Eisenhower, Bradley & the Normandy HQ of General Collins | History Traveler Episode 296

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One of the fun things about traveling historic places is immersing yourself in the history by standing in the places where big things happened. We're in Normandy and are visiting a place that until recently, was pretty much lost to history until a local resident and his family took it upon themselves to save and restore it. We're at the Chateau de Franquetot and The D-Day Collins Museum which served at the HQ for the VII Corps and was the place where Eisenhower, Bradley & Collins planned out Operation Cobra. Amazing place!
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@bradbalderson8172 11 месяцев назад

Phillippe and his family should be commended on what a fantastic job they've done, outstanding work and thanks for showing it to us JD!

@nonamesplease6288 11 месяцев назад

The faces on all of the mannequins are incredibly lifelike. The smile on the paratrooper is just astonishing. I've never seen anything like it before outside of a wax museum.

@robertforrest7956 11 месяцев назад

I was just going to ask if they were wax or ??? Very well done!! Outstanding museum 💯% 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@all.day.day-dreamer 11 месяцев назад

Phillippe and family. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for doing this and preserving history. I am incredibly humbled by both your passion and generosity. Amazing museum and I hope to visit here one day. Again, thank you so much for all the hard work, time, effort and resources poured into this project.

@zachary-du8mm 11 месяцев назад

i am blown away by the places you take us to man. the fact that they bought, restored and kept all of that history in tact is beyond incredible. so much history is there! amazing, as always my fiend.

@47fireguy16 11 месяцев назад

Another amazing video. I wish I was 20 years younger. I would love to spend a month or so retracing Normandy and the eastern points heading into Germany. In 1968 my mom and dad went to Europe. It was his first trip back since the war. He was showing my mother around a small city in Luxembourg and telling her about a small family bakery some of the troupes went to during a pause in action. They rounded the corner and the bakery was still there. When they went in an older lady behind the counter looked up and cried out his name-from America ! She welcomed them in and introduced them to her children that were helping run it. She insisted they come upstairs and have a meal with them. She couldn't stop crying and thanking him and other troops for freeing them from Nazi Germany. She was still full of emotion 23 years after the war. It was the highlight of their trip even though they saw many other things.

@TheRagratus 11 месяцев назад

That is an amazing story!

@andrewburton8966 11 месяцев назад

Excellent content! Big thanks to Phillippe and his family!

@jimcronin2043 11 месяцев назад

Another excellent and informative video. As I said on another occasion, your D-Day/Normandy work has been truly top-shelf. I wonder how many Americans possibly contemplating a visit to Normandy would even be aware of this museum if not for your presentation..

@larrydemaar409 11 месяцев назад

Nice to see an excellent museum in an original structure and so well preserved! The artifacts, displays and figures were awesome!

@SmedleyDouwright 11 месяцев назад

I read the Wikipedia page for General Collins. It said he was awarded a silver star while fighting on Guadalcanal. He commanding the 25th Infantry Division before being transferred to Europe. "Lightning Joe" was an impressive man.

@Jbickley00 11 месяцев назад

Perhaps the best Corps commander in the ETO. And he was able to implement tactics learned in the Pacific to fight in the hedgerows.

@steves1112000 11 месяцев назад

This is amazing. I served in the 82d so a lot of this has a special place in my heart. Thanks so much for bringing us along with you for this walk through history.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

🇺🇸👍🏻

@user-jq8wr8ru2s 11 месяцев назад

Amazing and thank you Phillipe for preserving history. Again, amazing .

@suepalin9202 11 месяцев назад

Philippe is to be commended for his excellent and sensitive restoration and conservation of this small part of the huge D-Day operation. From this video, the chateau exudes a certain 'atmosphere' of that time-frame; I would be looking over my shoulder most of the time whilst visiting it! Echoes of the past in the present...

@cyndiebill6631 11 месяцев назад

You’ve taken us to a lot of museum but this one is by far my favorite. The fact they are using the original pieces that were there in 1944 on DDay is awesome. Not only that but the time and care to get it back to that time had to be and act of love on the owners part. Thank you for another amazing trip back into history. 👍😁

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Glad that you enjoyed it! Great place.

@raphaelmendez8072 11 месяцев назад

Wow!!! Just simply WOW!!!! The attention to detail to the exhibits is off the charts!!!

