Richard Hammond presents Bloody Omaha (Part 1 of 6)

[leighstephens74]

This video is popular on New Zealand

[Ahok1977]

man vs man

[TheHempman09]

Did you hear that people. 'A joint BRITISH, AMERICAN AND CANADIAN operation.'

Fuckin savin private ryan

[zeropluszeroiszero]

@TheHempman09 If you read the desprictions for saving private ryan it clearly states that the movie is seen through "american gis" and showed the horrors of how bad the americans had it on omaha beach. Spielberg isnt trying to single out any other country. Chill.

[saveusmilkboy]

thank you for uploading!

[allfilm100]

at 3:44 , what is that song/music??????? please tell, cause i like it!

[ramze08]

@wokangoman STFU!! we should respect and thank all that helped. Hate idiots like you hope you go to hell

[nuteronstar777]

@wokangoman You reckon !. then you really are thick, superior ?. that is why it took you two years to get involved in the second world war. The problem is with you yanks is that you think that you are the best at everything and that american lives are more important than the rest of the worlds lives. You do hold one record, you are probably the most hated country in the world without a doubt.

[FrostyTheSnowball]

@wokangoman We couldn't have done it ourselves, tardo. Like ramze08 said: Respect the soldiers that laid down their life to take that beach. Put you on that beach on D-Day, and you'd be so glad you had more people with you.

[IcyScythe]

this was not the most important battle in the history of the world.

lol

[VisionofLoveandPeace]

My father fought on Omaha Beach and by the Grace of God survived. He saw the movie, "Saving Private Ryan", he said it was like that but the water on Omaha Beach was redder and bloodier. France gave him the Jubilee Medal in June of 2001, he said "It's about time".  He passed away 4 months later.

[liand013]

Christ! What DOESNT Richard Hammond present???

[EliteSlayer28]

canadian army helped i thought it was america and great britian

[mad4tarmac]

feel bad for all who fought and died on all sides(except for anything that was loyal nazi) all those people that died in ww2 because of a lunatic but thanks to all who did fight only for them we would be in a very diffrent world, we all owe them so much.

[13joethepro]

i live in cornwall

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

Let's just face it -- if either of the "Big Three" (US, Great Britain, USSR) had dropped out of the war it would've been game over.

US kept Japan busy and kept both Britain and USSR afloat economically. Great Britain was able to keep itself and the Mediterranean as a viable base of operations; if Britain hadn't lasted Western Europe would've been completely out of reach. And USSR obviously had the daunting task of keeping Germany busy.

[bobnudd]

@PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD Well said my friend , god bless our fallen uk usa and the then ussr

[2herosofwar]

i have an old friend who thought white beach on pelilu was more important than d-day because more kids fought in it. load of crap, eh?

[norabudgie]

fuuckoff hammond ,, u suck at presenting ,, ur a pathetick human

[hoggerdave]

@norabudgie Who are you to judge. You sound like a small minded and pathetic person yourself!

[norabudgie]

@hoggerdave no im very intellegent and im very brave .

[hoggerdave]

@norabudgie Good for you! You must be proud of yourself, however, you didn't show that in your statement towards Mr. Hammond.

[XXXpallisterXXX]

Most important battle of the war was Stalingrad i'd say.

[harmless911]

@XXXpallisterXXX I think it would be Kursk, for after that, Germany didn't have a sing major offensive

[XXXpallisterXXX]

@harmless911 Could say that though if Germany won at Stalingrad they might have had the power to win Kursk.

[harmless911]

@XXXpallisterXXX Good point, but Germany's entire tank army was pretty much wiped out at Kursk.

