Spies of War - The D-Day Spies | Full Documentary 

What nationalities and ethnicities are you allowing into that fabled group??

@@Davidfooterman not the nazzzzis that’s for sure👿👿

@@Peirithous I gotta ask you: who is this GG? Is it the enduring of hardship during the Depression and WW2, or the witnessing of and participation in those events that defines this group? Either way, Americans are the least accurately described this way because, it could be argued, we suffered and participated less than our European cousins and, dare we admit it, could also have been the nation possibly more responsible for the whole debacle than any other single participant, (setting aside the Nazis who were not and are not a sovereign nation).

My late Father was a merchant seaman, and on D Day he was on a troopship called the Empire Farmer, so great was the naval bombardment that Mum said when he came back he was deaf and shook for a week.

@@colindebourg9012 Yeah,my Grandad was a R.N gunner in a D.E.M.S team(defensively equipped merchant ship).I was a bit too young to have been able to speak to him about the war though.👍

@@Anglo_Saxon1 I think we don't realise just how young these heroes were, my Dad went to sea in 1940 aged 18, endured the Arctic convoys to Russia, North Atlantic convoys to America and many other trips including being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean aboard the Dorrington Court, he must have been terrified.

Indeed.ask any true war hero and without fail their answer is uniform:the true heroes never came home ...

Tacking?

There are errors, the most egregious of which is totally omitting *OPERATION MINCEMEAT,* a British plant of disinformation (using a dead body) which is probably the most convincing ruse which resulted in Hitler’s absolute refusal to send help to Normandy….one of a handful of fatal misjudgments. Look it up in Wikipedia where there’s an excellent article. There’s also an excellent documentary just about this operation on the Timeline channel.

You might enjoy operation Fortitude. Feeding misinformation to the Germans. Many put their lives on the line and others died. We owe them everything

Lol there are NO women spies u silly goose..... now go eat a cucumber 🥒 sandwich 🥪

Glad you like it!

True....the one they done with the doppelganger Nazi floating off the coast was genius

There's a fairly accurate statement made after the war that goes: This war was won by Russian blood, American brawn and British brains

@@jackietreehorn5561 I think you mean the fake Royal Marines Major in Operation Mincemeat. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bh2e6sE6YXA.html

@@richardcaves3601 I like that phrase very much indeed. Thank you. 🙂

@@richardcaves3601 and all three kidnapped German scientists when it ended just to start the cold war...German physicists obviously had more brains than all three lol....true though

Actually it was Jebsen and Tricycle. Not Pujol.

Excuse me? Give me a break

There is many Nations what taken part in D-day and as a British citizen I can I say thank you very much we hold great depth to these Nations

Whilst not disagreeing with you I have never read any Australian or NZ formations arriving on D Day beaches on June 6 or even in the months thereafter. However, the was a 100 French Commando unit which did and the Polish armoured division (which finally opened the Failaise gap !) arrived shortly thereafter. The Free French division arrived in Normandy from Algeria in July 1944 I believe and were "allowed" to help in the liberation of Paris.

American lacuna - the “rest of the world” ( or actually the world except America - which is the real “American exceptionalism” not its flawed “democracy”.

South Africa fought with Brittain for Brittain against the Nazis less than 50 years after Brittain went full throttle to wipe us out completely by burning farms, killing each and every farm animal and killing defenseless women and children in concentration camps throughout South Africa. However when Germany started kicking their behinds they were quick to come begging for the lives of those very same people to help them defending their island. No hard feelings. Just an eyeopener to see the bully hiding behind the bullied when the chips are down for them. It does not mean they were defenseless, just scared when they faced the devil. No one was allowed by them to came to our aid whilst they were rampaging through our country. They callled that strategy, Scorched Earth. What it was, was the slaughtering of unarmed women and children by starvation for one. They would execute children in front of the mothers and siblings to force them to inform on Boer positions.

Yes they were there too and we can thank them as well.

From Ramsses, Tut or Ptolemys time???

@@jorgecruzseda7551 Yes absolutely ❤️

"Aren't they all"? So all women are difficult? What a piece of work u are..... #respectallwomen

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Your comment actually makes no sense whatsoever. Write in your native language, maybe.

Juan Pujol - Garbo - has been known about since at least the 1980s! As was Dusko Popov - Tricycle - but many especially not WW2 fans, will never have heard of them.

New information on the war surfaces all the time.

The British government still has many WWII files that remain classified.

Whilst I agree with you I don't know anyone under 25 who even knows what ww2 was. A video game possibly

​@@whatiswrongwithwhatihadwankers lol. Do they even know who George Washington was?

@Gavin Lepoer No, his code name was Agent Zigzag. Eddie Chapman.

