Saving Private Ryan: The REAL Story Behind the Glider Crash Scene | American Artifact Episode 97

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Anyone who has watched Saving Private Ryan probably remembers the scene where Captain Miller, played by Tom Hanks, and the other members of his search party come upon a crashed glider with a bunch of wounded paratroopers. What some may not know is that this scene where a general was killed in a glider on D-Day was based on a true story. So we're going to the exact place where this tragedy happened along with some relics of the crash from the collection at The Gettysburg Museum of History.
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@Achewen123 Год назад

I didn’t know until my uncles funeral that he was a WW2 glider pilot and flew into D Day plus 2 and Bastogne time period per family report. He never mentioned it to me. His living siblings said when I questioned them after the service “oh yes, when he got back he would rent a plane at the local airport and fly us around”. Best generation ever. Did their job for their country then returned to life as best they could.

@verncommet1798 Год назад

My Grandfather also was d day plus 2 439th

@alitlweird Год назад

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 There’a about to be a BIG CHRISTIAN REVIVAL in America and around the world. ✝️

@mrkeogh Год назад

As in previous generations, they were expected to suffer in silence.

@oliviaa_howell Год назад

I swear, Erik has an artifact from EVERY major historical event. it’s so impressive! absolutely AWESOME

@froot6086 Год назад

Fr, cant imagine the struggle and time it took to obtain those items

@Stopcrying70 Год назад

How do you have 39 subs olivia with zero videos?..😅

@geoffthiessen646 Год назад

Love the work you do JD - thanks for bring history alive! The Chance to go to those places are probably never going to happen and you open the window for me to experience it thru your lenses! Truly appreciative

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

🙏🏼

@markb.7642 Год назад

You have one of the coolest jobs ever, not only do you teach history but you get to travel to the actual sites where history was made and bring it all to us, I for one am seriously jealous, I could only wish to visit the places you have been. Keep up the fantastic work.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thank you. Glad to share the experience. Learning a lot myself.

@scottc6639 Год назад

i have always considered myself a WW2 nerd, but i have never heard this story before. thank you for what you are doing! keep the stories alive.

@dimwitt461 Год назад

I remember being a fresh PV2 at Ft. Campbell back in 1986, visiting the Don F. Pratt museum on post. It was one of those things you “had to do” to get a feel for the history of the Division.

@lewistaylor1965 Год назад

I have subscribed to this chaneel because it is bloody brilliant...You can't beat getting the info of WW2 by historians on site making it all the more accessible and real...Fantastic job to all concerned on this channel and museum...Big Thank you...From the UK

@thenikonjones Год назад

Outstanding! JD, just want to say that since your issue in Greece, you have come back stronger than ever man. You are killing it! Well done!

@phyllishershkowitz3806 Год назад

You have the BEST channel on RU-vid! Thanks so much for all your efforts to keep history alive!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

That really does mean a lot. Thank you.

@TravelingToHistory Год назад

Interesting video about my all time favorite WW2 movie ever JD. Perhaps a fun fact, the actual gliders that was used during the making of Saving Private Ryan is located at the museum: the liberation Wings in the Netherlands.

@leesherman100 Год назад

Thanks for clearing up the details on this bit of D Day history. No one was immune from death on this "Day of Days". Five stars. *****

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👍🏻

@williammathews3022 Год назад

I love when you put out these videos that relate to famous Hollywood movies/TV series. These movies/series are what got me interested in this period of history and its great to see the actual locations and learn the actual facts. Thank you!

@johnneill5960 Год назад

I spent 9 years in combat in Iraq & Afghanistan, was wounded in Afghanistan & hit 3 IEDs . I was heavily involved in the battle of Ramadi in 06 . All the crap I saw & went through was absolutely nothing compared to what these D Day & Bastogne guys went through . Even with my insight I couldn’t imagine going through what they did . True warriors

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

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@BrianHanscom0790 Год назад

It's amazing when you guys bring relics back to their respective areas. It gives you goosebumps in awe. Love the channel, Watching from Pahrump Nevada 🇺🇲

@Dylantuning1995 Год назад

Never knew it was based on an actual event. SPR is hands down my favorite movie and started my WW2 obsession at 8 years old. Also never knew that horsa was supposed to present Pratt in the museum, saw it, looked at the artifacts and read a thing or 2 and moved on haha. Also I cannot praise this channel enough, the animations, the war footage, the editing, the scenery shots, the amazing soundtracks on every video and most importantly, the great history lesson! I hope that RU-vid or your videos will be around to one day show my (grand)kids so they can learn about WW2 as well!

