My grandfather was there with the 79th infantry, part of the 9th Army. He was shot in this operation but he lived to tell me about it.
@shanemoore80553 жыл бұрын
i grew up in this region of Germany in the 70`s. I would sometimes find rusty old German helmets in the forest, when walking the dog.
@bobconnor12102 жыл бұрын
My father was there in the 30th. We must remember that all this happened just before the Battle of the Bulge broke out just to the south in early December. The 30th had been pulled back to Stavelot Belgium for some rest after weeks in combat and immediately found themselves on the verge of the Ardennes Offensive and some of the coldest weather on record. God rest these men!
@MH-fb5kr3 жыл бұрын
I salute ALL those who served… THANK YOU!
@geoffreyblyth64622 жыл бұрын
Brilliant documentary footage...so clear and consise...
@vivians93924 жыл бұрын
The photo of the soldier with a hole in his forehead as big as an orange really shocks me. I never saw an up close photo this graphic before...
@steves11120007 жыл бұрын
nice video. My Grandfather was with the 29th division. He didn't talk about it much, but he did mention Juelich once or twice.
@christopherhenning77004 жыл бұрын
He was probably fairly "crazy" from going through it atleast i feel i would be
@NurDerEffzeh19483 жыл бұрын
I am actually from Jülich. Insane.
@AckzaTV9 жыл бұрын
i wonder how amazed and proud these filmmakers would have been to see me 70 years in the future watching their film while walking outside on my mobile telephone that fits in my pocket...
@helmutmaucher75933 жыл бұрын
True or that you could’ve a weekend holiday in Germany
@dr.barrycohn54613 жыл бұрын
They would have told you to put that thing down and your get your ass back to work.
@unitedwestand51002 жыл бұрын
This film was put together by the US DOD. The film was photographed by soldier cameramen of the US Army Signal Corps. I think they probably expected people would see them after they were declassified..
@rickb59464 жыл бұрын
No wonder we reverently call them the greatest generation!!!!!
@glbaker59873 жыл бұрын
They would die if they know what was happening in this country today
@destroyerarmor28463 жыл бұрын
Nazism is alive and well. What a shame
@richmcintyre11785 жыл бұрын
That engineer who lost a foot was one hard SOB. Most people would have been screaming like hell. I know I would. Saw a number of Marines wounded by booby traps and it is horrific.
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez23475 жыл бұрын
It's called morphine.
@candyextreme84065 жыл бұрын
Battle hardened men. Magnificent bastards. Damn that engineers foot blown to pieces. Germany was such a clean,modern country,beautiful architecture. Glad they rebuilt the classics.
@Biglake924 жыл бұрын
HATES PEACH Hate comment. You should be banned
@TH-bj1pb4 жыл бұрын
@@Biglake92 define hate, bi7ch
@albundy95974 жыл бұрын
It still is a beautiful country and Deggendorf with all its surrounding villages are modern but rebuilt in the old style, I lived there for 45 years before my retirement.
@vivians93924 жыл бұрын
@@TH-bj1pb YOU = bi7ch
@samiam55572 жыл бұрын
Uncle Sam really showed the Krauts what it's all about.
@lostinpa-dadenduro75554 жыл бұрын
The logistics of all this are amazing.
@baroneb50434 жыл бұрын
LostInPA thats what wins wars... If Germans had their logistics down they woulda made it to Antwerp at Bulge...
@JohnSmith-fb7nz3 жыл бұрын
You got that right. The support logistics are never mentioned
@4Bobay Жыл бұрын
General William Simpson of the US 9th Army ranks among the best in the Northwest European campaigns 1944-1945.
@theronsnell3964 ай бұрын
My father was there: XIXth Corps Engineers: 978th Engineer Maintenance Company just behind the front lines. Part of the 1104th Engineer (C) Group
@lynn0MA4 жыл бұрын
This was north of the battle of the bulge. This timeline is in November in which there was crossover into Germany by British & US troops, before the Germans attacked in the south, through Malmady (where captured US troops were massacred by SS tank commander) & St Vith.
@wayneasiam653 жыл бұрын
When that soldier blew the head off that beer, he chugged it down in a righteousness manner, and with alacrity.
@richardputz32333 жыл бұрын
What a great word "alacrity".It should be used more .
@tonyromano62206 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film.
