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📜 History of D-Day, The Great Crusade
D-Day is too vast and important a topic to be completely covered by four short videos, but we hope our series offered some new insights into the massive effort that went into the Normandy beach landings. James Portnow and Richard Cutland, Wargaming's Head of Military Relations, take some time to chat about some more important D-Day stories.
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@extrahistory 7 лет назад

James teams up with Wargaming's Richard Cutland to look back on our D-Day series and tell stories we missed! Sponsored by Wargaming! New players: Download World of Tanks and use the code NEPTUNE for free goodies! cpm.wargaming.net/ivmqe6kc/?pub_id=2017_Video_5

@extrahistory 7 лет назад

You need to join the $8/month Patreon level and, when we do periodic calls for suggestions from our $8 patrons, submit your idea then. (You can also vote on topics that others have chosen in our periodic polls, if you pledge at least $5/month.) Patreon is our source of funding for producing Extra History, so we've reserved these benefits for our financial supporters! patreon.com/ExtraCredits --Belinda (Community Manager)

@TyrannosaurusRex5027 7 лет назад

Extra Credits cool video

@BListHistory 7 лет назад

doesn't matter what topic you do, It'll still be amazing haha

@ram61504 7 лет назад

Extra Credits will you please do the battle of midway and Okinawa

@brianlyon3783 7 лет назад

Extra Credits hey love extra history I've watched every episode at least twice. My grandma has the champagne bottle from the christining of a LST ship in Evansville Illinois. We're they used in D-DAY or the Pacific? Any sources for more information? Thanks Brian

@Hydra572HQ 7 лет назад

Watching Extra Credits turn into a history show is the best thing that came out of my watching RU-vid videos about video games.

@jameslegrand848 7 лет назад

Hydra572HQ I love their channel and I love the fact that their main audience isn't really made of trolls but of people who want to learn.

@FlatlandsSurvivor 7 лет назад

As someone who has always loved history, but had never considered RU-vid being a source to learn more about it, this opened up a whole world of new channels for me.

@ZiMZiLLA 7 лет назад

I'm super impressed that they've managed to find a nice balance between the two topics without spinning off into a separate channel.

@namingisdifficult408 6 лет назад

Zoz agreed

@chuckmcclain2499 6 лет назад

Hydra572HQ is right

@extrahistory 7 лет назад

WALPOLE MOMENT!!! Did you know that the HMS Walpole was part of the D-Day invasion? WALPOLE WAS RIGHT THERE... -JP

@SephirothRyu 6 лет назад

But did it stay unsunk during the operation, is the question. Or for the war for that matter.

@mrbenoit5018 5 лет назад

Extra Credits MEIN GOTT

@NRH111 3 года назад

She hit a mine January 6th 1945 and was scrapped in february

@jameswhite153 7 лет назад

on the subject of amphibious operations in AFV's, I was in France a few years back with my school looking around the Normandy beaches and one of the guides was an ex tanker. this man told us that when he was a soldier he was transferred to an american army unit issued with the M113 armoured personnel carrier and they had to do a river crossing. Half way through this exercise one of the crew freaks out, runs to the back of the machine and tried to open the rear hatch, this would have flooded the vehicle and could have killed everyone on board. this small British corporeal runs up to this man and shoves a 45 automatic in this mans face and forces him into a seat at the other end of the vehicle. After all this the tanker is suddenly surrounded by in his words "bloody massive Texans" he fully expect to be beaten up; he was instead congratulated by everyone for his quick thinking, even by the guy he threatened to shoot.

@timothymclean 7 лет назад

I'm glad to see that Wargaming decided to pitch in and help with a Lies segment for Extra History. Good for them! Here's hoping more future sponsors do the same.

@LordDragon1965 7 лет назад

If I’m not mistaken, the reason so many DUKW trucks were left over here is that the companies continued to make and modify them after the initial need was past because they expected to need them to invade Japan. After Little Boy and Fat Man and the immediate surrender, they instantaneously became surplus.

@glitterboy2098 4 года назад

actually here in america we have very few actual DUKW's left. but because a lot of military surplus ones were sold off , and some fairly popular tourist type industries started up using them. there has been a small but strong industry in producing similar vehicles to more modern standards, most of which are still known as "ducks'.