@deletdis6173 Год назад

I said the same thing, WW2 was a shitshow.

@thomasdragosr.841 Год назад

@@deletdis6173Every one was expendable...

@WranglerRunner1 Год назад

Another great episode. Tremendous job with the editing! Especially liked the glider graphic overlay on the map at the beginning.

@righteousredneck777 Год назад

When I went and saw it in the theater,when it was over, I knew I was in a theater full of veterans. The tears were flowing. I had the opportunity to thank many of them after asking if they served. It was a movie that truly brought to life just how brutal of a day that really was.

@panderson9561 Год назад

A bit different experience for me. Friend and I went to see it. When the movie started the theater was about 75% full...it was a Sunday night. By the time the movie was over, I bet there wasn't a dozen people left.

@zachary-du8mm Год назад

another dandy video. these sites you take us to, it's incredible! the story and history on this one, top tier work as always. appreciate you sharing it with us!

@thomasanderson3230 Год назад

Eric and J.D. your episodes are superb! I look forward to each one! often watching them more than once.Great history!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

🙏🏼

@Carolbearce Год назад

Always love learning more history about WW2. Thank you.

@LorraineinPNW Год назад

Thank you for telling the story of these heroes!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

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@MikeyD0 Год назад

I’ve never been really into history but man you make some incredible videos and they captivate me. I watch them one after another for hours. Not sure if you know this but I love your videos 😂

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👊🏻

@helenabiesma5560 Год назад

like so many lost and in a moment beautiful remembered - lovely documentary to reflect that

@rudydedogg6505 Год назад

I don't mean to nit pick but "WACO", the maker of the CG-4 glider, is pronounced "wahco". The company name abbreviation stands for the Weaver Aircraft Company. Excellent series and I've been a subscriber for a couple of years now. Thank you!

@darylmorning Год назад

I thought he was pronouncing it wrong.

@jdr26th Год назад

Thank you JD, it brought back good memories of my great-grandfather, John Calvin Tyner, and glider road that ran through his property next to Camp Mackall (Camp Hoffman). Some of the stories that were told to me, give some insight to what the family saw and did during that time period. The film insert, was from that area, again thank you God bless and stay safe

@simonr9870 Год назад

I saw the last remaining Waco Glider at Ste-Mere Eglise Airborne museum, those things were death traps.

@Kate-wu9if Год назад

Combat was a tv series in the 60's that got people interested in WW2..it was the best..ty JD learning alot!

@OTDMilitaryHistory Год назад

I'm glad to know that scene is based on real events. Perhaps this is another place to add to my list for my trip to Normandy.

@adriennejames9120 Год назад

Watching your videos from this area, I am amazed at how little some things have changed... after almost 80 years, these places are preserved as they were in 1944. It blows my mind!

@CSltz Год назад

In Lubbock Texas. At the airport. They were having a WWII Display. Maybe ten years ago. I had always thought that it was just a scene written for the movie. But there on the wall was apiece of cloth from the glider and the story about it. Just fascinating.

@don-e4838 Год назад

Like flying a freight train, never forget that line in the movie.

@The.Original.Potatocakes Год назад

Bleeping fright train

@Benzer2010 Год назад

Right after I graduated high school I went to aircraft maintenence school and had the exceptional honor and privilege of helping to restore a Waco glider, right alongside some WW2 veterans who worked on them during the war. We talked about everything, and I hung on their every word. I wish I could go back to those days. I miss that glider and those men.

@phillipgibbons386 Год назад

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing.

@lappin6482 Год назад

finally! I always wanted to know the real story behind this was thinking about it the other day, the JD does it again!!! legend

@reloadncharge9907 Год назад

Yet another awesome episode! Thanks, Andrew

@sonofhawaii4227 Год назад

Another great video JD! I just love getting onto RU-vid and seeing a new video from you. It’s one of the best parts of my day! Keep it going brother! Aloha 🤙🏼

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

I appreciate that! 👊🏻

@d.g.n9392 Год назад

Very well done video and tribute to general Pratt. I enjoy so many of the historical videos, being retired and a senior, it’s a great way to learn the history, understand the personalities if so many soldiers, veterans, who made so many sacrifices. I have gained a lot of interest since the movie of saving private Ryan. Lead me to just do more reading and research . The Band of Brothers series is another great record of the events. My family lost a ( my great uncle) soldier, killed in action in Italy, January 3, 1944. I was able to research his records, obtained all the relevant documents from the VA records center. Learning where and when he was killed, near mount porchia, Italy. He was buried in a military cemetery in Italy. His family made the arrangements to have his body disinterred and prepared to repatriate to his hometown in Missouri. So I have all the information related to his death, disinterment, shipping, receiving, personal effects, and photographs of his gravesite service at his family’s cemetery lot. Fortunately for me, my elderly great aunt saved all the information and photographs, passed to me. And I’ve since been able to establish several veteran tributes to him.

