American Airborne 2/2
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- walk the D-day zone with a guide.
The 101st and 82nd airborne were the spear head of the Utah beach landings.
These highly trained men landed 5 hours before the beach landings.
In these videos we will visit D-day sites as if I was guiding you. We will actualy visit in a way not possible if you were with me. Video allows teletranporting a few miles in a few seconds.
The first video sets the scene for D-day. Why it was on the 6th June 1944 and why was it on the normandy beaches between Caen and the Cherbourg penisnsula.
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Visited sites - as of date of upload
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach
Sword beach
American airborne
Juno beach
Projected visits -
Pointe du Hoc
Utah beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Band of Brothers
Merville gun battery
The Dives bridges
La Fierre
General Falley
Waverly Wray
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
82nd airborne
101st airborne
Donald Burgett
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
Totalise
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
Ed Shames
Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
The Malmann line
Taking Cherbourg
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station
Your videos really are very good. It isn't easy gathering such detail together and few (if any) other sights contain this detail. I've tried it for some sights I have visited (as I regularly travel to Normandy on the ferry to go to our house in Brittany) and it is painstaking work. Well done and please keep up your good work.
Thanks for the appreciation.
I talk about most of these sites everyday of the top of my head, but committing things to video means checking certain details and researching for extra sites. I also extend my vector map with more details for each video. That’s why I can’t get more than one a month out.
Fantastic Work!!
7:31 In George Koskimaki's book D-Day With The Screaming Eagles he says the officer that turned up was a Captain from the 82nd but I can't find a name and I even looked at the 82nd Airborne Roll of Honor and all their Captains who were killed in Normandy are accounted for.
With these actions there are always several different accounts. Makes it difficult to pin down the truth.
amazing video and super informative- having a hard time getting past the cotton mouth though..
These are great videos. Well done mate.
Hi were can i get the maps you show ? Great videos btw
Hi. The maps are from a big vector map I’m making. It’s available here www.normandy-tour-guide.com/guides.php
An update is available to those that buy the map, each time I update it, which is with each new video.
In La Grand Chemin, would you happen to know the exact building the 2nd Battalion placed their HQ?
Thanks for the question. Don’t know the exact building that Strayer used.
I would like to contact you , you have covered much in this 2 part video , I have more additional info as my father was stationed just south of St Mare Eglise , he was captured by US forces from Utah on the 7th. can you give me a way of contacting you.
Hello. That sounds intersting. I don’t want to put my Email here but I have a contact page on my site at
www.normandy-tour-guide.com/contact.php
Thanks to the US and all our allies, forever grateful.