Not so many from the 32 DD tanks of Companies B & C of the 741st died, most got out of their tanks and were fished out the water before they died of hypothermia. The 32 DD tanks of the 743rd were landed in shallow water just off the beach. The follow up wave were wading tanks landed off LCTs

I’m so confused about what actually happened on D Day. With the Germans firing directly at the Americans, how did any of the Americans make it ashore? They would have been such easy targets. Also, why didn’t our air force bomb the occupied beaches before the landing?

hahaha :D

Yes I will possibly make more videos in the future, shorter but with such details.

Not Higgins boats - British LCAs crewed by the Royal Navy.

@@siras2 Company A 1st Battalion 116th and Company C 2nd Rangers Battalion were in LCAs, Companies E, F & G 2nd Battalion 116th were in LCVPs (Higgins Boats). Was a 50/50 split for the 16th between LCAs and LCVPs for the first wave of infantry.

I know accounts can vary but the above is a bit at odds with a very good witness to the events, Sublieutenant George "Jimmy" Green of the 551st Assault Flotilla off the Empire Javelin who was in charge of one of the six LCAs that took A Company ashore to Dog Green, although 2 LCAs from the 2nd Rangers joined them rather than going into Charley, one of the LCAs was hit on the way in by an anti tank shell that passed straight through badly injuring a soldier. He also recalls a collision between LCAs 910 & 911 which saw 911 sink a bit later just 1km off shore. The other 5 of his group all reached the shore and unloaded their 32 troops, no machine gun fire, but plenty of Mortar fire. He never saw Captain Taylor Fellers and his men die, before heading back, but saw them all go to ground behind a slight rise in the beach, while the Rangers headed straight up the beach. He said he thought all 32 he landed were killed. Later in life he talked to a German Machine gunner who was at Omaha on Dog Green and asked why they never machined gun the troops disembarking the landing craft. He said they were very short of ammunition and were told to wait till the troops were closer before firing. As he was leaving, he was told there were some of our lads on the beach. This turned out to be the Crew of one of the 2 LCAs that brought the Rangers in. He went back to beach and picked the crew up. They told him that they had been hit by 4 mortars on landing which destroyed their LCA and killed a number of the Rangers. There was no one else nearby so he assumed the Rangers had looked after their own casualties. On the way back he fished the survivors of LCA 911 out of the water, only the Radio Operator had drowned as his radio was too heavy for his life jacket. www.dday.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Stories_from_Vet_2.pdf www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/68/a1929468.shtml

Sublieutenant George "Jimmy" Green also remarks on some of the later stories invented by writers about the events "However, when I read these accounts written by S L A Marshall and Stephen Ambrose, I could see why our veterans were angry. These two writers had no idea what occurred at 06:30 on D-Day so invented some cock and bull yarns to cover their ignorance. According to these writers reluctant British coxswains had to be persuaded at the point of a Colt .45 to land their soldiers on the beach, including the boats under my command. If these two writers had bothered to study photographs of LCAs they might have noticed a box shaped turret ‘forard’ on the starboard side (up front right). This armour-plated turret enclosed the coxswain where he controlled the LCA - well clear of any Colt-toting mutineer intent on assuming command." "I can personally shoot down another flight of fancy dreamt up by Marshall and repeated by Ambrose, who describe how the lead craft (mine) with Captain Taylor Fellers and 31 men aboard was struck by a German weapon (A V3 perhaps) which ‘vaporised’ the LCA and all of its occupants before it could reach the shore. As Taylor Fellers and his men all landed safely and were later killed on the beach one wonders how Ambrose could write such fiction. The body of Taylor Fellers was found on the beach and brought back to the USA and buried in Bedford Cemetery. I laid a wreath on his grave on behalf of 551 Flotilla when I was privileged to attend the dedication of the Memorial gate at the magnificent D-Day memorial." "A bare minimum of research was all that was required to find out how Taylor Fellers died and where he was buried." "Matters were hardly improved by the film 'Saving Private Ryan'. I have no objection to the film as such because it wasn’t a documentary and Spielberg can use his remarkable talents to portray a story. But when asked by a BBC interviewer why he did not show any British involvement, he replied ‘This is a film about Omaha Beach. There were no British on Omaha. There is no role for the British.’ Spielberg also claimed that 'Historical accuracy is the bedrock of films such as Saving Private Ryan.' He follows the tradition of Marshall who wrote in an article ‘Normandy was a great American victory.’ Perhaps it was all a bad dream and I was not there." "'Saving Private Ryan' depicted C Company of 2nd Ranger Infantry Battalion landing on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach. Their two British LCA landing craft and the six LCAs carrying A Company of 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division of the Army of the United States of America came under my command at that exact point and time. I was British then, as were all of the hundreds of other British sailors landing American troops on the morning of D-Day. Denying the presence of the Royal Navy on Omaha Beach or dishonouring them was a gross injustice."

They came under heavy firing trying too but they did it I think.

That was when I was still experimenting with look development because there was barely an audience. And honestly the voice actor wasn't that good. I want to remake those videos, this time better.

@@ww2-epicbattles Ah ok, thanks for the info man, and even though they may have not have been as good as your vids now, if it's ok to ask to have a private link to those vids to save for personal use? Cause they do cover the Basics of those events which is what i was looking for. Thanks for getting back to me, and this one if you do man.

Yes, all sorts of inaccuracies which play to the urban myths of Omaha

@@siras2 what matters is Americans took Omaha.

@MarkloopRAF what matters is the allies took Normandy. American,Btits,France,Belgian ,Dutch,Norwegian, and many more.

@@juliemerritt5144 At the time I completely agree, that is all that mattered. Today, a little bit of historical accuracy wouldn't go amiss. If you are going to tell a story, tell the history, not what the movies say.

It’s also my understanding that Company A (and maybe B?) landed in Dog Green near the boundary of Dog White. This has them landing in the Charlie Sector.

newbies wouldnt be so hard to convince to be in the first wave as well as you not wanting to lose your veterans in a high casualty direct attack

Funny how it took so long for someone to point it out. Looks like the sources I used were both wrong. I will post a corrected version on Patreon.

Congratulations for Reveille by the way. Although I haven't seen it yet the project looks very promising.

@@ww2-epicbattles Thank you very much! If you are in Europe, it will be available November 4th.

@@Theakker3B I'll buy it.

🙌🙌🫡

The channel was created in 2017 and was doing extremely well in the beginning. After a couple years youtube changed the algorithm and Indy Neidell, as well as other established channels started making WW2 videos and that was basically the end of this channel. One of the other channels consistently made videos about the same battles I was doing and effectively pulled viewers away from me as a consequence.

@@ww2-epicbattles Unfortunate!

I would not say so it looks exactly like Utah beach look at hell let loose and thier omaha map its almost identical compare hell let loose omaha to post scriptum utah and they look nothing alike

Hell let loose gets their maps as accurate as possible 👌👌​@@veno3064

I feel like I’m the context of WW2 the words “fresh” “veteran” and “eastern front” should never be put together

@@peknive8331 fresh as In the were well provisioned and rested for battle.

​@@TexasTeaHTX pero eso haría que eligan otro lugar

Heroes Allies,American,Brits,French Poles Belgium, Norwegian and many more.