American Reacts D-Day Secrets: The genius innovations that helped secure Allied victory
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Those X-Craft midget submarines were also used to attack the battleship Tirpitz, and sink the Japanese cruiser Takao that you heard about in Jeremy Clarksons docu about the VC. The ones on D-Day were used by the Men of Combined Operations Pilotage Party, or COPPs for short. During the 2014 D-Day celebrations, a young BBC reporter was sent out onto the beach to find someone to interview, he spotted two old boys strolling along the beach. He approached them and asked if they'd been there on the 6th of June, one of them replied "no, we were here the day before". Disappointed, he went in search of someone who'd been there on the 6th. When his producer saw the short clip of him asking his question, he kicked him back out, and told him not to come back until he found them again. By all accounts he never did.
Weren't it American submarine's that Sunk Takao, or was it Atago that was sunk by the USA, along with Maya the same attack.
@@kazuhassideprofileswifey2179 Takao was attacked in Singapore Harbour by HMS XE3 commanded by Lt Ian Frasier VC, another member of his crew, JJ Magennis also earned the VC. Magennis had also taken part in the X-Craft attack that badly damaged Tirpitz.
@@kazuhassideprofileswifey2179 No it weren't.
The fuel pipeline was partly to supply the double deckers full of sand😂
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Communication to the front was another technical innovation. This was by using the first point-to-point microwave link with 8 voice channels. This was the "10 set". The system was ready for service in 1944, and military-quality sets were available for D-Day operations. The range was enough that it was used to provide secure communications from the D-Day beaches back to England across the English Channel. The system could be extended into a relay by connecting trailers together, or through existing landlines, and in doing so the range was eventually extended into Germany.
There's a good CZcams video by the Imperial War Museum called 'Mulberry Harbours | How disaster at Dieppe led to D-Day success'.
On the end of the gun barrel is called a muzzle brake, to counteract the recoil.
Oi McJibbin. That ain't no rock, it's better than a rock...that be a pebble.
Deception as to wherethe landings were was effectively abandoned around 15 minutes before the first troops hit the beaches. Find out what you can about operations "double-cross", "fortitude" and "taxable".
but the Germans still believed the real target was the straights of Dover so held reserves in the wrong place such was the dis information being put out
I live in Greatstone on the Kent coast, we have a section of the mulberry harbour unit off our beach, it broke its tow and grounded. And one of the most closely guarded secrets was operation Juno. A few hundred yards from my home are 2 houses which were built to house pumps to supply the fuel and oil needed for the allies and on the coast road is another house which originally was the officers mess
Respects Connor to you, your uncle and for the US forces that fought so bravely and gave their lives for freedom !
Because the major French ports were in German hands Mulberry was essential in getting resupplied D-Day was tough enough but hard to see success without Mulberry .
indeed the mulberry ports enable large ships instead of small ships to drop their goods off right onto a dock so quite significant, as an example imagine amazon not using trucks and trailers to ship a package from warehouse to your local amazon point and then in small cars but imagine that with only small cars from amazon all the way to the doorstep, that would be nearly impossible or require an insane amount of cars and drivers
They were also used to evaluate the wounded
The second point I’ll make is that the area of the coast with restrictions mentioned was huge. From Landsend to the Wash is the entire length of the English Channel from Cornwall to Dover. Then up round to the Thames Estuary past London all the way round East Anglia to the Wash.
Great video, it was basically a tour of where I live!
I've been to every location he mentioned.I live on the edge of the Forest Of Bere, the second location.
The Mulberry harbours were not a breakwater as such. They were sunk in big semi circles then they had roadways attached between them so the much larger ships could dock alongside and offload troops, vehicles and supplies.
Fareham boy here👍 Used to drink in the Forest of Bere pub, in Denmead.😅
I believe some of the Mulberry structures were actually breakwaters, protecting the prefabricated road sections.
Hi Connor...glad you talked about your visits to Normandy, I wish more people had the opportunity to visit there...I made a point of collecting sand from each of the 5 beaches when I visited in 2008.