[TheGarethG]

Sad to think you wouldn't get away with that sort of military preparation these days. No more climbing cliffs 200ft high with rope ladders :/

[fuggsakes]

Most important battle of the war = allied propaganda

D-day was the beginning of the end for Germany = allied propaganda

[caraneenan]

the germans made the first mistake halting their invasion during the battle of britain, if they wouldnt have declared war with the soviets and kept bombing the british i guarantee you britain would have failed

[SvenTviking]

@caraneenan The Kriegsmarine considered the invasion of Britain as a suicide mission. Even with air superiority the small German naval forces, 5 or 6 cruisers and 10 destroyers available plus some U boats would have to face 5 full Battleships, 20 cruisers and 50 destroyers of the RN home fleet. The Luftwaffe was not trained to sink ships at sea and had no bombs at the time big enough to penetrate battleship deck armour.

[SvenTviking]

@caraneenan They had enough trouble sinking merchant ships in the channel battles during the summer 1940. Add to this they had no landing craft, just river barges towed by tugs, no support craft and by sept 1940 the British army had re equipped, its a shame they did not try it. The Royal Navy would have lost many ships, but 250,000 elite German troops and their tanks and artillery would have been on the bottom of the channel.

[MiramonteSucks]

People seem to forget that when we launched our invasion of Europe we had already been involved in a war with Japan for over 2 years. The Soviets fought one war, the American's were the only country to fight on two fronts and win both of them. If the American's were never involved, Britain would have collapsed and forced the Soviet's into a two front war with Japan and Germany.

[1942ann]

@MiramonteSucks: Your comment about Americans fighting on two fronts was the best and most logical one of the bunch concerning Bloody Omaha.

I would bet a million bucks that the dratted whinners do not even realize that our second front in Europe caused a great many lost lives before, during and after the Baatan Death March.

Thanks for commenting,

1942ann

[McLarenMercedes]

@MiramonteSucks

Japan was in war with China since 1937 already and with the British before you. Now neither the British, nor the Filippinos or any other island the Japanese invaded just keeled over.

Japan tried to invade the USSR in 1939 and get soundly beaten in the Battle of Khalkin Gol, realizing they'd rethink their strategy.

Imperial China led by Khiang-Kei Shek held up half of the Imperial Japanese Army in the war (Manchuria). 10 million Chinese died fighting them. Respect is due.

[1makermovie]

My Grandfather was on omaha i was there also on holidays

when my father came there and saw his name

he collapsed and cried

me also

[MattRowland95]

but you also hav to remember just before the start of ww2 the russians and nazi's planned to invade Poland and share it half and half, i think this is wrong. I also know that over his lifetime stalin was responsable for more deaths that hitler

[TheJazzman7]

@scassidy0526 Please expand. What did the Germans predict exactly? Then prove to me that it's happened and please, leave out the childish profanity. I don't really want a shouting match, just a calm debate. And by the way, what do you mean 'filthy immigrants'?

[TheJazzman7]

@scassidy0526 It's not something to be celebrated...

[nizamm]

For a sec I read 'Bloody Obama'.

[kuralulu]

Just because it's Richard, I keep expecting Ford Fiesta to just randomly appear

[tranz2deep]

@kuralulu It's in the center of all the explosions.. wait, that's the Nissan Sunny.

[manutdr8]

@kuralulu or OLIVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quirpco]

@kuralulu I know what you mean. I was waiting for him to start talking about the Porsche 911 or Land Rover.

[FrapsYou]

@kuralulu i expect some teeth whitening products, it baffalsMe.

[johnwelbeck]

@kuralulu thats one of the most stupidest things ive ever heard.

[TheCoalescent]

Why it went wrong? Because the Navy hit the wrong fucking targets. Whoever read this just saved a half hour of their life.

[thekillx94]

It looks like 0 germans watched this :D

[The33times]

@thekillx94

*cough* I am watching this *cough*

[hogwashsentinel]

I went to Omaha, Nebraska and that's exactly what I thought...bloody omaha.

[Tantrumzero]

This presentation just comes short of the real deal.

[wizzzm]

how much does the camer they used cost,?? ^^

[ryand111]

I find it annoying the yanks didnt help the brits during the battle of britian and if Great britain was invaided this whole operation wouldnt have started

[stonevrscx]

my friend vick mckool (an american)was on that beach, he is still alive in beaumont texas. im planing on pitting his story on YT.

