The National WWII Museum tells the story of the American experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired by what they learn.
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If you ever have the privilege of walking the beach. There's a heaviness in the air. One of the most surreal experiences of my life.
Lee Winsor's comments and observations are illuminating and brilliant. He brings expertise and an understanding of the different doctrines of the British, Canadian and American armies that explains much of how the battle for Normandy developed. I shan't share my opinion of the British assignment of the various beaches and areas to the various corps and divisions, but shall tactfully give the stubborn British units their due as well. It took a team to defeat the Germans, and that is what the allies ultimately developed despite their differences. Thank God that they did so.
This lecture would have been far more enjoyable and less disjointed had the man been given control of the slide projector himself, rather than having to say "Next slide please" about a hundred times :/
I totally agree with Cindy Brown's analogy of the French people's existence with their German occupiers as being similar to the modern comparison of the Taliban and its relationship with the people of Afghanistan. Human shields is what we have seen during these modern conflicts describing the civilian populations. The Germans, IMHO where little better than the Taliban in that they knew that the occupation of cities and towns would require the allied armies to be heavy handed in rooting them out, thereby causing egregious civilian casualties as well as destruction which would slow the allied advance. I believe that they hoped to cause a political rift between liberators and liberated. They traded the lives of Italian and French civilians to delay the advance of the American, British and Canadian armies. The Germans even did the same with their own cities, such as Aachen for example. Then we see what they were capable of in retribution at Our Dur Glane and many other cities and towns during the war, especially by the SS divisions. If that wasn't a precursor of the Taliban and other terrorist organizations, than I can't see another comparison. That the allies were not more aggressive is testimony to their constraint. If I were an allied soldier then I would have probably cheered as well to see legions of bombers attacking ahead of my unit, and no, I am no warmonger in case anyone wonders.
I definitely prefer The Victory Belles over Mariah Carey everyday😊👍
Thx great show.
About time someone took Hollywood to task. The Commonwealth shield so the Americans can Advance. Most of the armour nor the SS Divisions were anywhere near the Americans It's unfortunate most Americans learn history from made for entertainment movies.
I appreciated the way Rick represented the enormous effort that our country, and many of our allies put into fighting this war. The costs were staggering, and the logistical efforts were tremendous. I was a bit disappointed that more time was not spent on the D+1 aspect of the lecture, but overall I learned a great deal. The repatriation of our war dead was sobering. My own maternal grandfather was unfortunately buried at sea just southwest of the Ile De Chausey after being killed in an engagement with the Kriegsmarine during the Granville Raid on 8-9 March, 1945. He was aboard PC-564 at the time, which was heavily damaged but managed to escape her attackers.
I thought the D stood for the word Death. Death-Day because there would have been many Allied and Axis deaths.
Thank you for using the collective word ‘Allied’. There were a couple of other countries involved, it wasn’t all the US as many history stories tell you. They didn’t win the war single handedly. All other countries had been in a war for nearly two and half years before the US entered WW2. Couldn’t have done it without you, but others deserve credit for their sacrifice too. My family members involved lost their late teens and/or all their twenties to the war.
A little too glib and triumphant for my taste. Blunders the authors didn't touch on were.: The Japanese decision to take on the U. S by attacking Pearl Harbor; The Japanese decision not to develop their. Indian Ocean raid of 19FORTY-TWO. It will full blown landing. in southern India. This whatever effect we take in India out of the war and put a complete dent. in the British Empire's war effort. Hitler's decision to declare war on the US. A comprehensive panel would have dealt with These
The navy invaded many South Pacific islands and they weren’t called d-day.
An excellent interview by Author Patrick O’Donnell. Without the greatest generation of the revolutionary war there would NOT be a WWII "greatest generation." What I tell people is that we too can become the greatest generation, if AND IF we are willing to the price which is foretold and seen in the past.
On October 17, Cornwallis sent word through the lines that he wanted to discuss terms of surrender. The formal surrender occurred two days later, on October 19, 1781. The men of the British Army were marched between lines of American soldiers on one side and French soldiers on the other. The Americans played “Yankee Doodle” while the British played a song entitled “The World Turned Upside Down.” The world certainly was.
Humans are a lethal mutation.
Chicano Soldiers
Is that the RAF museum
Real hero's unlike today's corporate terrorist.
