Battlefield Normandy - The battle of Authie D-DAY + 1 

withnail1967 the post-Juno landing and the Canadian participation story in Normandy is great history. They had faced the Panzer SS and fought with astonishing bravery. And paid a great price. I highly recommend going to the towns mentioned in these videos for better understanding but also for paying respect to the fallen. Never forget.

Those Canadians scared the life out the the Germans, they were hard unrelenting fighters and I have the greatest respect for them especially being former 3RTR and having spent a bit of time in Canada on the BATUS ranges and having a bit of R&R there, it's a shame that the country seems to have gone a bit woke these past years

From America we thank you our North neighbors.

@@philstaples8122 everyone could scare the life out of 17 years old boys lol

@@PrvnCoke Muppet, are you saying that the Canadians only fought 17 year olds, twat

It's my pleasure! Glad to see that you enjoyed it! Yeah, that's exactly the reason why I made this series. To show the Canadian perspective of things rather than the US or British.

Hold on there Bald Eagle! No one in the UK has EVER forgotten the contribution that many other Forces made in both WW1 and WW2 to defeating the German's. Its hardly our fault if the press / tv etc blat on about the Brits / US all the time but anyone faintly interested in the facts of those wars knows how much others gave and it is never forgotten.

I agree. Many people conveniently forget the unimaginable sacrifices made on the Ostfront by Red Army soldiers of many nationalities. I guess that'll happen when you subjugate most of Eastern Europe and threaten the postwar freeworld. That said, everything I've ever heard indicates the Canadian fighting man was and still is one of the finest soldiers in the world.

And folks let’s not forget Dieppe and how Canadians fought and died there.

@@mossbrg5 I live in the Hammer(Hamilton) home of the RHLI Royal Hamilton Light Infantry,went to air cadets at the John Weir Foote Armoury. Nobody's forgetting Dieppe here. Although the police did just catch a couple of crackheads with the brass plaque valued at $30.000 in their back seat that they stole from the memorial on the beach strip on lake Ontario.

Thanks! It truly means a lot to me!

@@TheAceDestroyer I've read a lot on WW2 and the vastness of the conflict still blows me away when I see it animated. Without videos like these, they would really just be names on a page so thanks for the context and the content!

The AceDestroyer You can do upload about Falaise pocket. Don’t forget about Canadians and Poles.

....murderous inclination on the battlefield . Dude, is a battlefield!! You and enemy! With weapons ! Not flowers! Did you know in history somebody who fough with flowers and water weapons ?

Don't forget the Allied Canadian atrocities conveniently erased from history from the same region. Just refer to Kurt Panzer Meyer's testimony.

I'm reading Mark Zuehlke's book "The Cinderella Campaign" and it's a very good read.

My buddy from years of youth hockey was a combat sapper in Afghanistan. His last words were: "I see something" then the I.E.D. blew him up.

Thanks mate! I really appreciate it!

Great information! Thanks! I really hope I make it to Normandy one day.

@@TheAceDestroyer Thanks and great video btw honestly love the story of the battle with the footage it keeps it really fresh.

Been to Pearl Barber and Vietnam Memorial in D.C.. Hope to make it to Normandy somday.

a 1911? The Canadian army didn't have those, they had a Canadian made Browning Hi-Power semi automatic pistols. Or British revolvers. Just a quibble.

@@larryclyons He was speaking of an American soldier.

To be fair, the Canadians had fighting boots on the ground longer then their American counterparts, who were a more green and less combat hardener then the Canadian soldiers.

It was the first combat experience for most of the Canadian troops and they did soooo well

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Oh yeah !! @@TheAceDestroyer

yes, this is often the difference between the two sides. The Germans didn't count a tank that was damaged or otherwise disabled but subsequently recovered as being a "loss", whereas the Allies typically did count it as such, even if it was recovered and ultimately put back into service.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Wow! Thanks mate! It truly means a lot!

@@TheAceDestroyer I usually just press like and move on, but this is like 3rd or 4th video of yours I'm watching since your Blue Hills video made me subscribe. But you deserved a personal congratulation for your work and also thanks for it.

what agenda

@@Winthropede You can work out why anyone would deliberately ignore a Unit document that gives the total of tanks lost and chose another Units account that has twice that total as losses.

@@michaelkenny8540 yeah maybe if you’re in an argument on reddit where you have something to gain sure you would want to create an agenda

@@Winthropede I gave you an example from a book by a 'respected' author and could give you dozens more.. Reddit is not the source of the agenda just a reflection of the way the mythical '5:1 kill ratio' is so deeply embedded in a certain group that all contrary evidence is excluded in favour of anything that reinforces the myth.