@drewlear1585 11 месяцев назад

I don't know about anyone else. But, the way this museum was set up. It put me right there and then. You are actually experiencing what they did during that time. You go to so many museums and historic places and it's just that. Yes, you get an idea of what was going on. But this place is over the top! Well done! Thanks JD, for sharing this!

@swgeek4310 11 месяцев назад

Love how they left a lot of the rooms un touched! That wardrobe was so fascinating, true time capsule!

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

I totally agree!

@Chiller11 11 месяцев назад

Very impressive for a private citizen to restore a property of that size and create a WW2 museum of that quality. The life like mannequins were impressive (I’m not gonna ask why you have mannequins at home). Loved the Roi Tan cigar box on Ike’s desk. I’m really impressed by Phillipe’s efforts, and your videos of course.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Amazing place.

@gears101 11 месяцев назад

I wondered that as well but he probably has soldier worn uniforms on display as well.

@dortheawatson3938 11 месяцев назад

Wow! What an amazing immersive museum. Phillipe has done such a fantastic job here! Thank you JD for doing this episode!

@jerryjones1555 11 месяцев назад

We live near Mayenne city, south of Normandy in the village of La Chapelle Au Riboul. We own an old girls school which was taken over by German intelligence but the students and faculty of the school found a way to listen in to the broadcasts from London and then inform the French resistance of the messages and what the German intelligence corps thought were being planned. We know that many made great sacrifices. We appreciate your videos. They are excellent

@FuzzyWuzzy75 11 месяцев назад

Oh wow, what better way to tour Normandy than in a Willy's Jeep on a nice day? That is one of the most amazing museums and jobs of restoration I have seen anywhere. If I ever get to Normandy (which I doubt I will) I would have to check the Collins Museum out. I can not adequately express my admiration and gratitude to the people who keep that history alive.

@Dylantuning1995 11 месяцев назад

On the list to visit next year for sure! The fact that nearly everything is still as it was 80 years ago is just incredible. Also incredible that in those 80 years no one seemed to bat an eye at the place. Crisbecq battery looks great so I can imagine what this place must feel like. You can almost feel the soldiers walking about and doing their thing through the screen.

@jeffv536 11 месяцев назад

That is really amazing! All that equipment still there after all these years.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Pretty dang cool.

@fokkerd3red618 11 месяцев назад

Very, very impressive. I commend Phillippe and his family for all they've done to restore everything in remembrance of what took place here. Thank you so much for the tour.

@davidbing4578 11 месяцев назад

That Museum is stunning JD. I cannot believe is was just left alone over all those years.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

They really did an amazing job.

@specialopssoldier1 11 месяцев назад

can you do a series about General Patton? like where he fought and where he died. that would be awesome

@justinknt7 11 месяцев назад

amazing! when you went up the stairs and you showed the command room with the wax soldiers, my jaw literally dropped! That was very well done!

@kellymyers5974 11 месяцев назад

Love the job you folks do to bring history ALIVE..........

@deborahgibson9039 11 месяцев назад

An amazing museum! And I agree that those mannequins are very impressive! Thanks JD for showing this!

@warbirdwf 11 месяцев назад

I've been to the national WWII museum in New Orleans. It's fantastic and 1st class. With that said, the museums in Normandy done by the french are even better as illustrated by this video. The amount of original WWII items the French have in their museums is astounding. The French really did a great job of collecting all sorts of items during and after the war and kept them in barns and houses. I was blown away with all the items they had. Any WWII history buff has to make the trek to visit the Museums there in Normandy.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

They've got some top notch museums in that area.

@randystolz 11 месяцев назад

Collins is one of my favorite WWII generals. This was an unexpected treat, and another entry that your channel has added to my bucket list, JD. Thanks 🤓🤓

@samoramachel55 11 месяцев назад

One could spend a month in Normandy alone to understand what happened there. Great video - another bucket list trip!

@kirkyorg7654 11 месяцев назад

very cool that furniture could sit for so long and not get vandalized or stolen over the 70+years great work this man is doing to preserve these spots for all to see the history of the farm

@alanconnors8881 11 месяцев назад

Where ever you go JD, to stand where they stood (or once lie) is always so amazing to me. Hard to explain.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

100% agree.

