D-Day: Veteran describes searching for dead friends after being used as 'cannon fodder'

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Veterans are heading to France to join commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
At 98, Ken Cooke is the last surviving member from York Normandy Veterans group.
He spoke to Sky's Tom Parmenter before making the trip and described feeling like "cannon fodder" on the beaches of Normandy.
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@RalphBrooker-gn9iv 3 месяца назад

Remarkable man. To have disembarked into hell. If there are such things as heroes, then he’s a hero. No matter how much he downplays it. That generation gave so much. It’s inestimable. A debt that can never be paid.

@1971zephyr 3 месяца назад

Watching these old boys talking about ww2 always chokes me up

@stringalongmike1953 3 месяца назад

Me too.

@briancase6180 3 месяца назад

Yes. It restores your faith in humanity. If they had it in them, then a little bit of that selflessness is in all of us. We just need to awaken it today.

@LickyTee 3 месяца назад

@@briancase6180you could with what’s going on in Gaza

@darkisdork4959 3 месяца назад

These men actually saved the world. They valiantly and bravely fought for our futures and they did so with incredible courage. We can't thank them enough, I just pray that we learn and never repeat this sad chapter in history. God bless every soldier who fought for our bright futures.

@donsavage-mw7gf 3 месяца назад

Well they fought for each other and their own lives, but under the guise of freedom. Remember most of these men did not choose to fight.

@terrybal 3 месяца назад

God bless this man

@hugorussell1486 3 месяца назад

My great uncle Jim was a British tank commander during D Day. He was sitting on top of the lead tank with the top hatch open when a German anti aircraft gun, with its barrel lowered, sent a shell directly into the front of his vehicle. He was blown 30 foot in the air suffering extremely bad burns and landed in a ditch. His life was saved when a platoon of African / American soldiers found him later that day. He was so badly burnt and blackened from his injuries that the African American soldiers assumed he was one of their own and he later regained consciousness in an American field hospital! Amazingly he survived and subsequently lived well into his 80’s. Heroes

@Byzantium1973 3 месяца назад

My Deepest Honour & Respect for your Great Uncle.

@morpheusspirit6609 3 месяца назад

Burnt and blackened… one of their own!!?? 😳 Not a nice choice of words. I’m sure that definitely wasn’t the words from the African American soldiers.

@doug6500 3 месяца назад

@@morpheusspirit6609 Stop being a petal.

@paularivero1878 3 месяца назад

So moving real heroes

@ianblake815 3 месяца назад

Wow he’s looking really good. Much respect to him! 🫡

@liquidhighway 3 месяца назад

Wow 98 and walks as fit as a fiddle - to go all through that and have such good health all those years later. What a remarkable man, a generation we will forever miss and cherish for freedom we have today. War is such a waste

@MichelleGill-js2jb 3 месяца назад

God bless and love him. ❤️

@punchy1325 3 месяца назад

The best generation all over the world to ever live

@AlanMckenna-v7c 3 месяца назад

We will remember them.

@steveadams2328 3 месяца назад

I am so proud of these men and women who fought in ww1 and ww2. This should be taught in schools so that this is never forgotten and the sacrifies that were made. The sad thing is i fear history is going to repeat itself with another ww occurring. We didnt learn a dam thing from these 2 world wars.

@Sidecontrol1234 3 месяца назад

39 here, when I was in school WW1 and especially WW2 were taught in History class.

@andrewmacdonald4833 3 месяца назад

Everytime one of these truly wonderful men and women slip away, I genuinely mourn their loss as I would a dear friend or family member...I just can't imagine the World without them...and unfortunately, it will happen within a few years...

@MaryBradley-s3s 3 месяца назад

THANKYOU KEN 🇬🇧🌹🇬🇧🌹

@SugarWildflower-si4ox 3 месяца назад

Those men did a great service to the free world and saving his own country as well. War is hell….

@diegoflores9237 3 месяца назад

What's the free world?

@Kleicomolo 3 месяца назад

@@diegoflores9237NA and EU.

@pbl7559 3 месяца назад

God bless them all 🙏

@mbak7801 3 месяца назад

What is surprising is that facing such difficulties and risks the casualty percentages were so much lower than feared and expected. That takes nothing away from the courage of these lads but enabled more to carry the fight further into Europe and for the lucky to survive the war.

