WW2 - Western Front 1944/1945. Real Time Animated map

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This video covers the Western Front of the Second World War in real time, with one second representing one day.
01:23 D-Day
02:26 Normandy breakout
02:46 Start of Falaise pocket encirclement
02:57 Liberation of Paris
03:27 Operation Market Garden
04:38 Battle of Alsace
05:14 Battle of the Bulge
06:18 Advance to the Rhine
07:14 Crossing the Rhine into Germany
Background music used during the map animation custom made by Thomas Stephenson ([e-mail], / tomwstep )
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[@Eastory]

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[@fillyourasswithfireanddest4875]

Eastory why u dead inside

[@oceanthing9901]

Finally!

[@joanterueljurado5867]

will you do the timelapse front of the spanish civil war?

[@Trainstoppersunited]

Why aren’t you talking in this video?

[@peknive8331]

@@Trainstoppersunited he’s probably busy with his other job and wasn’t able to properly write a good script. Coronavirus causing so many people to lose their jobs probably isn’t helping either.

[@awitcher5303]

don't worry Steiner's counter attack will solve everything

[@defdandef5841]

Mein führer... Steiner...

[@ZearthGJL]

@@defdandef5841 Steiner could not have enough forces rallied for an attack. Steiner's attack did not occur.

[@sweetballs4742]

These people will stay here: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.

[@tka3]

That was an order! Steiner's attack was an order!

[@opossumbandit4960]

Who are you, that you dare resist my order?

[@hereLiesThisTroper]

History Channel: Who are you? Eastory: I am you but with fewer aliens.

[@thedemocraticfilipino6417]

"Fewer" - Stannis Baratheon

[@ldavidtw2000]

"Fewer" - Davos Seaworth, a few episodes later

[@KEvronista]

*"fewer aliens"* litotes, eh? KEvron

[@hushpuppy1735]

I am you but with no aliens

[@matthewbadley5063]

"It was aliens" - History Channel "A lie, take it out."

[@LogicalReasons]

Where's your narration like you did on the Eastern front videos? to be honest the music with your narration (YOU NARRATING) with the music from the Germany Russia Eastern front is the best ww2 videos on KZbin. Don't allow somebody else to come in

[@Eastory]

There will be one with narration, this is just a result of me compiling the data to understand the events better. As the episode with the narration will not feature so many details, I decided to publish the raw data in a separate video, as it has a value of its own for some people.

[@yvngxnightmare]

@@Eastory will the narration video be dropping this month?

[@thefool8234]

@@Eastory I like your Narration better you have a nice voice

[@justmymage]

@@Eastory In the future would it be possible to include the amount of POW's that are the results from encirclements? In video or audio, or preferrably both. Does add to it since we can see how huge it actually is (Since on map its sort of hard to visualize is a pocket 8.000 troops or 80.000)

[@megarboh790]

@@Eastory Hopefully your narration won't be in the same tone you did with the war thunder sponsor, I really like your chill voice

[@aygian1176]

Doesn't feel the same without you narrating...

[@ANWRocketMan]

As with the 1940 video, he will probably release a narrated version a little later.

[@user-zk3fu4hk1j]

@@ANWRocketMan yes, he cofirmed it in the comments

[@AdrianDeer]

Yeah his accent and voice is just great for this!

[@AnuDugala]

I m crying because i saw onion

[@violettt22]

@@AdrianDeer I'm curious, what's his accent? Baltic region?

[@thebirdmapper357]

When the world needed him the most, he came back!

[@taxevasiongaming]

Yes

[@thefool8234]

Facts

[@aaronmyers1982]

Who?

[@randowdude6847]

@@aaronmyers1982 the avatar smartass

[@thefool8234]

@@aaronmyers1982 Um you haven't heard they found a way to bring Stalin back to life

[@gaprilis]

Here I am, reading "Western Front in Real Time" title, expecting an 11-month long video.

