My grandfather was there with the 79th infantry, part of the 9th Army. He was shot in this operation but he lived to tell me about it.

i grew up in this region of Germany in the 70`s. I would sometimes find rusty old German helmets in the forest, when walking the dog.

My father was there in the 30th. We must remember that all this happened just before the Battle of the Bulge broke out just to the south in early December. The 30th had been pulled back to Stavelot Belgium for some rest after weeks in combat and immediately found themselves on the verge of the Ardennes Offensive and some of the coldest weather on record. God rest these men!

I salute ALL those who served… THANK YOU!

Brilliant documentary footage...so clear and consise...

The photo of the soldier with a hole in his forehead as big as an orange really shocks me. I never saw an up close photo this graphic before...

i wonder how amazed and proud these filmmakers would have been to see me 70 years in the future watching their film while walking outside on my mobile telephone that fits in my pocket...

@helmutmaucher7593

3 жыл бұрын

True or that you could’ve a weekend holiday in Germany

@dr.barrycohn5461

3 жыл бұрын

They would have told you to put that thing down and your get your ass back to work.

@unitedwestand5100

2 жыл бұрын

This film was put together by the US DOD. The film was photographed by soldier cameramen of the US Army Signal Corps. I think they probably expected people would see them after they were declassified..

No wonder we reverently call them the greatest generation!!!!!

@glbaker5987

3 жыл бұрын

They would die if they know what was happening in this country today

@destroyerarmor2846

3 жыл бұрын

Nazism is alive and well. What a shame

nice video. My Grandfather was with the 29th division. He didn't talk about it much, but he did mention Juelich once or twice.

@christopherhenning7700

4 жыл бұрын

He was probably fairly "crazy" from going through it atleast i feel i would be

@NurDerEffzeh1948

3 жыл бұрын

I am actually from Jülich. Insane.

That engineer who lost a foot was one hard SOB. Most people would have been screaming like hell. I know I would. Saw a number of Marines wounded by booby traps and it is horrific.

@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347

5 жыл бұрын

It's called morphine.

The logistics of all this are amazing.

@baroneb5043

4 жыл бұрын

LostInPA thats what wins wars... If Germans had their logistics down they woulda made it to Antwerp at Bulge...

@JohnSmith-fb7nz

3 жыл бұрын

You got that right. The support logistics are never mentioned

Uncle Sam really showed the Krauts what it's all about.

Battle hardened men. Magnificent bastards. Damn that engineers foot blown to pieces. Germany was such a clean,modern country,beautiful architecture. Glad they rebuilt the classics.

@Biglake92

4 жыл бұрын

HATES PEACH Hate comment. You should be banned

@TH-bj1pb

4 жыл бұрын

@@Biglake92 define hate, bi7ch

@albundy9597

4 жыл бұрын

It still is a beautiful country and Deggendorf with all its surrounding villages are modern but rebuilt in the old style, I lived there for 45 years before my retirement.

@vivians9392

3 жыл бұрын

@@TH-bj1pb YOU = bi7ch

General William Simpson of the US 9th Army ranks among the best in the Northwest European campaigns 1944-1945.

My father was there: XIXth Corps Engineers: 978th Engineer Maintenance Company just behind the front lines. Part of the 1104th Engineer (C) Group

This was north of the battle of the bulge. This timeline is in November in which there was crossover into Germany by British & US troops, before the Germans attacked in the south, through Malmady (where captured US troops were massacred by SS tank commander) & St Vith.

When that soldier blew the head off that beer, he chugged it down in a righteousness manner, and with alacrity.

@richardputz3233

2 жыл бұрын

What a great word "alacrity".It should be used more .

The young men on both sides who died, never saw a microwave oven, never saw a jet airliner, never saw a television, never saw a push button phone or a transistor radio. Fast food chains were unknown. They all grew up in the depression. Most never owned a car. Many never had shoes until the army.

@fasx56

5 жыл бұрын

James Dale Thank you for historical insights describing the Greatest Generation young men who came out of the 1930s Depression only to be drafted into the WW 2 call up. Not only did they not get to see the inventions we take for granted but most of them only knew poverty and tough times. We owe them a lot, many lost their lives and paid the ultimately sacrifice for our freedom.

@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347

5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Your anecdotal insight is extremely unimpressive 7th grade history paper boy.

@benm5221

4 жыл бұрын

@@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 Your childish comment actually fits a struggling 7th grader.

@zaxxx1975

4 жыл бұрын

"wow" back atcha,, that was a very negative thing to do. the generation refered too deserves all the thoughts and remembrances that can be given . please do not take that away. even 7th grade paper boys are intitled too giving theirs. you might want too look at every body who comments as bein multi cultured and of varyin age groups and intellect. not all of us can feel so "unimpressed" as you have stated.

@llewellynwilliams1956

4 жыл бұрын

top the list mate most never had sex with a girl

Fantastic film.

Behold the Power of the Military Industrial Complex.....

Very nice! I came from Baesweiler its in the video too

one of my uncles fought there,on the german side. he died in 1983,but he told me about hand to hand fights with the americans

@maxmarsh3468

4 жыл бұрын

Andreas Habegger a friend of mine who was born in Germany in 1940 invited me to accompany him to go back and visit two years ago. We were visiting relatives of his in the village of Setterich. I met a man there who told me of the battle that raged there and that his father fought in the war. I told him that my father also had fought in the war and had landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. He never talked about the war or what he experienced. All I knew was that he was in the 29th infantry division. The man I was talking to produced a book describing the area around Aachen from late 1944 to early 1945. When he showed me that my father’s division fought there and told me that I was walking the same ground that my father fought on as a young man, I was overcome with a feeling of emotion that is hard to describe. I had traveled over 6,000 miles to unwittingly walk the same ground.

