My dad landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division on D-day. He continued advancing through France, Belgum and Holland until the German surrender. He was wounded three times and sent back after healing each time. He carried dozens of pieces of German steel in his body to his grave. He said the German 88 was feared among the troops and was extremely wicked.

I've been a professional soldier my whole life and it's mostly junk but not in an insulting manner. Try to appreciate what these gentlemen have done by opening up more places for people to visit and understand. If you've ever had to build a fighting position you know how much it is a hated task for soldiers, we only enjoy them when we're leaving them but this show was well put together and I enjoyed it, thanks fellas!

Mate it's not war junk it's history why do you do it if you call it junk why do you bother it's just not junk there called artefacts not just junk if you're going to call it junk just don't do it

@Poblotheone

11 күн бұрын

Why u hating, let the man say what he wants..... sounds like we got a hater

@stevelacroix2404

8 күн бұрын

Relax mate.. I’m sure the makers of this show were trying to come up with a catchy name for the show, it’s not like these guys had anything to do with it.

@BeckVMH

8 күн бұрын

“War Junk” is puzzling when referring to a hallowed site such as this.

@Theiliteritesbian

Күн бұрын

They only do half the work anyway. They stopped digging like a bunch of academics. Finish ur job. This show should be 12 min long. Not 50. No thanks.

I love history and the story was all the more remarkable in finding the bracelet. Many people watching WW2 documentaries think after the landings it was smooth sailing and nothing could be further from the truth. The carnage was hellish on both sides. Thank you for this video and searching and finding these sacred discoveries.

It’s about time and refreshing to see the history of Juno beach rather than the two American beaches. I have read that the fighting on Sword, Juno and Gold beaches was more intense and more casualties taken than on Omaha beach which is the only beach that most people know thanks to movies like “Saving Pte Ryan”. I like the idea that the Canadians forces that landed on D Day are finely coming out from under the over shadowing of the American forces.

Incredible he did bring a world of knowledge about that German whose family was also killed. Just an amazing part of history that you brought to all of us, THANK YOU.

@CrocodileTear do you think it would be possible to find the German barber boy from this story, (33min in)? A young boy, same age as the french gentleman telling the story, 4 brothers died on the russian front, father, mother & sister died in Cologne during bombings - so, likely from there.

This was well worth my time to watch. As an American I get very little history of the other beaches. My dad was in the troop carriers, dropping the pathfinder paratroopers on d-day approximately 2am. Then on d plus 1 his group was involved with towing the glider planes across the channel. He started in North Africa fighting Rommel

Very cool. But I hate tv styled shows on KZread.

@joel5644

Күн бұрын

Yeah, the conversation between both of them, especially in the beginning, sounded scripted. lol

Imagine getting inside one of those Bunker, and getting out back in the time D-day landings! Both exciting and terrifying!

a wonderful little bit of history many thanks for your time and effort , I would love to see more clips just like this

Excellent story ..well done. I hope the Tobruks are going to be left open for future generations to see. Thanks for all the hard work..

That ravine position was incredibly well hidden for how small that wood was. Wow.

Fantastic and very informative. I appreciate the effort put into this. I hope to see the excavations revealed soon. Great stuff. War Junk Rocks!

A family friend who has long since passed, Was in the canadian military prior to the US joining the war, He did several raids with them and when the US Joined the war, he left the Canadian Commandos and came over and joined the US military and went on to join the Air Force and go on missions on bombers over europe, he was shot down at least 7 times and survived all of them and was the only survivor of all of them and coincidentally after the war it was discovered he went on the most missions out of anyone in ww2. Guy was insanely lucky, One mission he went on the plane got shot up and lost all but 2 of its engines and on the way back it kept getting lower and lower to the water and he started throwing everything overboard and it didnt help and when he saw the plane was too low and was going to crash into the cliffs of dover he jumped out the side of the plane and landed in the water and managed to survive get up and see the plane hit the cliffs and then he swam to shore and walked all the way into a village and got help. After the war ended he survived a crash as the bomber that he was on that was flying back to the US crashed and killed everyone but him. That was technically the 8th crash he survived. Guy was also present at the commando raid on the sub pens in France that killed the majority of the people on the raid. I still cant believe all the stuff he did if anyone deserved to have a movie made about them it was that guy.