Well said by Lee Windsor about the French Canadians. I've tried to tell those stories as best as I can.
Great interview.
What would’ve changed if we would have up armored and up gun the vast majority of Sherman tanks? Iview the Sherman tank as almost perfect in terms of what the allies needed to do worldwide. I’m curious if putting the effort into better Sherman tanks would have cost us too much in terms of production and mobility. Did we strike the right balance could we have done a better job could we have provided better tanks without weakening our advantages?
So like if you were an Estonian in '41 and the Germans pulled up would you join them? I mean I get that academia loves commies but Stalin is hardly better than Hitler, especially if you lived under one but not the other. I pretty much think if the Germans treated the locals better they'd all have been Nazis. But that's the problem with National Socialism, right? It was only for the ethnic Germans.
Disembarkation Day, that's what some old books on WWII said.
didnt no about the having to salute to the winning side. however, why would you have to do that, sure sign of respect but if you have just lost a war against a country you are trying to kill ill be honest i wouldnt salute. id be as stubborn as anything.
Us landing under Operation Anvil in s france was resisted by UK because code breaking meant UK knew Kesselring had been ordered by Hitler to defend a line South of appenines….so us plans were viewed by Alanbrooke as a lack of ‘elasticity’ in US decision making.
I learned a lot from this program. What a treasure the WW2 Museum is. Proud daughter of a ww2 vet. ❤🇺🇸
Great presentations so far (3:26 in). The shortage of infantry became an across the board issue in the ETO, I’d be interested in hearing a lot more about it in future programming. I had such an engaging time at the WW2 Museum in 2017, we spent 1.5 days there and could have spent much more. My wife is a WW2 history neophyte and was blown away, it helped me see it all through beginners’ mind. Thank you!
Did he actually piss on an Army general and WW2 vet at minute 52:30 hahahaha?
The Poles contribution will never be forgotten here in the UK. They are a much-liked sub-population. God bless them! We have the Katyn Memorial here in Staffordshire.
Citino is totally wrong about the difficulty of the respective beaches. "The others were comparatively easy" he says. He must be joking and as an esteemed historian he is out of order and totally disrespectful and lacking in knowledge here. Whilst Omaha sector had 37 German strongpoints to overcome, it had no super-strongpoints called 'Stutzpunkten's' that were effectively mini-fortresses. Utah had 15 strongpoints including 2 'Stutzpunkten', and the Canadian Juno sector had just 7 German strongpoints but no 'Stutzpunkten's to overcome. British Gold sector had 28 German strongpoints but no 'Stutzpunkten's to overcome, and finally British Sword sector had 27 strongpoints and 2 'Stutzpunkten' to overcome - these included the infamous 'Strongpoint Hillman' and another 'Stutzpunkten' near the beach nick-named 'Rommel's Tower of death'. The Merville Battery also overlooked it. The British 3rd Division at Sword faced 500 German machine guns, 29 companies of the German 716th Division, and they quickly faced 21st Panzer Division on D-Day. Easy beach eh? The War Graves Commission has in May 2024 released correct figures regards deaths on 6th JUNE 1944, the US lost 2,501 men on 6th June 1944 - D-Day, mostly of course on Omaha. Those American boys deserve medals the size of dustbin lids for what they overcame. But they weren't the only ones, Juno was arguably the least costly sector with 370 Canadian deaths on 6th June. The British original death totals given for D-Day were estimates only, but were under-estimated and have now been totalled at 1,760 deaths mainly Sword. Not far off the mortality rate for the Americans. The link regarding death rates is below: - www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/d-day-casualties-in-numbers/ So I would suggest people take Mr Citino's comments with a pinch of salt.
