Last French eyewitnesses of D-Day landings share their memories • FRANCE 24 English

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On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed in Normandy in the largest air, sea and land operation in military history. Today, very few people who experienced D-Day are still alive and able to talk about it. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin and Stéphanie Trouillard met three people who were children at the time and living with their families in Normandy when the landings began. They still remember, very clearly, what happened on that historic day.
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@simonborisoff994 3 месяца назад

I met the lady again on Wednesday left a rose for her wonderful to see her again

@lifewithabin 3 месяца назад

“It’s okay, we’re British, we’ve arrived” 🫡 The real heroes words.

@Coffeeology 3 месяца назад

I can't imagine how they felt. Being under German control for years... Then one night the shutters are being forced open, glass being broken and then some guy pops his in. "'cuse me gov'na, is this Newcastle?"

@waynesimpson4081 3 месяца назад

What amazing grace and beauty that woman has.

@bordersw1239 3 месяца назад

I met her in 1978 - she served drinks at our table outside I was only 12. Not sure if she knew my dad’s buddy who was sat with us was ex SOE, parachuted into France on his own to help the resistance. He designed the route of every holiday, usually to be found with a bunch of old French guys in a bar like he was their best friend. I’m pretty certain he was retracing his escape route out of France in WW2.

@CROM-on1bz 3 месяца назад

I can't even imagine the night before the landing that all these young men must have spent. You still had to have a lot of courage.

@chrismoyse3529 3 месяца назад

Met Arlette a few weeks ago. An absolute delight

@Hawkertempest1 3 месяца назад

Came all the way from New Zealand to visit this place.❤❤❤

@paulturner9958 3 месяца назад

We believe my Grandad took part in this raid as he was a sergeant in the 6th Airborne. But he would never talk about his time in WW2. He said he lost too many friends.

@sheilaclarke3707 3 месяца назад

My father was a Canadian paratrooper sent in the night before. He was one of the 60 Canadian veterans invited to France for the 60th commemoration of D Day. In 2014, he received the Legion of Honour medal from the French consulate.

@rod4095 3 месяца назад

Lovely to hear first hand stories like this. What a lovely lady

@maxasaurus3008 3 месяца назад

Incredible. Saw it with her own eyes…

@icitlalistardust9060 3 месяца назад

Let’s pay tribute to this lady perfect English accent ! So rare……

@dew02300 3 месяца назад

She sure ain’t from Brooklyn.

@j.dunlop8295 3 месяца назад

Her costumer's language, best to know!

@nicolad8822 3 месяца назад

🙄

@adventussaxonum448 3 месяца назад

She married an Englishman and lived in Warwickshire and France.

@terrys2735 Месяц назад

Pay tribute to her perfect English? 🤦🏼‍♂️

@ald1144 3 месяца назад

Bless these people.

@markwilson2992 3 месяца назад

Hard not to tear up. ♥♥♥

@samiam619 3 месяца назад

What made the video hard to see was “It’s OK, we’re British, we’ve arrived”!

@lyndafayesmusic 3 месяца назад

Back when leaders fought to defend the rights of the innocent, instead of massacring for power and greed. "God Gave Them One More Day" and " Why War?!" VideosToInspireHumanityByFredGold&LyndaFaye Dedicated to our vets who've been displaced by Joe's new asylum seekers!

@DicconHill 3 месяца назад

That is all I've done for the past day.

@josimpson7999 3 месяца назад

Totally concur!

@deerhoda7574 3 месяца назад

Excellent. The restaurant reminds of a scene from the movie The Longest Day, when the owner comes running out shouting to greet the soldiers. That one scene sums up the whole of it, saving people, freeing people no matter what the cost. Cheers to all the soldiers from everywhere.💖

@TheBezaleel 3 месяца назад

Her parents informed the allies of everything concerning the bridges in perfect detail, brave hero's.

@nancychace8619 3 месяца назад

Thank you for a good report. Important not to let this history fade away.

@andrewmogg591 3 месяца назад

What a wonderful woman.

@Michaelcj-m2d 3 месяца назад

101 Airborne thanks Grandpa

@wisconsinfarmer4742 3 месяца назад

legendary

@amethystfeathers7324 3 месяца назад

Such a wonderful video. It's terribly sad to see how misinformed young people are disrespecting the freedom these heroes fought for on their behalf. We must never forget.

@camilojimenez6216 3 месяца назад

Never seen a French national speak such good English

@fxiansen1469 3 месяца назад

Back in the early 1970s, my French grammar teacher (Alliance Française) spoke nothing but French the whole school year until the last day. She then spoke crisp, English-accented English to us North Americans. It was a huge surprise!