@WargamingEurope 7 лет назад

Aaaand we're live!

@rezwan2526 7 лет назад

Thanks for supporting extra credits !

@augustinedaudu9203 7 лет назад

Wargaming Europe W.O.T ROCKS!!!

@akiva2112 7 лет назад

Thanks for Supporting these extra Extra History Episodes, And Supporting my addiction to the channel. Please feel free to do more....Lots More......I don't have a problem....*Twitches*

@josmeijers2818 7 лет назад

honestly i do not like your game's but i respect the hell out of you guys for supporting this channel. i will send my friends to play your game's

@gromigur 7 лет назад

Thanks to the last video series sponsored by you I'm now playing world of warships. Curse you Wargaming for your effective advertisement, sadly I have not that much time to play WoT in addition xD

@MadMoly 7 лет назад

Thanks for all these Extra History vids

@Merennulli 3 года назад

Glad to finally hear why there were two Enigma machine captures. I always hear one or the other, but never why a second was needed before this.

@ruthmeow4262 5 лет назад

There is just so much great, inspiring histories out there. You guys will never run out content to show. Ever.

@Isolder74 7 лет назад

I relation to Point Du Hoc, the idea that they got to the top and found the gun were never installed is a piece of misinformation that was created by the movie "The Longest Day." The Director of that movie was politically against the conflicts related to to cold war at the time so he put into that scene a bit of his anti-war leanings about how war is nasty and pointless. He also tossed in showing those Rangers gunning down Germans he IMPLIES are trying to surrender but uses German words that if he gets called on it gives him an out. The Rangers in the real battle got to the top and instead of guns in the main bunkers found telephone poles in place of the guns and firm evidence that the guns had been there but were moved away from the bunkers due to fears of the Allied bombers knocking them out. Yes, there was a grain of truth in the scene as the one of the bunkers was incomplete but it does not change that yes the position was indeed important to eliminate AND the Rangers did not say well they aren't here let's just give up as the movie implies. No, they said they aren't here let's find were they are now before they get used on our boys on the beach. Those men got Congressional Medals of Honor for a reason. Those Rangers were just made of awesome.

@1anarquista.sensato 7 лет назад

James didn't say they gave up or anything like that, he actually made it clear they went to look for the enemy and kept fighting on that position till they ran out of ammo and needed to use the german guns, and this fight was important to prevent the position from being used on the beach, anything you said about this movie has no bearing at all on everything that was said here. The one thing that was made clear is that after climbing the cliff there was no german fire to shoot them off of it, which is also what you said.

@Isolder74 7 лет назад

I didn't say he did say that. I said the Longest Day implies that. I was just pointing out a bit of mis-information he perpetuated(from the Longest Day). That the guns were never installed which wasn't actually the case.

@jessemozingo1279 6 лет назад

James, thank you for your writing and your story-telling. Thank you for using your gifts so excellently, to remind us of our History. I have never met you and, unfortunately, likely will never meet you, but I can't thank you enough for sharing your talent and your Mind. So... Thank you, sir, for your service.

@sisteray3539 5 лет назад

Great upload! Love it when you and Richard discuss history!

@AleksanderWojtal 7 лет назад

Make a video about Dunkirk evacuation

@WargamingEurope 7 лет назад

Christoper Nolan beat us to it: www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/

@doot6651 7 лет назад

Wargaming Europe, Rest in Peace

@luisronaldofigo 7 лет назад

Some pictures would've gone a long way

@Groundsey 7 лет назад

Will you be doing any more videos for World War Two?

@popalupa4844 7 лет назад

StuntProductions2012 Probably. There's so much to cover.

@kevinofthesharingan9600 7 лет назад

Probably a good 196.6 million square miles. It wasn't called *world* war 2 for nothing.

@Crazykid-ob6mp 7 лет назад

They have a sort of trend of covering something WWII related, waiting for two or three series, and then doing another.

@Todesnuss 7 лет назад

A one of about the battle for castle Itter would be fun.