@samf.6298 8 месяцев назад

That, was awesome! Major kudos to Philippe and his family and whoever had a part in restoring and more importantly, preserving this building and it's artifacts. The attention to detail is off the charts! And thank you JD for continuing to put out this content. I don't know why but D-Day and Normandy have a special place in my heart so I've been trying to explore the history behind what happened there. Not just on the beaches but throughout the war. Your channel has been an amazing find! You all do such a fantastic job of taking us to where it all happened. Tops on my bucket list is visiting one day.

@duanelawrence78 11 месяцев назад

Wow J.D. this is beyond amazing. Unbelievable how great this is!!✌️🇺🇲

@jackiemontogmery125 11 месяцев назад

JD-what an amazing museum. I've never seen anything like it. I so wish my husband was still alive. He loved history as much as you do. He would have been thrilled to be taken to places he could never go. His Dad was in the army & over there during WW2. Your channel is beyond good! I never miss an episode. Thank you

@nicklrrueckert 11 месяцев назад

Eisenhower is my 3rd cousin 4th removed. Love learning about him, I remember when I was a little kid and learned I was a long distant relative of his. My love for history began.

@Lonesome__Dove 11 месяцев назад

Its pretty amazing how we're all interconnected in history.

@scott1395 8 месяцев назад

Wow JD, that was cool as hell! I've been a ww2 buff since I was a little boy in the early 60s watching episodes of THE WORLD AT WAR and VICTORY AT SEA series over and over! At 62 I still have those episodes on DVD! My 98 year old dad served I the army during the war! Great video as usual, you remind me of myself, with your fascination with history! Many people don't understand all that went into winning that war! The total logistics of building factories to build the material of war, the ships, trucks, trains, etc to move that material and getting the manpower where it needed to be! There's no telling what the ratio was of the fighting man and those that supported them with food meds, ammo, etc and constantly moving! The pacific war had to be supplied over 7000 miles of ocean! It was a feat unmatched in history! Of course back then men were men!

@hartweld65 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video. So much history in this place. Thank you for bringing D-Day history so those who fought Will not be Forgotten.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@davewoodmancy5124 11 месяцев назад

You have absolutely the best sight on RU-vid dealing with history. Because my dad was in Germany with the hundred first airborne your site means so much to me. Thank you

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Appreciate that!

@gordongordon4434 11 месяцев назад

I can only think of how strong your desire is to visit History's steps instead of being inside teaching history to school students. You could only get information from books that tell the true feeling of being there where it all happened. So much of history has been forgotten over the years but your travels have brought so much alive to creat interest to others so it will not be forgotten.

@katiemyers4174 11 месяцев назад

Oh MY! Imagine the boost in Phillipe's bookings after this episode! I would love to spend the night there! Thanks for another wonderful episode!

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

I hope so! It's an amazing place.

@On-Our-Radar-24News 11 месяцев назад

What a remarkable museum! I will definitely be putting this on my bucket list. A B&B to boot. Does Phillipe pick you up at the airport in a Jeep? I sure hope so. That would be the icing on the cake.

@tomboustead7588 11 месяцев назад

This video makes me feel I am there. I love the authenticity of the time pieces.

@stephenrrose 11 месяцев назад

Outstanding JD! This museum and your presentation of it takes us back to that time! Thank you for honoring those that were there before you! and the History you are keeping alive! Thank you for bringing us along!

@jjjwin1 11 месяцев назад

I'm in Saint Vith now. Following. Your footsteps. I'm 4 weeks in to a 5 week trip. Thanks for Everything.

@beckybanta126 11 месяцев назад

Would never have known about this chalet & its importance to our history without you taking is there. The drone tour & museum are best i have seen. Thank you to those who made it so real. I would not have been surprised if the model would have come to life! What was the orginal purpose of the chalet being built? 🇺🇸👍😊

@bobsbarnworkshop 11 месяцев назад

Another absolutely stunning episode! Your productions are so incredible and you bring stories and places and things we never knew about that just keeps us hungry for more history! Thank you and God bless!

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much!

@bobsbarnworkshop 11 месяцев назад

@@TheHistoryUnderground I have said before that we were there for D-day 75, but we missed so much! Definitely we are going back on our own after seeing all we missed!