@japhetbenjaming6053 3 месяца назад

Living heroes hats off for you guys 🧢

@CROM-on1bz 3 месяца назад

"Hero at 8 years old? That's a bit young. Witness ok it's more accurate.

@jeditanker72 3 месяца назад

Amazing stories, thanks for preparing this

@angiecarroll1189 3 месяца назад

What a wonderful lady. Thank you x

@sblack48 3 месяца назад

I’ve read german accounts. Many german soldiers on the coast were vets of the eastern front and had been under artillery fire many times. But the 16” naval guns flinging 2000 lb shells was a different thing entirely. Some in bunkers were bleeding from their eyes and ears from the shock waves of shells landing nearby and they were all at least temporarily deafened. Some of the inexperienced men completely broke down under that bombardment. This was from ships that could be many miles away. So you can imagine what it was like for this family.

@dallasfamily3 3 месяца назад

These stories of bravery and resistance are so important.

@easyyog1185 3 месяца назад

God Bless. Thank You for sharing wonderful Tribute and moving Memories of forever historic Day of Days.

@russellbarndt6579 3 месяца назад

Wow , what a privilege to hear their story and to see them , it could only be surpassed by visiting them in person . I appreciate this site for allowing myself and everyone to have a greater view . Thank you.....

@jedsparks7324 3 месяца назад

Remember this

@Engelhafen 3 месяца назад

Wow is she beautiful - I don’t think I e ever seen anyone of that age look so ravishing - wow

@Llamadosalvaje 3 месяца назад

Beautiful story

@davidpotter3569 3 месяца назад

Of course the Café was important. What would the British do without the opportunity to have a cuppa.

@barrycroyle4473 3 месяца назад

Let's never forget these men and the great people of France !!!

@robertcampopiano6001 3 месяца назад

I can’t even imagine how she and her family felt knowing their long waking nightmare was ending. The British paratroopers that held Pegasus Bridge until the seaborne troops arrived are true heroes.

@judyveness7581 3 месяца назад

Magnifique!

@kplante7881 3 месяца назад

Heart warming…. Thanks for sharing!

@ozarkpipertony8396 3 месяца назад

God bless all those who served , sacrificed and honor the investment by the greatest generation. Amen.

@corgiowner436 3 месяца назад

I have a friend, 101 now, who was in Paris on D-Day. She said you could hear the shelling and there were rumors of an invasion.

@123canadagirl 3 месяца назад

I’d love to visit her cafe! So glad to see and hear these stories

@fxiansen1469 3 месяца назад

What an emotional moment that must have been for her father to come face-to-face with those British soldiers.

@katespear1233 3 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing.

@blasphemertheseventh 3 месяца назад

She’s a national treasure and deserves a monument to honor her and her family.

@Chiller11 3 месяца назад

There were something like 15,000 to 20,000 French civilians killed during the battle of Normandy. Caen was bombed to rubble. It wasn’t all celebration and freedom for the ordinary citizens of France in those times.

@Aspett0 3 месяца назад

That and the hundreds of rapes by US soldiers on French women... Dozens of Yanks were court martialed and executed in the Summer of 1944 for that crime although the majority of them were never reported because most women were too ashamed to do so and/or didn't dare accuse their "liberators" in the midst of a national rebirth when everyone was celebrating being free at last.

@vrinda5303 3 месяца назад

@@Aspett0British and Canadian soldiers were also raping women. They weren't immune from such behavior.

@douglasbuckland8280 3 месяца назад

This lady is a national treasure.

@alexanderleach3365 3 месяца назад

I've been to the Pegasus Bridge in Normandy.

@Heathcliffe57 3 месяца назад

My own father was in the third assault wave on Omaha beach.

@nanettedelacroix8378 3 месяца назад

My father was at Utah beach Normany. He was also in the Battle of the Bulge and the freeing of Paris.

@seanlander9321 3 месяца назад

Civilisation defeated evil, it’s as simple as that.

@bernadettebenchadilecorre8276 3 месяца назад

Yes...well said.

@wisconsinfarmer4742 3 месяца назад

AS civilization and decency begins to throw back current depravity in the USA this year.

@sisigpapi 3 месяца назад

The history they've witnessed and partook in is staggering

@Shazzadut1 2 месяца назад

I often think of those houses right on the beaches that were being shelled and invaded. I don’t know if they were occupied then, but I know there is one house still there where the Canadians landed, and the owner now welcomes anyone there into her home. Saw something about her and the house on TV on D Day this year.

@adventussaxonum448 3 месяца назад

4:20 - Port en Bessin - scene of remarkable success by 47 Commando Royal Marines, including attacking entrenched defenders (who had flack ships covering them) at odds of 1-4 in the defenders' favour.

@TellySavalas-or5hf 3 месяца назад

The café used good Irish coffee that D-day.