[@Xcyiterr]

same

[@rhn122]

Yeah, rly thought this would be the 1000-part series

[@alwaysnegativecomments1903]

@G E T R E K T 905 woooosh

[@missnizny9278]

@G E T R E K T 905 r/woosh

[@mattep74]

Wait three years and the watch timeghost do that

[@MonsieurX12]

it lacks perhaps the landing in southern france, but otherwise perfect

[@389383]

Would love to see a separate one just on that.

[@simeoncolby1972]

@@389383 The southern landings in France otherwise known as Operation Dragoon was initially meant to happen in conjunction the the Normandy landings but ended up happening two months later due to supplies. The Germans put up a good defense until the front line in the North collapsed after the Falaise Pocket and fell back towards Metz and the Vogues mountains preparing to assist the Germans in the north for a possible counter- attack that never came after Falaise. Then as you can see from the video they pretty much don't move unless their flank to the north was exposed or to elude the French forces in the sector.

[@JoCronje129]

Watch Northern Germany at 7:50. You can see the mad Canadian dash to the Baltic coast at Wismar to stop the Soviets from rounding the bend and moving into Denmark to control the Danish Straits. Such a minor detail that flashes by in less than a couple seconds, but singlehandedly may have prevented massive Soviet influence in Scandinavia in the Cold War. So many minor details like this, I love your work Eastory!

[@bbcmotd]

Weren't the spheres of influence already discussed before that during Stalin-Churchill-American president at the time conferences like Yalta?

[@user-ph4ny9ip8j]

@@bbcmotd They were but it wasnt like it was they trusted eachother or could rely on that alone. You can see in what happened in real life wherever the red army stepped the regime also was red

[@bbcmotd]

@@user-ph4ny9ip8j Of course there were trust issues, and the USSR did not want American missiles at its doorstep (especially since that's exactly what happened with NATO and US missiles in places like Turkey), still for example the Red Army took Vienna in 1945, yet left it later as per the agreements (and again, Austria was supposed to be permanently neutral under such agreements, but still joined NATO despite them).

[@JRobbySh]

The Canucks do not get adequate credit for their efforts A small army but a large effort..

[@friedolin705]

@@bbcmotd Austria isn't in NATO and never was.

[@GenJoseGhost]

I would love to see one about the Italian campaign and the North African campaing too! Amazing video as always.

[@Eastory]

Request noted

[@twlimoon]

@@Eastory That would be nice!

[@marianobosch04]

@@Eastory. In future... South África camping?

[@morisco56]

@@marianobosch04 camping ?

[@marianobosch04]

@@morisco56. Sorry, my english is bad, "South África front".

[@MrMCMLXXV]

Very nice but I'm missing one feature that was present on eastern front videos - information about POWs taken in pockets.

[@Eastory]

It will be in the video with narration.

[@MrMCMLXXV]

@@Eastory Nice, thx.

[@taxevasiongaming]

@@Eastory just glad you're back you always make great content

[@jorelemes]

@@Eastory may i suggest this thesis for you to use in your narration when it comes to the supply issues and eisenhower's choices? krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40364

[@MrNicoJac]

@@jorelemes Did you already receive a grade for it? :) I read the abstract, but I'm not a military guy.... What did the Allies run too low of? Food, ammo, spare parts, or fuel? (or everything?) Congrats on your thesis, it must be a great relief to have it completed! ^^

[@kaleblanoue5010]

It’s 2021, and we’re STILL waiting for Steiner’s attack

[@looinrims]

He just needs to mobilize the reserves

[@shanejones6955]

I was told he's still in the latrine. Apparently he's got a serious case of the runs. 😁

[@numerouno1976]

Don't worry my friend he is trying to find enough reserves then the counterattack will be launched.

[@Natsumithegreat]

He's preparing a triple pronged pincer maneuver to take place in 2045 from Argentina, Antarctica, and the Moon

[@undeadnightorc]

Mein Fuhrer... Steiner... Steiner didn't have enough force. The attack didn't take place.