@jeffbosworth8116 Год назад

J.D. I know from your previous videos, you are a man of faith. You might appreciate this. According to the book Sgt. Nibley, PHD, Bible scholar Hugh Nibley was originally scheduled to be in that glider and Pratt was supposed to land on the beach in a jeep. A short time before DDay (a few days?) Pratt decided he wanted to land earlier and displaced Nibley, who then landed by jeep. This was not the only occasion where the soldier who took Nibley's place was killed very soon after.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Wow!

@ncwoodworker Год назад

Learned something new today. Thanks JD.

@wildlifebybrianhoule Год назад

Another solid video. Great job guys! It's eerie how many stories like this unfolded in those hours and days after. Regarding SPR, it's the only movie I've ever been to where I saw who I believe veterans leave because they no doubt were suffering flashbacks and at the end of the movie, not one person said a word. Some just sat there and the rest just walked out quietly as can be. I'll never forget that, along with never forgetting the sacrifices.

@terryeustice5399 Год назад

Very cool the information on General Pratt. And the crash. Thanks for sharing 💯👍

@ajbartholomew4499 Год назад

Always enjoy you and Eric thanks so much

@camdodge9891 Год назад

Another outstanding video thanks JD

@dawnlefevre9172 Год назад

I learn something new EVERY time I watch your videos!! Thank you!!! I'm getting so smart!!! 😂👏👏

@haydenbrantley Год назад

What's funny is I actually just watched the movie this week! It had been a while since I had seen it all the way through. Since it's been so long since the movie came out, I really wish someone would make another D-Day film. I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of other stories to be told about that day and the weeks that followed.

@truthtriumphant Год назад

Totally agree!! I hope some more D-day films telling the stories of other heroes and heroines are made again soon!!

@robert8321 Год назад

Wow! 65th anniversary. Cabourg, FR. I met 'Billy'. Billy (himself) found that he was ALSO under a Jeep, as he too landed a Horsa glider. Billy defended Pegasus bridge.

@FantsyPants Год назад

Great work once again, thanks

@burlyduck82 Год назад

The music selection is superb. Sets the tone well.

@kevinthomas4171 11 месяцев назад

I spent four years in the 506th (Charlie Co, 1st Bn, ‘77-‘81) and have been through the 101st’s Pratt Museum at Ft. Campbell many times. I don’t recall hearing his name in the movie and never made the connection that he was the one killed in that crash. Appreciate the insight and the memories.

@tacosandfrenchfries4561 Год назад

Really interesting video. Thanks

@1psychofan Год назад

I just now got to watch this! How sad that they put him in the glider to “protect” him and that’s what killed him! 😢 my goodness!!!!! Another great episode JD❤ thank you!

@adammitchell3462 Год назад

I've gotta give saving private Ryan credit because that one movie is precisely what started my life long obsession with WW2 history.

@MapleHillMunitions Год назад

Same here. Many thousands upon thousands of dollars since spent.

@Wideoval73 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for another very informative video. Keep up the great work!

@pauldouglas3084 Год назад

Really enjoyed the video mate my favourite movie all time

@dallas7129 Год назад

The music in the background is 🔥

@vynyly Год назад

Another great one. Love the partnership with The Gettysburg Museum of History. I wonder how big the building would have to be if Erik tried to display every artifact he has in the collection. Smithsonian of Gettysburg. lol

@andrewt6802 5 месяцев назад

This is quite possibly the most famous Pratt fall in history.

@cynditermath9118 Год назад

Perhaps they should have let the General parachute in. He might not have perished. Let paratroopers do what paratroopers do, parachute in. JD, thanks for this piece of history.

@sbishop6450 Год назад

Always learn something new when you post a video JD. You and Erik are a great team. His museum is a bit like Dr Who’s tardis. Bigger inside than outside. ❤ uk

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👊🏻

@craigweir8092 Год назад

You need to go to the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas. The whole museum is about WW2 and even more so about the gliders used in Europe

@dustyvanbrocklin4731 Год назад

Once again great work JD.