@@michaelkenny8540 I also know a certain group of people who creates agendas due to a myth being embedded into their lives that all evidence contrary to their claims is shit down but this time this group’s agenda affects people on a nation wide scale rather than making balding 50 year old men on the internet angry

Thanks! And thank you for pointing that out! I really appreciate it!

More fun: ''Canadians Citizens are British Subjects'' were stamped on Canadian Passports until 1977.

HAHAHA BRAVE CANADIAN MEN AHAHAHHAHAH

Free Man Hey I think the Canucks are a weird bunch as much as the next guy but I don't think their soldiers should be disrespected.

This particular footage is all from Normandy. Most footage is Canadian and 12th SS, but there's also footage of some British and other German units.

Yeah, I really like the camouflage pattern as well.

Thank you! I'm very happy to hear that!

Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that! They are true heros! Respect!

Thanks! Oh, I'm sorry to hear that! Is he buried in France? No, I haven't but thanks for the recommendations, you can never have enough books.

@@TheAceDestroyer his name was Cpl. Albert Joseph Savoy. He was in No.09 Platoon, "A" Company, North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. He, along with 2 other NCO's were killed while crossing the beach when a landmine was detonated. His name is on the memorial at St. Aubin Sur Mer. He is buried in Benys Sur Mer. Major Archie NcNaughton was his Company Commander. McNaughton was killed later that day when his Tactical GQ was ambushed in Taileville. I visited both of their graves earlier this month. Milner's book shines new light onto the Canadians actual role in the D-Day assault. An excellent read.

My Grandfather was also in the North Shore. His name was Cpl. Howard Wilson, a Bren gunner. He too went ashore at Juno, fought throughout the Normandy campaign, the Scheldt campaign, Holland and when the war ended he was in Emden Germany. He passed in 1995. He used to talk to me quite freely about the war and I can remember him talking fondly of Major McNaughton.

Thanks!

No problem! Glad you enjoyed it!

@@TheAceDestroyer more more pls😉😉😁👍💪

Thanks! Very glad to hear you enjoy them!

Thanks! I appreciate it!

Thanks mate! I really appreciate it! I'm very happy to see that you liked it!

While executing POWs is a war crime in any case, there is a still a difference between capturing POWs bringing them to the rear to then execute them in cold blood versus having to execute POWs on the spot because of the dire circumstances which paratroopers often faced.

@@henrynelson11And this didn't happen to any German POWs on the Western Front? Issue is a vast majority of these incidents were ignored, and some flat out covered up. We only know of a few incidents which only became none because people spoke out soon enough before they could be dismissed and forgotten. Sadly Diaries and Journals of soldiers and generals talk about these incidents and are often not included as "Bias" writers/researchers do not want to tarnish "The Greatest Generation." Reading this article helps a lot to understand why we do not know, and likely will never know the true extent of Allied crimes on the Western Front. www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-horror-of-d-day-a-new-openness-to-discussing-allied-war-crimes-in-wwii-a-692037.html

Both sides did bad shit, but I’m a wehraboo anyways

@@Alte.Kameraden War is ugly, your side lost. They started a totally unprovoked and unjustified war, and certainly killed so many allied P.O.W.S. so they deserved whatever fate, they met. All sides are guilty of committed some war crimes. Fact though, The Nazi P.O.W.S. that were taken to the U.S. in U.S. P.O.W. camps were actually treated quite well and feed well due to the Geneva convention. Matter of fact about 5000 German P.O.W.S. that were held here in the U.S. came back here to live , many more came back to visit this country that once held them as prisoners. If they had been treated so horrible by the U.S. 5000 would not have came back here to live here and many others would of never came back to visit. I know that is NOT what you are talking about. You are talking about all the Nazis P.O.W.S. killed by the allies, all sides did, but you act like only the allies committed war crimes

@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT Almost all wars are unprovoked. Everyone (major nations) are guilty. It's always the party that starts it that finds an excuse to justify it Hitler's war with Poland was no different. On top of that Russia also invaded Poland in 1939, yet most people seem to have forgotten that . CoberttReport Video "Debunking a Century of War Lies" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yw0-ASR4sr8.html Interview for the book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z0Nt14AImq0.html Hermann Goering during Nurmberg stated it best. Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Issue is, all modern wars have been started in a similar fashion. Even most of the recent ones over the past thirty years. There are many who argue that Poland was not unprovoked anyways. However, there is without question efforts within Nazi Germany to make it look like Poland was provoking for war, what the regime needed to convince their people to go to war. Basically to sum it up. To look at wars in the context people look at WWII is only to insure that future wars will begin. I never claimed "Germany" was my side, I openly acknowledge the horrors conducted by the Nazis. But there is the simple truth that WWII would of never been WWII without the paranoia and madness caused by war propaganda, by all sides. The Mongoloids are evil, the Nazis would say, the Jews are Evil the Nazis would say, Churchill is Evil the Nazis would say. The Japanese Monkeys are evil the Americans would say, Hitler is Evil the Americans would say, Germans only care about war, and are evil the Americans would say, they just start wars...... goes on and on and on. Then there is the simple matter that the Germany Russo Polish War of 1939 could of ended there, and there would of never been a WWII. Hitler nor the German Army were confident at winning a war against the west, the fact they did was a shock to everyone including the German high command. It was that victory that gave them the balls to invade the USSR assuming Russia would crumple just as easily against their invincible Maneuver Warfare Doctrine. On top of that the War with Poland was avoidable, the politics that lead to it clearly show that the war could of been avoided. It's often war propaganda that paint Hitler into "I want my War, Gimme my War!!" That is why I linked that interview on that book about Hitler and Churchill.

