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My Dads in that Bunch No 4

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My dad's brother was a bren gunner in the 1st Hampshire at D-Day. SO PROUD!

Amazing to watch 👌

Thank you very much indeed fantastic film in a sad way as I wonder how many of them were returned👍

fantastic video!

thanks for showing this

Great memories. Thanks for sharing an important part of our history

As a veteran and a liflong engineer this was very informative thank you.

I have memories of being told about the buildup of D-Day by my Great Aunt Win. She remembered the rows of US Army vehicles driving through Peartree Road. The images in my mind are still as strong today.

Black servicemen was in war this Country fought in! America revolution to conflicts today! From Peter Salem to the rough riders, Harlem Hellfighters, the Red Tails 761 th Black Panthers ! FBAs was there.

Straight out of new forest

Would you be happy for us to sharee this to coomeratee tomorrow's Stokees Bay Memorial on Day 80 years

Excellent

The wanted to make hero out of white soldiers on D-Day.

Absolutely stunning breathtaking footage.

@5:52 The upper profile is that of an LCM1, as seen in the video. The lower two are both LCM3s afaik. Unfortunately (for me) these are illustrations of the USN version, as seen by the mounted 0.5 Brownings, which were absent on the RN version. I've been struggling to find any detailed info about the RN LCM3 and was hoping to find a hen's tooth in this video.

Very interesting, thanks!

The old WWII black and white film is of an entirely different boat.

It's amazing that even one spitfire was built with all these problems. Very revealing and fascinating video

Ludvík Košek, byl spoluzakladatelem 311. R.A.F. a byl hlavňím pilotem 3:15 B24 LIBERATORU

From 1:40 those two Commandos? Amazing. And those Bergens.

Priceless footage. Too bad we don't learn from history. Great channel

I need 3 of those to buy

How many men constituted a "Fighte fGroup" in those days?

I much appreciated that video as my dad was first officer on a Canadian minesweeper at D-day, HMCS Thunder. From what I understand of the operation to clear sea lanes to the beaches, it was a vital and complex operation.

Great documentary.

Wish could hear De Gaulle's voice without the really annoying voiceover! Just do captions.

My Father was a crane operator and was task with others to unload the bodies off the boats that brought them back from Dunkirk and he said they were left on the dockside at Southampton for 2-3 weeks. It was a hot Summer and the decaying corpses stunk out the whole town. An image and experience he never forgot, he was 18 at the time.

Fascinating, I never knew that the US boats were from a UK yard.

What a gorgeous aircraft in almost every guise

Masters of their job

2024 as Ukraine shows the use of naval drones we may yet see the return of such small gun boats as part of fleet escorts

Great video, always wondered what role Southampton played in dday

It was all a Jolly Sad from books.

Geordie Soutar Royal Marine 1st Special Service Brigade Achnacarry 1940 Lofoten Island raid... Southampton May 1941 leaves Southampton with the Best on HMS REPULSE,, 10 Dec 1941 sunk by the Japanese three days after pearl harbour.

My Grandad was in a DEMS unit.Thanks for posting!

I served 12 proud years in the Royal Hampshire Regiment from 1978 to its amalgamation (which you allude to here). I came from Gosport. I grew up in Hillhead where 1&2 SBS Sqns had had an HQ at the Osborne View Hotel, recceing shorelines for D-Day. The pub, typically run by ex-submariners from HMS Dolphin (2nd Home Flotilla) recognised the Regiment with memorials from the Hampshires. I donated a regimental plaque. The Hampshires earned the coveted Royal status for actions on D-Day and Africa. At my time of service there was a fierce often unseemly rivalry between what had become the The Devon & Dorsetshires (fine lads) and us, the Royal Hampshires. It often went far too far. I had wondered where this rivalry had come from. Perhaps this claim to be first on occupied French soil is at the root of the terrible rivalry. I recall the famous ‘race’ between the Paras and Royal Marines of 3rd Cdo Bde en route to Stanley in appalling conditions. I know lads from both units who downplay it. I think of the West Kents at Kohima. (Dorsets part of 2 Inf Div relief of the Kohima ‘tennis court’). This has been interesting. These regiments exist no longer. I had the misfortune to endure amalgamation. Doubtless with fine units (The Queens Regt from where I think the West Kents derived). Now, there’s nothing left. The Royal Anglians, fine regiment with fine battalions (Vikings, Poachers). But the modern snazzy outlook is - incredibly - no major infantry Corps even Brigade level ops. The world looks otherwise to me. #Tigers

Thank you for sharing this video 👍 My grandparents had a small house barely fifty yards away from Wn38 (St-Côme-de-Fresné), so, as a child, the German bunkers there used to be my favourite playground. I have kept quite a lot of objects I inherited from my family and that are related to D-Day and to the Battle for Normandy - among others a British Mk II helmet with an RASC flash, a pair of TT formation badges and, most important of all, a collection of more than 500 photographs taken at Arromanches during the time when Mulberry B was active.

The stoicism of most of these men is remarkable.

One must imagine just how ecstatic some people in nazi occupied Western Europe felt when they heard the news of the Normandy landings

I grew up at Mr bill mcchesneys farm in widnoon Pennsylvania he was good friends with my dad he was truly a wonderful man

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Thanks for sharing this bit of local history.

Hi there, I now live next to Marchwood Park in a cottage which is part of the walls of what was once, the kitchen garden. These films showing Marchwood park Training Centre are fantastic but a little low resolution. Are the photo's seen in these films anywhere that we could view them? Hope to hear from you. Regards Phill

If you listen very, VERY closely, in places you can hear Col. R Ernest Dupuy in the same studio making his announcement of Communique #1 to American radio. In NBC's recording of Dupuy's shortwave broadcast to America, you can clearly hear Snagge in the middle of reading this announcement when Dupuy pauses for a ten second countdown. As if you needed any confirmation this was an authentic recording. 😀

All, POSTED WITH MY VERY GRATEFUL THANKS TO PETER FROST. KIP

Fabulous

this is actually am incredible account covering the life of the people and soldiers. Very nice!

where was lc T909 loaded with 2 diesellocomotives in Southampton?