Which of course was read by ultra

@@richardcaves3601 The SIS built its first machine that could decrypt Purple messages in late 1940. A second Purple analog was built by the SIS for the US Navy. A third was sent to England in January 1941 on HMS King George V, which had brought Ambassador Halifax to the U.S. That Purple analog was accompanied by a team of four American cryptologists, two Army, two Navy, who received information on British successes against German ciphers in exchange. This machine was subsequently sent to Singapore, and after Japanese moves south through Malaya, on to India. A fourth Purple analog was sent to the Philippines and a fifth was kept by the SIS. A sixth, originally intended for Hawaii, was sent to England for use there.[3]: p.23

You invented methamphetamine?

No of course not . Everyone knows Hitlers chemists invented it . The rugger boys just perfected it !

What was her son’s name?

BFD.

@AbdulRaman, so what's your comment? Eediot

Not so, they signed after the reunification of Germany in 1991

Read up on Eddie Chapman, then.

@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Interesting character. The Germans gave him an Iron Cross but the British seem to have given him money and a pardon for his criminal record but, alas, no MBE.

@@chrisvickers7928 question his class & background in those days. Now they are "two a penny" and let's notvraise the question of knighthoods !

A one of WHAT?

Dusko was similarly awarded an OBE and Iron Cross.

You are quite right. The much touted superiority of German tanks was neutralised by overwhelming numbers, of both Sherman's and T35s. Nazi obsession with bigger and better tanks actually caused their defeat, because effort was diffused, parts weren't interchangeable, and just like the jet fighters, there was too little fuel

Such as *Operation Mincemeat,* an incredibly subtle British ruse which was just as important as Patton’s “army” and the double agents which isn’t even _mentioned!!_ I won’t be watching anymore videos produced by this company!

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He was going to keep the country back in the 30's; no NHS, no council houses, and robber Baron's still in charge of transport and industry. When the safeguards were in place by Atlee, he was voted back in.

'Shaped the course of history' is the phrase the editor probably should have given them. Oh, right: we don't seem to have editors anymore, do we?

@@FigaroHey 👍 Got that right. That would have been a better phrase.

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Chris Dorrington, Yes, totally agree that Operation Mincemeat was a brilliant and effective Allied pre-invasion deception - but for the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not 1944 D-Day at Normandy.

Unrelated to the D-Day invasion.

Operation mincemeat was bout to he invsion of Sicily

Different event honey

Mincemeat was just a movie lol

Aren't there enough dogs in the country?

Yes, i had difficulty making out what was being said.

Absolutely agree, it was a masterpiece of deception and played a huge role in the successful invasion of France.

voracious reader, Yes, totally agree that Operation Mincemeat was a brilliant and effective Allied pre-invasion deception - but for the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not 1944 D-Day at Normandy.

Operation mincemeat had nothing to do with Normandy landings it was Operation husky to invade sicily in 1943

This video is about the spies relating to the D-Day invasion. Mincemeat was the year before to deceive against the landing on Sicily.

I agree but the operation didn't involve spies per se

Laughing my bloody ass off

You comment like an amateur

I could not disagree more, or more loudly! Without *Operation Mincemeat” (which wasn’t even mentioned here, making this video highly suspect), Patton’s “ghost army, and the double agents, the Allied soldiers would have been *SLAUGHTERED* by the huge forces Hitler instead kept encamped in the Pas de Calais had the ruses been unsuccessful, or worse, never implemented. As it was, the allied soldiers were gunned down in droves on the beaches by the German tower emplacements which Hitler had built on France’s western coast all the way to Norway. All of the naval bombardment hadn’t destroyed even ONE of them. You can scoff at this evidence if you like, but I would ask you to try to find a historian who disagrees, military OR civilian! *Hitler so strongly believed the misinformation for TWO MONTHS,, refusing to send even one tank division to Normandy, as he was so convinced that Patton was landing with his huge fake army across the Channel* and every Allied general fully understood how critical this was to the success of the invasion, with comparatively minimal loss of life for the men who risked their lives during the initial landings.

@@voraciousreader3341 again the fog of war can turn any well planned operation to failure. The enigma code was broken and to hat was just as vital for the success of the landings. The best regiment's we're on the Eastern front, and the supply lines harassed by superior air power. Yet the battles had to be won by ordinary soldiers who fought in the difficult terrain of France. Like Wellington remark at Waterloo it was a close run thing.

Two answers can be the right one. Mission planning & empowering soldiers to make decisions.

@@southernsmoke8391 again how do you attain victory in war by claiming more territory you can't manage or defeating the army . Blitzkrieg failed in Russia because of its vastness and the rapid advance of the tanks and mechanised artillery. Yet the Germans had more horses than vehicles. So how could the infantry catch up with the rapid advancing tanks to secure the ground they won.