As dawn breaks over Normandy, Allied forces launch one of history’s most daring invasions—a day of courage, sacrifice, and chaos that would help turn the tide of the Second World War.
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Those young men who went ashore on D-Day and came back to fight another day were a rare kind. I doubt we’ll ever see their courage and sacrifice again. Lest we forget.
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Oops, mislabeled the western beaches guys, 26:34 need to fix that…
This is really really well done. Ya'll squeezed a whole lot of the essence of this day into a short, compelling, classy show. Could have gone into a little more detail of the defenders, like how many of them were stomach battalions (invalids) or Ostruppen (Russian POWs pressed into German service.) These personal matters were a decisive reason many defenders surrounded immediately.
"We defeated the wrong enemy" – George S. Patton
Reference is made a few times in this documentary to millions of men of the Allied forces … so overstated, the records showed that the allied forces were just over 500 000 (156 troops landed on d-day and 350 000 were personal and supporting forces) (The German estimated soldiers were 50 000, about 10% of the Allied forces)
Other over-dramatic falsehoods are:
• Dummy paratroopers – at night, really, might be of value during the day
• It is continuously reported that the Germans were fooled on where the invasion will take place, but why is that the Allied forces received fierce resistance at Normandy, and a good example was at Omaha, where a full German 352nd Infantry Division was deployed!
• Everything went as planned, not really
o The British failed to capture Caen, one of their major objectives.
o The Americans at Omaha came close to disaster.
o Allied troops generally advanced considerably less than planners had hoped.
o German forces remained capable of vigorous counterattacks.
o The Germans had not been destroyed or routed on 6 June.
• Something that is never mentioned in any of these D-Day documentaries, is that more than 3,000 French civilians were killed by the Allied forces (more than German soldiers ( ~1 000))
“Claim victory not in blood, but built upon falsehood.”
This isn't a bad documentary at all but some of the audio, in particular the iconic speaches of Churchill, are garbled to say the least and had been held in 1940, not 1944.
What everybody seem to forget – or do not know – is that Russia had practically allied itself with Nazi Germany just before the start of WW2 in 1939. The Soviets then invaded the Eastern part of Poland and annexed the neighbouring Baltic States while the Germans invaded that country from the West, which brought on Britain and France into the war on Poland's side. Russia on the other hand then supplied the Germans for two years with important military resources, oil and food while Britain fought off the German threat of invasion, all while Russia looked on smugly. Even after the Germans invaded Russia, Britain and the USA supplied Russia with arms and aircraft via the horrendous Arctic convoys without which the Russians would have lost the war in 1941/ 42. Furthermore, at the same time, and unknown to the Allies, Stalin offered Hitler a peace treaty by offering the entire Ukraine to Germany. Hitler however declined.
All of this must be considered when saying that the "Russians won the war" without Western Allied aid. Stalin had murdered 70,000 Russian officers of the Red Army, Air Force and Navy in his paranoid purges of the 1930's, causing the initial defeats of his forces when the Germans invaded. Stalin was a double- crossing mass murderer who should never be honoured as one of the victors of WW2, as some would see him. He brought death and suffering to millions of Russians, Poles and to the nations of what became the Soviet Bloc after the war.
May his victims rest in eternal peace and may Stalin rot in hell.
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Was D-Day really the decisive victory that it is often portrayed to be?
• If it was such a decisive victory, why did Germany continue fighting for almost another year before finally surrendering on 8 May 1945?
• The casualties on D-Day were significant: approximately 4,400 Allied soldiers were killed, with a further 5,600 wounded, missing, or captured. German losses are estimated at about 1,000 killed and around 3,000 wounded, missing, or captured.
Given these figures, one could argue that D-Day was an extremely costly and suicide operation undertaken by Allied commanders who were under immense pressure and desperate to claim a breakthrough in the war against Germany.
The "bulk" of the invasion force on D-Day, both naval and landing forces, were in fact British and Canadian, not Americans. This changed later during the campaign for Normandy of course.
General Eisenhower was not only a master of logistics and planning, he was a born diplomat – the exact kind of man that was needed to command an Allied invasion force.
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I saw the film Pressure (movie about D Day and it’s forecast) last night. 12 hours later I’m here trying to learn about D Day and its historical importance.