Hey if this was in the UK sadly it would be vandalised and locked up it lovely to see how well they are respected i will for sure be coming to see this in the future thanks for sharing.
It’s crazy how once on those lands and under those skies thousands of young men died and it was total chaos and now all you hear is the wind and the sea and a feeling of freedom/peacefulness all because of their sacrifice.
Un Crapaud I was in Paris and I live in Switzerland. I was shocked it was so dirty.. I also went to Côte d’Azur, and everything was fine there. But Paris, not my city..
Great stuff. When i was a little kid my dad told me stories about d-day. I never understood the magnitude of what he told me. Now that i'm older i can appreciate the affect of that day had on the world. My dad passed 4-1-13. I miss him every day. He was with the 147th combat engineers, they were amongst the 1st wave that landed on omaha beach.
Very cool. It's a powerful place, you see it in movies and hear stories but only when you're there does it tie everything together. Thanks for sharing!
midnight rider my great grandfather was apart of the 29th Infantry Division. He went in on Omaha in the second wave, I’m so proud of him for what he did and what he had to see. Like he had always told my grandfather: “im no hero boy, the men that died are heroes.”
Lustful Gaming: my dad never wanted to see himself as a hero either. I think because of all the horrible things that happened and what you mentioned. I appreciate your awareness and compassion for that great generation.
If those bunkers were in the USA, they would be covered in graffiti, vandalized, fenced off and there would be a McDonalds within 15 feet of the back of them along with a strip mall and it would cost you $25 / person to look at them.
212 X Not even true, I’ve never seen any vandalizing, graffiti or anything at a US national park or historic site. They’re kept clean and majority are free
My Great Uncle was a captain in the war and was a beach master on Omaha. He was in the first wave in the attack. He directed the landing on that beach and helped soldiers out of the boats. He was one of the first American soldiers to land in France that day. He also helped land General Patton in the invasion of Sicily at Salerno. He also served in North Africa. On Omaha, he was standing under heavy German fire. Somehow he made it out alive that day. I went to Normandy (stayed in Bayeux) and saw these beaches. It is crazy to think about what happened there. It makes it feel wrong to complain about being cold after seeing that. In the American cemetery, there was a quote from a soldier saying “ I said to the man next to me ‘if there is a hell this has got to be it.’ Then a minute later he took a bullet to the head.” Rest in Peace Captain F Perry Williams. I wish I met you. God bless America.
Reed Byford that's why Europeans are the best race car drivers. It's nothing to them. Americans can't race unless it's in a circle with a mile wide track
I was there when I was 14 on a school trip, I'm now 33. The weight of what I was looking at gets heavier year by year. Those trenches...i read a Canadian man's love letter to his family etched in rock complete with a maple leaf drawing. My eyes still water thinking about it. God bless all of you who died for my family's freedoms.
I had the same experience when I was 16 yo. in 1974. I hope I'm not repeating myself, because I have posted this here or somewhere else. Driving to the memorial , almost 30 yrs to the day, I saw big craters and bombed barns throughout. The craters were deep and over grown with grass. At the memorial, therewas nothing but silence. Everyone went their separateway. I have always loved WWII history, and so it wasn't difficult to imagine what happened. You take each step and feel the terrible emotions of the day coming up from the sand and through your feet. Before you know it you're weeping. Tetrahedrons (I think that's what they're called), are scattered across the beach. At pointe de/du hoc you see bunkers and craters. It's all so profoundly sad. On one of the walls of the memorial are maps with the battle plans. Below or close by, it is written that we purchased the land to bury the dead. Oh yeah, the French also charged us a fee for each soldier fighting in France. I returned to the memorial several years later and did not see bombed out buildings or craters in the fields. The memorial is something every American should visit. There is a terrible price for freedom. It was paid here.
So many things happened during WW2. I mean so many. The courage, the fear, the anger, the hate, the perseverance, the commitment, the confusion, the crying, the first jet plane, big bombers, first submarine, the brotherhood, mass casualties, the defeat, the victory and now we sit here calmly watching this beach. Then to suddenly be awoke to today's world. What a shame on us for forgetting what really happened in these times
It always blows my mind how massive the war effort was on both sides. For Germany to transport all of those huge weapons and cement to build these bunkers is just mind blowing.
Looking at how peaceful this beaches are it makes me grateful for how countless men lost their lives for our freedom may they rest in heavenly peace. It makes me proud to say my great-grandfather fought for how we know life today. Rest In Peace
This video brings a few memory's back of the time I visited these places it really makes you think how grateful you should be for the life we have would really love to go again to Normandy
I was there too. So amazing and also terrible in one feeling. I am from Germany. And all this Things let me feel a terrible feeling. I am so sorry for all the People who lost there lives There
I've been there last summer with my father and the thing I'll never forget is pointe du hoc. An immense lunar landscape with bomb craters as deep as 6 meters in solid rock and a couple of completely devastated bunkers. Very impressive
Thats why we had skilled tradesmen directly after the war from the work carried out in the war effort . people really come together like no other in war.
french minesweepers said they have work for atleast the next 700 years just with the WWI ammos, and we've no idea about the WW2 ones (sorry for the grammar but i learn english by myself)
I have driven these very roads myself during two visits to the landing beaches. Its a great place to visit, sad to remember all those who fell there, but also happy to see what true freedom looks like today. Beautiful part of France as well, I love it, incredible food, fantastic wine, calvados and ciders.
