One of history's greatest military deception campaigns to cover the largest amphibious invasion in history.

The english were masters at slight of hand. There are many examples of it in the war.

It helped that the Germans were truly abysmal at espionage and that the UK had so many quirks that a foreigner could be spotted a mile off.

Malcolm Anon the German ambassador to Spain was commendable in his deliberate incompetence.

That's what happens when you fight for something you truly believe in and know is good and right. I wish my generation could come together to fight for something good and right. There are certainly enough challenges in the world to rally to...

That's pretty cool!

There is a reason so many of the technological innovations if the last 100 years come from the military (lots of reasons, probably). Necessity is the mother of invention. Also, more cynically, human beings take killing (and surviving) very seriously.

I am fascinated by this outside-the-box thinking of the high ranked officers even more, because normally the military folks are selected and drilled to follow rules and orders and act in more or less limited borders.

Definition of STEM fields ^^

Why do you think I'm in an engineering field? I'm here to make science that seems like magic. Conjure up a port? Gimme a bit, and alakazam ya got a port where one wasn't before. You wanna go to space? Alchemy in that there rocket to make it use a spell of exploding and fuck gravity

Love it. Is this original quote?

@@noxiouspro I wish it were, it has been long ago, but I think it was on Babylon 5

@@noxiouspro It was after the shadow war and the elder races left the galaxy, Sheriden lamented saying that the magic left the galaxy, Delen responded something like if there is to be magic we'll have to build it. It was 30 years ago or so. Good series, yes the acting is booming stage acting, yes the graphics are 80s CGI, but the STORY and the SCRIPT.

Fred G. The floating harbours of D-day

@@lucas29476 Honestly, a worse name. But, more descriptive of the specifics being discussed I suppose.

I remember. Was saving the video for now and noticed the change lol

Oh your right the name was changed

@@lucas29476 lol

JBass14 Sailor: ah so it was top secret gotcha so do we leave then Demolition guy : No .................. Sailor : .....

Yeah I don't understand why they killed their own workers at 8:15. Can you explain that?

They didn't kill anyone. Well, not any of their own guys. They sank the ship in water that was just barely deep enough to sail in, they blew holes in the hull, they didn't blow up their crews.

For some reason I just heard the oversimplified "uh oooh" in my head

@@hirdeshbajwa8906 yeah they weren't killed. It was a small explosion designed so that the ships would sink slowly so the crews could still support other vessels - they obviously got the men off the ships before they sank

(Who was bad at controlling ports, as England Expects)

Bonaport. I see what you did there. Witty. Unfortunately, due to crimes against humanity for using puns, you must be gruesomely murdered with various blunt instruments. Sorry buddy, but you knew it had to happen.

My first lesson in Hearts of Iron IV

and don't invade with 100 divisons*

B2As *queue out of supply noise that I have PTSD from*

by this logic, if you don't want to be invade, then

Just build a port

Dude I hardly understand it, but for those first few seconds after he’s explained it I’m like “woahhhhhhhh” then proceed to cry myself to sleep knowing I will never amount to anything

Adambe The Gorilla had me in the first half ngl

That is an exceptional explanation. Relentlessly interesting. Wonderful!

Exactly

"This channel is just relentlessly interesting. And I'm not even that interested in engineering." Yeah bro me too ^-^

interesting, got a reference? Author says the rock outcrops protected B and A had 25 out of 28 British produced Phoenixes broke by the storm.

LOL yeah me too!

Same

Ditto

Aswell!

I subscribed to them because this comment

Specialopsdave thank you

Did he remove it?

When I saw "Logistics", I thought this was Wendover.

What frame?

Thank you for this It's something incredible There were modest men and women that we grew up among as children...that did the work of giants

JoCaleb02 There is a line from “The Longest Day” movie where a general remarks they are on the wrong beach, and another officer asks, “what if the supplies go to the right beach?” The general replies, “The supplies will have to follow us wherever we are.” THAT attitude right there is what exemplifies that generation. They were building a Liberty ship every two days, 45 Sherman tanks were built daily, plus bombers, fighters and other equipment ...not to mention the training of men to fight. Staggering.

@@Chris-ji4iu General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

@@AudieHolland Thank you! I thought it was a Roosevelt, but couldn't remember which one. I know he died a few weeks later in France. AND awarded the Medal of Honor.

At least he wasn't forced to try and run to Spain

@user9823598246 a lot of people lack knowledge of military history and strategy. And of course the importance of military logistics was well understood long before Caesar.

Bendover productions

Planes were mentioned...

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AxxL Bruh tf it’s you

If I didn't know better, I'd think he lived here in America. But even we know that the one in England is pronounced Tems, it's just the one in CT that's pronounced Thames

Michael Imbesi , ah that’s interesting, I didn’t realise there was another Thames, and to be fair it’s a stupid spelling anyways

And the pronounced "th" at the end of "height"

It's how nearly everyone in Ireland pronounces it. Don't ask me why. I get slagged anytime I say "tems" even though that's how it's pronounced.