@marykrueger6039 11 месяцев назад

What a fascinating video as always. What astonistnated detail. Wonderderful what Phillippe and his family have done. Thanks JD ❤ it. Thanks for the history lesson.

@chuckgmanleyphotos7197 11 месяцев назад

This location is amazing!! I hope I can find all of the locations you have shared. To stand in history will be something else!

@Bullrider33Outdoors 11 месяцев назад

If I Could Afford To Go To Normandy I Think It Would Take At Least a Month To Visit Everything I Want To See Thank You J.D For All The Content And Time You Give Us

@bobburke9840 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for your dedication to history. I really appreciate your videos, especially those on WW2.

@EdgarCPrice 11 месяцев назад

This is amazing. I know it will sound weird but I love that old smell from buildings and books. I bet it smelled great in there. Keep it up JD. Awesome job as always you make me enjoy history with my son like never before.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

👍🏻

@jilldesruisseau 11 месяцев назад

Super cool place! The 3d printed mannequins and all that care and detail are mind blowing.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

I agree. Amazing.

@stephenpegum9776 11 месяцев назад

That Collins museum is awesome-looking JD - I'm very envious ! 😎

@reddevilparatrooper 11 месяцев назад

Great that he honors the 4th Infantry Division by wearing it on his polo shirt. One of the units I belong to when I was in the Army back in the late 1980s. Amazing that one of my old regiments the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment "The Red Devils" liberated this chateau.

@joshkarena3058 11 месяцев назад

Thank you J.D. such amazing history.❤

@anthonydm2947 11 месяцев назад

What a beautiful time capsule!! Amazing!

@lorikrafft8197 11 месяцев назад

This place is beyond amazing. I am so impressed. I wish I could go there and see it.!!!!!! thank you so much for sharing this with us we can live vicariously through you

@keziasarah 11 месяцев назад

Added to the list for next visit... been 5 yrs since we went down that area - Thanks!

@dawnlefevre9172 11 месяцев назад

Got goosebumps when u walked into the command room!!!! Could tell right away who was who and I felt like you should've been whispering so as not to bother them!! 🤣🤣😳Wow!!!! Fantastic job they did!!!

@flamike217 11 месяцев назад

Perfect timing. Sitting through a hurricane with nothing to do

@cheekseparator 11 месяцев назад

Same here

@GuyPipili 11 месяцев назад

Stay safe!

@jimshoe402 11 месяцев назад

I Tink over now been watching since 2am CST..Friends live in Clear water..TAKE CARE 😁😁😁

@barrylea1773 11 месяцев назад

Be careful. Biden will probably come regail you with the time a windstorm blew a branch off a tree in his backyard almost costing him his cat and Corvette in a couple weeks

@duanenelson3202 11 месяцев назад

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@gears101 11 месяцев назад

Amazing work. I can't get enough of this content. Thank You JD

@TheRagratus 11 месяцев назад

That place just went on my "bucket list". The very idea that when he bought the property that it was untouched since the war is astounding!!!

@davidwillis4839 11 месяцев назад

Just added this museum to my must see list as I’ll be “over there” in two weeks. Already had Crisbecq on the agenda. Warms my heart to see the French honor our forefathers!

@historyinyourhand1787 11 месяцев назад

That's another cool spot added to my list to visit in Normandy!

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

👍🏻

@Jeffschmidt1984 11 месяцев назад

Many thanks to the current owners and restorers of the building!

@Feline_Frenzy53 11 месяцев назад

Wow, JD. This museum is a fantastic find. Thank you!

@bradmccormick358 11 месяцев назад

What a cool place. It's awesome how much detail they put into the displays. Most museums just put stuff on display with an information card telling about it, but these displays put you right there in the moment and that's just as important. It gives you more insight to what it was really like. Thank you JD for another great video.

@joemabry9643 11 месяцев назад

Bravo! Passion for history indeed. Thank you.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@1redcougar175 7 месяцев назад

They have done a great job, thanks for digging into this historical site!

@diane1390 11 месяцев назад

The artifacts are amazing. To say that they're original to that time frame, makes the history seem so real and accessible.

@jacquelinebloom4339 11 месяцев назад

Awesome museum. JD, you are making the war so real to me.