[smoochym]

is that guy talking about game theory?

[TypeRSXk20]

Hey, I've got an idea... Lets all be grateful for each nation's part they played in the war and stop arguing about who did what and what documentarian got it wrong. Believe me my great uncle was an Army Ranger and there was a book written about his unit. He told me more than half of what was written was bs and didn't happen. War is hell, but its also necessary with people like Hitler in power. America, England, Russia, France... doesn't matter they're all equally heroes in my mind!

[knails]

If he was my history teacher I'd loveeeee to learn from him.

After hours....

in our underwear.......

or maybe just me naked : D

[camp14dogg]

Richard Hammond looking a wee bit hungover at the start of this!

[FunGuy133]

thnx for the uplaod, dont watch alot of tv, sad i missed this, so thnx again for uploading,, much appreciated, just starting it,, lookin forward to it!

[bibowski]

i've only watched 2 minutes and I already love it :-D

Hammond could teach knitting and make it interesting!

[normanvonputz]

ok but what about the poor germans on the other side? wasnt like a walk in the park for them.

[freakforarmy]

ya we did kick there asses but they totally slayed our asses because of there great defence we came out of our higgens boats and the fist thing we found were almost evryman in the higgens boat was slaughtered by the MG42's and Panzer tanks parked along the beach they had us at there will i think the only reaseon we didnt have even more deaths was because of the airattack that we lauched first wich softend them up for us to come in

[Blink182DudeRanch]

@freakforarmy and the fact that the germans had been fooled into thinking the normandy invasion was a distraction for a much bigger raid in calais.

[freakforarmy]

@Blink182DudeRanch yes that too

[speltips]

is it me or did Hammond wake up like 10mins before they shot this?

[FactualTruthProvider]

'Most important battle in the history of the world'??? Who on earth wrote that drivel? I can think of about a dozen battles more important. Just during WW2 you have Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Kursk....even if D-Day had been a failure, the germans were still doomed. Even if they had stopped the soviets, the allies still had the atom bomb up their sleeve. That would have destroyed the germans and the soviets too if they tried to take over europe.

[bigcheesejov73]

I agree, still theres no denying that it was an important part of the war, saying it was the most important battle though is just being melodramatic.

[chrisc170]

@FactualTruthProvider agree, people always seem to forget the battle of the atlantic, without that won alot of other battles would be lost or never even fought

[ashkanmosavi]

i never knew they met up in Theran IRAN im from iran but thats new to me.....thats pretty cool

[iamthe1337est]

It annoys me how all us westerners ignore the Soviet Union's influence in WW2. Of course the Normandy invasion was a huge step to victory, but it was the Soviets with most of the war's deaths on the Eastern Front. Give them some more credit.

[xwingclass]

if you listern to one story a russian solider who was in auschwitz when the russian soliders liberated the camp the russian soliders who were in the camps got flogged and were sent to siberia as traitors to the motherland. the russian solider said that he could not believe that his own soliders were treating him this way he cried.

[tgdrake10]

I agree with you entirely. On another note, it also annoys me that Americans dont know how much Canada actually contributed to the war. Canada gave over 20,000 sailors, along with hundreds of ships. Also, Normandy had 5 beaches. America took Omaha and Ohio, UK countries took two, and Canada took one. Yes, I know that that's still less than the other's, but Canada also had the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which trained 135,000 pilots and aircrew, from 22 different countries. I could say more.

[Silnius]

@tgdrake10 we pushed the furthest inland!, we were the spear in the 12th SS panzer Divisions Side!, Some fish as Churchhill said!.Canada never really gets its proper reputation ,because of our commonwealth to the UK.

[tgdrake10]

@Silnius

Thanks for the support!