@NegiTaiMetal011 3 месяца назад

A Salute and many thanks to this soldier. Truly a remarkable, humble man that I respect who says he's no hero. However he certainly was in a company of heroes.

@jacktran7024 3 месяца назад

Damn 18 yo n fighting….losing friends all around must be tough….god bless those soldiers

@chillymonkeys7772 3 месяца назад

Legends ❤

@leakoe3797 3 месяца назад

How the hell did we do it..? Unbelievably heroic .. God bless to all.

@thomaswright7562 3 месяца назад

The greatest generation . X

@boota1979 3 месяца назад

Ken was only 18 years old in 1944. Let that sink in....

@wendysing9741 3 месяца назад

Makes one tear up ....😢

@briancase6180 3 месяца назад

"The heros are still over there." That's pretty much exactly what every survivor of D-Day says. They have the humility that all of us would do well to learn. Our first-world problems are pretty small compared to what they went through and the sacrifices that too many of them made. Imagine the patriotism they must have felt to willingly give their lives so that we could have all the comforts of peaceful, modern, democratic societies. Thanks for your service!

@mitchyoung93 3 месяца назад

He looks amazing and amazingly sharp.

@tlynn9819 3 месяца назад

☝️ Do Not forget the Merchant Marines who also sacrificed and lost lives. My uncle (American) was lost at sea in a British lead convoy mission taking airplane fuel and vehicles to the troops. Had family serve in the military branches, but the Merchant Marines get very little, if any, recognition for their contribution.

@internethardcase 3 месяца назад

Look at the state of the UK now. It was not worth it. Patton was right when he said We defeated wrong enemy

@Peter-pg8qn 3 месяца назад

What a generation, full respect

@HzHz 3 месяца назад

Respect.

@professormcclaine5738 3 месяца назад

They gave their today's for our tomorrow's.

@Wodens-Wolf 3 месяца назад

No more brother wars. All Europeans must stand together as sovereign nations..

@LeMerch 3 месяца назад

Too back UK turned its back on Europe when it left the EU. Could have had a solid European institution that tried to protect us all..

@Wodens-Wolf 3 месяца назад

@LeMerch 🤣 I said sovereign nations not the EU. Leaving the EU was a great idea. Shame our politicians didn't give us true Brexit but still better out of the EU. There is more to Europe than the EU mate. More people are figuring that out..

@LeMerch 3 месяца назад

@@Wodens-Wolf name one good thing that Brexit has given the UK? 😂

@LeMerch 3 месяца назад

@user-qo3zt3nl2s nah that’s not how it works. EU can server a better purpose and is evolving.

@Wodens-Wolf 3 месяца назад

@LeMerch the EU has destroyed Europe. Forcing open borders immigration on its member states. Europe needs to return to their sovereign nations again. Then they get back power for their own people and country's, including economic growth.

@stevendale7301 3 месяца назад

Any assault on a defensive position would mean extensive loss of life.

@vonblood80 3 месяца назад

God bless

@rebeccaslater1398 3 месяца назад

Such a heroic, humble man . Respects.

@B50ANT 3 месяца назад

What a wonderful man

@craphead9842 3 месяца назад

WAR is EVIL..... Tony cuenca

@soylentgreen6082 3 месяца назад

Starting wars is evil.

@KatharineShaw-z8u 3 месяца назад

They were all heroes on D-Day.

@Paws4Thought669 3 месяца назад

MG42's waiting, 88's zeroed in and no cover. Just luck and the fact that Rommel was away and not allowed to release the Panzer's in time was the only chance that they had. Slim one though

@johnb7411 3 месяца назад

The Greatest Generation

@davidlawrence5682 3 месяца назад

My grandfather was on sword beach, he told me plenty of British soldiers were shot dead for not fighting...very sad!

@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 3 месяца назад

They fought for nothing in the end

@user-wd2iy9bc7y 3 месяца назад

I met a Vet that landed at Omaha Beach at the VA. He told me that the "f--- Germans did not want him on their beach and shot him in the a---!

