"I hadn't been to france before but I didn't look right to me" I laughed a bit

"I didn't contribute much..." You have no clue, my man. You contributed more than you know.

”I didn't contribute much to the invasion of D-Day...” He took out an MG-42 position w/ a grenade and took out a staff car w/ possible officers in charge...He saved a whole lot of US soldiers in my eyes!

Unfortunately, he passed away recently. I’m glad I got to meet him in 2021.

"Just shows you, war's over" Beautiful. My respect to you, Mr. McBride.

"I didn't speak German, and he didn't speak English, but we just got along. He was my buddy." Kind of sums it up... Love is the universal language.

This guy is so great. Laughed out loud several times during his story. What an absolute legend and hero.

"Well after looking at my map and studying the country around here, I think, now I'm not sure; but I think we are in some place in Europe" I couldn't help but laugh.. that sense of humour is very characteristic.

"We didn't shoot prisoners, we just didn't let 'em become prisoners." That sums it up pretty well.

"I didn't contribute much on D-Day". Sir, you did more than enough.

This should be called memoirs of the greatest generation.

I wish my dad was alive to view these videos. He was a medic, landed D Day +1 on Omaha Beach. He was also at the Battle of the Bulge. He earned 3 Bronze Stars and lived a good life. He raised 4 kids and 4 stepkids. His name was Jack Keith.

“We almost kissed each other” hahaha the most manly thing I’ve ever heard in that context hahaha

Dick Winters, rest his soul, is a legend from the 101st.

At 7:22 he claims he didn't contribute much. But you did, you put your life on the line for the freedom of others you have never met. That's good enough mate, we're all proud of you seventy-plus years on.

1944 teens: Lemme just roam German occupied France alone Me: Lemme just avoid that cashier because I'm too awkward to talk to them

Why isn’t this channel more popular? These documentaries are gold!

Thank you for this channel. My father was a WWII vet who was in the South Pacific. He never talked about it even when I asked him how he became disabled during the war. I have always been curious about what actually happened and these stories have helped me to understand what actually happened to my father during that time and why he would never talk about it. God bless you and your mission to keep the truth alive.

I had the honor to have met Dan back about 8 years ago maybe. I worked at an RV store in NM and he was in looking to have us sell his RV. While we went through the consignment process he told me a bunch of his war experiences. He would stop in to see my from time to time when ever he came into Las Cruces. Once he brought a book about WWII, and in it is another of his stories about how he got a German Sturmgewehr off an SS he killed. There's a picture of him receiving a medal from Ike for that action. Really was an honor to have had the opportunity to hear his exploits. The man is a hero in the flesh.

Some of the best ww2 stories on youtube hands down

I am truly going to miss the WW2 generation, because once the last veteran is gone, there will be no one left who can personally tell us about its horrors. I hope 2019 will see more people discover this channel, so that they can hear the voices of those who were actually there. Josh, if you're reading this, keep up the great work! Also, if possible, I would love to see some future videos with veterans from other countries, as I think their stories are just as important ;)

it is heart warming to learn that the German veteran who got injured in Operation Market Garden invited Veteran Daniel Mcbride back to Germany for a family dinner.. War is cruel.. once bitter enemies, now friends..

My Dad was there with the 101st. We owe these men more than we could ever pay.

that ending bit was so touching. It's good when old enemies can meet in friendship even if we don't speak the same language. Gives hope for humankind that despite we are soo good at inventing ways to kill off each other then we a least can make pease and reconcile years after :)

My recently deceased uncle was in the 101st thank you for this.

I’m Australian. We are so grateful for the US for saving us during WWII, I live along the coal sea, so the battle of the Coral sea means a lot to me. My Nanny was born in 1939 and tells me stories of how she would ask the yankee soldiers for bubble gum when they get time off and come to the mainland. Tears come to her eyes whenever she talks about it, she is so grateful for the Yankees. She tells me of a plane full of yanked soldiers going out to deploy, it crashed near my now day home, it’s so terrible that this crash is almost forgotten, with only one memorial, yet it was the most deadly plane crash in Australian history and one of the deadliest during WWII. I’m 16 and I can only imagine what that time was like, thank you for making this wonderful show. God bless.

“Would you care to hear about D-Day ? “ ..... chills literal chills

“You care to hear about D- Day” what an understatement

2 guys on opposite sides fighting a war they didnt want become friends 70 years later after having potentially combated each other. This awesome. I love these stories. I hope they're never forgotten

That tank grenade story is some of the most badass real life shit I've ever heard, god damn. And that story at the very end is wonderful, it just goes to show that the German Soldiers weren't bad people, they had hopes and dreams, and love and loss and family like anyone else, they were just doing their jobs, same as any other soldier, they just unfortunately happened to be on the wrong side with a madman in charge.

