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A great video thank you very much! We will be taking this trip to experience it in real time. Thank you.

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Good overview of CVNP! One more item to note - cyclists can take their bikes on the train, and then ride back to their starting point. If you're visiting the area, both Cleveland and Summit County (Akron) have very good metro park systems.

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Excellent, wonderful production! Thanks!

White Hall is the Birth place of the United States Navy

Germans fallen were NOT victims of the war. They were its authors. They were the occupiers and they were the muscles of the Third Reich with millions of innocent lives swallowed by it. Men, women, children. Most of them murdered not in combat but in Holocaust and in famines orchestrated by Nazis. Eternal shame on the German soldiers of that war!

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I travled the walkways and sat marveling at the drydock and locks of the old 8 foot wide canal near Albany . Some has become basements and walls near a parking lot. But, theres lots of great fossil hunts to be had all the big rack is made of fern and shells everywhare. There's something for everyone to enjoy. What a great job you've done with this video. It should be a school video . It's great thank you 👍

Excellent video. We are heading North this Fall on vacation and I will endeavor to stop at some of these sites, now that you have introduced me to them . Many thanks.

This is known more today as the Barge Canal. It follows most of the Erie Canal original route.

You might want to mention that this is NOT the same as the more famous Ohio and Erie Canal which went from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.

Hey from the Erie Canal terminus at the Chesapeake Bay..👋

I love turning bowls! Can’t wait to see the finished bowl! This is probably my favorite way to dry the rough turned bowls, but I’ve recently been playing with soaking them in denatured alcohol. I’ll probably go back to this, as I am getting cracks in my black cherry. Thanks Carl and Robin!

Great presentation! I grew up beside the Erie Canal in the '50's in Henpeck, to the west of Rochester. First memories were watching the barges and hearing the tug's horns. Just wanted to mention something that would have been a bit of interest. You could have shown the canal's original path through Rochester if you were just one bridge over. There is a double-decker arch bridge 50 yards to the north of the single arch bridge you showed. The lower of those arch bridges once held the Erie Canal as it traversed the Genesee River. After the canal was moved south, it held the subway, as the road for cars was built over it.

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Was there at the 80th😊

My great Uncle was actually at D Day itself and almost did exist afterwards. What had happen was he was on one of the boats approaching the beaches. When they came under fire from the German defenses. One of the deterrents against the allies hit his boat and blew it up. I forgot what hit them, or if anyone managed to survive, but regardless he was never found. Eventually they just chalked in up to another loss, what can you do. Though I think since his body was never recovered he was MIA, again I don’t remember all the details. However two weeks later he was found alive in a British hospital. Apparently what happened was when the boat was struck by the German defenders, he was thrown out of the boat into the water. He got picked up and sent to a hospital for recovery. He actually managed to still see some action fight in a ally tank. The father of a friend of my dad also found in WW2. But he and some others got captured by the Nazis. He was taken to a slave camp where every day, he would walk to a nearby farm and do manual labor all day and then walk back to the camp. Never with a guarded escort because there was literally no where to go and they’d kill him if he did. And that all he experienced in the camps, it only ended when the Allies turned up and freed the camp.

1:17 A map of the modern barge canal. The erie canal went south of Oneida lake and through Syracuse.

I consider the D-day museum in Bayeux to be the best. You will too if you are a uniform and equipment collector as I am. I visited there during the 50th anniversary. Every regiment of every nationality was represented in full mannequin,

Thank you for this informative video of historic D-Day sites in Normandy.👍👍👍

I was on a civilian airplane seated in the back - the smoking section. There were several men seated around me. Everyone was quiet until someone asked what I did. When I replied USAF Nurse - well something happened as one after another they began to describe what they did in theatre. I believe they needed to talk to they felt safe talking to.

Dumnezeu să-i odihnească în pace pe toți militarii aliații care au căzut pentru libertate! I-ar noi nu trebuie să îi uităm! Cu stimă și respect

I wish I had seen this video before I went there last year. I only spent a day or 2 in Normandy, but instead concentrated on the "Liberation Trail" that largely followed Patton's march through France and Germany. Basically, I was following my father's footsteps through Europe while in 3rd Army. Next trip I'm going to concentrate on Normandy.

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at the beginning, the Russians were the allies of the Nazis... and it was only when Hitler turned against them that they took up arms against him... the Russians were always submissive... they like that... the only time they could have changed their condition would have been to join Napoleon against their oppressors... they preferred oppression, and they prefer, even today, murderous dictatorships.. .Bolshevik, Soviet, Stalinist, Putinian...

Thank you one of the most balanced D Day video/documentaries I have watched.

what's the trail at 6:33?

I’m so happy to be able with them and now I’m so proud of you all I love that I have to be so happy and blessed with me all day.

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Hell of a video, man. Not only a comprehensive guide highlighting the museums, landmarks, and memorials at the various fighting sites, but you also managed to capture the sense of awe, somber reflection, and remembrance worthy of the events that took place there 80 years ago. Perfect for anyone planning to visit Normandy in the future.