[FactualTruthProvider]

@tgdrake10 You are correct, in fact Canada had vastly more troops involved in D-Day (relative to it's population) than either britain or the US. The US landed 73,000 men, Canada landed 30,000. The US population at this time was TWELVE times that of Canada - if scaled for population, that means Canada landed 330,000 men! In terms of national contribution, the US was the minor partner in D-Day, after Canada and the UK. Of course, america makes all the movies....

[FactualTruthProvider]

@FactualTruthProvider sorry, 360,000 men.

[brin3535]

@FactualTruthProvider Spin it however you wish. That actually made me laugh! Are you rather short?

[videofxuniverse]

I completely agree, America contributes an average part of the war, yet they make no end of films trying to show they won the war on their own and it was Germany vs america. Lets not even bother to mention vietnam, i havent seen one nam film that actually shows the truth of them getting their asses kicked and wasnt that a war they lost? not according to hollywood

[clothierben]

@iamthe1337est this much is true, however because the russians raped, pilaged, and plundered, just as the nazi's had.. people dont want to remember that

[soarer205]

@iamthe1337est australian also lost many in this battle... just the numbers dont tell if because back then we had only under 20 million people living in australia anyway

[bigcheesejov73]

we had even less citizens at the time, considering our numbers and the strength and ferocity of the Japs, Australia did bloody well against them

[hazemvirus]

@iamthe1337est give them credit for rushing men that had no clue how to fire weapon and didnt know a dam thing about how to fight the enemy? nice joke!

[nameis12396]

@iamthe1337est the ussr also made use do dday

[flyingfisbeefilms]

@iamthe1337est  Great point - couldn't agree with you more!

[koobi180]

@iamthe1337est Yes, but if Stalin wouldn't attack Poland 2 weeks after German invasion the WW2'd probably end where it begun.

[NJRocks281]

Why should we give a shit about communists killing fascists, they are two sides to the same coin.

[scottishrosette]

@iamthe1337est

This is so true, and I agree wholeheartedly. Although for what it's worth, I have noticed more education about Soviet involvement in schools. I think the reason why it was initially left out is because educators were uncomfortable painting communists as heroes. This is slowly changing.

[lickstickly]

@iamthe1337est why does watching this video make you say that, im a westerner and of course i repect and admire the courage of our Russian allies, after all more Russians soldiers died than any other nation in the war but this programme is about Omaha Beach so i dont really get why you bring this up, there are hundreds of films,books and tv programmes made about the Russian front so although your point is valid it is poorly placed

[TypeRSXk20]

@iamthe1337est The Red Army was responsible for the destruction of 80% of the Nazi forces, yes they deserve credit. The soldiers deserve credit... but Stalin was a monster. Following Stalin's rule the Red Army used pile on tactics sending wave after wave of soldiers to attack the Nazi's regardless of how many men were lost. So many live's were lost needlessly that its hard to have respect for anyone but the soldiers. Don't give the Soviet Union credit, give the Russian people credit.

[WunderDoob]

@TypeRSXk20

actually Adolph Hitler was responsible for 80% of his own total military power's destruction.

[TypeRSXk20]

@WunderDoob thats actually a good point, tactically hitler was a moron so i guess he was responsible, my point was that the russians were the ones pulling the trigger when the nazis made mistakes

[smoochym]

Even if it wasn't targetted genocide, it exposes the ignorant failures of communism in it's most ghastly form.

[WunderDoob]

@smoochym

Communism Soviet Union was a beautiful and honest system, led by a beautiful and honest man named Lenin. And then Stalin took over...

[smoochym]

Of course, that wonderful man Lenin who sent hundreds of thousands of Russian Kulaks to there deaths.

[WunderDoob]

@smoochym

Kulaks? Did you just make that up?

[smoochym]

Don't let a five second search on Wikipedia get in your way....

"Kulaks (Russian: кула́к, kulak, "fist", by extension "tight-fisted"; kurkuls in Ukraine) were a category of relatively affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union. The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged as a result of the Stolypin reform which began in 1906."