Thanks a million for uploading this great historic beach. I really wanna visit this place. Seeing the movie "Saving private Ryan" is not something exaggerate but shown the reality and true sacrifice of many soldiers. The distance between life and death is an inch and know this soldiers stepped into great combat for great reason. We are enjoying the fruitful moments on chaotic historic foundation. Great tribute to all those who sacrificed their lives.
My uncle died a couple of months before D Day while serving as a Warrant Officer on a Sunderland Flying boat. I was able to obtain details of the incident from the Australian War Memorial to satisfy my own curiosity as my father, an RAAF Beaufort Bomber pilot at the same time in the Pacific, would say very little about the fate of his brother, obviously because it just brought back memories of a sad time. The extract from the report read as follows :- Sunderland ML 740 left base at 0847 on an anti-submarine patrol on 23 March 1944. At 1353 it reported sighting enemy fighters and was soon attacked by 9 JU88s. Severely damaged, the captain ordered ditching positions and the aircraft ditched heavily into a 20 foot swell and sank within 2 minutes. 7 crew members gained the dinghy but (my uncle) lay unconcious on the wing, one member failed to escape, and the other two were last seen on the wing. The 7 survivors were picked up by a naval vessel at 1520 on 25/03/44. The report also mentioned the shoot down occurred in the English Channel off shore from Plymouth. I only hope my uncle was unconcious up to his last, he was 20 at the time and left a widow back home.
Respect for all those who fought in war to preserve the liberty and freedom all around. This particular battle here is easily the most recognizable in the world, and it's heartbreaking that men would never get to see their family again on the same beach.
Bayeux is a beautiful town never fought over during the War. It’s origin is over 2000 years ago. Many houses, walls, were built in the 14, 15, 16th centuries.
Close to the beach at Arromanches is an old German bunker and gun position. It is beautifully kept and inside it has been converted into excellent very modern public toilets. Outside above the entrance is a very nice sign. “These toilets by the courtesy of Adolph Hitler”........ viva La France !.
Great video thanks! So much I haven't seen before. Was great to see the history "in-person" instead of the usual pre-framed History Channel presentation I have seen so much of before. Sad to think about everything in context... Thank you to all who sacrificed themselves so that we can have the freedom we enjoy today. P.S. There is something very ASMR-ish about this vid too.
Tanta Historia en estas imágenes! Sin lugar a dudas el tema que más me intriga y más me apasiona. Ojalá hallamos aprendido las lecciones y que jamás se vuelva a repetir tanta barbaridad.
Austin Ian Yes it is free and fortunately. And anyway there are literally bunkers everywhere in France so it wouldn’t help to make the visit pay for certain places because people would immediately go to the free places. Not very far from my village there is for example a wood where there are several bunkers, the owner of this wood let me enter and leave his wood as I want because he says that it make the history live. If you want to see pictures of the wood type «Le bois carré » on Google which means in English the square wood.
My Great Uncle Julian Strand Died during the Normandy Landings on D-Day of German - occupied France in Europe along with my Grandpa which was my Dads Dad that was in Patton’s Third Army, he fought all the way though the Battle of the Bulge but he got to come back home...
He must have kissed the ground when he got back, way too many, never got the chance. The 3rd Army suffered 139,000+ casualties, during WW2!, 16,596 were killed!
Not just soldiers, over 20,000 (thousands) French civilians, men, women, and children, died during the Normandy campaign, alone! One American infantryman said that the thing that continued to haunt him, was seeing the bodies of so many dead children!
I see a lot of comments on how the streets seem so narrow and why ? ... I have to say keep in mind that Bayeaux, as a lot of other french and european cities has around 2000 years history, and that if not necesary the inhabitants never redesigned the entire city center layout. Buildings were only occasionally rebuilt, enlarged, etc. That is not the case for a lot of cities in Normandy that were totally wiped out by WW2 destructions and rebuilt in the 1950's (like Caen), but luckily for Bayeux it was taken very soon (June 7th) by the British forces with some infrantry fights but no major air or artillery bombings. Most of french city centers are from the Middle Ages if not Antiquity, and by that time those streets fit perfectly for horses of chariots :) Driving in these streets : you get used to it.
It's disgusting what mankind does to each other; never in the history of the world has there been another species that destroys itself and harms itself as much as we do. The reason we do it and can get away with it "there're many willing men and many humans that will gladly die to protect their loved ones because that's what they were told they must do to protect them." However keep in mind i am by no means disrespecting veterans, they deserve the utmost respect for what they were forced to indure.
motor guy it’s because we’re smart and if we are smart we understand more and make more stuff in time so we understand hate and revenge so THATS WHY WE ARE TO SMART
@@mcnuggets8798 Yes people so smart that did wars in which millions of people died. Kids starving, watching their parents die. People are so smart that the world is full of pollution, of poverty and crime. That is how people are smart. Maybe they have a better brain from the other animals but, unfortunately, they don't use only for good things
To walk the same steps as they did very cool video overwhelming historical sites crazy to see the guns still there and not vandalize wood be awesome to see in person.
HeisenbergRed consider the history it has and reminds us of what not to do, since ww2 there has not been a major global conflict, he doesn’t mean “ oh wow I love mass murder that comes with war” mate, chill
@@heisenbergred He means that it's interesting to study it, and it's the same for me. He didn't meant to say like he liked ww2 and how people died. Nobody would ever like that
This is history right here the fallen soldiers will be remember for there sacrifices salute ladies and gentlemen without them our freedom would been taken away🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was on exactly the same place this year (2018) on june 5 and 6 and it was the same wet and cold weather, but very crowded with tourists and army people: jeeps and other vehicles, static show guys in US army dress and off course the real guys who fought here. They are old, but still there.