[@notlucas6859]

7:27 when you activate the offensive order while the enemy has no troops on the front

[@NorseNorman]

2:31 The 319th Division in the Channel Islands just hoping that nobody notices them as the Allies sweep through Normandy

[@silenthunteruk]

They stayed there until the end of the war. The islands were too strongly fortified with too few actual inhabitants for an attack to be deemed worth it. The Germans surrendered on 9 May, which is their Liberation Day.

[@NorseNorman]

@@silenthunteruk I remember my late grandfather telling me about how he felt on liberation day after having been under occupation for 5 years. I think about the hardships he described everyday May 9th.

[@schlafrigerschmidt5659]

well it is a static infantry division, indeed too static

[@sussurus]

Hang on a minute! I thought this was Eastory, not Westory! False advertising!

[@gabrielgan2971]

Technically from the America point of view, Western Europe is in the East of America : P

[@eemeliissakoff5348]

@@gabrielgan2971 then technically everything can be west and everything can be east.

[@micahtshibangu7402]

😂 his channel is called eastory because it is a mash of the two words Estonia and history. Which his channel was originally based around and is his nationality(I assume)

[@alexandrebenoin40]

@@micahtshibangu7402 yes he his Estonian and it is good to have other point of view than anglo-saxon one's

[@KaiWut]

Weastory

[@hugmynutus]

U.S.A.: "Time's up boys let's do this, OPERATION COBRA!" U.K.: "Oh shit, he went in".

[@Cancoillotteman]

LEEEEEROY COBRA !

[@matthewbadley5063]

Ironically the Germans were about to attack into the flank of Cobra after they moved into Brittany. But the allies moved really fast through the Loire valley and caught the Germans in the flank before they could launch their offensive.

[@liamevers115]

During operation cobra hitler called in his last panzer units to launch a counterattack cutting off the Americans in Brittany. The panzer units goal was Avranches but they failed and were encircled in the falaise pocket

[@jcjustin2907]

Well 2021 is off to a flying start with Eastory finally back

[@just1it1moko]

Person from Eindhoven here. as seem from 3:20. in all those cities including mine we still celebrate our liberation day and operation market garder every year with old vehicles and veterans coming over.

[@dreamymaxxx3394]

Hows the empire going bro?

[@patavinity1262]

'In real time' huh? Better buckle in for this year-long video then.

[@corbinglenn2567]

Ah yes I see you are a man of culture

[@doyle5948]

hahahahahaa

[@jommydavi2197]

Better than actually living through 2021 tho

[@corbinglenn2567]

@G E T R E K T 905 then leave let us have our own jokes

[@ILoveYani]

@@jommydavi2197 no

[@allegory7638]

Market Garden may have failed to get across the Rhine, but it put a huge salient in the front and kept great numbers of Germans tied down in The Netherlands, when they were needed to defend The Reich.

[@yuhi8925]

8:49 Steiner's glorius counter attack begins

[@danielnavarro537]

Excellent video, I am glad you showed the major operations conducted on the Western front. I enjoyed it very much. Keep up the good work.

[@renel8964]

Americans: hey we may get to liberate prauge. Russians: *NIET*

[@konstancemakjaveli]

they wouldnt have liberated it even if they had seized it. Czhechia was in Soviet sphere of influence after the Yalta conference

[@Dayvit78]

I also like how you see the Russians just chillin near Berlin, then when the Allies get near, they zoom in YOINK.

[@HoLSurena]

Patton wanted to do it and even has everything ready for the assault but Eisenhower didnt allow him to attack

[@woahholdyourcomment]

Dayvit78 they’re not chilling. They’re dealing the Germans in konigsberg and securing their flank, in previous Eastory videos

[@bbcmotd]

@@Dayvit78 They are a little bit busy fighting the fierce resistance after 4 years of battle, having marched from Moscow

[@stan1wq239]

I'm in tears. Your ww2 videos are the best, I would also really want to see an every-hour video on the same topic(landings, western front). Nice job, Estonia ;)

[@WasntYourFaultYouHaveToLetMeGo]

Always glad tonsee new videos from you. The amount of research made to create this must have been excruciating work.