[WunderDoob]

@smoochym

If I need to know what a 15 year old flamer thinks about a subject, I'll head straight to Wikipedia.

[smoochym]

The point is you would rather pontificate about something you clearly know nothing about instead of spending five seconds saving yourself the ignorance and embarassment.

[smoochym]

"According to the political theory of Marxism-Leninism developed in the early 1900s, the kulaks were class enemies of the poorer peasants,[1] and were described by Vladimir Lenin[2] as "bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who batten on famine.”"

[WunderDoob]

@iamthe1337est

Soviet Union lost an estimated 7-12 million lives in this war. So many millions that noone knows exactly how many.

[smoochym]

Which is around how many Ukranians Stalin managed to kill in one year.

[WunderDoob]

@smoochym

I had no idea there were so many people living in Ukraine in the 1940s. 12 million. Really. I doubt that. Picture this: The Nazi government ran the Holocaust like a well engineered, finely tuned, well oiled machine, and they only did 6 million, from multiple countries. Seriously if you wanted to commit genocide with the utmost efficiency, that's how it should be done. I highly doubt Stalin's disorganized grabasstic goons managed to get anywhere near even 1 million.

[TypeRSXk20]

@WunderDoob actually a lot of the statistics that you see about Stalins genocide was from what historians called a "forced famine". Its estimated that about 7 million people died in the famine, It was nothing like the Holocaust but just as terrible. Thats all across Russia though, i have no idea how many in the Ukraine he was responsible for.

[smoochym]

Give or take a few million, although some higher end figures suggest 10 million. Heres a low end figure.;

"The Institute of National Memory, the Ukrainian body responsible for researching the Holodomor, calculates that three million people died in the months after Stalin punished the collective farms for failing to meet grain production targets in 1932. Soviet troops confiscated the harvest and all the food in villagers' homes. "

[coltonmil]

@iamthe1337est Just because you have the most war deaths doesn't mean you had the most influence... it means YOU WERE the most influenced. The Soviets lost so many because they were so outclassed, and so undersupplied.

[Brera011]

@iamthe1337est It was a war on 3 fronts for the Germans since '44, Allied troops from the south (Italy), Russian troops from the east, and more allied troops from the west (Normandy). I believe the Russian part was never ignored, and without the Russian army coming from the east, the invasion never could be succesful as they were withdrawing large numbers of German soldiers from the west. Victory was not at hand without both Russia and allied forces. Both parties took their losses. RIP

[mako7828]

@iamthe1337est they are given tons of credit as are many allied troops during the war, what you do not get is the real story about resistance against hte allied movment by the french and other countries. Maybe better off as the hatred would have continued.

[2491cc]

@iamthe1337est Yeah,, but the west has ill feelings towards Russia now, after the cold war and all that...

[chillaxer1993]

@iamthe1337est as an american i wish we had better relations with the soviet union after the war, but stalin was paranoid about us. we wanted to unify europe and help rebuild not conquer. we only did that because stalin quickly created the eastern bloc. but if it werent for the brave soviet soldiers that fought from stalingrad to seelow, the third reich may not have fallen the way it did

[H2HSnake]

@iamthe1337est more deaths means that they just sucked more :] they were badly trained soldiers, cannon fodder.

[Magni56]

@H2HSnake

Yeah. Cannonfodder. Bullshit. Badly trained cannonfodder doesn't pull off stuff like Operation Bagration, a combined arms offensive on a scale that made Normandy pale and is even today teached as a textbook case on how to do mobile warfare at that scale. Also, kinda funny how the Soviets also caused just about 80% of all german military casualties for the entire war from 1939-1945.

[lickstickly]

@H2HSnake terrible comment from someone who knows fuck all well done dickhead

[Lachausis]

@H2HSnake Apparently wherever the fuck you come from they teach soldiers to dodge bullets.

[wingitprod]

@iamthe1337est

There is a real good mini series called "The Unknown War" narrated by Burt Lancaster. The Soviets were real sloppy fighting that war.