@@paulekstorm-hughes1894 Oooohhhh, The Horror!

Andrew Davis whenever I play axis and allies the axis always seem to win

@@ayden6899 For the Allied side you have to focus on containment and establishing safe supply lines. It's much more complex. Usually, I wipe out most of the German navy with the British planes, build and aircraft carrier, and park American planes on it before turn 2. Then, you can begin to ferry equipment over so you can take the Scandinavian peninsula. The goal is to help the Russians defend until Allied production can catch up. Containing Japan in mainland Asia is also super important, so you have to use your units wisely.

Containment Failure thank you for the advice

LST* EDIT: I'm glad you noticed! And, yes, I agree.

Take a look at Nebula, that's where the other episodes are.

I thought they were called LSDs

@@SFSAtlas Landing Ship, Tank

I see your Kumoko avatar, don't think I dont.

Sam from HAI hates plane man from Wendover

Or just the fact that mulberry A wasn't protected by natural breakwater, and faced the full onslaught of the storm

They should have made a floating island

@@dewboy13 It's true that partial shelter would have helped. However, according to a different documentary, construction of the British version proceeded more slowly because they incorporated additional strengthening measures.

@@edwinchai1336 How?

​@Fred G. What exactly is a joke?

Disagree, I heard 15

I think you’re conflating two different systems.

Do you have any references for that? That would take an a lot of mercury. With a cargo capacity of 2100 tons you'd probably be looking at at hundreds or even low thousands of tons of ballast need per ship. With 1000 ships, that would be hundreds of thousands of tons of mercury -- where would that come from? Note, current yearly production (2019) seems to be around 4000 metric tons, maybe enough for 2 to 10 ships? Sure, mercury ballast tanks could be about 1/13 the volume of water ballast tanks, but it looks like they found room for the large water ballast tanks (2:10 - 2:23). And sea water has the huge advantage that you can just pump it overboard if you want the ship to float higher. Also, if you look at the Britannica, article on LSTs, it says "A newly proposed ballast system gave one ship both capabilities: when at sea the LST took on water for stability, and during landing operations the water was pumped out to produce a shallow-draft vessel." If Britannica is going to mention a fairly conventional sea water ballast system, I would think they would mention something as extraordinary as a mercury ballast system. www.britannica.com/technology/landing-ship-tank

@tommy14: Watch this video again. You'll see an anchor being used with a long chain when an LST comes to shore. They used these to help winch the LST off the beech after the cargo/personnel had deployed..

What, you believe that a High School teacher, a veteran, was not honest with high school students about the source of the cheap Toxic mercury we were allowed to play with bare handed without concern in the cold war years??

Yup pretty sure. They knew what was gonna happen. They just did the mistakes maginot line so nobody would suspect anything

@@Aryan-ck9lv Leaving the back door open once lacked prescience, twice was insanity.

Warfare take team effort

That's some serious foresight lol

@@USSAnimeNCC- Undeniably true, but you didn't notice the irony.

@@West004 yeah

Hello twin

Henlo

The editor must be shit at their job.

Dylan Hennessy I was about to delete this comment and then realized you are the editor 😂

Dad?

By hiding it. Some in plain sight by sinking them until needed. Others like the old ships didn't need hiding.

Air superiority

Game changer for sure

@Grigori One: Following the success of June 1944, much of today's armed forces have made many improvements to how they can land troops on enemy territory. Taking a brief look at the current UK forces, landing craft are still very much in use, along with ships to carry them such as HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark. Hovercraft, developed in the 1950s by Sir Christopher Cockerell, are also used to a great extent by many different countries for military purposes. There are some very large ones available. However, they do not generally operate very well in rough seas. This may have been an issue on June 6th as the seas were quite rough. Of interest, Hovercrafts can trace their lianege through an Austrian (1915), Englishman (1870s) and even a Swede (1716). Of course today, many troops are likely to be landed using Helicopters too, along with their supplies.

@@ScubaGirl68 - I have often imagined how hovercraft might have been used in Operation Overlord, if they existed in 1944. Instead of attacking at low tide, one would want the hovercraft to land in Normandy at high tide in the gentlest possible surf to prevent contact and triggering of mines the Germans placed in the surf zone.