[@AdamNoizer]

Awesome detail. Can’t imagine how long it took you to do all this. Excited for the one with narration too 👍🏼

[@TenOrbital]

This always shows me new things. I hadn’t realised the Allies were on the outskirts of Paris as Falaise was raging. Or that the eastern flank of the Market Garden salient was so weak for so long. Also the way the SS divisions were held behind the infantry front, committed, and then pulled out of the line as soon as the action is over.

[@dylan8670]

You can kinda see this in the depiction...before it was liberated, Paris was all but surrounded by American troops. The Free French contingent was brought up and Free French troops were the ones who physically pushed the Germans out of Paris and entered the city proudly, to the raucous welcome of the Parisians.

[@dylan8670]

@G E T R E K T 905 You guess wrong, I'm an American. Read it yourself, buddy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris

[@ch1z]

Staggering effort and attention to detail as always. Thank you for your hard work!

[@genericchannelname4110]

Germans at Paris: retreat by Germans seeing little ports near Normandy: WE MUST DEFEND TO THE DEATH Edit: Don’t worry, I understand the reasons for the retreat and the defense of Normandy. I just think from a frontline perspective it looks funny.

[@sharkronical]

Also there's no way there wouldn't be any even worse uprisings when the Allies were already in the mainland, plus retreating to Rhine is way safer to ensure no encirclement

[@awitcher5303]

Defending the port's was actually really usefull since it complicated allied logistics

[@oLii96x]

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo no really, the german commander of paris did not want to fight a unnecesary battle over the city

[@yatsumleung8618]

@@oLii96x Paris garrison commander was ordered by Hitler not to abandon the city unless it's a heap of ruins. He chose to take a cyanide pill.

[@jonezy5340]

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo where the french got their tanks or arms to fight? vichy france or free france troops?

[@ShaDoW-uc7bn]

Amazing work! I love these videos. Could you perhaps make some sort of video covering behind the scenes and the process in making these? How you animate and how you research division movements and so on, would be really interesting.

[@rougehawk]

Absolutely amazing. The amount of work that went into this...I cant even imagine. Thank you.

[@jesseboutin2902]

Amazing Video, I really think adding the names of the Offensive plans, and colour changing major cities when they were captured was a very good visual addition.

[@user-qi3sn5vi6t]

I love this new way of showing the planned operations!

[@hertz5352]

Video: “2 years in real time” Me: “getting excited” Video: “is not 17520 hours long” Me: “sad noises”

[@universenerdd]

I feel scammed for something I didn’t pay for

[@thebeastreich5664]

Your the best animator and narrator. Only few can be like you (armchair,world War 2,extra credits) keep on going with these great content!

[@nsdigirolamo]

Wonderful video! I love these animated maps just as much as your narrated videos. Keep up the good work!

[@kevinconrad6156]

Nice touch with the bell's ringing when Paris is liberated.

[@FurobaOA]

Amazing work as always, but I feel you could have added: - The several operations inside the Battle of the Scheldt like the way you did for the other operations. Showing the strategic importance of the city and clearing the Scheldt Estuary for allied logistics. - Antwerp X, the aa defense of Antwerp against V1 attacks.

[@842wolves]

A new Eastory video??? Christmas came just a few days late this year. An absolutely stunning video as always. I'm really happy to see it.

[@WillN2Go1]

I'll say it again, absolutely amazing work. Thank you so much.