@dieterrahm4044

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxmarsh3468 My grandfather also was in the 29th infantry division (Hawk Division). But on the other side. That division was part of the Heeresgruppe Mitte at the eastern front. He was there from the beginning to the end of the war. He was part of the 6th Army and was wounded in Stalingrad. He always said that this saved his life. After the war he was 7 years a POW in Russia.

Meanwhile in Switzerland...everyone lived comfortably and profited off the war.

Taking Achen was a nasty fight we the Americans lost 5000+ just taking the city alone.

if you been told already the jeeps had a steel bar at the front just above the screen so it save the drivers head from getting sliced off. german ss would set trap wire across the lanes or streets were they new the would be drive'in so many lost theres lives with this dirty trap

Could you please show a tape on “Tec 5 CoA 325 “ Engineer cmbt BN WW2 1944-1945 thank You so much for sharing these Videos a lot of good History for my mother n father we’re married in Amsterdam “ my mother was a Dutch girl from Amsterdam Holland and My Daddy was in WW2 💁‍♀️💜🙏

Those shoe mines were just a big pain

Damn that man who had his leg blown off appeared to be not as phased as you would think. Or thats just me. Lol

@vivians9392

3 жыл бұрын

It's called shock and morphine. I'm sure it phased him later on.

@JohnSmith-fb7nz

3 жыл бұрын

Its called shock

@Droodog127

Жыл бұрын

the german at the sportsplatz was oozing brains

I'm surprised that no one is complaining that it isn't in 720p HD!

@kaptainkaos1202

2 жыл бұрын

Just to update this comment, why isn’t it posted in 4K? Surprisingly if the original films are available still HD conversions could be made. Most film was good enough that the resolution could be thought of as HD.

How close to the Swiss border, 5 miles or 5 yards?

@jackvandongen463

4 жыл бұрын

600 miles

19:24 Why is that soldier using a bolt action rifle ?

Bombing accuracy

SALUTE!

The greatest generation

Little did these Yanks know that Aachen would be retaken by the Germans a few weeks later. It would be a long and bitter fight until Christmas and January 1945.

Интересно смотреть )) 99%уже черви съели ((

Carrying a captured StG 44? 30:03

@petebeatminister

Жыл бұрын

Yep, looks like it.

Collaboration with the Brits was obviously very close

3:34. 3:35 Logistics in the World War Two. Food that a *MILLION* *Men* would eat for ONE SINGLE WEEK.

@15:14. That poor man both of them I bet the 1st guy lost both legs. The German soldiers had no respect or concern for their own citizens. Sad 😞👎🪖. ❤️🙏✌️🇺🇸

War department historical film was filmed by Hollywood

@JohnSmith-fb7nz

3 жыл бұрын

And your point is ?

@charlesfiscus4235

10 ай бұрын

These films are done strictly by Army signal Corps cameramen

Enough talk. I need to know for a fact everyone is safe.

@SunnyIlha

4 ай бұрын

Nobody was safe then, over there across the Ocean, in battle to preserve World Freedom from a tyranny that is completely beyond our current day comprehension. It is impossible for us to grasp the entire World at war.

At 11:42 min cameraman films in front of mine sweepers on road . I think some staged filming going on

@davemaxa5263

5 жыл бұрын

It matters why?

@SunnyIlha

5 жыл бұрын

Not long after they had just cleared it for real. With certainty, after men died after stepping on the mines while on the move. The simulation was done for the benefit of the reel man, his safety. Many of these reel men did not live through the war.

Roer River! Suggest Ruhr.

16:18 the german city of Geilenkirschen?....It's Gelsenkirchen!

@ronschroeder4479

9 жыл бұрын

No sir,it's GEILENKIRCHEN,for sure! Gelsenkirchen is more to the North!

@MichelVoss

9 жыл бұрын

Luis Varandas The much bigger City of Gelsenkirchen is located north of the Ruhr - www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62522#map=12/51.5565/7.0659. GEILENKIRCHEN is located west of the Rur: www.openstreetmap.org/relation/157489#map=13/50.9736/6.1261. The small Rur river ( Dutch and French: Roer) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rur#/media/File:Indeverlauf.png is often confused with the much better known Ruhr with "H": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_(river)#/media/File:Verlaufskarte_Ruhr2.png

@ronschroeder4479

9 жыл бұрын

Michel Voss Right you are Michel Voss!

@emmanuelsebastiao3176

5 жыл бұрын

who cares how the Nazis spell their damned names

@ProFettMoHaMett

5 жыл бұрын

19:57

V

Professional killing.

@swampfox1776.

2 ай бұрын

That's what we trained for...yep

@nimitz1739

2 ай бұрын

@@swampfox1776. Somebody had to do it

@swampfox1776.

2 ай бұрын

@@nimitz1739 that's what a military exists for. As a marine vet myself , I don't want war,what sane person does,but if you do have to go to war,then win and that means killing the foe....period! it was my profession for 12 years active and I have no shame in saying that.... SEMPER FI

In order to create trenches limit the wet of its mud. An easier to dug is to dig corrosion from water mud will weaken feet from its disastrous flesh eating disaster:. Knowing is by knowing sometimes you oppose are the dumb mass of idiots..😂 Limit to become moist not diluted is the dry of its ducking will be a safer place to chill..❤🤪🤔👑🦁🦋⚖️♾️