My grandfather, a WW2 vet of the 12th Air Force, passed away this year. 99 years old. I grew up looking towards the men of this generation. They were my grandpa, my great uncles, my friends grandpas. I love these men. For all their flaws, they knew what tough times were. They came back to build the country we now take for granted. We will be worse off as a country when their wisdom is no longer with us.

I sure miss Dan. He was the best story teller and the funniest guy to talk to. RIP my friend.

I wish my grandpa was still around, he experienced the slaughter first hand and one quote I will always remember him telling me is "for me to survive I had to play dead, I had to lie motionless for what seemed like hours" in reality he was only lying down for less than a minute.

My grandfather served in ww2 as a paratrooper with the 11th airborne division, and after the war that division kind of merged into an infantry unit in which he served on the front lines with in Korea, where he gained a battlefield commission for his service, after the Korean War he served in Vietnam in the Signal Corps for like 10 or so years I think. He died February 17, 2017 at the age of 91, Rest In Peace Papa.🇺🇸

I was in the v.a. yesterday and noticed an old lady with a Walker, had to be in her 90's and another older women helping her and she had to be in her 70's. I started talking to the old lady I said "hey darlin ! , where did you serve?" and she said she was a nurse in Normandy. I wanted to ask her more questions but her name was called and she had to go see her care giver and I said to her "thank you for your service", and shook her precious little hand and i thought how many wounded men she had touched with it and how many she helped.. god bless her, she was so charming..

I have met Mr. McBride in person. What an honor.

I'm an army major (former non-commissioned officer who graduated officer candidate school), military police. What a true hero; you fought evil. The only school I wanted to, but was never able to attend: airborne. What a story. A true patriot; and blessings to you, Trooper!

“It just shows you, the wars over.” Forgiving and befriending your past enemy. That really tells you the quality of a man. And this man is as good as they come. God bless him and everyone else who serve, past, present, and future. You are the soldiers of love and peace. Through becoming dirty and bloody you allow those who you’ve left at home and those who’ve yet to come, to live cleanly and safe. There is no greater calling than to risk oneself to save another. Not one.

The picture of him and the German paratrooper. He’s a brave man to go willing into combat, but beyond words to make friends with his former enemy. What a treasure this gentleman is.

I am an Airborne Infantry combat veteran myself. I was wounded in action in the Iraq War and medically retired from the Army. What these men accomplished in the big war is simply unparalleled. I have the utmost respect and admiration for them. Nothing we did holds a candle to the greatest generation. I am proud to have served in the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment and to have carried on the lineage of these amazing men. We lost 19 paratroopers in the Battalion on our first deployment, and I think of them often. Daily. The wars were different but the caliber of men was the same. I served alongside the best young men our country has to offer. I am fortunate to have survived my injuries and I take every opportunity afforded to me to tell people what a privilege it was to serve in the 509. GERONIMO.

“Just shows you the war’s over.”

My grandpa was in D-day too. He was apparently one of the gunners or drivers from the boat. I think during the war he lost most of his fingers on his left hand. I really need to talk to him someday, he’s 93.

Guys if you watched all the videos you will notice this is one of the happiest man to talk about his experience in ww2 I am from Nigeria 🇳🇬 but I want to say THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

I lack the vocabulary to adequately describe the emotions I felt watching this. True MEN fought this war.

What an amazing testimony at the end; the reconciliation of former foes, embracing and thankful just for life itself.

"You'd cared hear about D-Day?" Badass that gave me the chills 👍

Never met my grand uncle, he was 1st ID, Omaha Beach 2nd Wave at 6:54 AM. Thank you for bringing me a piece of him.

My dad was in ww11 ,, he's 91 and still goen, only talks about a few things of it,,,. I wish I could see threw his eyes and know his memories,,,,,. Love u dad !!!!!!!

This guy has my kind of humor....dark. “I became Sargent through process of elimination”. Sad, but it is funny at the same time.

I met a man named Ed Pepping, he was a medic in the 101st airborne “Easy Company”. Next to my grandfather who fought in Japan, he was the greatest man whom I ever met. May he Rest In Peace

Man this guy was basically everything that Band of Brothers portrayed. This guy is the real deal man. Thank you for your service sir.