Oops! My mistake! Thanks for correcting me mate!

You're welcome.

Thanks! Happy to hear that!

No, I'm Belgian (Flemish).

Yeah, there's a common story where some American Soldiers executed Germans near Bastogne. But that hardly sees the light of day.

Mustlovedogs - the 12th SS a full two months before Normandy murdered 86 French civilians at Ascq, in full violation of the rules of war. Why would you think any "rumors" about Allied soldiers shooting German POWs had anything to do with their actions when they already demonstrated they were fine murdering unarmed civilians? They clearly didn't need the French "carpet bombing" German cities or "murdering POWs" to start shooting unarmed civilians, so its funny to imply the murders of Canadian POWs wouldn't have happened except for those reasons you list when we clearly see the 12th SS didn;t need much reason to kill you if they wanted to. Sorry, all the excuses for the 12th SS actions is post war apologia by the "total were not Nazi's" former Waffen SS men, their veterans organization (HAIG), and the legions of Waffen SS fanboys out there. The 12th SS murdered civilians and POWs because they were filled with indoctrinated Nazi's, not because of any supposed rumors they heard. They thought they'd roll over the Canadians and throw the invasion back into the sea, instead they got bogged down in a bloody stalemate and took their anger at their failures out on unarmed men.

@@colinkelly5420 If you had scene the civilian residential neighborhoods of your cities being fire bombed over and over, seen infants burned alive by the intentional bombing of civilian populations and if some of those people were your family members then you might be a bit murderous once you got the chance for revenge yourself. The standard procedure of not taking SS soldiers alive was very well known throughout the Waffen SS long before the Normandy invasion. American troops began killing German soldiers of the regular German army attempting to surrender within hours of landing at Normandy. Those things are usually witnessed by survivors who managed to get away and that kind of news travels fast.

​@@mustlovedogs272 Strategic bombing is terrible but you do realize that the bombing of Hamburg was in 1943 and the terrible firebombing of Dresden happened in 1945, right? By this point, the Germans had already started a world war, invaded dozens of countries, systematically murdered MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of civilians, killed almost 20% of Poles, and bombed the shit out of London killing 12,000 civilians (4000 more in Liverpool). As ugly as the war was for both sides. there is no way to rationalize further murders by the Germans as justified retaliation for anything. While there was no innocence in WW2 on any side, there were certainly stand-out bad-actors. There were 30,000,000 civilian deaths due to military actions and war crimes - the vast majority those were at the hands of Russians, Germans, and Japanese.

Indeed, you're totally right! Sorry for the mistake and thank you for pointing it out!

Tanner Denny my Dad was with the Royal Regina rifles

Actually in both world wars canada was fairly gung ho at the start of both. Hundreds of thousands of canadians voluteered to fight the war. Keep in mind the commonwealth was much more tight knit back then.

Now they have the 3rd world over running their nations, how did that happen? Lol.......

As an American, the British and Canadians have my firm respect for their sacrifice at Normandy. The faced more Panzer Divisions since Kursk.

@@Desertduleler_88 gotta add your edgy political point didnt you. Show some fucking class man...

@@thomasmills3934 l’ll show you our current reality which ominously matters.

@@Desertduleler_88 whatever you say buddy. Keep it to urself.

Burt Hulbert POWs have the right to trial. These "payback" shootings were crimes against humanity.

@@Timotheus157 yes they were and who of us not there can judge?

@@Timotheus157 it was not an official policy, but something that happened coming from the ranks. My father was with an artillery unit then and reported the same happening. Although frequently the SS would not be given a chance to surrender.

But until Band of Brothers, very little talk was ever about the killing of German prisoners by paratroopers during D-Day. And they weren't SS.

@@tillyjow8484 try to imagine the carnage of seeing your friends torn to shreds. I'm thinking that having their blood and guts spattered all over my face and body might, just might make it difficult for me to stop killing the guys who did it.