@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 3 месяца назад

Of course they didn’t want him on the beach

@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 3 месяца назад

The allies destroyed western Christian civilisation

@witsend236 3 месяца назад

My Grandfather was at Dunkirk and he was there at the end or the war. He was a great man. He was always there for me throughout my life. He gave up so much I hate the French and Germans for what they did in destroying his life and yet he would be angry with me for saying this. God bless him and condemn me.

@morpheusspirit6609 3 месяца назад

Hate is a strong word. It only destroys the person hating. 😡💀

@boota1979 3 месяца назад

He was only 18 let that sink in...

@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 3 месяца назад

It’s soo sad that they died for nothing

@mikede2331 3 месяца назад

They the real hero's😢

@user-cc5od3zk4p 3 месяца назад

Lest we forget these great men. It saddens me greatly to see what the state of our is when these brave souls sacrificed their lives so the world could be a better place.

@rolfagten857 3 месяца назад

1944 , june 6th, Juno & Gold was 1 thing ! 🥾The battle with the 2nd SS troops was the real battle. 🎥

@tomscott3 3 месяца назад

The tributes to these heros gets me even more than the tributes to 9/11 for a couple reasons: 1 - the events of D-Day changed the world 2 - it makes me ashamed because we've let our legal system become the world's largest crime syndicate-and what these brave men did has been for naught here in Amerika. Very Best Regards, Tom Scott Author ● Speaker ● World's Leading Expert on the Corrupt U.S. Legal System _Our American Injustice System_ _Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor_

@angelaramsay1778 3 месяца назад

Those poor young lads that lived and died. Cannon fodder indeed and shameful how they where treated Never forget x

@ctlilbit 3 месяца назад

Oh, what a sad day it was for all these young soldiers. 50% survival. Ken, 99 years old. I wonder if the horrors of D Day came to mind every day of his life?

@dalemihocik4732 3 месяца назад

The 29th Division 116th Infantry got the same treatment from the U.S. War is truly Hell on earth.

@raisal8241 3 месяца назад

Yes.

@Kleicomolo 3 месяца назад

Reminds me of my grandfather. He liked to tell me that there was no way he was going to lose his life so some danged Red could keep his.

@anllpp 3 месяца назад

❤. We don't know the reality of it. May watch films and real footage but still; we are desensitised from that actuality or reality and so thanks for your service.

@glennoc8585 3 месяца назад

Many men would've lived if the initial air raid had gone to plan but that's how it goes unfortunately. My grandfather and great uncle survived but it affected them mentally to s certain degree. It's sad that Britain has let the dead down by not allowing the nation to be the best it should be.

@jamesoshea7672 3 месяца назад

Every one on the beach side and everyone on the land side was "Canon Fodder" and each side, in their own way, were very brave...it is called WAR!!!

@aleccap5946 3 месяца назад

Yes they were, death was always on the cards. Back then we had both country and government worthy of us. Can anyone with hand on heart say the same of this government

@TellySavalas-or5hf 3 месяца назад

Royal Army catering Corps Jim Grap made French Fries and Kraut chicken Mc nuggets at june 7th 1944.

@pegitwillcomebacktoyou 3 месяца назад

They died for bankers

@lesleywurwal8805 3 месяца назад

'We were cannon fodder'......when politicians stoke up wars, selling arms, remember these words.

@salguodrolyat2594 3 месяца назад

He looks like he is 60 years old.😯

@kevinhall6976 3 месяца назад

I have always said that !!!!!!

@garymcaleer6112 3 месяца назад

As King Solomon said as a wise old man: “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”

@claireleblancfoster8010 3 месяца назад

❤❤❤

@angloaust1575 3 месяца назад

Very few free french landed on d.day apart from a commando group Degaulle stayed in England Until beaches secured!

@SteveF1210 3 месяца назад

Apart from a commando group... and over 800 French Special Air Service guys.

@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 3 месяца назад

Degaulle was a traitor

@makeitsonumberone1358 3 месяца назад

And thought, WTF did we bother! Heros to the last though

@Jeffybonbon 3 месяца назад

The guys who died missed so much that old age can bring Never saw a man land on the moon Ect ect

@WilliamjameswestWEST 3 месяца назад

WE WILL STOP YOUR P.I.P.😮

@SteveVi0lence 3 месяца назад

Great, "the greatest" generation has gone weak

@Sidecontrol1234 3 месяца назад

18 y/o's today wouldn't stand a chance.