@rogierius

6 күн бұрын

Does this family friend have a name?

Well done I enjoyed this very much

Really awesome investigation..congratulations!!

It's refreshing to see new things brought to light .

Wow. Awesome show. I had a relative land on D-Day just to the west on Omaha 2nd wave and he lived. I am glad you made this.

Great vid

In a word, Excellent !

That's gotta be so weird knowing your grandparents gave that bracelet to your uncle and now you're holding it in France and it's in a museum.

Wow je suis impressionné par vos vidéo, vous faites un travail remarquable, moi même je suis passionné par la ww1 et la ww2, et puis le témoignage du monsieur avec le jeune Allemand était tellement émouvant...

Wow thrilling story Loved it ❤ Amazing grace rest in peace

Beautiful video and full of love. Thank you

Even so it's nice to find one after all these years 😉

My uncle landed on Omaha Beach with 926th Signal Corp Battalion.

A cameraman filming another cameraman. Ok.

Poppies, beautiful flowers. Lest We Forget

The photo from September 1964 shows in much better detail than the one you have.

35:00 "The bullet had to been fired on d-day". That cartridge hasn't been fired..... 36:32 No, it's wasn't covered in sand back then, so how would they just walk up there the way he shows?

@Munakas-wq3gp

5 күн бұрын

Also, they find a patio from the 70's buried 30cm deep. How on earth do they expect to find a WW2 bunker at that same depth? It's going to be way deeper. Edit: Nvm 🤭

i think satellite archaeology could be interesting for your explorations, detecting thermic and infrared differences in the ground. archaeologists will be able to locate even clay shards with that in near future.. (video seems from 2015) however, its so crazy that you found this historical place easily like youre doing every week..^^

GPR is not new, as much drama it adds. Lidar would have been fantastic for the Tombette woods.

We’re the Tobruk bunkers named after the town of Tobruk in N. Africa?

@rickvanderhulst1561

11 күн бұрын

Yes

@bigadam64

10 күн бұрын

Yep

@johnmckenna3937

10 күн бұрын

yes but they are not pronouncing Tobruk correctly.

Well told with a poignant ending.

My dad wasn't in Europe in WW2 he was in the Pacific he celebrated his his 21st birthday Feb 19th with 4th marine marines division landing on a island called Iwo Jima got shot 2 times there

wow

Sauf autorisation préfectorale ,ect les fouilles ou recherches au détecteur de métaux sont interdites sur les plages du débarquement..il faut le rappeler

If you had the chance you should have sent up a drone. Typically vegetation will not grow as well over buried structures. It will be especially evident in the event of a drought. At least the bunkers and machine gun emplacement were only covered mostly with sand. That will be reasonably easy to clear away. It will be a constant battle in the future to keep cleared of course. It might mean some sort of structure would need to be built over the bunkers. Being that close to the shore storms will readily blow sand and try to disappear the structures again. Any exposed re-bar material will decay more quickly when exposed to the salty air hence the need for some sort of dome or building over them. It is highly unlikely much ephemera has survived to this day unless like the id bracelet it is casually lost. I now will wonder where the bracelet was carried by our now found young Canadian soldier. It would be interesting to see what a standard soldiers kit for his unit would have looked like.

Insane to think these places were once booming with machine gun fire and explosions. Must be terrifying

Why are they not wearing seat belts while driving in the opening scene?

I thought the word casualty meant fatal.

Sïmple: The bracelet was located in a field hospital.

@lutomson3496

12 күн бұрын

Yes or it was stolen from his body which was common...