@jdh917416 жыл бұрын
The young men on both sides who died, never saw a microwave oven, never saw a jet airliner, never saw a television, never saw a push button phone or a transistor radio. Fast food chains were unknown. They all grew up in the depression. Most never owned a car. Many never had shoes until the army.
@fasx565 жыл бұрын
James Dale Thank you for historical insights describing the Greatest Generation young men who came out of the 1930s Depression only to be drafted into the WW 2 call up. Not only did they not get to see the inventions we take for granted but most of them only knew poverty and tough times. We owe them a lot, many lost their lives and paid the ultimately sacrifice for our freedom.
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez23475 жыл бұрын
Wow! Your anecdotal insight is extremely unimpressive 7th grade history paper boy.
@benm52215 жыл бұрын
@@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 Your childish comment actually fits a struggling 7th grader.
@zaxxx19755 жыл бұрын
"wow" back atcha,, that was a very negative thing to do. the generation refered too deserves all the thoughts and remembrances that can be given . please do not take that away. even 7th grade paper boys are intitled too giving theirs. you might want too look at every body who comments as bein multi cultured and of varyin age groups and intellect. not all of us can feel so "unimpressed" as you have stated.
@llewellynwilliams19564 жыл бұрын
top the list mate most never had sex with a girl
@badmonkey22225 жыл бұрын
Taking Achen was a nasty fight we the Americans lost 5000+ just taking the city alone.
@steelcurtain25765 жыл бұрын
one of my uncles fought there,on the german side. he died in 1983,but he told me about hand to hand fights with the americans
@maxmarsh34684 жыл бұрын
Andreas Habegger a friend of mine who was born in Germany in 1940 invited me to accompany him to go back and visit two years ago. We were visiting relatives of his in the village of Setterich. I met a man there who told me of the battle that raged there and that his father fought in the war. I told him that my father also had fought in the war and had landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. He never talked about the war or what he experienced. All I knew was that he was in the 29th infantry division. The man I was talking to produced a book describing the area around Aachen from late 1944 to early 1945. When he showed me that my father’s division fought there and told me that I was walking the same ground that my father fought on as a young man, I was overcome with a feeling of emotion that is hard to describe. I had traveled over 6,000 miles to unwittingly walk the same ground.
@dieterrahm40443 жыл бұрын
@@maxmarsh3468 My grandfather also was in the 29th infantry division (Hawk Division). But on the other side. That division was part of the Heeresgruppe Mitte at the eastern front. He was there from the beginning to the end of the war. He was part of the 6th Army and was wounded in Stalingrad. He always said that this saved his life. After the war he was 7 years a POW in Russia.
@garpikemike14 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in Switzerland...everyone lived comfortably and profited off the war.
@melkormorgoth90224 жыл бұрын
Behold the Power of the Military Industrial Complex.....
@xNordlichtxDe412 жыл бұрын
Very nice! I came from Baesweiler its in the video too
@llewellynwilliams19564 жыл бұрын
if you been told already the jeeps had a steel bar at the front just above the screen so it save the drivers head from getting sliced off. german ss would set trap wire across the lanes or streets were they new the would be drive'in so many lost theres lives with this dirty trap
@christopherhenning77004 жыл бұрын
Damn that man who had his leg blown off appeared to be not as phased as you would think. Or thats just me. Lol
@vivians93924 жыл бұрын
It's called shock and morphine. I'm sure it phased him later on.
@JohnSmith-fb7nz3 жыл бұрын
Its called shock
@Droodog1272 жыл бұрын
the german at the sportsplatz was oozing brains
@charlesfiscus42352 жыл бұрын
Those shoe mines were just a big pain
@florabraswell84232 жыл бұрын
Could you please show a tape on “Tec 5 CoA 325 “ Engineer cmbt BN WW2 1944-1945 thank You so much for sharing these Videos a lot of good History for my mother n father we’re married in Amsterdam “ my mother was a Dutch girl from Amsterdam Holland and My Daddy was in WW2 💁♀️💜🙏
@user-zo5ki3zf7s2 ай бұрын
It doesn't matter who narrates these shows.some people don't like it
@periesicsd11 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that no one is complaining that it isn't in 720p HD!