[Znybar]

@iamthe1337est I think its more the fact that the Eastern front didnt affect the Western Front's every day. Sure, it played a huge (and possibly larger) part in winning the war, but no one in France or in the UK ever saw Soviet troops.

[TheCoalescent]

@iamthe1337est The United States sent the Soviet Union a small army to keep them in the war. You kids keep saying that the Soviet Union won the war and that no one recognizes it, just because you played Call of Duty. Yet, you dont understand how the war was fought, or won. The Soviets had a lot of trash from the Americans, and threw it all at once and really hard. The Germans had a few bricks of gold, and threw them accurately. Eventually the Americans dumped the bin on the Germans.

[njdevil281]

This is about D-day, there were no soviets there, that's why they are not mentioned. Get a grip you child.

[MustangsCanTurnToo]

@iamthe1337est Speak for yourself.

[ChaseSpeer]

@Mesterse not to mention their leaders were rubbish, their supplies were rubbish, tatics were rubbish. Yes every death in a war does take a husband, brother or father away from a family and thats terrible but the red army's deaths didn't mean anything because they had a army that was 20x larger then the western allies and their leaders knew that and they threw their men away. The western allies did all the tatical fighting because you don't win a war by dying for your country

[7redbill]

@ChaseSpeer  the Soviets fighting alone on th east would have been crushed by Germany!!so the Allies envaded on the west to take some of the pressure of them

[ChaseSpeer]

@7redbill yes and?

[pauliewalnuts1156]

@Mesterse I would also like to remind the Soviet supporters that the USA supplied the USSR with over 200,000 2 1/4 Trucks, Untold number of Jeeps and Half tracks and Sherman Tanks.. also thousands of Fighters and Bombers... They couldn't have concentrated on building 80.000 T-34's if they had to build Trucks, Jeeps etc...

[levlevi]

@Mesterse soviets had more loses because i think they put quantity over quality, and did not care much if thousand of their troops perished. remember Stalins famous Order No. 227: "Not a step back!" this pretty much shows what i am trying to say.

[jurassicturd3]

@levlevi Pfft, read up the Ost Front in 1942-45, high casualities could not be avoided on both sides, it was a huge slugging match which required large scale strategies across 2,000 mile fronts.

[dalekbitch]

@Mesterse the fact that they shot their own soldiers just for turning around in some cases make me feel a bit less sympathetic for them

[McLarenMercedes]

@Mesterse

Well, you have a point. Now aside from having more losses they also INFLICTED more losses on the Germans (and other Axis countries that fought alongside them in their fascist crusade against communism).

Fact is 80% of all German losses were on the Eastern Front. Any historian will tell you the turning point was Stalingrad in early '43.

On D-day 60 German divisions were in France, compared to over 230 German division tied up on the E.F.

There'd be no Operation Overlord if for that!

[McLarenMercedes]

@Mesterse

Sorry, but without the USSR holding up and destroying most of German Wehrmacht, you can kiss Operation Overlord and invasion of France goodbye! The USA knew this and hence produced equipment for the USSR, knowing that if Nazi Germany won in the East, they'd have continental superiority and the war would be lost (at this time there was no guarentee the planned nuclear weapon would ever work or that they would beat the Germans to it).

Their sacrifice saved British and American lives!

[MattRowland95]

@iamthe1337est but the british and americans used alot of resources on bobming the hell out of germany, when the soviets did't do as much

[DrWhiggs]

@iamthe1337est First, no they don't "ignore" it; second, the Soviets crushed Eastern Europe under a brutal dictatorship for fifty years and raped and looted freely.

[toopoogang]

@iamthe1337est  the soviets are as bad as the germans they suck

[ArcolaBridge]

@iamthe1337est Documentary 'The Russian German War' find it on youtube, you'll thanks me.