[@SNOUPS4]

This was an awesome video as usual, and here are a few constructive comments: - Will there be a release in a resolution higher than 1080p? Sometimes, city names and unit numbers get harder to read. - Like other people stated, we love your narration, and you said you might do a video with narration but less precise; why not as precise with narration? We love your work so we can wait longer if needed :) - It's nice to see the numbers of POWs - I wonder why there aren't more german units showing up in Schleswig-Holstein at the end? - Maybe at the end you could unzoom the map to show the pockets of Germans in Western Europe to show the POWs who only surrendered in May, for example in some harbours of western France /Brittany with U-Boot bases? Also would have been nice to see the Brittany area at the moment when the US troops storm the city of Brest bloodily, which made them not storm other french harbours with U-Boot bases, such as Lorient. In any case, this is an excellent video and we are super grateful you took the time to make it! Thanks!

[@Eastory]

Ideally I would make the video into a homepage, where you could zoom all the way in. But the video itself would not be made in full resolution. The rendering times for this resolution are very long already. The video with narration will focus on some parts of the action leaving the duration of some events on the map compressed in time. It will also not be fully in chronological order. I agree with the PoW-s. I should have added them here. I may mention the Brest in the video with narration, but I am not sure as of now.

[@thatguy04444]

@@Eastory It would be great if you'd include a key for what the unit icons mean. I figured out some of them, but coming up empty on others.

[@newbie81]

German Troops chilling in calais be like: Yo when the war is starting?

[@TheLMCGuy]

XD

[@brad5907]

Untill August the german thought that the landing in Normandy was a distraction to hide the real landing in Calais.

[@ryu6698]

The production quality and effort is stunning me again everytime i watch your videos

[@lonelittlejerry917]

This is awesome work as always! Thank you so much for making these

[@yux.tn.3641]

suggestion for the future videos = second sino japanese war on another note: i just remembered playing medal of honor frontline whilst watching this... brilliant game

[@nieldoesyt]

I'm early, I've been waiting months for this but finally it's here! I haven't watched the video yet but i know it's gonna be great! Edit: I just saw it it's absolutely amazing! I especially like the music choice near the end, keep it up!

[@randomclouds4404]

I was randomly thinking of checking your maps again and it turns out you made a new video! Awesome!

[@matejcibik]

I really missed your fantastic commentary! I hope you will make a second version with you talking us through it!

[@Eastory]

I will.

[@anthrillienmorningstar797]

Brilliant as always. It's just surprising how different the Western Front is to the East. The Germans always seemed to be in such a terrible position in terms of manpower.

[@yulusleonard985]

And firepower. Thoat Operation cobra drom TNT equivalent to tinny nuke on panzer Lehr. They hit hard and you cant recover from that unless they royally fucked up their followup like market garden. The Soviet mostly use mortar instead aerial bombardment so the Germans always have time to rally and counter attack.

[@jakubstanicek6726]

Main difference for me is that on this video, circles represent divisions, while on the eastern front each circle is entire corps :). The scale is completely different

[@jorelemes]

@@jakubstanicek6726 Soviet tank corps had less soldiers and tanks than british and american (and german) divisions

[@MrNicoJac]

@Daniel Aloysius Gumulyo It wasn't even as much a problem of manpower as it was of manufacturing industry. I mean, like, if everyone has their personal tank and plane, you can do a lot more than if your entire country has to share one rifle. And at the end, Germany was very low on manpower, but even lower on stuff. (and with more stuff you can take less losses and inflict more, so it's a negative spiral)

[@ruka3219]

@@jorelemes but they had much more divisions

[@BarberJ95]

Hurray, you’re still with us.Thanks! Happy 2021.

[@Eastory]

Happy 2021!

[@palasalud2940]

I have just watched the band of Brothers and have learned the strategy that the allied forces have taken to VE. Thanks for this! New sub!

[@foxfox4369]

It's rare to see videos where the Battle of Metz is highlighted. Thank you for the video.

[@TricaGamer]

Play War Thunder for """FREE""" and PAY with your SOUL

[@tanaymehta4529]

R3s just casually spreading cancer in their elite pizza-delivery-mobiles turns me on.

[@fanta-cool7532]

@@tanaymehta4529 You ok bro?

