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This guy insolently changes dates as if it was Turing who first began working on Enigma. It was the Polish mathematicians who were presented in the video first began cracking the Enigma 10 years before Turing. Turning would do nothing without the POLES and the Brits take credit for busting Enigma. Turing would not even have known where to start without the Poles. So, it is the Poles who cracked Enigma and no some Alan Turing.

Irwin Rommel grave

Really interesting 👍🏼

I have learned more from your videos on D-Day and WW 2 than I e very have anywhere. Never learned anything in school about it and didn't know about the Holocaust until I grew up and heard about it and sesrched out the history of it myself. 😢 Blessings to you❤😊❤😊

Thank you,bless you for all you have done. I am working on all 44 videos. ❤

I thank you with a grateful heart for your video. I knew of Normandy but not alot of the history and i learned greatly from you dear sir. God bless you greatly.❤

Very cool. Thank you for sharing. Links to WW2 layer. Ghost stations, K0 morse part also on kryptos. WW2 operations, forces, rank, spy layers with greek mythology. Alexander plats, alley X, U-bhan underground to Rosa Luxemburg. Compass rose to rose of the winds to Rosa E,A layer check. Cryptographic tunnel. Churchill Underground bunker in germany during WW2 layer 5. Y station Alexander britan. Station X, X camp, hydra radio. Amazing how much they packed into it. Mytaxis, meaning between, my tax is. K0/LEX/kryptos K1-5 Kryptos/hydra/tiamat. Lexington L class Legion ( Lady lex ). Dead/sunk, Posidon. Again thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing. Cycle's, bagpipes, and D-Day. They should have made a movie about them and other surounding things. I'm looking at it from a weird kryptos link in layers. Tricycle XX Double agent and bicycles on X troop and D-Day. Weird cross-check if true. Wild history I didn't know about. Station X, Y station Alexander, Camp X, and Hydra radio. X Corp, and more.

The next time I’m At Colleville-sur-Mer I will definitely view the cemetery differently. Excellent information and video

Excellent video Colin. Thank you.

Sad to see that it's not only American youth that are spray painting vandals with no respect for anything.

I would think Calais would have had even more hard defenses but I’ve never seen anyone do a video on it.

Nice work, as usual. I have fond memories of the bunker night club. Not because I used it, but because when I first took up metal detecting, this was the first place I had a mooch around. This would have been around 12 years ago. Over the years I revisited and was always miffed at not being able to gain access to explore inside. The heavy front doors had huge granite boulders preventing opening. Then, about eighteen months ago upon re- visiting, VOILA! Someone had finally gained access from the rear. It is huge inside and it is still recognisable as the night club it once was. In fact a testament to the security of the place over all these years, it looked as if it had closed only in the last few years, rather than the 30-40 years. I don’t know if you are aware. But directly opposite this bunker over the road in a private garden is a Tobruk which covers the road. It lies less than a metre from the fence and is clearly visible without trespassing. Keep up the good work. Regards, Francis.

I could listen to these story’s for hours

Always blows my mind seeing where the western world we lived in was fought so hard for only for Klauss and the masked morons of Covid to so meekly give away our freedoms. From Australia

A creditable video . Resistance massacre important remembered. The piano - it sounds fresh and maybe original - makes for a dramatic ending.

An interesting angle on WW2, with special insights into female participation. Nicely presented, creative, demonstrating good research. Great video.

New viewer to this channel in May 2024 - as D-Day approaches - I very much like this video which is clearly well researched. With sound effects photo inserts and simulated effects gives viewing a punch. Congratulations on this epic video. I ‘d love to view more.

I love your channel and learning about military history! Is there any plans to talk about the Jedburgh teams and their involvement in D Day? Please keep posting, excellent work.

I bet every year there is literally a lot of unexploded ordnance recovered in that part of France. I know when I was stationed in Germany in the 1970s we used to get called all the time to come out and take care of unexploded American bombs that were dropped during world war II..

First....it was the Polish men....Then....it was Alan Turing....Problem solved....

Enjoy your videos very much here in America. How about do one on the 3rd armored division Sergeant pooil, he was the one that the movie fury was based on.the real war daddy. And you have touched on the major Waters of the Canadian armor forces. And you done an excellent one on the German tank Ace Michael wittman. You could even do one on the Canadian armor ordnance crewman that were delivering you fireflies out to an armored unit and had very little training as far as the combat use of the fireflies only the ordnance and repair of the fireflies but yet they managed to knock out seven panther tanks and damage to others. This happened outside of the village where the German SS Hitler youth stopped for their photo opportunity shots for the propaganda magazine and then they proceeded on to this town of Roth and got ambushed by the Canadian infantry. It is sad fact that you have to be very careful as to how you describe events that occurred so you do not get demonetized on CZcams. And I have a tip for you from an old original CZcams blogger you cannot talk faster or louder than a barking dog. I learned that lesson when I done the history series for a college of walking with Sherman from Chattanooga Tennessee to North Carolina.

Spiers did confirm that executed those prisoners on a phone call with winters. It's in another video I seen of an interview with winters

Fantastic tribute ❤

As a guardian to this great memorial I think the silhouettes are a great addition. Thank you Colin for making everyone aware and the opportunity to visit.