@williampockets 11 месяцев назад

When my grandfather saw this movie in the theaters he told me all he could smell was diesel fuel. He landed on Utah Beach 3rd wave June 6th. He was amazed at how well they made everything sound and feel so authentic. God bless these men

@The1944WarMuseum Год назад

Another great video JD!

@sandysue202 Год назад

Great video JD! I can't imagine anything much scarier than flying over a battlefield area in a glider that depends on friction with the earth/grass to slow you down when it lands!! Yikes!

@mattskustomkreations Год назад

The kind old guy across the street in my neighborhood, best known for handing out butterscotch candy was a D-Day glider pilot. I didn’t find out til after his passing. Wish I had known to ask him about it…

@Infinitegrowth-zt1mh Год назад

Awesome as usual. Thank you so much.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks! 🙏🏼

@matt32187 Год назад

best ww2 channel out there. appreciate all the content. great to be able to enjoy things I won't be able to on person

@SueProv Год назад

I'm getting an education from the JD &E universitty. I love it. What incredible relics

@RobinHullBuilds Год назад

My late father trained as a glider pilot for D-Day. I’m not sure of the reason why he was removed from the training? He would have been 18 and had several brothers fighting in all branches of the British military, including a brother who was a Lancaster rear gunner, a brother in the Royal Navy, another in the merchant navy and another in REME Mountain Division. His brother in law was with the 8th Army (Desert Rats) in North Africa. He went on to train for jungle fighting and then onto Palestine in 1946. God bless you dad xx

@ronnylee8393 Год назад

Thank you for your hard work. Love what you do.

@lawrencestrabala6146 Год назад

My Uncle was already volunteered to the Army in early 1941. He knew what was coming. He could see it in world events. When the Army instituted the Airborne he volunteered and was in the very first class the 501st of the 1001st. He saw action everywhere the the Battling Bastards of Bastogne went. He was wounded at Normandy when his plane missed its drop point evading enemy fire. It was dark and when the men were ordered to ‘Get the F out of this plane now!’ He ended up hitting a tree breaking his ankle. You can search up the 501st class. You will find the name of Howard Borts of Ohio. His nickname was Bud. Loved his doggies too. Usually owned up to five but near the end of his life only had one, he knew the time clock was running out and didn’t want his family to have to deal with multiple homeless doggies. I loved my Uncle, such a soft spoken man for a Staff Sargent in the 101st. He was my Confirmation sponsor and so I acquired another name to an already ridiculous long alphabet soup handle I became Lawrence William Howard Strabala. RIP Unc see ya on the other side.

@mattskustomkreations Год назад

Great stuff! 4:11 I believe “WACO” is pronounced “Wocko” because it is an abbreviated form of something like “Washington Company”, or the like and not named after Waco, TX.

@wdtaut5650 11 месяцев назад

Correct. The town in Texas is "way-co". The aircraft is "wah-co".

@sandylukemarsden7160 Год назад

Great work as always. Thanks mate.

@TrailbossEd Год назад

General Pratt came from a small town that I lived near when I was a young boy. The town is Brookfield, Missouri. It amazese how hardly anyone I've talked to from that area even knows about this event at all.

@jillcreager1843 Год назад

Love what you do. Thanks!

@lairdsimpsonog3840 Год назад

I worked as a TV and Film, landscaper, and was in charge of the set of SPR .. Or Saving Ryan's Privates, as everyone on set called it . It used to take me between 8 to 10 hours a day, every day, just to water all the trees and plants etc... And that was using a great big army fire tender.. ( Which was ace to drive around the set..) Keeping the turf/ sod alive where they filmed the Glider scene, was an absolute nightmare, as it was a really warm summer.. I used to have to drive about 50 miles, after I finished, my days work as Nursery Manager, just to get there. Then It would take 45 minutes to fill the Tender, and only twenty minutes, to empty it.. I was usually on set by myself, driving round the bombed out fictional village of Ramelle, and the Glider crash scene... One Sunday I was there, and as I rounded the corner of the village heading towards the Glider area, I panicked as I came under fire.. There were about twenty or so WW2 dressed soldiers, laying down in a row shooting towards me... So very lucky for me.. They were actors/ extras practicing with their rifles, using blank rounds... Thank goodness... I've still got some of the empty shell cases around somewhere, I'm sure. Hope I have added a little background to your story... Keep up the great work. Love the channel.... 💙 🙏 from 🇬🇧

@skittlesandfriends5710 Год назад

I never knew that was a real event that occurred during D-Day, I thought that I was creative license in the movie. Well done.

