D-Day Invasion Of Normandy - German Footage (1944)

Document on the history of the Monday night 5 to Tuesday, June 6, 1944 during which the Allied troops invaded Normandy. Parallel to the efforts of the landing units, many divisions of paratroopers and airborne troops launched using gliders landed behind German lines. The cities of Caen, Lisieux, Saint Lô and Evreux are in ruins.
Contains German point of view footage of:
Anti-aircraft positions shooting at allied planes dropping paratroopers.
Allied expeditionary fleet reaching normandy coast.
Atlantic wall artillery firing at allied ships.
View of the allied landing crafts arriving at the beaches.
Vaptured US gliders and military equipment. Captured canadian paratroopers. Occupied french towns and cities in ruins, French civilians.German Panzer units in St Lo.
Captured Sherman Tanks. Tiger Tanks advancing. German troops crossing a field. battle footage of german troops in french town.
Invasion anglo américaine en Normandie
France Actualités - 23/06/1944 - 09min31s

Category:

Education

Tags:

• operation overlord
• 6 june Normandy landings
• ww2
• wwii
• World War III
• germany
• history
• day
• d-day

[75mirabelle]

Definitely a "Must see" video. Even though the people of these towns and cities were thankful and have remained so all through the years for the landing of the allied troops, which ended up delivering the whole country from the German occupation, they suffered very heavily from all these bombardments some of which were actually overdone....without enough regards for the civilian population and of limited results for defeating the German forces there.