Interesting fact I am not sure they will have time to mention, but the LST (Landing Ship, Tank) was so critical to the Allied landings that it actually pretty much set the date for the invasion. The Allies determined they would not have enough LSTs to do the landing they planned until 1944, so the original date of the invasion was set for the earliest possible date that year when the weather, tides, and moon would be right for the landings...May 5, 1944. The delay from then until June 5, 1944 came because Eisenhower and Montgomery added additional forces to the first day, and that required a 1 month delay so that the additional LSTs that were needed could be gathered.
Yeah...as I expected, they did not even cover LSTs at all.
There are a number of videos on You Tube that go into the engineerinng for D-Day in some detail, well worth watching.
Landing vehicles and supplies without the Mulberry harbours would have been impossible because the beach sloped and is relatively soft sand. The harbours were fixed well off the beaches and a floating causeway erected for vehicles to drive onto firm land.
Wars are about logistics, especially mobile wars. The people involved need feeding and other necessities such as medical supplies and vehicles need fuel, spares and tools.
Connor, by June 1944 the RAF, USAAF, RAAF, RCAF, SAAF etc had total air superiority over the south of England. The Luftwaffe couldn't spend time loitering over English ports. Radar would likely spot an intruder and someone would be intercepting them in quick order. It's the same reason that the invasion beaches saw very few German aircraft on D-day.
All this and no mention of 'Hobart's Funnies' - the specialist AFVs of 79th Armd Div?
10:58 - The 'skirts' were on DD (Duplex Drive, i.e. tracks and a propellor) Sherman tanks. They were collapsible water-proofed canvas flotation screens that allowed the tank to float like a boat, but could be lowered once the tank hit the beach.
11:52 - That's a muzzle brake. It deflects gas from the explosion backwards, counteracting the gun's recoil and lessening the impact on the gun's mounting. Guns without them suffered more recoil - and they became more necessary with bigger, higher-velocity weapons.
15:01 - Mulberrys weren't there to act as barriers - they floated, so they could go up and down on the tide. They acted like the jettys of a port, to unload very large volumes through, until the Allies could capture an actual port to unload similar quantities of materiel. Half a million vehicles, 2.5M men and 4M tons of supplies came through Mulberry B in the 10 months after D-Day.
1:32 Connor confesses stealing a piece of france 12:01 Muzzle Brake stabilizes the gun during shooting, and prevents it from going up by distributing jet of propellant gas in different directions
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1. crap you're right im sorry France
2. why wouldnt all muzzles have that then?
@@McJibbin Its not always that big of an issue, and many weapon systems now have gyroscopic stabilization. Its only a problem if you wanna fire gun at the same spot without checking aim, if every shot has to be aimed then you have to adjust aim anyway
Towns were closed off so that there was no chance of what was going on in the towns being passed on outside the town - to keep ervything as secret as possible.
Hey Connor, the thing at the end of the barrel on the tanks is a muzzle break it cuts down the guns recoil. DD tanks (the ones with the canvas sheeting) designed and normally used for fording deep rivers, the canvas was attached to the hull of the vehicle then extended up over the height of the tank this provided just enough buoyancy to keep the tank afloat, a lot of the DD tanks used during D Day were lost due to the rough swell overflowing the canvas...
The majority of DD (Duplex Drive) tanks lost on the day went to the bottom because they were launched too far out - most of the ones launched at the pre-planned distance from shore made it successfully.
@@richardwest6358 yes and as I said they sank because of the swell...if it had been a calm day they would have all got to shore.
A total of 290 DD tanks were deployed on D-Day - 120 of them launched at sea of which 42 sank. Those due to land on Omaha were launched 6,000 yards out - much too far - so only TWO made it - the other TWENTY NINE sank with the loss of all crews. Those 29 would have provided desperately needed cover and firepower for the exposed infantry and would have undoubtedly reduced the slaughter
@@richardwest6358 Mate, I know, my regiment used DD tanks when they landed on Sword beach luckily they were in calmer waters at the eastern edge, they were launch 4km from the shore.... the reason the others were lost was due to the swell caused by bad weather.