[@yostint.6711]

This looks like a walk in the park if you compare it with the eastern front videos

[@ONI_002]

it wasnt

[@theortheo2401]

@@ONI_002 The western front was a walk in the park if you compare it to the east.

[@bbcmotd]

@@ONI_002 The Stalingrad battle alone was bigger than the whole of the Western front

[@user-im3qu5ur7m]

US lost 100k men in a war with Japan while China had around 5 million military casualties. Yet no one screams that "China defeated Japan". Losing trillions men isn't what actually defeats an enemy.

[@bbcmotd]

@@user-im3qu5ur7m The Red Army defeated some 85% of the elite German forces, and vehicles

[@marcocalvotoulouse3323]

You are my first, my last, my everything... THANK YOUUUU!! WHAT A WORK!!

[@morgan6724]

Loved seeing the operation names and intentions, would like to see that in future videos!

[@Eastory]

Noted!

[@BringTheRains]

I was hoping you would narrate like you've done on your other videos. If you can redo the video with that I would greatly appreciate. Also great work.

[@Eastory]

I will do the video with the narration in some months

[@bificommander7472]

@@Eastory Excellent. I very much enjoy the maps with narration.

[@dyingember8661]

I used to think Market-garden achieve so little cause they retreated to the starting point after a while, now I see they have made great progress and kept what they occupied. So the operation as a whole was successful, it just cost too much.

[@YoloHanSolo]

Well that is not true. The goal was to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine river which they failed. If they succeeded the road to berlin would be open.

[@dyingember8661]

@@YoloHanSolo But at least they gain something from it, it not completely lost and casualties were not that high.

[@YoloHanSolo]

@@dyingember8661 That is true. But I would hardly say that Market Garden was a success, neither a defeat... Would call it a blunder? Their supply line was already stretched and that operation wasted their limited resources.

[@daddysempaichan]

The Operation as a whole was a failure, as it failed to achieve its goal, which was to open an invasion route into Germany, that's an undisputed fact. However, just because it's a failure, doesn't mean that the Allies were gonna give up their gains or not salvage something out of it. Just because the operation was a failure, doesn't mean that nothing was gained from said failed operation. In this case, liberation of several Dutch cities, as well as taking and holding several bridges that normally would've been destroyed had the Allies advance normally. It was just not all the bridges thou that made it a failure.

[@ErnstGaede]

Dyingember Operation was nearly disaster,so many POWs were given to germans. In spite of that disaster,Netherlands couldn't be liberated until the end of the war,8 may. After this blunder Montgomery wasn't given a single OK title(OK is opportunity of leading an operation)

[@thybaultr]

Incredible work, thank you!!!

[@fantasyfleet]

The very best visual of World War Two ever made. Thanks

[@victoryfirst06]

I love your content Eastory! I don't like animated map video's without the actual troops animated, they just recolour the territories, but that isn't fun to watch. You animate the actual division and armies, I love that! Can you make a video about the 2nd China-Japan war? That topic really interests me, why didn't the Japanese crush the Chinese?

[@Eastory]

Sure can do! It is planned for the future.

[@matepastorcic679]

Thank you for making this great animated videos, I only wished there was more. I know It takes ages. The only problem I have with this animation is that you don't show cities when showing offensive arrow. Anyways really great video.

[@Eastory]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when making the video with narration.

[@matepastorcic679]

@@Eastory Thank you for reading this.

[@edopronk1303]

Thanks for this video. I missed something like this on KZbin so far.

[@populistrevolution5197]

That was amazing iv been waiting for this for a year good work, next do the Italian campaign

[@Viguier89]

3:04 My hometown is liberated. Nothing about Operation Dragoon?

[@Eastory]

Operation Dragoon will be covered in an episode with narration. In this one it was hard to add it with the Real Time format.

[@Viguier89]

@@Eastory Cool.

[@oLii96x]

your hometown is the entire north of france? :D

[@Viguier89]

@@oLii96x Of course.

[@stacystables117]

@@Viguier89 C‘est Amiens, j‘assume...?