Thank you for highlighting the British and Canadian perspective - the British lost 704,000 dead in WW1, and the Canadians 60,000. Thousands more injured. That was only twenty-five years previously. British and Canadian society would not tolerate another waste of human life on such a scale. In the British and Canadian sector, 14 British and Canadian divisions faced 14 German divisions and more than 600 German tanks, whilst US's 19 Divisions faced just 9 German divisions and 110 tanks, partly because the hedgerows made it difficult to deploy tanks there. Furthermore, the Anglo-Canadians faced some of the toughest Germans that could be fielded, including 21st Panzer Division who tried to drive a wedge between them, and the equally elite Panzer Lehr, as well as another 5 of 7 Waffen SS Divisions, with only 1 Waffen SS Panzer Division facing the Americans. The Caen sector had more German tanks per mile than Kursk. In just a dozen miles or so right Panzer divisions in a very small area of front. Caen had the highest concentration density of German tanks ever seen in WW2, pitted against British armour. I would disagree that the Canadians were likely to face greater opposition (as implied) than the two British Divisions, though they were given an antitank role as they were equipped with more artillery and anti-tank weapons than the two British divisions. However, the difficulty of each beach was well documented........Strongpoints called 'Wiederstandnest' such as pillboxes were erected within each sector, and on occasion there were min-fortresses with a network of defences called 'Stutzpunkten' such as 'Strongpoint Hillman' and Stutzpunkten 08 that has been referred to as 'Rommels Tower of Death' that had more than 30 turrets. Both were in the British Sword sector, comprising 500 machine guns. Overall, US Omaha sector had 37 strongpoints opposing the landing and within the sector but no 'Stutzpunkten', British Gold sector had 28 German strongpoints and no 'stutzpunkten's, British Sword sector had 27 strongpoints and 2 'Stutzpunkten', US Utah sector had 15 strongpoints and 2 'Stutzpunkten', Canadian sector had just 7 strongpoints and no 'Stutzpunkten' to overcome. But this does not measure every difficulty on each beach, but figures for D-Day would suggest that they perhaps do reflect the D-Day opposition experienced. A 2024 updated war graves commission has now come up with death rates on 6th June 1944 based on graves........a total of 4,631Allied troops died on D-Day. US lost 2.501 dead on D-Day mainly at Omaha, Britain lost 1,760 dead mainly at Sword sector, and Canada lost 370 dead on D-Day.
I believe it was because of the Canadians better preparation, and the ability of Canadian soldiers to adapt and overcome due to their training. I am a former US soldier and I have worked with Canadian units and found them to be excellent soldiers.
Former Marine, read the old breed. I was infantry in Vietnam. The old breed was on the commandants books to read. Great book. Semper fi Eugnee
Thank you for covering this episode 😊 cheers
Good panel! I especially liked the stuff about the Poles. Are we sure they didn't get the invitations to the commemorations for the same reason they weren't invited in London in '45? To keep the Russians happy because they hated the Poles? And the best representation on film was Gene Hackman as Sobieski in "a bridge to far" when he says "vhat about the Germans" pronouncing the G like Goody not Jermans.
Nice to hear that it's not just British people that get upset by Ted Danson!
Definitely not. I did a video on it.
@@OTDMilitaryHistory I know! Loved it!
@@jabonorte Thanks!
This was an excellent program. Please consider supporting OTD Military History as he is doing great work in telling the Canadian story.
@@davidlavigne207 Thanks so much David!
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You can consider that as "Overlord operation" because it's what operation happened in D-day.
Excellent seminar 😊thank you very much for sharing this
This is such an important story and the narrator spent a lot of time to prepare and present it. Why is it spoiled with the half-ass sound?
I can’t explain how much the series and these shows have meant and still mean to me. But I still wish someone had given him some Benadryl! All the itching and scratching just kills me. I am clawing my hide off just watching him. lol.
I’m so thankful that we have videos like this and are able to listen to these WW2 Heroes stories. I’ve loved meeting these Veterans and listening to their stories and I’m saddened that not many are left.
Excellent show, thanks for including the perspective of your allies. As a Canadian, we feel we are too often overlooked by both American and British historians.
And how!
Babe, wake up! New Robert Citino lecture just dropped!
-- From what I've gathered it was Naval gunfire stomped the enemy counter attacks while air power strangled and mangled them the whole while. The Canadian and Brit ground forces and artillery did the rest, and fully most of the heaviest lifting insofar as engaging most formidable enemy formations, until the Mortain to offensive, and then again during the falaise battles.
European countries should have never given up their bang bangs. It's the thin line that's kept the US from being completely bulldozed and they're doing a good job on us, now.
Very interesting and informative thank you
NEPA would make that impossible today
Love the lecture but disheartened by the anti Trump comment
Thank you for streaming this.
I also heard someone coin the term "Discovery-Day"