@jonugalde1275 7 лет назад

There is still huge information to grind, specially the eastern front. Bragation or the battle of Poznan would be great, but Manchurian battles would be the best to produce first. People ignores that offesive were the Soviet crushed a million men strong Japanese army in eleven days in August 1945. Do you want to know one of the major reasons (in my opinion the main reason) to throw the A bombs in Japan? Study this part of history.

@coroamaelena-doruta4157 7 лет назад

A very good video! I was waiting for something like this. Tnx WG for sponsoring this video!

@LIKEICARE84 7 лет назад

I always really enjoy your videos. Keep it up.

@RyanMatthewCampbell 7 лет назад

I think in part 4 when you talk about failing to meet the first day objectives, that's not correct for Canadians.

@basicallyarobloxian4533 2 года назад

Really? They met them all? Even getting to Caen?

@RyanMatthewCampbell 2 года назад

@@basicallyarobloxian4533 I believe that was the 3rd Division of UK infantry and the 79th Armored Division UK that had the objective of Caen. Otherwise you're right though. My mistake.

@TheCreepypro 7 лет назад

the only thing that bums me out about extra history is that they don't cover major battles in major wars but this series has totally dealt with that need quite nicely and the fact that they could bring in other historical experts makes this series feel all the more special hopefully we can get other sponsors in the future to cover other more recent wars

@Luis-be9mi 7 лет назад

Wonder if they'll do a video entirely about the Engima, a coding machine alone that could have added 2-4 more years of fighting if it wasn't broken.

@thisguy5106 7 лет назад

I NEVER and i mean NEVER liked history until i saw the sengoku jidi episode and now i freaking LOVE history, so i guess thanks for exposing me to these thing, I'm 13 and am doing papers on history so thanks :-)

@TallulahBangkok 7 лет назад

Everyone is suggesting great topics, but do remember that the topics are ultimately picked by patreon supporters, so if you really want a specific thing discussed…

@lib556 6 лет назад

One D Day lie that always gets repeated is that the first Allied formed sub unit on the ground was Maj Howard's Orne River/Caen Canel glider assault. In fact, C Coy, First Canadian Para Bn was on the ground before Howard's Ox & Bucks coy. This is according to Dan Hurtgen's personal account in "A Rising of Courage". He was in that coy.

@xiahoupaul19 7 лет назад

What, no Walpole connection here? Curse you James!

@robertwalpole360 7 лет назад

I am not amused!

@DrTssha 7 лет назад

Why let the lack of a Walpole connection get in the way of a good Lies episode? (am I memeing hard enough daddy? am I?)

@VinayKapadiaVK 6 лет назад

Didn't even notice, but when I went to watch another lies episode I just realized that this one didn't have a Walpole connection.

@michaelt.5672 6 лет назад

James did give us a Walpole connection in a comment; The HMS Walpole, a destroyer that took part in the D-Day operation.

@markallred1953 5 лет назад

Sad to say, I am not into surrealistic gaming, but I am into history. I have loved the series and the artistic rendering. Today’s presentation has nothing to do with lies, since ommission due to incapability does not constitute misrepresentation. Keep the series coming, and I will be around for just as long. Nonetheless, this conversation is fascinating and I appreciate hearing it. I once knew one of those Rangers that scaled the cliff AND now wish to have known enough to have asked intelligently for more detail. Thank you immensely.

@danielt8919 7 лет назад

Awesome to hear about some of the engineering marvels of the war

@Ouvii 7 лет назад

Love this talk.

@hiddenhundred8565 6 лет назад

Can you do one on the story of ghost soldiers in the Pacific theater were some US army rangers went and rescued 500 POWs from a Japanese camp and how it shows the side of the rangers and the side of the POW

@colesnyder259 7 лет назад

What is the next extra history topic? I love all you guys do, in fact because of what you do I am now looking at colleges and universities to get my degree in history. So that perhaps one day I can open the eyes of young students like you guys have mine. Thanks a bunch

@ponycentaur1456 7 лет назад

11:37 the flamethrower is not used in modern combat, but fire lives on through napalm and incendiary type explosives. The main thing about flaime-throwers are they are inefficient on delivering the same payload. THe main point first is to suck out all the air from bunkers, forcing people to leave or suffocate. Unlike in hollywood, for caves and bunkers, most people die from lack of air before they run out screaming on fire. But again, you can do the same ammount of damage with incendiary explosives or napalm, and NoT RISK the entire group near the flamethrower user. Its a no brainier that most tend to switch to a bar due to the high chance of dieing by your own weapon , and caring less about the hostiles on the other end .