@riderofthewhitehorse8879 3 месяца назад

Why does he have an OP Shader medal lol?

@raisal8241 3 месяца назад

No Sr. They dont allow me. Por Dio!

@DavidDragonetti 3 месяца назад

"cannon fodder". Absurd comment. No general or commander is going to deliberately slaughter their own men. Certainly it may seem like that to the men involved in the attack but the idea that a General is just going to waste soldiers lives and thus potentially lose the battle is just nonsense.

@djzrobzombie2813 3 месяца назад

😮

@raisal8241 3 месяца назад

If I ever find something good, ponle el cuño que ahi lo arruinan. Por favo!

@kosamui 3 месяца назад

Disgusting.

@davidrutter3192 3 месяца назад

What’s disgusting?

@joancooley1387 3 месяца назад

Kosamui Explain your comment. !

@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 3 месяца назад

@@davidrutter3192disgusting how the dictator of Britain Winston Churchill used these young men as cannon fodder in other to destroy other civilised European nations so that these leaders could profit off the destruction and gain world domination of their ideology

@andreamayne3509 3 месяца назад

War is always best avoided with more effort needing put into diplomacy than into warfare itself. Man never learns, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are proof of this.

@joelastlight7162 3 месяца назад

XIX❤.

@saywhat8966 3 месяца назад

Hair H and Arab Muslims had commonality in demographics and authoritarian ruling structures.

@stephenchappell7512 3 месяца назад

WWII wasn't 'on a knife-edge that summer' as the tide had longed turned

@John-nb6ep 3 месяца назад

They might have meant if opening the western front was going to be a success or not.

@diegoflores9237 3 месяца назад

Yeah, the Soviets turned the tide way before d day. Almost feels like the US went in to secure the glory and pretend it saved Europe.

@boringlyawesum 3 месяца назад

“Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid.” Ernest Hemingway

@JackDarcy-vl8rq 3 месяца назад

Another fake quote

@LeMerch 3 месяца назад

Well it was the Russians who won world war 2, and the Americans who won it alongside them. Britain was only really able to defend itself and at that could have lost. Not taking away anything from the men who gave their lives.

@Paws4Thought669 3 месяца назад

And the Panzers having a bad tank battery in the cold. But yea the Russians with their might held them off for ages, wanting a second front tbh. Brutal part of the conflict. All nations were brave though, the Americans tilted it when allowed to get involved. It's crazy. Hard to get one's head around it, just young men

@LawrenceReitan 3 месяца назад

That was relevant then, not now

@benred88 3 месяца назад

The Russians have forgotten the arctic convoys?

@gavriloprincip6892 3 месяца назад

They died for nothing. They fought the wrong enemy.

@christinemary7101 3 месяца назад

Look at what the country has become , it was all in vain

@user-th5nb3ox1w 3 месяца назад

Oyr greatest generation. It's been betrayed by most post war British politicians.

@ridhobaihaqi144 3 месяца назад

Hey russian & chinese media, interview him too! 😂😂

@djzrobzombie2813 3 месяца назад

Germans 😮😮😮

@BasedinReality1984 3 месяца назад

And the beaches us British landed on weren't that bad compared to others. Imagine landing on Omaha Beach

@goodshipkaraboudjan 3 месяца назад

The highest casualty percentages were from Sword where the Canadians landed.

@dalj4362 Месяц назад

@goodshipkaraboudjan Canadians landed at Juno. Sword was the British beach. Highest percentage is actually that. It doesn't mean the highest losses.

@dalj4362 Месяц назад

Sword Beach ( British) was actually the most fortified beach of D-Day. Also not a lot of people know that some British actually landed at Omaha as well.

@TysonAk-s9e 3 месяца назад

What's does that rainbow medal represents

@boota1979 3 месяца назад

@user-uf7uq6vc1f It's the WWII Victory Medal, my Grandad had one. The edge stripes (the double rainbows) are the colours of the World War I Victory Medal. The use of two of them on this ribbon signifies the second world war. The colours represent the combined colours of the Allied nations, with the rainbow additionally representing the calm after the storm.

@TysonAk-s9e 3 месяца назад

@@boota1979 phew 😅 I thought they tainted our special Vets with that LGBTQ+ rubbish