@paulw176 11 месяцев назад

It's gratifying to see how so many French people work to maintain and honor the history of the USA, French Resistance and Allied soldiers in WW2.

@PorscheSC 11 месяцев назад

Way beyond cool JD. Thanks for sharing. Amazing history. Kudos to Phillippe.

@Kimi951 11 месяцев назад

That is one of the coolest historical museum.

@lthom5158 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating museum! Such detail! Thanks for the great video!

@jimkalash1256 11 месяцев назад

Wow wow wow JD…so well done! Just one more reason I need to revisit Normandy. In the meantime, I will see you on the WHF506 tour mid October.

@dankorolyk5917 11 месяцев назад

Always great to see more content from Normandy

@agentmueller 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for all your hard work, and all the bonks on your head you’ve taken for us in the field, teach.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

😅👍🏻

@joeritchie4554 11 месяцев назад

That is so awesome! It really immerses you into the history that happened there.

@greggriffin1 11 месяцев назад

Always the best info. content on any platform, we learn so much history from your vids, all 12 of our family members never miss your show, thank you again so much best ever, God bless

@Demon_Outlaw 11 месяцев назад

Wow !!!! That really outstanding talking about living and staying were history happened full emersement history experience. This on my bucket list.

@joe-qo3qi 11 месяцев назад

Very good example of documentation regarding a natural born leader who didn't get the credit due him or the publicity if you will. Gen. Collins was everything when it came to handling a core,worked and earned his way up the chain of command by proven ability and success. The kind of leader any soldier would be glad to be part of.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Outstanding leader.

@dawndickson2156 11 месяцев назад

The collection in this museum is amazing! As a collector of period items I kept seeing the small things that add so much. Even a USO record! Thank you JD.

@frankthomas2231 11 месяцев назад

I am a veteran of the VII Corp from 1989-1991 and served under General Franks in Operation Desert Storm. Good to learn a little history of the VII Corp.

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Glad that you liked it! Heck of a legacy with the the VII Corps.

@Kate-wu9if 11 месяцев назад

Wow..amazing! What a good man Philip is to restore everything..(plus the originals he has)...also shows how appreciative he is..wish I could go to Normandy to visit..really enjoyed this vid..ty

@edgaraquino2324 11 месяцев назад

Very, very nice....thanks!😊If you notice at 25:13, this soldier looks like the same one who was escorting Ike when he was speaking to the troopers in England on 06/05/44....

@aprilblais8463 11 месяцев назад

Wow so cool and the fact that it is a bed and breakfast is even better . I am planning on going to Normandy when I retire in a few years so this is a must

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

You'll love it!

@Paul.rudkin 11 месяцев назад

We were literally there this afternoon. It's turned into one of our favourite museums in Normandy, just so immersive. Where are you off to next? We seem to be a day or so behind you with our visits 👍

@bradmiller3367 11 месяцев назад

This museum is absolutely stunning, wonderful, amazing and just about every other exclamation of respect one can think of!

@tgrkiller 11 месяцев назад

Added to the list! we'll be in Normandy for 5 days in a few weeks. 3th time there, time to explore some new places.

@kathleendaugherty4218 11 месяцев назад

Such attention to detail! WOW!

@theuglydog8044 11 месяцев назад

This was excellent! I've added it to my list of places to see. The mannequins are so lifelike it made me feel I was actually there, in WWII, I just expected them to start moving at any time....Thanks for the great videos.

@leesherman100 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video. One of your best to date. One incredible chunk of WWII. Wow!

@yermucker06 Месяц назад

Was there last week, great setup he has there and a fantastic collection. The property is stunning.

@aslooijer 11 месяцев назад

That is one heck off a cool place. And a b&b too.

@mikewatson5281 11 месяцев назад

You know I had never heard of lightning Joe until I started watching your videos

@TheHistoryUnderground 11 месяцев назад

Glad that I could help put him on the map for you. 🙂

@johndanaher6371 11 месяцев назад

Wow, not only did you capture an outpost of the American Army, but you also captured the contributions of the home front. The K-Rations boxes all had the companies that made them and when they were made, even one from Hawaii. And did I see a case of whiskey on the pile? Just an absolutely outstanding museum! Great work sir!