[chrysopoeia321]

@iamthe1337est I agree. I can understand that ignoring/downplaying the Soviet contribution as part of the cold war propaganda, but it is strange it still continues. They of course mention it, but there are very few documentaries or movies made about it.

[tranz2deep]

@chrysopoeia321 Here in Virginia, there's a HUGE fuss that the planner for the D-Day memorial wants to include a bust of Stalin.

[BLAFilms1]

@iamthe1337est very true...however you do have to consider that a number of those killed were shot for retreating by their own side.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@iamthe1337est You keep forgetting the USA has the atomic bomb.One lick of that and the Nazi regime would stop.

Russia was no friend of Europe.It was purely self interest and that fat Norman Bates of a Stalin slaughtered more people than the Nazis six fold.

[TigertailzBezerk]

@iamthe1337est True

[0spike0100]

@iamthe1337est no

[BKsMassive]

Dead AMERICAN!?!?!? soldier?

WTF!?!?!

[hherlevdk]

Mainly Americans, only a few brits

[BronzedKiwiANZAC]

If anyone is more interested in the story of Overlord, than this "history lite" TV version, I highly reccomend "Masters and Commanders" by Andrew Roberts.

At the very least, it shows how retrarded those WW2 "my country could beat up your country" posts on YouTube are!

[JimbobHarrigan]

the most important battle, the 1941 battle of moscow because the germans were stopped in their tracks by the red army and the russian winter.

[InkyEnston]

IN SHORT: If D-day failed Russia would have most likely carried on through Europe after defeating the Nazi's (and they would have defeated them) to create an Iron Curtain from Russia to Britain and that means a large threat to USA with communism etc. Thats why D-day is the most important battle. Then again why not the battle of Britain as the most important battle? If the UK fell, then there would be no staging ground for d-day and that means Nazi ruled Europe or USSR ruled entirely?

[InkyEnston]

P.s, I think most battles were mostly decisive and very relevant back then.

[BKsMassive]

no really.... Russia turned on us ( Brits ) and in WW1 they gave up -.- and also in ww2 they did simular -.-

[flymaninhawaii]

....OHM...someone show me the back scene of this vedio...the whole landing scene is only used 4 man, 3 actor+1 shooter..in 4 days..that's it!! soo cool!

[AAYMF]

A lot of good men lost there.

god bless them.

RIP

[armedfilmmaker]

isn't one reason that the allied planes tried to bomb the bunkers on the beach and the attilery and on the other beaches most of them hit their target but on omaha all of them missed.

[hamsterdance4lyf08]

I Was Doing This In History Once, When I Was Year 9, And My Rather Fit Teacher Made Us Watch This. I Was The Only One Intrested Cause It Had Richard Hammond In It Lol </3

[namas000]

The most important battle was stalingrad!

[Eagle0videos]

all battles are important...

[ThatUJohnWayne]

Try Midway.

[CaptainAmerica322]

Good point

[MissHarpoMarx]

That was for the Russians. Omaha was was the most important battle for the Brits and americans.

[catpainblackudder01]

missHarpoMarx

well i think the battle of britain...

for the brits....

[Robaaaayy]

well, it can be argued either way

[tyrellarson]

Though it's hard to place one battle as the single most important, turning the germans back (for the first time since the start of the war) was immensly important. Not only strategically but for the moral of all those opposing germany. Until then the germans were thought to be unstoppable and many battles ended up with the defenders simply surendering to the germans.

[Wachetpower]

"What was it really like?"

A had to laugh a bit at that.  No one could know exept the ones who were there. I think Saving Private Ryan is the closest anyone else is going to get.

[m4db4d4d]

not really,

i do a ww2 battle re-enactment on d-day

[Pr0ject2]

Thats cool where do you do it? But i think he means with all the graphic content like blood, bombs, bullets and all that.

[kinmac45]

i have never seen this before. was it shown on tv ? thanks for taking time to upload.

[Jerry033]

it was on BBC and Discovery Channel.

[Zaharkl]

first comment... no but the video is GREAT!!