@@johnmaxwell1750 Certainly there are many things to consider with regards to having hovercraft at the time. One of the advantages is that they are quiet until very close. As the fleet was spotted on the horizon prior to landing, this wouldn't have been so useful. There were many items on the beeches of Normandy designed to make landing impossible. Many of those items would have shredded the rubber skirts of a hovercraft. I would have to study the action of the waves on the Normandy coast to better comment on whether high tide or low tide would be better for a hovercraft landing. Ultimately hovercrafts can travel up a beech at all states of the tide. This is one reason why the service between Southsea and Ryde is so good. When the tide is out, Ryde has a large sandy area. A modern military hovercraft is very versatile. I would expect it to cope well with German WW2 munitions. Many lessons have been learned from the experience. I'm not sure about their operating constraints with regards to the weather though. The service between Southsea and Ryde often has to be cancelled when the wind gets up. With this in mind, the wind was apparently blowing from the NW at 15mph in the afternoon of 6th June. This is a Force 4, which normally wouldn't be an issue in the Solent, but it is on the upper limit. It is also blowing straight in from the sea onto the Normandy coast, creating the worst conditions, making it more dangerous for the hovercraft. So would the Hovercraft have been better? Certainly, there are advantages to using the Hovercraft, but I don't personally think that they would have been applicable for Normandy. Many of the things used would have confused the Germans. The floating tanks, for example, weren't something that they expected. Of course many were lost, especially on the US beeches, so didn't make it to the beeches. Had a Hovercraft landing with Tanks been possible, then certainly this would have helped immensely.

Because you're watching americans talking about it. Try searching for the british shows/content creators. Same with the soviets, it's all about propaganda. No wonder they only talk about themselves.

@Eliot Thexton yes. Many other things as well. America supplied a ton of materials. Along with a whole bunch of ships vehicles weapons etc. obviously Britain took a big part. They are across the channel. The us didn’t even want to be apart of this war to begin with. Thank Japan. But this doesn’t seem very us based at all

Who is "we"? This was like yet another one of those boring documentaries on the History channel about the war.

Wait until you hear about pykrete

Mythbusters liked this.

This is a different episode in the series.

Imagine multiple docs on the same topic being made. OMG like how terrible. Unlike alot of them this is very specific in just the logistics of one day. So what if there's been others?

So did I, thanks for pointing out! He needs to run his pronunciation through a few friends before uploading these.

LST ? Landing Ship, Tank. Or as their crews called them Large Slow Targets.

So that the map looks prettier

Switzerland didn’t have the moral strength to join the allies and fight fascism. As a matter of fact they helped former Nazis escape after the war.

@@XxBloggs Switzerland is neutral since 1815 and is commited not to fight in a war, so they weren't allowed to fight unless they would have been attacked themselves...which thankfully didn't happen!

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died

@@georgekotronakis903 The Person who wrote this had a stroke trying to copy & paste this Fascistic piece off of /pol/ too.

Don’t forget cryptography, espionage, Patton, and theatre tech to threaten Calais.

Fun facts : humans kill 1 thousand sharks per hour while a shark kills a few hundred per century

@@justsomepersononyoutube9271 put it as your own comment man😁

*this gonna be a fun fact comment only*

@@brassicaolaraceaolaracea1115 okay

Fun fact: North-Americans also think that everything they don't like is Communism/Socialism. Not very bright.

@Pete is never wrong unfortunately Pete is wrong this time. 12:29

@Pete is never wrong he says they were building them on the Thames, so, I don't know what you mean.

@Pete is never wrong really? seems like an odd place to do it- getting them out to sea through all the narrow canals and waterways of the fens seems like a ballache? Not to mention the problems of teaching a local population with 6 toes and 3 fingers how to manufacture something haha

I think he knows that and is trolling.

Hi Rommel

@@Bobert2020 hey dude

@@erwinrommel9137 ayy Rommel replied

@@Bobert2020 ❤️

@@erwinrommel9137 :)

This is literally the only reason I came to the comment section and I’m surprised more people have spoken about it

I really appreciate this channel and the great content, but I find the hard Irish accent really hard to listen to for too long.

@Pete is never wrong nothing about construction is mentioned tho??

@Pete is never wrong But the subtitles that he uploaded (English - Irish) says Thames. So do the auto-generated ones, but that's not saying much.

Hurr durr France surrender funny

@Mike Airborne Also it's not like France surrendering was their own fault, Britain was involved and was struck alongside the French during the blitzkrieg. There were things that should have been done differently, opportunities that were missed. But ultimately even if things had been done right it would have probably just delayed the surrender. In my eyes the French people never really surrendered, the peoples resistance efforts were huge and they never gave in.

Guys stop taking this so seriously is a bad over used joke, but still is a joke

@@maxbarker8625 But it actually has implications, it's so old and there's plenty of people who think the French were cowards during WW2 which isn't true.

@@joecramp2987 Ermm all jokes are like that to an extent

I just find it wild that they were able to recover from that massive storm that damaged and destroyed so much of the infrastructure! That should have been the decisive blow from the German's wildest dreams. To your thoughts above, the only other way I can think of is if the Germans had spies in place that learned of the landing locations and date and were therefore able to prep for the landing in secret themselves.

Oh, if the Germans caught any scent where the landings were even generally speaking and have the time to prepare, it would've over for the Allies and become a disaster that they couldn't recover from. I was also talking of how the Germans could've won when the landings were taking place and the location kept a secret until then.