Why The Allies Struggled To Break Out After D-Day | Normandy '44: | War Stories

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Historian James Holland and ex-US Army Ranger, Dr Mike Simpson tour the wider Normandy battlefield in a fresh and original series that finally does justice to the scale and complexity of an epic, brutal campaign. In this episode our hosts examine the preparations for the invasion across southern England before crossing the Channel to Normandy, challenging many D-Day myths.

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Can you imagine being 18 or 19 and storming the beaches not knowing what your future holds. These people are heroes and some of the toughest people our nation has had the honor of knowing..

Invertmini
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James Holland is an Historian of a very special league and one I hold in high respect/regard. Outstanding in communicative style and interesting!
I would give/pay whatever asked to attend any tour he leads on WWII.
Bravo, Mr. Holland and thank you.

kathycaldwell
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Normandy was such a humbling place to visit. Everywhere you go you realize that allied and axis troops ran through the streets.

brettjacobs
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Aside for the WW2 story and operation Cobra in order to break out of Normandy, it is great to see how the area and the land has recovered and is so beautiful there now. As an American citizen we owe the French for our attaining independence and being able to return the favor along with Great Britain and our other Allies and the French underground that continued to fight for their country even after their government was beaten and surrendered. My Uncle Frank parachuted into France the night before the Normandy invasion and was a US army veteran that was fortunate to survive the war,

johnadams
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I noticed Dr Mike Simpson was wearing a Force patch on his jacket. My father was a member of the Force. Thank you for remembering them.

jimw
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Great video and great series. Please do more campaigns like this. Following Market Garden. Following up to Hamburg and Luebek. The drive to clear the Scheld. There are so many operations that can be told.

scottscottsdale
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Bicycled all over Normandy this past September. Took a long while and I didn't see everything. The thing that struck me was how cycling through the terrain over which the battles occurred gives a sense of space and gradient that you don't necessarily get touring battle sites in a car. The wooded ridges of the Falaise area were especially sobering. It's not surprising at all that the relatively small numbers 12th SS held the north side of the neck of the gap open using these ridges for cover, fall back and firing sites.

johnhickie
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It was a wonderful historical coverage video about a chapter of D Day in 1944 during WW2. Video a positive membership and appreciate warriors' sacrifices in Goodwood operations...

mohammedsaysrashid
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A wonderful channel that deserves the best regards, appreciation, admiration and pride. It provides accurate and useful information. I thank you for all the beautiful words and sincere feelings for your distinguished posts. I wish you continued success and all the best. My utmost respect and appreciation

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A wonderful and distinctive channel that deserves admiration and appreciation. You provide accurate, wonderful, and very useful information. A thousand greetings, great respect and great pride for these wonderful publications and distinguished efforts. I wish you lasting success. The utmost respect and appreciation.

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Loved this series of three episodes. James please do a series of these on the Italian campaign 😊

LukeEdwards-xc
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It would be better if the camera actually showed the map that the hosts are talking about. They talk about troop movement, and the viewer has no idea what they are talking about.

thelonesomefisherman
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If anybody knows, I would like to know what that wonderful music is during the intro to the series of videos can’t get it out of my head. It seems so glorious and emotional and everything all wrapped into one and I would just like to see if anybody on here happens to know the title of that song.

taylorshorey
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As much as I love James Holland, and I do, part of this was lost on me. There he is, standing on Mont Ormel, where he has the perfect opportunity to tell us about the men that were there, the direction they were firing in and the importance this one spot played and he failed to do any of that. Instead, he unfolded a map on a car and said "look at this." Which, of course, the viewer does not get to look at. There are overhead shots of Mont Ormel, a perfect opportunity to show the casual viewer the direction of the battle, and for some reason he just doesn't do it. I think it would have been better if he had. Another observation? The input of Dr. Mike Simpson is limited. Some parts are good, like a small part where he describes standard American military strategy. But there are also other parts where he is limited to comments like "oh wow" and "this is special." I wish he had been given a little more input.

BillBird
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Does anyone know where I can find Episode 2? (This is episode 3 and I found Episode 1).

SticksUWP
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The point about walking the ground is best illustrated, by the fact t

AndrewSouthgate-bn
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I blame it on the American Mulberry Harbour . They didnt secure it well enough to the sea floor (like they were told to) and a Massive Size 4 Storm on the Jun19Th ruined their harbour and choked all deliveries and supplies

Rusty_Gold
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Without Air Superiority. your screwed ! Even Rommel was strafed ... Speaking of Panzer Lehr - even 54 ton Tigers were blown upside-down -btw, like the Free French Partisan Renault your driving !

pierredecine
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These heroes gave everything they had and now look at the state of our country

swiftymorgan
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The narrative we are fed these days about WWII is likely to give new students of history a very distorted view of the war. Bloodbath at Omaha Beach, bogged down in the hedgerows, Market Garden, Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge… failure after failure, right? The fact is, the Normandy invasion was a success, the breakout from Normandy, Operation Cobra, was just 7 weeks after D-Day, and Germany was overrun and surrendered 11 months after D-Day. No, it wasn’t all a walk in the park, but overall the war in Western Europe was an astounding victory for the Allies. Unprecedented, and nothing like it since.

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