[@MarcellAyala]

The return of the king

[@soralb6368]

Fantastic video as always! I only wish that for the main narrated video, you can also add the allied landings in the south of France as well.

[@filipstijepic5043]

Thank you for making this video!

[@PoliticalGangster]

The Battle for Caen held up the allies advance for over a month. I learnt that today.

[@braedenh6858]

There were a few factors responsible for this. Remember that the American army was very green at this point. For all the training they had received, hardly any Allied troops had seen combat. The Allies also took some time getting their support units such as artillery and armor and heavy weapons landed and into action in numbers that would make a difference. Also, the Germans were excellent fighters. In an even fight they could easily hold their own, even the rear echelon troops. The Allies would need to bring up artillery and armor, call in air support, and get a significant numbers advantage to clear them from a position. Fortunately for the Allies, the German army lacked depth and reserves. The Germans couldn't replace casualties, so frontline units fought until they were unable to do so, but wearing them down took time. And once the German lines were pierced or were flanked the Allies could run amok in the rear.

[@jorelemes]

Thats because around Caen germany fielded their greatest armor strenght in 1944 and 1945, 33 tanks per mile, in comparison to 7 tanks per mile in the american sector in normandy, and 5 to 4 tanks per mile in the eastern front as a whole in 1944 and 1945 (zaloga 2015 armoured champion). Generally speaking germany had 600 tanks fighting the british and canadians in normandy per day, while it was around 100 to 200 fighting the americans. That difference remained from june to august.

[@389383]

@@braedenh6858 Wasn't Caen Montgomery's job?

[@DrJones20]

@@braedenh6858 Braedan harris. Americans weren't at Caen you noob. It was Brits and Canadians versus Germans

[@jorelemes]

@@389383 Montgomery's job was the entirety of normandy and he is as responsible for operation cobra as for Caen. Eisenhower only got effective command on September 1.

[@mcz1945]

When you see the 1st Infantry and 2nd Armored join forces you know shit gets done.

[@brycewalker3726]

It’s a shame we deactivated the 2nd Armored. “Hell on Wheels” is by far the best nickname

[@MyUsersDark]

This is a good sign! also love your ideos :) keep up the great work

[@lickylick6483]

Great to have you back Eastory!

[@Quadrenaro]

Wow, I was just thinking of your videos last night. I was thinking you should cover North Africa. I realized I have almost no understanding of what went down when and where. Anyways, looking forward to this new video! Edit: I just learned last night that the Germans in Dunkirk held on for a lot longer than I realized. Also Edit: 2:30, Happy Birthday Grandpa! Down there is a 17yo kid, a farmer hand from Pennsylvania who couldn't even read, who enlisted several months before. 6:38 He caught three bullets at the Saar crossing, during Operation Grenade. It was a bloody night. Sometime after, I'm not sure when, he was promoted to 1st Sergeant before the end of the war. He stayed in Germany for two years, and learned to read and write... in German. Crazy guy. Went home and married his friends sister, who was killed the night he was shot. Was good at math, and became an architect, building homes in Florida. Befriended alot of big names in Hollywood, Steve McQueen for one. My mom remember McQueen staying at their home while he was in town for a race. Was a lay minister in his free time. Followed a tradition in our family. His great grandfather was an architect and built many churches in Pennsylvania. His grandpa was in the civil war. Surgeons assistant. He never spoke of the war. His father was a minister. The guy was a modern renaissance man. My mom taught him how to read (english) when he was in his 40s. And yeah, his drafts and sermons were written in German.

[@Eastory]

Thanks, good idea!

[@pythonhtmljava7811]

We were waiting for a video for a long time but it was worth it But i wish u talked :/

[@KHK001]

Amazing! cant wait for the video with narration

[@israelsilveira6919]

Good to see you guys back!

[@Nugcon]

Wow I couldn't believe the allies liberated Europe in just 8 minutes, massive respect o7

[@notjamesinc]

Great video! Love the map also. Where do you get them, or do you create your own maps?