@user-cd4bx6uq1y Год назад

This channel did everything 4 years early

@thegrumpydragon7601 7 лет назад

Love your videos

@DreamPen 7 лет назад

Mr. Butter-Accent! :-D Everyone shall melt in that voice.

@EGV88 7 лет назад

Who are you refering to? XD

@cindchan 6 лет назад

I would agree whole-heartedly, but I've already melted.

@MarDamas 7 лет назад

I would argue that the Higgins boats, designed, built, and tested in New Orleans, Louisiana were the most vital new thing made for D-Day. How else would you get all the men there in that way? America decided it was so important that congress chose New Orleans as the home for the National WWII Museum.

@bluexdalek1997 7 лет назад

Yes its Richard Cutland, the voice of world of tanks.

@EggyWheggy 7 лет назад

Keep doing what your doing!

@Phil9874 7 лет назад

If want to see them in action they have a tour bus in branson missouri that is built on a duck chassis. They take you through the lake during the tour.

@Devadas44 3 года назад

This episode was too short. but great work!

@Silvertaurus_ 7 лет назад

I like this format ^_^ I'd like you do more often such a commentary. If topic is long, then after each animated, structured epidode (even after each part) we could get this "Plus" with possibly guest-experts ?

@extrahistory 7 лет назад

Producing each Lies episode unfortunately takes *quite* a bit of prep time, such that we can typically only publish them (at most) every 7 weeks (this is also why sometimes there will be a few weeks between the end of an animated series and its corresponding Lies episode). Thank you for watching the show and for your feedback! --Belinda (Community Manager)

@christopherszynkowski2524 7 лет назад

Very cool interview and an excellent series in total. Though... not sure if I missed it, but no Walpole Moment?

@danielovercash1093 4 года назад

One of my favorite vehicles is the chain whipping mine sweeper tank

@papajohn9945 7 лет назад

great video

@tonysladky8925 7 лет назад

That comment about exceptionally not-nice weapons got me thinking: The Manhattan Project (or perhaps the less well-known attempts by the other powers during World War II to build nuclear weapons, or the history of nuclear weapons from theory to deployment in WWII, to decades and decades of testing bigger and better versions throughout the Cold War) could be a really interesting series.

@alexp2733 7 лет назад

can you guys talk about some of the Canadian actions after d-day please

@schaep2227 5 лет назад

Happy 75th anniversary d-day

@DanielFackrell 7 лет назад

For the English subtitles at 11:32: 400 gallons is about 1800 liters/litres, not 800.

@DuranmanX 7 лет назад

Mexican Revolution or Paraguayan War next we need to discuss more Latin American events in history

@munchcat 6 лет назад

Wait, James is in Seattle? O.O Small world afterall!

@SigurdKristvik 7 лет назад

Richard "The challenger" Cutland😀

@MBOmnis 6 лет назад

Very happy to hear Final Fantasy XI music here, for some reason lol

@jamesonstalanthasyu 6 лет назад

I am watching this now right after we have had all the drama about Poland banning the incorrect use of "Polish Death Camp" phrase.

@bartlomiejradzik4863 7 лет назад

Props to Extra History for not forgetting the Poles!

@googlegoogle-ye4mx 7 лет назад

Richard your voice is so good!

@Adwentheblackdragon 7 лет назад

Can you do a video series about the invasion of italy because now we had the invasion of french. The wehrmacht defeat on the eastern front but nothing about the southern front

@antonymash9586 7 лет назад

This is a good video. Keep up the good work. One suggestin though: I know what you are going on about. Some peopIe wont. I think that this video would be improved by putting pictures of what you are talking about. Just something to think about for next time.

