WW2 Battlefield Tours - Normandy Beaches - Day One - July 2022 - Normandy, France

Thanks for the nice video!! I am wondering how much time was allocated to the airborne museum? Was it enough to see all things?

Hi. How long to see all this? 1 day...2 days? Thanks

Beautiful video.

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This landing and the 3 months of bloody fighting that followed were very costly in terms of human lives. On both sides, and also on the side of French civilians. This operation is often depicted in a heroic mode by Hollywood, notably by Spielberg, but many forget that for the civilian population of Normandy, it was hell. There had been more French civilians killed than US troops killed in action. The maximum estimate of civilian losses is around 50,000, in dozens of towns razed or heavily damaged by the fighting, and especially by the terrible aerial bombardments, like in Caen or Le Havre. More generally, France, after Germany, was the most heavily bombed country in Western Europe, with 518,000 tons of bombs dropped in 5 years, and almost 70000 civilians killed. Not just in Normandy, but all over France. Reconstruction took about 20 years in many places.

We can't imagine the horrible site of that day of invasion in these beautiful green fields where a lot of bunkers, aa guns, dead bodies, soldiers fighting,artillery was all around there. May the great souls of comrades rest in peace.

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As french born near these beachs, it's a nice depict... good job.

No, not a different D Day no D Day without American troops, logistics and industrial power! To think otherwise shows a lack of historical knowledge!

And some leaders never learn💙🧡

Without America there would have been no D Day!!

We should never forget all of the young men who so bravely came ashore that day. It makes no difference if they were Americans, Canadians, French, or British or any other country, they fought for one thing, to end fascism and the reign of terror by the Nazis. May we all remember that thanks to their sacrifice, we are here today living free.

Que nunca mais vivamos os horrores de uma guerra mundial.

sacred ground

Very well put together thanks,

Lisbon, Portugal. The heavy price of freedom.

May we never forget them... We salute you all you brave souls. May you all rest in peace..............

LOVE THIS .

What a beutiful location despite the horrors that happend there all those years ago.. May the soldiers rest in peace

...un giorno ci andro'...!!! ONORE ai caduti !!

Beautiful video of a beautiful place that had some ugly events taking place, but it had to be done, it was a very significant world event.

Beautiful monuments. Thank you.

If war is so bad, why do humans keep doing it 😓

Nicely done. Thank you

I was there in 17,, the cemetries bring home the amount of dead. The UK cemetry I believe bigger. I did walk the US cemetry.
Then the soldiers who were maimed, soldiers who dies later of injuries and a the few that have not been found.
As for the Germans?? I suspect far more again.
The big German guns on the coastline are as abandoned. With one blown to bits as reputedly the French Navy lobbed a shell right down the barrell. That is the one with half the back blown out of the concrete.
I have been amazed as well as the amount of debris in both the sea and beaches vicinity just left behind. By both sides.
Plus watching You Tube the amount of dead tanks, aircraft as well ofcourse dead Landing Craft etc in the ocean.
At the beach [name?] where the Canadians landed there is a sign showing statistics and pictures. inc a shot up house,, walk 10 metres around the corner and there is the house. Looking like nothing has ever happned. I am sure there is a LOT of homes and infrastructure in the general vicinity of the whole area that survived.

All of these brave people have gone now never to be seen again my dad was one of them

Obrigado por compartilhar com a gente...

Gostaria de conhecer todos esses lugares..

We went there with our son in 2019 - very moving!

Lugar lindo,mas a 80 anos atrás. Era o inferno na terra.

Nicely put together as motorcyclist with avid love of history war it's only seeing these things in real life as way makes u realise horrors of war. Not just brave souls who landed on beaches lot of these amazing monuments to see, your video given me a good idea what include on my solo adventures trip see these things.

As is so typical with American-made videos, Normandy (D-Day) is always about Omaha and Utah, and all things American. The truth is that the Normandy Landings had more British and Canadian forces than American, had four beaches to the American's two, and had more casualties than the Americans. However, if you were to believe these videos, you would certainly believe that the British, Canadian and yes, even some French troops, were never there! So this title of "WW2 Normandy Tours" is nothing more than "The Americans were the only ones in Normandy." It's time that the Americans learnt that the war wasn't only fought by Americans, even though they like to pretend otherwise.

I notice they have a mannekin to represent the actual airborne troop who got entangled and caught up in the church steeple.

Not sure how so many of those batteries remained active even after all the prelanding naval bombardment.