Look at that! Right on the battlefields themselves! Thanks mate! I appreciate it! Normandy is still on on my bucket list.

REX REX-LEON DEGRELL

I agree, very professionally done

Hill 112, a very important location on the flatlands of normandy

Eye for an eye. The way it should be in this world.

Until everyone is blind! Great idea.

We owe your grandfather and other brave men like him a great debt. Sad to learn the story of those brave Canadian soldiers murdered by the SS.

during the faulklands war no prisoners were to be taken for the first 48 hours thats normal policy

My Grandfather told me the same about the Burma campaign..they didn't take prisoners mostly as they'd learned the hard way losing lives on the pretence of surrendering

Thank you very much! It truly means a lot to me! Also, welcome to the channel!

This really was well done. As a fellow Canadian and amateur military historian and former Canadian Infantry.... This guy nailed it.

The worst... or the best in Man.

If you read up on where these german kids came from you would realize most had families that where pulverized in fire bombing (their mothers, sisters, grandparents) in Hamburg and dresden.....so they had motivation homeboy besides some abstract ideology.

@@ripvanwinkle1819 I had a very good friend who was in the Hitler Jugend and told me that he was a raging Nazi. He was in the paratroopers, in 44, at age 16. He was captured, in 45, after some significant fighting over several months. He said that, virtually, everything that they did in the Jugend, was geared towards the military.

Derek Johnson Much like why many of the British aircrew were motivated after the Germans bombed British cities first. And the Russians were motivated when they took their revenge on reaching German territory not to mention the peoples of the various occupied territories. See how it works? Shame they weren't brainwashed so much that they didn't understand why their cities were being bombed in the first place instead of playing the victim.

@@gwine9087 where was he from? And of course military was significant considering the situation. The boy was 16. I repeat the boy was 16. Many men of fighting age were KIA at this point. I am not justifying anything here. Bit it is logical that these kids where training in military considering the circumstances.

Too right, well done Dave the Bass, those NAZI scum don't like it up em

@Avantgardist I would say you have a far higher representation of Marxists on all social media even though they were probably worse than the Nazis, mind you that's like saying it's better to be killed by a poison snake than burning alive isn't it?

Thanks for the kind words and Happy New Year!

The AceDestroyer your videos are so informing. I think that deserves more attention

Esel this and mark Felton productions are where it’s at

I'm not sure whose rating system you're going by.

Thank you very much! It truly means a lot to me!

Ah thank you! You're the first to point that out to me. Thanks again for pointing me to my mistake, it makes the future videos better! I'm very glad to see that you enjoyed the video as well!

@@TheAceDestroyer You are welcome:) It is a common issue as the rotation among regiment/battalions and companies commanders was excessive. After your video I took (again) to my hands "The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division" by H.Meyer and read part about those fights. It is much easier to get the full picture of those battles with actual maps. I cannot understand why they are not adding them to each chapter... Thank you again for great job!!!! PS. the only thing I am missing is a short assessment of unit performance, ideally made by soldier :) stay healthy :)

Trimtank: There was no love lost between the British (Americans too!!) & the SS either! Initially, none or very few prisoners were taken between the Allies & the SS, especially Airborne or Special Forces Units, as after the St. Nazaire Raid by Royal Marine Commandos, previously in 1942, Hitler had issued a directive to all German Forces to immediately execute all commandos or airborne soldiers (Even those in uniform!), who were engaged in sabotage or on operations against the German military or civilian structures or personnel! In Normandy, this policy persisted, particularly with the SS units until it rapidly became obvious that they (The Germans) were not winning, & so they then opted for a more conciliatory & less aggressive attitude & ‘live & let-live’ policy, that allowed for their troops to be captured & kept as POWs (& vice-versa), instead of being shot outright themselves, by Allied forces! However, due to their persistent, utterly ruthless tactics, SS Personnel always ran the risk of still being shot or killed outright, rather than be taken prisoner by Allied units for the duration remaining of the war!! Some Wehrmacht units were also similarly aggressively inclined & were also treated accordingly!!

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Did you seriously just defend actions of the SS?

The actions of the SS were already there before the invasion began. Eventually, they were outright killing anyone who is a Jew and people that helped the Jews escape. Probably the Canadians saw what they were doing first since the SS were filled with radical-minded members and kill anyone, even an Allied Soldier who surrendered, who does not fit of pure German Ideal View.

Killings from SS were started in 1939 in Poland and next year in France. First SS division killed some dozen of british POWs in june 40. Not to mention east front atrocities. All were dirty. There was only one clean front, I believe, in Africa 1941-43. I didnt found killings from there.