@kaptainkaos12022 жыл бұрын
Just to update this comment, why isn’t it posted in 4K? Surprisingly if the original films are available still HD conversions could be made. Most film was good enough that the resolution could be thought of as HD.
@normplatt75495 жыл бұрын
SALUTE!
@crumplezone1 Жыл бұрын
The greatest generation
@SkyPilot544 жыл бұрын
Bombing accuracy
@farmerdave79652 жыл бұрын
19:24 Why is that soldier using a bolt action rifle ?
4 жыл бұрын
How close to the Swiss border, 5 miles or 5 yards?
@jackvandongen4634 жыл бұрын
600 miles
@mkms6854 жыл бұрын
Little did these Yanks know that Aachen would be retaken by the Germans a few weeks later. It would be a long and bitter fight until Christmas and January 1945.
@risasb3 жыл бұрын
Carrying a captured StG 44? 30:03
@petebeatminister Жыл бұрын
Yep, looks like it.
@tinklvsme3 жыл бұрын
@15:14. That poor man both of them I bet the 1st guy lost both legs. The German soldiers had no respect or concern for their own citizens. Sad 😞👎🪖. ❤️🙏✌️🇺🇸
@SunnyIlha3 жыл бұрын
3:34. 3:35 Logistics in the World War Two. Food that a *MILLION* *Men* would eat for ONE SINGLE WEEK.
@robertmiller12995 жыл бұрын
Collaboration with the Brits was obviously very close
@KeniKeni-fu5fm3 жыл бұрын
Интересно смотреть )) 99%уже черви съели ((
@dannyberger89432 жыл бұрын
Enough talk. I need to know for a fact everyone is safe.
@SunnyIlha7 ай бұрын
Nobody was safe then, over there across the Ocean, in battle to preserve World Freedom from a tyranny that is completely beyond our current day comprehension. It is impossible for us to grasp the entire World at war.
@hartmutgrieb32894 жыл бұрын
Roer River! Suggest Ruhr.
@Rusty_Gold856 жыл бұрын
At 11:42 min cameraman films in front of mine sweepers on road . I think some staged filming going on
@davemaxa52635 жыл бұрын
It matters why?
@SunnyIlha5 жыл бұрын
Not long after they had just cleared it for real. With certainty, after men died after stepping on the mines while on the move. The simulation was done for the benefit of the reel man, his safety. Many of these reel men did not live through the war.
@thomasjremyn10045 жыл бұрын
V
@SuperNoname1710 жыл бұрын
16:18 the german city of Geilenkirschen?....It's Gelsenkirchen!
@ronschroeder447910 жыл бұрын
No sir,it's GEILENKIRCHEN,for sure! Gelsenkirchen is more to the North!
@MichelVoss9 жыл бұрын
Luis Varandas The much bigger City of Gelsenkirchen is located north of the Ruhr - www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62522#map=12/51.5565/7.0659. GEILENKIRCHEN is located west of the Rur: www.openstreetmap.org/relation/157489#map=13/50.9736/6.1261. The small Rur river ( Dutch and French: Roer) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rur#/media/File:Indeverlauf.png is often confused with the much better known Ruhr with "H": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_(river)#/media/File:Verlaufskarte_Ruhr2.png
@ronschroeder44799 жыл бұрын
Michel Voss Right you are Michel Voss!
@emmanuelsebastiao31765 жыл бұрын
who cares how the Nazis spell their damned names
@ProFettMoHaMett5 жыл бұрын
19:57
@HaliK7829 Жыл бұрын
In order to create trenches limit the wet of its mud. An easier to dug is to dig corrosion from water mud will weaken feet from its disastrous flesh eating disaster:. Knowing is by knowing sometimes you oppose are the dumb mass of idiots..😂 Limit to become moist not diluted is the dry of its ducking will be a safer place to chill..❤🤪🤔👑🦁🦋⚖️♾️
@nimitz17393 жыл бұрын
Professional killing.
@swampfox1776.5 ай бұрын
That's what we trained for...yep
@nimitz17395 ай бұрын
@@swampfox1776. Somebody had to do it
@swampfox1776.5 ай бұрын
@@nimitz1739 that's what a military exists for. As a marine vet myself , I don't want war,what sane person does,but if you do have to go to war,then win and that means killing the foe....period! it was my profession for 12 years active and I have no shame in saying that.... SEMPER FI