Why so low views, this stories deserve million views. People must appreciate real war stories like this, thanks for the testimonies and service. My two grandfathers also fought in WW2. One for Yugoslav-Partisans and the other fought for Italian Armi and he was captured by Russians in Greece. He didn't want to fight for Italians, but our region was occupied by the Italian Empire from 1920 to 1943 and my second grandfather was older than the other, so he had to serve a military term for Italians in 39-42 in 42 was captured by the Russians, But the younger grandfather he was just 17 and communist partisans came at night in november of 43' and wants to take the older son, but his older brother one week earlier escape in Italy like a political refugee through the super protected border by Nazies, when Italy capitulated, our region in Slovenia fell under the German command, but Italy in that days was under Allies controle. And then they took the second older son and this was my grandfather (my mom's father) he fought for communists for 2 years and almost on the finish of the war februar 1945, he was wounded in a lower left leg, when he came at home the mother didn't recognized him. But the story is not finished, all two grandfathers survive the war. One survive the wound, but the other survive the Russian Gulag for 3 and a half years in and ain't was easy, he want send home after TITO, sign friendship with Russia, he came home in 1946 and in 1948 my father born :) Communist did a very disgusting thing to my partisan grandfather, when communists take the power, they took all private properties of every person in country. My grandfather wasn't in a member of a communist party and he was taken with force to fight on a communist side and he even take a bullet for them, but they for gratefulness, they take everything from him, lands, forests and one house and they give his things to someone high ranking communist officer and this greatly affected him, he never again respected communists. He wants to kill a high ranking communist who take him away everything, but his wife convinced him to not to do this nonsense, he will be later killed 100% or he must leave the country with a pregnant wife, they was waiting for a birth of my mother :) Sorry, i typed too much, but this is a very short story, my grandfathers told me a loot how it was

The last part where he talked about meeting up with the German soldier is amazing

I rarely leave a comment saying how good a channel is, but my friend, your channel is GOLD. I have so much respect for what you're doing here. Thank you

I chuckled at many of his comments, little did he realize what and how much he did. All that expected from a bunch of kids. Those pictures of him and his German friend almost broke my heart.

I spent 13 years as a U.S. Army paratrooper with over 60+ jumps and this gentleman contributed more than he could ever know, I great respect for thw WW2 generation. I hope to meet this man some day at the D-Day anniversary in Europe.

Beautiful story, it began with war and ended in friendship.

Wow... Just breathtaking! We don't know them but we owe them.... everything!

This show is absolutely EXCELLENT. I use to sit around and listen to my grandfather's WWII stories from his time in Europe and no matter how many times I heard them for years he never got tired of telling them to me and I never got tired of hearing them. In a way hearing those stories as a young man have shaped my life. He was one of the most special people in my life and I will never forget those times.

I had three grand-uncles that I know of who served in the Second World War (my dad's father's two older brothers and my mom's mother's brother). They all served with the Canadian Army. The grand-uncle on my mother's side came a few feet from getting blown up while driving a motorcycle but survived and ended up in a hospital for a while before coming home. The older grand-uncle on my father's side survived the war but the younger one was killed late in the war during Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands. His name is on the Groesbeek Memorial in the Netherlands. My mother's father was also in the Army but never went overseas.

Truly amazing how they can let bygones be bygones. Went from trying to kill eachother in the war to be friends later on... war back then used to be honorable and respected.

You videos are fantastic. The storytelling, direction, background music everything is awesome 👌

"We didn't actually shoot prisoners, we just never let them become prisoners" such a real statement. I wish this channel would get more views. I don't know what we need to due to get these stories out to more people. That generation will totally be gone soon. Listening and watching these videos are better than what kids today get in schools. This generation needs to see what that generation did not only for the US but the world. All my family that fought in that war are sadly gone. My grandfather on my mother's side was actually a German soldier in WW2. I know he would never talk about his time in service. I do know talking to my family is that many of the German soldiers never knew what the SS were doing. They were in shock just as the rest of the world. I am actually visiting my family this year for a cousin's wedding. I will ask if my family knows anyone still alive from the war. I would gladly either get in touch with you or get the story for you. I think that would be fascinating to hear it from the other side. Thanks for the videos.

"I didn't contribute much to the invasion on D-day" - yes you did, sir. Every single man on that day, even the ones tho never made it to the ground, contributed greatly and gave their lives and childhoods for Europe. For that we thank you. From a Brit, the relationship will always be special.

What a way to make a new friend. “Buddies from way back”😂 I guess you could say that 😂.

Truly the greatest generation.I can listen to these brave men's stories for hours.

My son wanted to be airborne. He died from cancer at 15. I was afraid of the wrong thing. I still haven't gotten that figured out. This man would have been his hero. For everything I can't figure out, of this, I'm sure. Thank you Sir!!!

The ending 🥺🥺 when he told the story about how he met the German soldier that he was fighting 70 years ago it gave me the chills protect these vets at all costs.

9:45 Now THAT'S a true Hero. That's pure badassery at it's finest. Probably ran back to the Foxhole like *"Aye Guys, You see that shit?"* R.I.P. Carberry. (Apologies if I'm misspelling his Name.)

Holy smokes, just found this channel, you are excellent at what you do, really fine stuff. Keep up the good work. My Dad is a 97 year old veteran, he was a RM1C on the CL-8 USS Detroit. His stories aren't quite that dramatic since he spent all his time taking code and sending code but I'm very grateful for his service.