@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 5 лет назад

Ya googling on the side is a pain in the ass

@MrFleem 7 лет назад

There's a tour company in my town that uses a DUKW. Because of the W at the end, I call them Duck Wagons.

@frankharr9466 7 лет назад

Yay! I love the Lies episodes. Yay! Mulberries! Kilometers? 400 gal. (Imp.) = 1,820 l/dm³, 64.2 cu.ft., 480 gal. (U.S.liq.), 20.0 muri, 44.4 (or 44 4/9) tin, 90.9 thang and 10.1 koku. That was fun. :). Frank Harr's conversion App! Tell your friends!

@MegaMementoMori 7 лет назад

Ok, I am happy that you brought Poland up, but... *You forgot Walpole!!!*

@firelight193 7 лет назад

I like the DUKW, als a child ive been in one while it was driving and in the water

@kennethferland5579 7 лет назад

American Trucks and transportation vehicles broadly were critical on the Eastern Front.

@LupinLovebites 3 года назад

So who else heard "Mindflayers"? I'm envisioning a D+D monster driving these tanks...

@grzegorzgrzesiak7498 7 лет назад

Could you make an episode on the warsaw uprising?

@Artur_M. 7 лет назад

27:25 That would be awesome!

@casualmapping2966 7 лет назад

I am in the Seattle area too.

@tblankenship3296 7 лет назад

The background music was really distracting and made it more difficult to understand you

@Dandroyo 7 лет назад

You guys should do an Extra History on the Mongol Empire

@quintu5 7 лет назад

Can you make a History Video about Harald Hadrada?

@epicgamer8938 7 лет назад

Daniel Sinteck Who was that

@ChandlerTV100 7 лет назад

@SpaceTime Gaming A Viking who fought for the Byzantines, became king of Norway, and then made a claim for the English throne and died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

@epicgamer8938 7 лет назад

ChandlerTV100 Sounds awsome need to see it thanks

@gfox5237 7 лет назад

SpaceTime Gaming You should watch BazBattles videos on him. And the rest of his channel it's absolutely amazing!

@epicgamer8938 7 лет назад

G Fox Will take a look thanks

@harrison1679 7 лет назад

can you do an extra history on Dunkirk please

@mikkos522 7 лет назад

I've been wondering this for a long while, Is the intro music an arrange made by the metal group Demetori or some other one? I can't find any source for the music since the website you have in the description is outdated and now shutdown.

@BListHistory 7 лет назад

I LOVE YOU EXTRA CREDITS!!!

@augustinedaudu9203 7 лет назад

B-List History same here!

@Foxpawed 7 лет назад

Augh. The audio lag in this keeps making me feel like my computer is having a heart attack and about to crash.

@dimitrijejovanovic5939 7 лет назад

Could you please do lies of Great Northern War with Joakim Broden, Sabaton vocalist? That would be PERFECT! :D

@TallulahBangkok 7 лет назад

Dimitrije Jovanovic that's so specific and yet I want it

@Meloncov 7 лет назад

We just need to convince Nuclear Blast to sponsor a series.

@luisronaldofigo 7 лет назад

I don't mind spending hundreds of dollar on wot if that pays this man salary

@mariaantoniacruz628 7 лет назад

i want to see an invasion of italy series or uss enterprice

@crojoe99 7 лет назад

Read Cryptonomicon. It's a work of fiction but has a lot of information about code breaking during WW2.

@oceanman6418 7 лет назад

How can I activate the code? I go to Wargaming Activate Code Site, type in "NEPTUNE" And it says, it's wrong :(

@firockfinion3326 7 лет назад

But they didn't talk about Walpole! =P

@mako88sb 6 лет назад

Seems to be a myth out there that if the Americans had used more of the Hobart Funnies, they would have suffered fewer casualties. Not sure why anybody would buy into this as the other beach assigned to them, Utah Beach, had the fewest casualties of the 5 taken that day and it had defenses similar to Gold and Juno Beaches.