@jackhouston357 Год назад

WHAT IMPRESSED ME ABOUT THE MOVIE WAS THE SOUNDS OF BULLETS HITTING DIFFERENT THINGS AND THE SOUNDS OF THE WEAPONS WERE SPOT ON

@oldschooljack3479 Год назад

That pilot in the movie always gets to me. He's a complete emotional wreck from the disaster... "We were just... We were just... We were just too heavy, ya know?"

@thecincinnatikid6227 Год назад

Another awesome video as always 👍

@WFMeyer Год назад

Hey JO, I hope you find the fine folks of the Norman coast as friendly as I did. I have to make a trip back there. It looks like the museums have really upped their game since my visit for the 75th anniverasry.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Awesome people.

@WFMeyer Год назад

@@TheHistoryUnderground I often tell people to not judge French people by Parisiennes any more than you should judge American's by New Yorker's (I'm a former New Yorker)

@Blend-24 Год назад

Thank you for bringing us these stories. Question: was Saving Pvt Ryan very losely based on the Niland brothers?

@alwayshopeful70 Год назад

Yes

@kevincerce5056 Год назад

My Father WWII 9th Army 8th Armored Division Landed on Omaha Beach D-Day June 6, 1944. First town St Glees, on to St Lo, in his words they got the sh-t kicked out of them in St Lo. Fought in the Battle of The Bulge where he carried two GI's under heavy fire to safety, he received the Medal of The Silver Star award in May of 45 for doing so. He told me the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into the wrong place, He passed away on 12/2002. Forever my hero! `God Bless all that served

@jonorr7984 Год назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

@seegurke93 Год назад

Nice, have been there on my searh for the Hiesville medic station by coincidence

@wayneallen3035 Год назад

I love this channel 👍🏻

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👊🏻

@lthom5158 Год назад

Always fascinating!

@markteaney8381 11 месяцев назад

My dad was a glider pilot who flew into Normandy on D-day. As a young man i found photos of his glider and of him in England also his glider wings. All were lost in a fire when i was in the navy. Wish i still had them great time capsul

@RamblinRick_ Год назад

I visited the Normandy beaches in March 1988 with a tour group. One of the guys found a .50 cal round on the beach; it was bent in the middle, either from as gun jam or rolled over by a tank on D-Day.

@DSToNe19and83 Год назад

Dang JD, I’ve been slacking lately… top notch as always 🍻

@1970bosshemi Год назад

Lieutenant May, who was riding behind the general in the jeep is the father of a man who was a very good friend of mine.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Wow!

@verncommet1798 Год назад

My grandfather flew in operation market garden. He was a cg4a pilot

@tinbadge Год назад

Great vid. I knew there had to be some truth to that part of the movie. Thanks for taking the time to put it into perspective. 👍

@bobbennett7195 11 месяцев назад

keep the great stories coming.

@nomnommonsterr Год назад

Awesome music at 2:00 can you please tell me what it us?

@darrenstevens5513 11 месяцев назад

My first instructor pilot in 1988 landed a glider on D-Day in Normandy in 1944. I never really appreciated it at the time. It wasn’t until many years later that I understood exactly what he did.

@tundranomad Год назад

Hey guys! Quick question, how much luggage do yall bring on a trip like this, with all the artifacts and relics yall take with you? Good video!

@paulcarder8032 Год назад

In the movie, they mentioned the gliders were from the 327th Glider Infantry. Do I remember correctly? Was that historically correct? My uncle was in company C and I believe his unit may have actually landed on the beaches June 6th. Thanks.

@ridethecurve55 Год назад

My dad was born in 1922, 2nd Lt Edward Philip Befus. He served in the Pacific theater in the Alaskan atolls as a bomber patrol pilot on a P2V (or a PV2) in 1942 -43 to keep a watch out for Japanese boats or subs - I can't get a definitive answer of which patrol bomber it was. Anyway, I'm wondering if a short could be made of the Alaskan theater to better understand what his mission was and how its success was achieved. Thank You!

@TheIndyspace Год назад

PV-2, it was a smaller 2-engine bomber built by Lockheed...it was similar to the civilian Lockheed Lodestar cargo plane and also had a family resemblance to Amelia Earhart's Lockheed twin.

@donnal.oglesby4806 Год назад

Was the general's body returned home or is he buried at a National Cemetery there in Normandy??Since the accident happened there I would of thought that the locals would of gotten more from the wreakage than anyone else, including any American Military. sad. thank you for sharing J.D.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

He’s buried in Arlington.