Battle of Normandy (D-Day) in 1 minute using Google Earth

Made using Google Earth.
The Battle of Normandy from start to finish.

___
Music:

Speeches:
___
(Not endorsed by Google, this video is completely made by me. This video is not sponsored by Google.)
This video is for educational purposes.

[boddaboom]

The fact that the allies had 125k men on the beaches at lunch time is incredible. The planning and coordination it took to pull off Dday is mind bending.

[JonMartinYXD]

The German unit that appears from the east at about 3 PM is the 21st Panzer division. It wasn't until mid/late afternoon that Hitler and the high command were convinced that this was the real deal (as opposed to a large diversionary raid) and authorized the release of the Panzer units. The reason they weren't convinced prior is because a) they didn't know of the scale of the invasion force on and off shore (lines of communication had been disrupted so well), and b) they knew the real invasion would have to target a port. They did not conceive the possibility that the Allies could bring their own ports (the Mulberry harbours) to buy time to capture a French port (Mulberry B at Gold Beach was used for 10 months!), and the bombardment and sabotage at Utah had been so effective that German high command didn't even _hear about_ a landing there until mid/late afternoon! Learning about Utah completely changed their perspective. Unlike the other four beaches it was on the Cotentin Peninsula and that meant there was a port being targeted: Cherbourg.

[guard]

"They're murdering us here. Let's move inland and get murdered."
--Colonel Charles D. Canham, 116th Infantry Regiment commander, on Omaha Beach

[maximilianodelrio]

Pretty awesome, but the battle of Normandy isn't just D-Day, it lasted around 3 months

[geoworld]

I massively respect all the men who died fighting
Great animation, must've took so much effort

[Cloriden]

The animations keep getting better and better Keep it up man!

[EASAustraliaNSW]

*proceeds to ignore the paratrooper landing*

[pepperVenge]

Poor Omaha Beach.. They suffered the heaviest casualties. That's why their line didn't move. There was at least 1, 000 hardened, experienced German soldiers that had been stationed there just prior to the invasion. Their casualties were heavy. All the other beaches casualties were light.

[alexandermendeyev]

Almost no one mention the Canadians, those guys were like Space Marines the whole ww2.
Complete badasses

[hugofernandez]

Excellent, the flow of the animation is very good

[juicedbeetlejuice]

Great animation, I love these! A total casualty counter would be nice on these animations tho

[winstonchurchill]

Everyone talks about how hard Omaha was but the further east you go the more Germans and panzer divisions there was, the Germans expected the allies to land at Calais so the British and Canadians faced heavier resistance after D-Day which is why America was able to steam through the west of France.

[larsgrotjohann]

The Wehrmacht was completely overwhelmed. Since the end of 1942, they had been fighting a war that could no longer be won, I just can recommend the reading of the book "Death of the Wehrmacht" by Robert M. Citino.

[Machecatz]

This was insane! 150k soldiers landed on enemy territory in a bunch of hours!

[johnjohnson]

Awesome animation and nice to see the British and Canadians getting credit considering they made up the majority of the soldiers that landed! (Not disparaging the bravery and sacrifice of the US soldiers just a lot of the time in media it’s portrayed solely as a US operation)

[torinjones]

Everyone forgetting the reason Omaha struggled wasn't because of elite German defenders it was because the American commanders at Omaha launched their tanks too early and 27 out of 29 swimming tanks drowned because they had to swim 3 miles to shore.

Meanwhile at Utah 27 out of 28 tanks reached the beach only having to swim 1000 yards to shore.

[ChicagoBlackhawksfan]

I can imagine the stress of a German soldier at Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno. If you can’t keep on killing Allies with your machine gun, then it’s basically all over.

[Boxy]

It would have been good to see more of this!!

[thorsis]

Do not forget the free French forces which are attached to the royal marine commando

[ev]

i great grandfather was a tank commander in this battle. lived to fight all over Africa and made it home . truly awesome men