Daniel McBride, you sir a man of honor, a true gentleman. It was a my pleasure to meet you through youtube.

Thank you for your service! My grandpa Robert Clair Sweet, 101st, 502nd B company PIR. I wish he would have talked about the WWII but never did. He passed way about 10 years ago. RIP

Wow as someone who knows ww2 by heart and loves history and curious about the 1920-1970 generation of war conflict this the best channel I ever come by

"And we're old friends from way back, He cant speak english and I cant speak German but we're old buddy's you know "Just shows you the war is over!"

That pic of him and the German holding hands, possibly the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

I will be on the beaches of D-Day exactly 75 years from when it happened... can’t wait to see first hand was these brave men went through. God bless 🇺🇸

I’d love to get my great uncle on this. He landed on the beaches of Normandy as reinforcements, and saw his campaign bring him all the way to the Battle of the Bulge. I don’t know his full story but I know he was a tank Sargent in the thick of the fighting and received one of the highest military honors in France. It would be incredible to hear his full story since I don’t get to see him much.

That part at the end about him bonding with the German soldier is really touching. Humanity shining through on both sides.

that ending just shows the power of the human spirit 2 combatants on opposite sides of the war, don't speak any of the same languages and yet they still became friends.... very inspiring

A lot of vets from Ohio proud to be in the state 💪🏾

My uncle was with the 82nd,,and his story coincides with all this brave man has said.

To the host, spray tan much? To the vets, thanks for everything! You guys made everything possible for the rest of us.

My Dad was in the 101st in WWII. He rarely talked about the war and then just in bits. He was wounded twice. He respected German soldiers as fine fighting men and held no animosity to Germans or Germany. I wish I had known him better and respected him more. I cried through much of Saving Private Ryan, seeing some of the things he endured for the first time. Thanks for sharing these videos.

Everyone please like these videos we need these to go viral

Amen! Love these videos, I’m 20 and live in Belgium, and everything I go in the Ardennes I get reminded of the war by al the memorials that stand beside the road, I was always fascinated by the two wars fought in my homecountry, I respect all the man who fought and die in the terible wars and I love how you sorta bring in back to life so it won’t be forgetten, BIG THUMBS UP for these videos

I remember my great grandfather telling me stories about his time in Europe during WWII. Some of the stories he told me he never told to anyone else. He's been gone for nearly 10 years now, but I will never forget those stories.

He became friends with the guy who wounded him and was wounded by him. That is incredible

This is one of my favorite channels because you are keeping history alive. It's nice to hear first-hand stories of what happened and what they experienced.

I want to enlist in the airborne as well, thank you for your service and for all of the sacrifices you had to make.

Him being friends with that German soldier and meeting up with him and his family every year in Normandy is beautiful. There were good people fighting on both sides equally caught up in a horrible situation. We all need to remember what happened so history doesn't repeat itself

My grandfather served in the US Army and was part of Operation Overlord and fought in Bastogne. I miss him dearly. He got Alzheimer's when I was 10 (when my interest in WWII peaked). He passed away in 2007. I had so many questions I wanted to ask him and even tried to join the military because of him. But because of birth defects I was unable to enlist in 2012. Of the stories that I do remember him telling, D-Day was the toughest for him. I remember him leaving the theater in the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. His comment was, "The only thing that movie missed was all of the strewn about body parts. There was much more of that."

Hats off and heavy hearts for the greatest generation mankind will ever know. Thank you sincerely for your service. Your generation will live forever in the stories, we will be certain to teach our children of your sacrifice.

That's how I want someone to open a story.... "care to hear about D-day?"

“Always attacking a town that had a saint in it” that hit different.

What baffles me is that these legendary men don't even realize how incredible they are, just another day in the office for them but amazing history of courage and valor to us..mind blowing

They're the greatest generation, not for their ideologies or their economies, not for their religions or their genders, but because they were boys who didn't even think to question the call to action. Take Mr. McBride Jr., he see's paratroopers and he has a fear of heights, he thinks this is a stupid idea, yet he goes and does it anyway simply because he was curious of it. That bravery, that fearlessness of the future, that is why they were the Golden Era.

You sir...are a warrior!! A true AMERICAN!! Thank you for living the life you have lived \ survived \ endured!! Your amazing sir!! Never forget what you all sacrificed!!!

Honestly him and the german solder becoming friends brought tears to my eyes. Shows how sick and wrong war is. Human life is beautiful. When our nations leaders try and tell us people aren't that's when they need to stop being out leaders. Really enjoy these thank you.

“Everything hurt. Even my hair hurt!”😂

This is amazing stuff. I’ve watched 3 episodes and it reminds me of the incredible sacrifice our veterans gave us. I’m 29 and haven’t even sniffed combat so can’t imagine what our soldiers went through. Grateful forever though.