I'm sure you knew - but many on here do not. Just trying to be helpful
I've just been to Normandy to see the D-Day sites, some great museums and places to visit. Especially the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches-les-Bains
this is the second day theres no notification on your upload lol and yes im subscribed and all notifications turnt on its weird im getting everyone elses but not yours ...anyway hope your doing well keep up the good work 👍
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RIP to him mate. He was a true lad fighting for the right side! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
mulberry harbours were used. large concrete/pycrete casts that could float by trapping air. used to make landing platforms so youre not far off with your guess. grew up in gosport/fareham and living now in portsmouth/southsea.. you are so surrounded by naval history along that stretch of coast that you almost don't even register that its the place this stuff all happened in the build up to D-Day
The scale of D Day is almost too big to comprehend it wasn't just men and weapons it was everything to sustain an army and the entire logistics operation was carried out by telephone, pen and paper and even dispatch riders on motorcycles not a computer in sight.
12:15 the tank muzzle hole things lol…it’s too allow for some of the gasses to escape laterally rather than creating turbulence behind the projectile. I’m no expert but I believe it’s to do with protecting the barrel from over pressure and also the aforementioned. Any experts…please educate me on whatever I’m sure was inaccurate
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The fat electrician has a good video on General Hobart how oversaw the development of much of the specialised DDay tanks
About D-Day, I think you should like this, Connor (as if you were there): "The Last French survivor of the DDAY" - Le Monde 'on YT)
Fuel is the lifeblood of war. Even more important than water, food and, yep, communications. You definitely want all of those, but fuel is always the complex one that you can't set up/source locally if it comes to it.
The "skirt" idea for tanks would have worked better had the water been smoother and as it was rough water a number of the tanks sank .
He also could be thinking of the deep wading Shermans that were also coming ashore on D-Day. They had large vent attachments to go over the air intakes and exhaust of the engine so that they could handle deeper water than a regular Sherman. The kits also included ways to seal the hull hatches to keep water out, and you actually see one in Episode 2 of Band od Brothers...the thank that Nixon is riding when he picks up Winters is a Sherman with a deep wading kit attached.
Many of the DD tanks were released, mostly in the American zone sadly which made things harder on Utah and Omaha, they floundered in rough sea. There is a part of a mulberry and a D- Day museum at Portland near Weymouth, in Dorset
Sorry, released early
@@user-ny5yv9rt9s There was one particular group of DD tanks from the 741st Tank Battalion at Omaha Beach that had 27 of 29 tanks that tried to swim ashore sink...the other 2 reached the beach, and 3 others were carried to shore by their LCTs instead of swimming. The other tank battalion at Omaha Beach...the 743rd Tank Battalion...did not even try to have their 32 DD tanks swim to shore and chose to bring them all the way in like their Deep Wading Shermans and other tanks.
At Utah Beach, the 70th Tank Battalion put 28 of their 32 DD tanks into the water, and all 28 of those reached the shore...though they were delayed by headwinds. The other four tanks that were not launched were destroyed when their LCT hit a mine off shore before they launched.
The tanks that sank at Omaha sank due to being launched too far off shore, but also because they were launched into seas that were technically outside the limits for wave height for them to successfully swim for that long.
Why were they not allowed to leave or enter? Possible security leaks
The Channel Tunnel? They were Allies not Hamas
Be careful when taking stones, sea shells, amber etc. from a beach. Many countries fine people for doing that.
Connor I have a question for you. In the future, when you’re all educated and older, would you ever think about living in England? I have seen people do these reaction videos about Great Britain and they say they would never come here. That tells me that it’s just for the views. I know that you have visited here, but would you actually consider it? I hope you’re not just like all the rest that just do it for views, you seem to have a genuine passion, and like for our country. I was born and raised in Cambridge. But now, being much older, I have decided to move out to the Ely, Fenland. We have narrow boats going through our river Great Ouse, oh, I really want to believe that you are interested and genuinely love our country. I would hope to see you here one day
There are LOT of videos of foreign people moving to England who love it here and don't want to go home, particularly Americans, Canadians and Aussies. One young American lady was in tears after her visa ran out and she was forced to have to move back to America. She's vowed to move back to England.