@garyowen9044 3 месяца назад

God Bless!

@peteyspaletas2023 3 месяца назад

Wow. Nicely done.🇫🇷👍 I would like to recommend "Normandy. The Great Crusade" presented by the Discovery Channel in 1994 and narrated by late American actor Charles Durning,who himself landed on Normandy as a liberating G.I.

@mrs.m.pennycuick7876 3 месяца назад

So scary at the time! Some French people still respect British/Allied bravery which freed them!

@georgiafrye2815 3 месяца назад

Some French people do not care for Americans but the older generation still alive still is thankful for US support.

@lululemalin8497 3 месяца назад

Why do you say that ? As a french people , i am not agree with you ,i have 25 years old and it's important for me and for my friends (the same generation) and for all the french people (not just the old generation) , we will never forget the sacrifice of all the allies for our liberty . this is what i think and i am not alone in that case in FRANCE

@wwisaacson4807 3 месяца назад

As an American we must remember that it wasn't just the U.S. forces who landed on D-Day. There were British, Canadians, French, and others who were essential in making the landing a success.

@bordersw1239 3 месяца назад

@@wwisaacson4807. More British than Americans landed on D day.

@R3c0nf1gur3d 3 месяца назад

@@bordersw1239more American blood was spilled.

@bordersw1239 3 месяца назад

@@R3c0nf1gur3d agreed

@goelnuma6527 3 месяца назад

Her English is better than the English

@adventussaxonum448 3 месяца назад

She married an Englishman and spends half the year in England.

@mandarkastronomonov2962 3 месяца назад

Yes. I was confused for a second and had to reread the headline. 😂 Her English is amazing.

@stanleyparkin7718 2 месяца назад

Me and my son were talking to her and she told us she lives in England for a few months then goes back to France for a few months I think her parents were in the resistance

@barrycroyle4473 3 месяца назад

Nice, this is great!!

@cheddar2648 3 месяца назад

_It is well that war is so terrible, lest we become too fond of it_ Robert E. Lee

@PomahXomehko 3 месяца назад

What the allies knew that during D Day 74000 American Ukrainians, 35000 Canadian Ukrainians, 15000 Polish Ukrainians took part . The northeast of France 2300 Ukrainians changed sides and fought with the Free French resistance during Operation Proust 1944 and helped to liberate that part of France by three months earlier Charles De Gaulle kept his word they joined the French Foreign Legion and 7000 of them did service during 1945 to 1950 in Indo China so there's some good history to know .

@armoredsaint6639 3 месяца назад

Sorry, I don’t understand your point

@PomahXomehko 3 месяца назад

@@armoredsaint6639 Then look up Operation Proust 1944 it will explain everything then look up American Ukrainian veterans and Canadian Ukrainian veterans and they will explain everything it's simple historical facts .

@columbmurray 3 месяца назад

Ukrainians formed SS divisions.

@autoguy57 3 месяца назад

Too bad how Europeans appreciate the sacrifices made by the troops during WWII more than current Americans do. 😢

@teevee2145 3 месяца назад

how would you know?

@autoguy57 3 месяца назад

@@teevee2145 I asked your mother…

@vrinda5303 3 месяца назад

That's news to me. Over here, there was lots of coverage of D-Day events and memorials.

@roberts7961 3 месяца назад

And there's Sadiq khan never honored one thing on D day, he is a little traitor and should be removed with Sunak who left early

@Backwardlooking 3 месяца назад

👍🏻🇫🇷✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@ugoibeawuchi28 3 месяца назад

Beautiful lady

@John-me7tx 3 месяца назад

They did what - - - had to be done.

@unojayc 3 месяца назад

🇬🇧🇫🇷👍...democracy and freedom!..

@wisconsinfarmer4742 3 месяца назад

"The young ones of today have equally good intentions" The torturous winding path toward enlightenment can not be turned back. Dark forces appear to be reversing humanity, but we will always bounce back and throw off those who seek to subjugate.

@amc3463 3 месяца назад

🇺🇸 🇬🇧

@garymcaleer6112 3 месяца назад

Of the many lost men on that day, and the days following, 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.” There were many stories of miraculous deliverance among them. Only "in the judgment" will "the saints" come to understand the rules of engagement between Christ and Satan that allowed GOD to intervene for some of those men as He did for Desmond Doss.

