The Battle of Lingèvres - Battle of Normandy
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2021
- The Battle of Lingèvres - Battle of Normandy
Part of Attrition - Beyond the Beachhead week on WW2TV
This action occurred the day after the famous battle in Villers-Bocage. Reeling from the confrontation with Wittmann's Tigers, the British 50th Division launch an attack south on the village of Lingevres. The units were the Durham Light Infantry and 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards.
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the maps, old b/w photos from ww2; and the current live stream with Collin's narrative are EXCELLENT. Every single WW2TV show that I've watched has been A+.
Really enjoyed that! Durham Light Infantry bumps into the Panzer Lehr. That hour just flew by. Colin's enthusiasm is really infectious, the team is adapting well and the live video vis the historical photos almost look scripted and edited, but they're live! The WW2TV team clearly does a lot of prep work for these live shows, and even carry redundant equipment into the field to cover contingencies. Another jewel. Great camera work by Mag, wonderful tour by Colin and Paul anchoring very well.
the camera work by Mag deserves an academy award; it brings these shows to life in a captivating fashion.
Thank you
A gem of a program.
I totally agree, Pam. This was so interesting. And, I felt like I was transported to Normandy for an hour today.
Another superb battlefield livestream from WW2TV. The culmination of knowledge, enthusiasm and great footage with the incorporating of then/now shots is just fantastic.
Thank you all so much for the perseverance in pulling together this presentation. There is so much to know about the Normandy campaign in explaining the battles and the efforts that took 33 days to secure in order to move to Paris. Ms. Mag and Colin did great work! Paul was terrific in keeping it rolling with great photos, particularly integrating on the ground the Then/Now shots!
Always difficult, heartbreaking but necessary to show the cemeteries where so many are honored for their ultimate sacrifice.
I knew Lt Williams very well and he often told me about his period in Normandy and the action fought at Lingevres. He died in December 1992 and is buried in Crieff. He had joined the DLI as a boy soldier in 1930, was a Cpl by 1939 with the 1st Bn in China and was posted back to the UK at the start of the war and posted to the 15th Bn as a CSM. He was commissioned and sent to the 9th Bn in January 1944. He was wounded after running to Col Woods carrier to tell him that B Coy's commander was wounded and the Colonel ordered him to get B Coy shooting and moving, that was when he was shot through the thigh. He later became QM to the 1st Bn when it went to Cyprus in 1958.
He was a hell of a character and full of great stories about his service. Years after his death I met and got to know Sgt Charles Eagles fairly well. He was a lovely man and I was very happy to share the bits of research I had about Lingevres with him. Sadly Charles passed away a number of years ago.
I have visited many battlefields over the years and was lucky enough to visit Lingevres about 4 years ago. I found it one of the most moving sites of conflict I have ever been to, simply because I had known these two men and also because it was a place I had heard so much about since the around about the age of 12 .
an hour is never enough for the (essentially PhD level) shows from WW@TV.
Yet another great show!
There is an IWM Film of the village where there is a pair of Panther tracks on the main road where the other 3 Panther wrecks are located. The Panther near the War Memorial has no tracks and thus it can not have been stopped where it is photographed. It is 90% certain the Panther was knocked out on the main road near the church, de-tracked and moved to the war memorial area to clear the road.
Great show, these battlefield livestreams are brilliant.
Another outstanding show from WW2TV! With Colin's indepth knowledge & Mags excellent camera work, how can you go wrong. The matching of views from 1944 & today really help to bring this story alive.
Yet another excellent presentation! Fantastic work by all the WW2TV team.
Fantastic episode, despite a couple of early minor technical gremlins. Colin and Mags do a great job of conveying what happened.
Really enjoy learning about the battles after DDay. Another enjoyable show. Well done.
Great show, fantastic insights, a must watch .
indeed! the WW2TV always provides high quality shows w/ such interesting historical insight.
Happy to have been avle to join you guys when you were live. Great show and splendid footage. Cheers
Such a shame that Durham County Council closed the DLI museum a year or two ago, such a lack of respect for the regiments history and members.
Unfortunatly couldn't join live but I am sure I will enjoy this one also. Good job Paul, Colin and Mag. Technical problems or not, doesn't matter. Kudos!
Great show again. Really shows the grinding down of the Wehrmacht by the British Army. Yes the latter suffer but so do the former in the longrun
excellent graphic at the 1:54 mark which evinces the location of the U.S. 1st Army; British 2nd Army; and the German I SS Panzer Corps on Dday+7 (1944....77 years ago today). Brings the history of the week after Dday alive; unfortunately the campaign for France, after Dday doesn't get the attention it deserves. But WW2TV, by providing such smashing good content, is bringing the days after Dday, and the campaign to free France, to life.
I took a screenshot of that! We both like that graphic. It shows relative positions and strengths. The overall battle arena looks really constricted, doesn't it? In the end it really became a slugfest instead of a maneuver battle. As Paul and Colin said, it became a battle of attrition.
@@tonetriv that graphic = 1000 words
@@tonetriv ty for sharing this info
My great uncle Richard (Richard Eagles) was a radio operator gun loader on the sherman firefly that knocked out the 5 panthers. Not to be mistaken for Charles Eagles. The sherman firefly was called Dreadnought! Uncle richard told me anout this when i was a young boy in the 80s. He was a lovely man and sadly missed. He also had a lot to do with the opening of the Royal Dragoon Guards museum in York.
Thanks so much for all your work in doing this!
Well done team. Interesting show once again.
That was a great one boys well done. You should do more Colin but better wear a hat next time . A northern lad passing out from sunstroke in France would be the ultimate irony.
Cracking great presentation, thanks very much .was Major Mogg decorated for knocking out the Panther
As to why the 50th Division was disbanded, well the British Army was running out of men , especially infantrymen, and some units simply had to go. Men were already being transferred from the Royal Navy and RAF to make up the numbers . I remember reading years ago an account of how 200 men from the RAF Regiment became, at the stroke of a pen, members of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, and this is just one example. Even before this, the typical British infantry battalion would be very lucky if half of its men came from its traditional recruiting area, and a quarter would be more typical. This was an inevitable result of having a conscript army taking heavy casualties, as in WW1.
Great show.
Durham is not 'Geordie land'. In the North East the term Geordie means Newcastle way. No one from Teesside or Durham would call themselves a Geordie. Even Sunderland would disown the term 'Geordie'
@Michael Kenny: Sunderlandites, Durhamites & Wearsiders are all collectively known as “Mackem-Tackems,” or as just plain “Mackems!”
Historically 'Geordie' was more of a broader term - possibly the outsiders (ie London media) didn't want to know about the inner, self drawn demarcation lines. Nowt new there eh?
I think it was 246 O'clock when you were making the video 🤣
It sounds like after the 9th DLI broke into Lingevres, there were no reserves other than two understrength Panther platoons to counterattack. Tells us that Pz Lehr was badly overstretched trying to hold its ground.
Those bells
Hi! Thanks for the excellent presentation! I have a related question wondering if anyone can help: where exactly is the “Essex Wood” Memorial to the 2nd Essex battle on June 12th? Been trying really hard to find it before my visit. Thanks in advance!
Okay not that anyone cares, but I managed to find it: 49°10'37.5"N 0°41'22.0"W
Glad you found it
Lol proper prep prevents piss poor performance xx lol sorry , had to stop watching , I’m so glad this podcast is better these days
Yep, that was one where the trial run was great, but gremlins struck on the day