Monuments to honour men who would cry to see the state of the countries they fought for.

I visited a couple of weeks ago when the team were installing it, myself and my wife were very honoured to help out for a hour staking in the guide lines. A very moving memorial .

It's about time someone showed the Brits took part in D-Day 🙋‍♂️

Why hasn't it been cared for???

Totally humbling, so s😅ad but wonderful.

Lest we forget

How could Charles de Gaulle call The viciys traders to France?? Remember he was an armored regiment commander in the French army and his regimen had done very well against the German army. But he decided to abandon his men to The tender mercies of the Germans and grabbed his family and fled to England, he was even offered a position in the French military when it was reconstituted and armed by the Americans and British but he refused flat out. Realistically if you forget all of the alleged patriotism angle and look at the facts he was not much better than any of the other politicians of the era simply an opportunist. He should have stayed in France and fought alongside the French people if he truly wanted to be the leader of the free France by example, same as Marshal Tito with the Yugoslavian freedom fighters he stayed and fought alongside his people even though he was offered many opportunities by the British and by the salvage to flee to their countries.

Out of curiosity any idea how these Georgian troops knew that the Tommy's were coming the next day when they cut off the electricity and we're hiding out around the woodpile? And there was a lot of Eastern European in the German army stationed in Normandy. One of the most unusual of these European volunteers from the East was the ones that were of Oriental descent my father told me that they captured some and they initially thought that they were Japanese that had come and volunteered for the German army. This is another great video a very good history lesson from the point of view of the civilians who actually lived through the events. Well done 😁

Hi, do you have an email address? My grandfather was part of this and remains buried in banneville de campagne war cemetery. I need some info if you can assist?

12:56 The 49th certainly held their own! Top soldiers.

Hi Colin. You’ve probably answered this or even done it! But would you consider doing a video around Bretteville l’orgueilleuse about the 12th Panzer and Canadians. It’s a good walk around there isn’t it.. and it would be good to hear your take on the battles? Thanks for a great channel. I like the style and comprehensive descriptions.

My grandpa was wounded by the bombers that accidentally dropped bombs on the Canadians. His best friend, William Garvis, was kilked. He told me they were british bombers flown by American crews. He said he could see the bomb doors open, and his heart sank. He said he dove behind a jeep and when the smoke cleared, the guy in the jeep had no legs. He recovered and was back in action to finish the war. He only started to talk about his experiences in the early 90's. I was one of the luckey ones he told his stoies too.

The 12th SS division had no combat experience before being moved into the Normandy battle. But had a very experienced hardcore Eastern front leadership core from the commander right on down to senior ncos. And like most of the SS and German parachute divisions they had the best and latest equipment and supplies..

There’s a great wee military museum in St.martin de bessace .It details the main conflict around that area and the discovery of “bull bridge” which significantly helped in the breakout south and east through Normandy.Well worth a visit if your in the area.

oh wow the coincidence

I would think that the US first infantry division was the most experienced along with the 82nd airborne division. From the campaigns in North Africa Sicily n the campaigns in Italy.

Was the British airborne also pulled out and sent back to England to prepare for market garden? You would think with all of this tactical planningn,market garden should have been a great success.

Where were the German reinforcements coming from was it the south or were they coming from the east?

How does each hill get their number is it in relation to grid references or the height of the ridge line?

I live in St Hilaire Du Harcouet. We went to visit Mortain yesterday, good to see this documentary.

You need to do an episode on how the resistance fighters were treated after France was liberated. I dare say it is one of the more shameful chapters in recent French history. Especially if you were not of Charles de gaulle's political party n supported him. If you read some of the history right after the Germans surrender. I remember where Winston Churchill and Truman was calling for free elections in all of the liberated countries both east and west and the fact that Joseph Stalin ask and bought it up as an example as to why the Communists did not allow free elections in the liberated Eastern countries mainly because the Allies did not allow a free election to be held in France. But when France did get around to having a free election Charles de Gaulle was out on his you remember the last 3 months before the Allies landing in France call Charles de Gaulle persuaded the Allies to stop and cut back the weapons drops to certain Marquee bands? Do Americans never did trust Charles de Gaulle mainly because he has a military officer fled France with his family in tow and then tried to push himself forward as the legal representative of a deposed French government. Now if he would have done like Joseph Tito of Yugoslavia and stayed behind with his people in faulty Nazi occupier sharing the same dangers and hardships then I think the Americans would have accepted him immediately.

A very informative video. By the way, Buck Rogers was not alone in the church tower, there were a few more paratroopers with him. One of them was my friend Larry Lopes from Service Company, 506th PIR, 101st ABD. He also told me about shooting at the German vehicle that drove into the town square below them, but he remembered it as being an open top tracked vehicle. Larry and other paratroopers left the tower after a little while. About 30 minutes after they got down to the ground level, the round from the Holdy Battery struck the steeple.

Enjoy your videos and I have purchased many of the books you have recommended. I would like to recommend a book for you maybe you can make an episode out of it. Silent wings at war combat gliders of world war II by John lowden. I have a personal autographed copy of his book that I purchased when he was making the rounds of VFW Post here in the US.

That was my fathers 4 landing on the landing craft

My father was a navy seaman that landed troops and eqipment on utah he was aboard LCT 519