[@Eastory]

I compiled it from many smaller maps made during ww2

[@tomasbielak5411]

I am so happy that you released a new video, I like your content

[@jaeger7693]

Great detail and video as always thanks.

[@nikolayiminov3707]

Damn, germans had like 1 army on that front and almost no other troops from Atlantic to Berlin area

[@rdg665]

They had already lost he war long before the allied landings so it makes sense

[@Malkuth-Gaming]

@@rdg665 They lost the war in 1941 when they attacked Soviet... and then when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.. :P

[@rdg665]

@@Malkuth-Gaming Yep exactly , But gotta say tho they almost very closely won against the Soviets at first but the extreme Soviet resistance stopped them just at a sword's edge at the last moments before collapsing all together along with the screwed and overextended German supply lines and it all reversed and went to shit for the Germans from there

[@endloesung_der_braunen_frage]

@@rdg665 No not really, but they did make it far

[@generalfred9426]

@@Malkuth-Gaming they lost the moment they declared war Germany just didn't have the resources and time to beat the allied powers

[@iacopos2260]

Best birthday present ever :)

[@Eastory]

Happy birthday!

[@J_Stronsky]

Incredible work as always

[@majorromance-mjr.garrymatt7678]

Eastory, thanks for the heads up for this video.

[@qwertyuiop-tk9rr]

You should make a series on the Pacific War or the Second Sino-Japanese War next.

[@AndrewBuell]

Include the Southern France landing and 5 June extent of Allies/Axis lines before D-Day.

[@ChodaStanks]

Your videos are the best. I hope you can do some on some other wars like 1800’-1900’s too someday

[@Mandrak789]

Good idea to add names of all major operations, I was missing that info in earlier clips.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Such great animation, I hope one day someone can do a similar animation of the war in my country Syria

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Although in the case of my war, I don't even need details regarding which unit assaulted what, just differentiating between main groups (Army groups, Hezbollah groups, Islamist groups, FSA groups, ISIS groups etc.) and detailing the number of participating forces through the size of the balls used

[@iGamezRo]

me plays 2b2t and listens to a video in background: checks yt notifications eastory uploaded: insta click

[@rivaantyc6826]

I was on a smaller anarchy server (The Commune), and it was an insta click for me too.

[@RazgrizRed9]

Your work is absolutely great! Have you ever considered looking at the First World War? Maybe some of the early battles like the Marne, Schlieffen Plan, Race to the Sea and some of the battles like the Somme, Verdun, Passchedaele etc?

[@samuelculper4231]

Excellent video! A very good display of information.

[@arathemacaw]

American war movies and documentaries: The battle of France was fierce and bloody, the germans were a real menace The battle of france: Half the frontline is empty

[@123214matt]

The same was true for the war in the east. Large swaths of land were often guarded by as few as 10 men

[@MrNicoJac]

These tiny balls don't *necessarily* show the size of the divisions tho. Depending on the terrain, one division worth of men can either guard miles and miles of frontline, or maybe not even one. So I wish there was a version of this with brackets or something, to show how spread out a division was. Because right now it looks as if they could've just walked into Germany by taking another route. But if that had been the case, they probably would have done so 😆

[@serenissimarespublicavenet3945]

Lovely video! Could I ask you where you got the map from? I would love to take a better look at it!

[@Eastory]

I have compiled it from many smaller map sheets.

[@serenissimarespublicavenet3945]

@@Eastory That's great to know, where did you find these map sheets though? Sorry if I'm being insistent, but I would really know how and if I could find those beautiful maps.

[@fortune3911]

Very good I respect how much work you out in this video

[@jirons5180]

Top as always, thank you! 😊

[@HoLSurena]

Indy Neidell: Hey man you made spoilers from our series xD

[@adamharith4293]

I suggest an idea to make video about second Sino-Japanese war

[@Eastory]

Noted

[@alenharris1794]

It makes me happy everytime i see you posted something.