My Father WWII 29th Army 8th armored Division Landed on Omaha Beach D-Day June 6, 1944. First town Sainte-Mère-Église, on to St Lo, in his words they got the shit kicked out of them in St Lo. He Fought in the Battle of The Bulge where he carried two wounded GI's under heavy fire to safety, he received the Medal of The Silver Star award May of 1945 for doing so. He told me the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into the wrong place, He passed away 12/2002. Forever my hero! `God Bless all that served.

my grandpa landed in southern france on august the 15th a couple months after dday it was the dday that went unheard of but he was captured and held a pow for eight months in german returned home worked almost fifty years in the coal mines and retired and had three girls one of whom was my mommy

Eternal Rest grant unto those allied soldiers oh Lord and Let Your Perpetual Light shine upon them All🙏🏼✌️

The day the international bankers invaded Europe.

Wonderful video. Thank you for creating and sharing. My father landed at Omaha on 6/7/44. He survived the war. I am forever grateful and proud of him & ALL the Allied Forces who served during WWII.

.... ma se a est non ci fossero stati i russi ... ora non invitati!

Wonder if these verterans would stand for the totalitarians now running both Canada, England and US? My father who survived the pacific conflict would certainly not be happy with state of affairs in the West. Frankly we have allowed the Hitlers of today to flourish and prosper including Hamas, Iran, Trudeau, and the Democrat Socialist Islame Party.

I'm happy to see La Cambe included, the very humbling German war cemetary. Most casualties were 16-to-23 year olds who had no choice, no option and certainly no point in being there at this point in time. The many unnamed graves are shocking as many of them could not be identified in the aftermath.

Superb! I was very impressed how professional and most enjoyable this video was watching! Hopefully one day I can make over there to soak up the Normandie air and take in what it offers. Most of all pay my respects. Lest We Forget

Great video!

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Very impressive video. I have family that recently visited some of these memorial sites during a vacation in Europe. This video brought to life what my family and the men and women who participated in operation overlord must have experienced. Thank you for sharing. I now have a much better understanding and appreciation for the freedoms I enjoy. Have a great day. 😊

I am too young to be a veteran, but I have it as a bucket list item to visit Normandy. I'd like to visit Omaha Beach, St Mere Eglise, St Lo, Carentan, the cemeteries and maybe some other towns in the region. This video is a great first step for planning.

And let's remember that it's not just fascism that we should fear, it's also Marxism and communism, and in large part Socialism.

Russia was on a one-way march to Berlin after Kursk no matter if Day-Day took place or not . D-Day did make sure that Stalin did not take western Europe like he did Eastern Europe at least .

What's up with the Sword Beach clips... The soldier, in the clip where the cameraman was directly behind him, is carrying an M16 rifle, which wasn't fielded until the Vietnam Conflict.

My Uncle Charlie was in the Royal Signals during the Normandy campaign. He was meant to be landing on Gold Beach, but his unit was delayed by bad weather in the Channel and in the end, he landed three days later, not on Gold as expected, but on Utah Beach. His unit was seconded to the U.S. command because the Americans were having problems with their radio communications. My uncle had more up-to-date equipment with double the number of channels of the sets issued to the U.S., so he was sent over there to help train them up on how to use the new sets. He remembered the fighting in the Cotentin Peninsula all the way up to Cherbourg. Strangely enough, he found his Lieutenant's pips very useful in getting things done. They made him look like a 2-Star American General to anyone not looking too closely. As a typical old school British Army commissioned officer, he was not that impressed with the levels of discipline and attitude of the G.I.s to their superiors, but he never doubted their bravery in battle. "They fought with the courage of lions!" he would always tell my brother and I. My uncle was awarded the U.S. Bronze Star and his military service finally ended in 1946. I have a photograph of my uncle pictured in Hamburg, Germany standing alongside Kingsley Amis, the English author, who served in the same unit, on the day he was finally allowed to come home and return to Civvy Street. We always looked at Uncle Charlie as a war hero, but he never accepted that sentiment. He always said that the real heroes were those brave men who didn't get to go home and that he just did his duty and was very lucky to survive. The most poignant aspect of the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings for me is that this is more than likely to be the last time the surviving veterans will be able to return to Normandy in person. With this in mind, I've had the beautiful song, "The Old Boys" by Runrig buzzing around my head in memory of those who didn't make it home! Never forget and always be thankful for the freedom their sacrifice gave us all! They gave their tomorrow for our today! czcams.com/video/zWLJQ1ouuCI/video.htmlsi=Yi6x1Ubqt0Khfro2

Those were the days of manly behavior, those were the brave men who saved the world from tyranny. Many thanks, brave unforgetable soldiers of freedom.God Bless you for ever. Best wishes from Brazil.

Sorry but the Germans were not Fascists but Nazis. There is a big difference between these two left wing forms of dictatorship.