@Campuch 3 месяца назад

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@麤驫鑫 3 месяца назад

프랑스의 국제 TV 뉴스 채널의 구상은 1987년 자크 시라크 당시 총리때부터 구상해왔으나, 본격적으로 구상에 들어간 계기는 2003년 2월 때였다. 당시 프랑스 외무장관이었던 도미니크 드 빌팽이 UN에서 이라크전에 반대하는 연설을 하였을 때 CNN과 BBC 등에서 제대로 보도를 하지 않은 것에 자극을 받아 뒷날 총리에 오르면서 미국과 영국의 시각에 맞서 프랑스의 시각을 전하는 국제 뉴스 채널을 구상하게 되었다. 이후 공영 방송인 프랑스 텔레비지옹과 프랑스 최대 민영 방송인 TF1과의 공동 출자로 2006년 12월 6일 방송을 시작하였다.[1][2] 개국 당시에는 프랑스어와 영어의 두 언어로 방송되었고, 다음 해부터 아랍어 방송도 시작되었다. 장기적으로는 스페인어 방송도 계획되고 있다.

@snapdragon6601 3 месяца назад

👍

@paulzammataro7185 3 месяца назад

🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🌺🌺🌺🌺

@ducksgo Месяц назад

What about our American soldiers? We were there also😢

@lyndafayesmusic 3 месяца назад

@l337pwnage 3 месяца назад

you gotta be careful of what you "witnessed" in Europe or you go to jail these days.

@Conn30Mtenor 3 месяца назад

One troubling issue was the bombing of Caen- the Allies should have already learned that a destroyed city is more difficult to take than an intact one.

@Heathcliffe57 3 месяца назад

The British didn't force that war to happen...It was the foreign country within the country (THE CITY) within the square mile in the center of London that has the blood of millions on its hands, however....

@jaywalker3087 3 месяца назад

" it's OK we're British ". Means nothing these days.....

@sugarkane4830 3 месяца назад

Well funny enough. They aren’t talking on nowadays are they?

@lyndafayesmusic 3 месяца назад

Means communicating in an eloquent language instead of a bunch of American gibberish? Back when leaders fought to defend the rights of the innocent, instead of massacring for power and greed. "God Gave Them One More Day" and " Why War?!" VideosToInspireHumanityByFredGold&LyndaFaye Dedicated to our vets who've been displaced by Joe's new asylum seekers!

@DjWellDressedMan 3 месяца назад

WW2 was about Fighting Far-Right Fascists! / 2024 People are Voting for Far-Right Fascists! huh?

@ebrimadem5287 3 месяца назад

You were sick of 6yrs of German occupation what do you think of the Algerian been of **** your 150yrs of occupation

@frederickpile3599 3 месяца назад

What about islamic occupation, may I remind you that algiers used to be an hub for slavery under ottoman occupation. Europeans, including french, were under constant lootings, kidnappings and rapes as instructed by qur'anic non-sens . Don't play taqqyah or else get some knowledge, because it was time to stop islamic satanic attacks in both the meditereanean sea and africa.

@CROM-on1bz 3 месяца назад

You shouldn't come to pillage and look for slaves on the European coasts or play pirate in the Mediterranean. Always the same with you, you look for problems and when they arrive you cry....

@alexsilent5603 3 месяца назад

The Allies/German losses ratio on the western front was 2.4/1. But no western commanders were held responsible for throwing people into meatgrinder.

@jeditanker72 3 месяца назад

i see your pretty pride flag, do you forget that on your side the losses were 7/1? The point to this is that the world sacrificed to rid europe of a tyrant. sorry that your side was already fighting for an almost equally evil dictator, and never realized freedom after the war. Crazy that the stage is set for another run by evil, but once again, brave freedom loving people will push back.

@angloirishcad 3 месяца назад

The attacking force generally loses more

@alexsilent5603 3 месяца назад

@@Nickel1147 Maybe.

@Nickel1147 3 месяца назад

@@alexsilent5603 So when the French were firing in 1940 and killing civilians, you'd be happy for those generals to be judged too? How do you feel about Resistance blowing up civilians?

@ald1144 3 месяца назад

Aw, look everybody. It's the token "but what about Russia" guy.

@abrahamdozer6273 3 месяца назад

Did any Canadians liberate France? Non, non.

@stevebarlow3154 3 месяца назад

Oui, oui, 14,000 Canadians landed at Juno Beach.

@abrahamdozer6273 3 месяца назад

@@stevebarlow3154 The French have forgotten, malheureusement.

@abrahamdozer6273 3 месяца назад

@@sugarkane4830 I didn't see a single reference to Canadians once in this enitre video in spite of the hundreds there right now in France observing D-Day.. I see that France 24s strong point is not their own history.

@kathyacemoi3241 3 месяца назад

@@abrahamdozer6273 oui dommage que ses personnes racontent leur véritable histoire et non une invention pour faire plaisir au gens qui ne réfléchissent pas.

@wisconsinfarmer4742 3 месяца назад

Most people will tell the story of what occurred in proximity. I'm not all butthurt over Omaha not being mentioned, because this was not a story about Americans. It is a story about the British.