такой красоте наставили оружия, пушек, солдатов! Там ангелов надо было везде поставить!

[@bssd.europa]

Danke

[@camloff]

Lisbon, Portugal. The heavy price of freedom.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment.

[@deaconjohn6838]

Dunkirk is another beach

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment. We didn't make it that far north on the trip but Dunkirk is on our list of places to visit in the future.

[@santarémturismo]

Que nunca mais vivamos os horrores de uma guerra mundial.

[@bssd.europa]

Indeed, thanks for the comment.

[@BertiOnTour]

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks!

[@kimbradley9595]

You have no idea everyone lost including you

[@bssd.europa]

Sure. Thanks for stopping by.

[@charilestrom4390]

Cut

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment.

[@elizabetejustino4174]

Lugar lindo,mas a 80 anos atrás. Era o inferno na terra.

[@bssd.europa]

Yes, very peaceful now thanks to the selfless sacrifice of so many.

[@llamartinesandercruzdossan5482]

É, para derrotar, o Nazismo, quantas vidas ceifadas. Uma ferida, para a própria Alemanha.

[@bruceclark8333]

No, not a different D Day no D Day without American troops, logistics and industrial power! To think otherwise shows a lack of historical knowledge!

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for your comments.

[@bruceclark8333]

Without America there would have been no D Day!!

[@bssd.europa]

Perhaps a different D-Day. Thanks for the comment.

[@reggriffiths5769]

As is so typical with American-made videos, Normandy (D-Day) is always about Omaha and Utah, and all things American. The truth is that the Normandy Landings had more British and Canadian forces than American, had four beaches to the American's two, and had more casualties than the Americans. However, if you were to believe these videos, you would certainly believe that the British, Canadian and yes, even some French troops, were never there! So this title of "WW2 Normandy Tours" is nothing more than "The Americans were the only ones in Normandy." It's time that the Americans learnt that the war wasn't only fought by Americans, even though they like to pretend otherwise.

[@bssd.europa]

Thanks for the comment. You can see our day three video of the British and Canadian landing beaches here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV6VXqSqiN6Dmbc We weren't able to arrange private tours of Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches and the surrounding areas like we did for Utah and Omaha, but we did go out of our way to visit them on our own. The Pegasus bridge museum was great. If you get a chance to visit, I'd highly recommend a stop there.

[@JasperJokerII]

If it weren't for the Americans, the world would be in a much darker place

[@reggriffiths5769]

@@JasperJokerII In your dreams buddy - not with their record. Name one war they won without an ally; answer: NONE! They debunked from Korea, leaving their allies to their fate; They pulled out from Mogadishu, beaten by Marksist rebels; They were literally kicked out of Vietnam, in spite of their wholesale bombing and use of Napalm. They failed abysmally against the Cubans, and made themselves a laughing stock all over the world. In Belize they sent in 60,000 troops, tanks and 23 battleships against some 150 Marxists, managing to get their "Elite" Rangers captured! It took them six weeks to do the job, but it took a sledgehammer to crack the nut - what a joke! On the other hand, The UK, with and without her allies, have never a lost a war in 250 years. So what was that you were saying?

[@JasperJokerII]

@@reggriffiths5769 sounds like you feel you owe the Americans gratitude 🙏 and can't except it

[@JasperJokerII]

Sounds too that perhaps you're jealous for some reason. When the world is in trouble they dial 1800USA. There isn't a more generous country on the planet.

[@alainproviste3523]

This landing and the 3 months of bloody fighting that followed were very costly in terms of human lives. On both sides, and also on the side of French civilians. This operation is often depicted in a heroic mode by Hollywood, notably by Spielberg, but many forget that for the civilian population of Normandy, it was hell. There had been more French civilians killed than US troops killed in action. The maximum estimate of civilian losses is around 50,000, in dozens of towns razed or heavily damaged by the fighting, and especially by the terrible aerial bombardments, like in Caen or Le Havre. More generally, France, after Germany, was the most heavily bombed country in Western Europe, with 518,000 tons of bombs dropped in 5 years, and almost 70000 civilians killed. Not just in Normandy, but all over France. Reconstruction took about 20 years in many places.

[@bssd.europa]

Thank you Alain for the comment, some of the stories of the small communities and the people there relayed by our tour guide from Overlord Tours was some of the most interesting things we learned during our trip.

[@garyhink2015]

If war is so bad, why do humans keep doing it 😓

[@bssd.europa]

Sadly, it is the human nature.