@s.p.ltd.3886 7 лет назад

Excellent, especially the discussion on logistics which is often overlooked. I am an American and I do not in any way want to minimize the accomplishments and sacrifices of the Americans, British, Canadians, and all the others that contributed I feel that to often the efforts of the Russians are overlooked. It is my understanding that in the period from June 6, 1944 till the liberation of Paris in August, the Germans suffered three times the losses on the Eastern Front as they did in the West. The Russian contribution to the allied effort in WWII should not be overlooked as the war on the Eastern Front is the largest conflict ever and their contribution and sacrifices were on a scale unmatched in history.

@CompleteAnimation 7 лет назад

I would still like to see a game with a 100% realistic flamethrower. Real 30 ft range, and fuel that sticks to surfaces and burns for several minutes. Probably couldn't be balanced for multiplayer, but I'd like it to exist somewhere.

@mitchverr9330 7 лет назад

Forgotten hope 2 did an alright go at it ^^

@erictaylor5462 6 лет назад

Wow, my Maternal grandfather built DUCKS.

@xVelvetri 7 лет назад

Awwwww, I thought it was those short animation thingies.

@_matthenheizer_4558 5 лет назад

27:25 that day has come

@SandyEA 7 лет назад

The Crocs were a lot safer than all the other flame thrower tanks which carried their fuel inside the tank.

@sleeping-5637 7 лет назад

Finally

@VinayKapadiaVK 6 лет назад

We need a Walpole connection!

@kevindong9999 7 лет назад

Do one on the Napoleonic Wars

@joshuaevans6295 7 лет назад

I love the Duckboats! As a Bostonian, I grew up with them. We have a bunch of old duckboats that take tourists on rides around Boston. I never really thought about how many people have never heard of the duckboats. www.bostonducktours.com/

@Isolder74 7 лет назад

There are few that give tours on the Chicago River.

@TheCrazierz Год назад

Imagine the ww2 soldiers watching us play call of duty or battlefield and enjoying the horrors of the war. Man we are a messed up species

@Wyzwon 6 лет назад

So that's what James sounds/looks like.

@samuraisnake9512 7 лет назад

Make a video about the three Kingdom period

@tacofodder5313 7 лет назад

I find the previous template better. I am not exactly a history fanatic but the animations made the show that much more interesting.

@Spectrum16 7 лет назад

Agreed A part of me is happy And another is dissapointed

@samdescartes7181 7 лет назад

wepiod I'm not sure if you're new to this channel, but every Lies episodes is like this. Every other episodes in this series that is not Lies episode is animated. A Lie episode is an episode that explains and tells all the mistakes or further explanation to the story that it was on, for example this Lie episode was about the D-day series.

@Spectrum16 7 лет назад

Specfically only watch the ww2 videos...so Yeah? Technically new but more like only watch a select view ...probably look like an ass now... Crap

@tacofodder5313 7 лет назад

Oh shoot, I didn't realize this had "- Lies - ". I thought this was a normal extra history episode.

@hansen-uwu8834 7 лет назад

Do a seris on the invation of Norway and Danmark

@schlirf 7 лет назад

Tankers RULE!!!

@thomaskwei9119 7 лет назад

So the Army used the DUKW, but why did they not use those Navy "Amtrack" AAVs? They would use those when crossing the Rhine, why not at Normandy, as they were in mass use by the Marines at the time?

@Isolder74 7 лет назад

The Navy(I think you mean US Marines) AAV's were mostly deployed in the Pacific theater and were much more complicated to produce. The majority of those vehicles were sent to fighting Japan as those armored fighting vehicles were specifically designed for assaulting land beaches on small islands rather then large land masses like what was required in Europe. AAV's were used at D-Day but because US Marines were not a major part of the assault troops they were only a minor part of the operation. It was an Army operation so they used Army equipment because that's what they were trained to operate.

@thomaskwei9119 7 лет назад

Isolder74 but then they used AAVs later when crossing the Rhine and in other river borne assaults.

@Isolder74 7 лет назад

Which is much later in the war when those were more readily available. Just because most of them were sent to the Pacific doesn't mean all were nor does it mean that significant numbers were available for use during the Normandy Landings. Also AAV's used the tracks for propulsion while on the water making them too slow to safely use in the swift currents of the English Channel. Crossing a river and crossing the ocean are two very different things.