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Liberating Nancy Then & Now
The French city of Nancy was liberated by the Americans in September 1944 and during the parade numerous photos were taken in the stunning Place Stanislas.
I was lucky enough to visit Nancy and find the Then and Now photos taken within the city during its liberation but there were also a few of the German troops from the Spring of 1940!
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I'm French and I live near Nancy, thank you for all the information and photos. Well done. I hope you enjoyed the city😊
@WW2Wayfinder
5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! I didn't have long there sadly but the main square was beautiful and I'd like to go back one day and properly explore the city! Thank you for watching!
Funniest exchange in Allo Allo: Lt Gruber "Where you born in Paris Rene" Rene, "No I was a Nancy boy"
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
🤣 can’t beat Allo Allo! Got the series on DVD as it’s timeless!
Your ability to put a story behind a photo is outstanding. Thank you for bringing us along with you.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video is a reminder of the brave young Americans who fought and died to liberate Europe. Eternal Memory.
Love these now & then pictures as well as learning the history behind them. Well done sir, thank you.🫡
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Excellent work as always, probably the gold standard of WW2 KZread IMO!
@bettylaselli2048
10 ай бұрын
I agree!
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thanks mate!
Glad to see that the square was not bombed out like so many others. Would have been hard to replace all the intricacy of statues and such.
@bettylaselli2048
10 ай бұрын
Yes! I think the same
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
It’s a beautiful place and as you say it’s nice to know it survived the fighting
Another excellent then and now picture video. Keep up the great work.!.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Another great episode. I briefly visited the town in the early 70s but didn't get much past their magnificent gates. Thanks for showing so much history around their magnificent square. A magnificent place.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! I didn’t have a lot of time there to really explore sadly so could only cover the main square but it was very impressive!
A superb video with then and now photographs, showing that not much has changed in 79 years.
@WW2Wayfinder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
When I was 5yrs old we lived in Nancy ,dad was stationed at Toul Rosiers.1958 Just playing around in the back yard my sister and I found 1/2 dozen rifle carriages.
Well put together great pictures and information. The square is beautiful. I hope you are well.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
I chuckled on that last picture. "Audie!"
Amazing how little it's changed. I was even looking at the same marks on the walls still there, nerdy i know. Great video, thanks for sharing these. Cheers ;)
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
All nerds are welcome here 😉 Glad you enjoyed it! Stanislas Square is stunning!
Having found your channel, having a blast going over the various videos!! Tidbit - I think the photo at 6:43 has been printed in reverse - the jeep's wheel appears on its right side, versus left side, as well as the Major is to the driver's left. In addition the driver's blouse appears to be overlapping to his left, i.e., how women's clothing is normally designed. Again, just a simple observation.
@WW2Wayfinder
4 ай бұрын
Welcome to the channel and good spot on that photo, thank you! I’ll have a lot more Then and Now episodes from my trip to Normandy next month!
@micoma49
4 ай бұрын
@@WW2Wayfinder 👍
Really enjoyed these photos.. excellent
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the episode and thanks for taking the time to watch 😃
Excellent series. Thank you for all your research and hard work. Hampstead NC USA
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it!😃
Great vid mate superb pics! 👏🏻🪖
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thanks bud! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Amazing work mate, outstanding as always 👏
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thanks mate! 😃
Great work Brother.
@WW2Wayfinder
6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
The beautiful Place Stan! Merci to all the liberators ❤
@WW2Wayfinder
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Another excellent upload young man.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it😃 My latest one features General Patton if you have time to take a look!
@DaveSCameron
10 ай бұрын
@@WW2Wayfinder Certainly will thanks again and enjoy your weekend. 👍
"The Majestic Hotel...three stars a knife and a fork!"
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
One of my favourite war films of all time!
@lloydbonifide
10 ай бұрын
@@WW2Wayfinder mine too! a former boss of mine and I just send each other random lines from the movie every once in a while!
Again a great video, learn so much from you thank you! Is your dog with you on your travels again? Do your pair with Paul Woodage sometimes like JD does? Keep ‘m coming, always looking forward to your vids! Greetings from Holland 👋
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
He’s taking a well deserved break these days. Montys getting on now and has arthritis in his shoulder joints so he stays at home and gets spoilt!
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From Texas, thank you sir for this series, all your long nights of discovery and photo discovery., Subscribed and following you ! A little confused by the shorts, heck what do I know ! You are doing a fantastic and different work of history ! Nancy as we US or Europeans pronounce it , 'Nans,' as the French, they were so lucky to have the Allies .
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! And thank you for subscribing! The shorts are just teasers really 😉 If you have time my latest episode features Old Blood and Guts Patton I Bavaria!
@eamo106
10 ай бұрын
Moosberg ? @@WW2Wayfinder
Fabulous as always.
Congrats from France for yet one more very interesting video. Well done !
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Nancy beautiful city, don't appear to have changed much. I'm slowly building up a better picture of the battles that took place in France, as well as Normandy. Thank you.
Brilliant episode making my boring day go faster
@WW2Wayfinder
8 ай бұрын
Glad it could help! Hope everything goes ok and you can get out of there asap!
@matthewwilkes8054
8 ай бұрын
@@WW2Wayfinder just a ms drug pump I have it every 6 months so catching up on your content which is a bonus
Love the then and know photos. Especially the little French boy who had the chance to grow up in a free country. And all the French people who suffered at the hands of the Nazi. It was really great to recognize the work of the resistance fighters. Lest we forget.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! And to be honest I actually stumbled across the memorial, so couldn’t leave it out!
Beste Grüße aus Germany. Wie immer eine hervorragende Arbeit. So Informativ. Vielen Dank 👍👍
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it😃
Where can i purchase the baseball cap you are wearing ?
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Not sure if they’ll have any left but the store is Eagles and Angels in the US.
Kelly's heroes ❤❤❤❤
@WW2Wayfinder
8 ай бұрын
One of my all time favourite war films!
Nice weather for it,excellence again.....
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! It was a red hot day and my camera nearly died in the heat as a result!
Este es el mejor de tus trabajos el mejor sigue igual gracias por recordar que en una guerra todos pierden
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
wow!!! awesome,...again.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you so much for the interesting and informative Presentation on the Liberation of Nancy by the US and French Freedom and Resistance Fighter! ❤️🇺🇸
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching!
Hi, I'm new to your KZread channel, and I'm asking if you have any history about Dieppe and any photos of the place. Because my Grandad was there in WW2 with the RAFR, and I'm just looking for some information about it, please.
@WW2Wayfinder
10 ай бұрын
I’ll cover Dieppe eventually, might be in a year or two BUT I am starting to do more aviation related videos. However if you google RAF Historical Branch and email them with the information you’re after they should be able to help as they’ve helped me numerous times with research
@lenniegoodband2677
10 ай бұрын
Okay thank you for your reply and thank you for your help I'll be watching more of your KZread videos
At 7:24 the photo is reversed, look at the the steering wheel on jump, its on the wrong side. The position you need is just opposite.
Tank type on 6:34 ?
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@WW2Wayfinder
5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
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