Vous faites une vidéo en France sans traduction !!!!

Were those bunkers fully uncovered afterwards for display? Excellent documentary

Lest we forget.

Liberation ?? ore Ocupation !?

No matter the age they were just real men doing a job that needed to be done.

Once you had permission, I'm surprised that you didn't use a larger digger (backhoe). You were digging anyway, so need to be more efficient with your time. It's an open space, so larger machinery could have been used.

@abwartsbanapu5411

8 күн бұрын

because you won't be authorized to destroy the whole dune but just a specific area.

Just a curious question. There was two American and British Invasion spots one Canadian. Why did the French not have a squad?

@andrewmountford3608

12 күн бұрын

Other nationalities were involved However, troops from many other countries participated in D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.

@Ab90-

10 күн бұрын

One reason was maybe the language.. after their landings they had to reunit far inland, not knowing if the invasion is successful or not or if they have to change battleplans because unanticipated reasons. then its very problematic if youre flanks are defended by people you cant understand a word..ect

At least the Tobruk was filled with sand. I have just excavated one this year on the Germany/Netherlands border at it was full with rubble and heavy clay.

„Greatest Invasion in History“ 🙈 reallly?!

you have a camera man to film another camera man .. strange concept

What’s a tow brooke?

@Ab90-

10 күн бұрын

"tobruk" like the libyan city.. means a ringstand "single-bunker" with 360° field of fire for mortar or machinegun use..

The music used in the intro sets the tone in a bad way, one that does not fit the narrative.

It's not a tobruk. It's a ringstand. In this case even one for a mortar, not a machinegun.

@Ab90-

10 күн бұрын

there are many differend types of ringstands, colloquially this single bunker was called as "tobruk" meant the same so far i know..

@staaaaalbeton

7 күн бұрын

@@Ab90- No, the tobruk was only the type Vf58c. This is not that type.

Why do they call them tobruks their bunkers.tobruk is a town in lybya scene of heavy fighting ww2.

@Choifoi9

7 күн бұрын

Tobruk are small, circular, reinforced bunkers. You are correct in that Tobruk is a port city in Libya.

Tobrok are very very small one to two man fighting positions. Not much to get excited about. A one man Tobrok wasn't where all those casualties came from. They have very limited ammo.

Så nu kan dom klottra sönder det nya som är uppgrävt

You mis-spelled "artifacts" in the header.

@gregwicker856

6 күн бұрын

Sorry teacher

@johns1039

Күн бұрын

You misspelled "misspelled."

@johns1039

Күн бұрын

"Artefact" is the "Continental" spelling of the word, so they did not MISSPELL it.

Frustration set in that quickly? lol

Hello, I wonder how they were authorized to scavenge légales knowing that researches are strictly controlled in France for non governmental organizations. Looking for artefacts is highly restricted, especially with a metal detector. Doing it without official permission is severely punished and we can say that it is heavily repressed. I used as a child to dig and scavenge but today, it is impossible.

@spannaspinna

8 күн бұрын

They probably just got a permit

The makers of this video have been charged by French authorities.

@YouPousti

9 күн бұрын

Why?

Wow 10 years later...

How is it you can speak French but Butcher the pronunciation of "Tobruk " ? There is no E in the syllables

Artefacts?? Seriously?

t'bruk not toebruk

@camel303

12 күн бұрын

What are you talking about? These bunkers are called literaly after the Libyan city Tobruk/Tobroek.

All that climate change and rising water levels seem to have ...o wait...the water level receeded....

That is disappointing, I signed and donated. I'm also helping fund multiple lawsuits against the corrupt Fed eral government and ATF.

War “junk”

Ever time I see an ad to send the Democrats $5 I send $5 to the republicans, When I see and ad with republicians asking for money I send the dems $5 haven't sent a dime to the dems yet.

Terrible Presentation! 😩👎

Artefacts - learn to spell

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