Title:D-day on german perspective True title:D-day on Hollywood perspective

I like to imagine one of the Germans just stops shooting and says "Holy s@%t is that Tom Hanks?"

This was made by someone who skipped history class.

Alright, who wrote this script and missed the history lesson? 1. Bombings missed. 2. The soldiers didn't leave the safety of the bunkers until the naval bombardment was over, and they saw Allied soldiers approaching the beachhead. 3. If it weren't for Operation Fortitude(A diversionary operation part of Operation Bodyguard, which was part of Operation Neptune, to draw panzer units and the mass of German troops away from Normandy to Pas-De-Calais, in order for the Allied Landing Party could establish control of the beaches and start bringing in reinforcements and supplies.) We would've likely have lost at D-Day, because of how much didn't go to plan(Bombers missed, Paratroopers landed miles off target, etc.).

This is more like how America wanted it to happen

The US bombers actually completely missed their targets on D Day

It's pretty accurate if it's the opening cinematic of a COD game.

Allies: 90% accuracy Germans: shoot down a single plane and misses all landing-ships.

The Allies only wished their airpower was that effective on the beachs.

This is inaccurate, in reality Tom Hanks was there

3:05 And that's the moment he woke up, and was about to actually go.. Little did he know..

“A soldier doesn’t fight because he hates what’s in front of him, he fights because he loves what’s behind him”

American perspective: took 12 hrs to capture the beach.. German perspective: got defeated within 1 min..

This would’ve been so much more accurate if it ending with some Allied higher-ups in some military base saying: “And that’s how it’s going to happen.”

The scene undercuts what it took for the Canadians, Americans and Brits to overcome that morning. Neat eye candy, greatly inaccurate recount.

Shoutout to the camera man surviving this..

Looks like someone’s been playing call of duty and not researching

Americas expectations: this. Reality: Saving Private Ryan: D Day scene.

I love it how precise was the navy storming the beach, when it was really innaccurate and left most of the german positions untouched.

I just want to point out the fact that this is a film about a Korean Soldier being conscripted in the Imperial Japanese army, Soviet Red army, and then the Wehrmacht during the war.

Wow so realistic: "we are being bombed, quick everyone leave the shelter of the bunker and get blown up"

Only if the beach was that short. It was like 6 times longer than that

My father landed on Omaha Beach after it was secured. Dad was awarded the Silver Star by order of General Patton for the Battle of Metz.

They totally left out the Kung Fu fight scene, and I was hoping to see dragons!

Saw the bombs hit their target. Immediately went to the comment section.

thats quite inaccurate. the bombings and air strikes on the beaches did actually very little damage to the german defenders.

Literally, almost everything you see in this scene is fictional.

"Hollywood's take on German perspective of D-Day beach landing" There i fixed the title for you

This isn’t historically accurate in real life the allies completely missed the target due to cloudy weather

Why does every movie interpret the beach as 3 feet long

My inner historian was typing an essay but then realized it’s really all been said.

If your wondering this is from a movie called my way

A film made by someone who's never opened a history book.

When cod ww2 has a more realistic Normandy scene

When expecting a major invasion, always put your 55 gallon drums of fuel stacked, and in the open.

When i was a kid I remember playing COD 2 and i thought how lucky being on a German side and by the time now i realize there's no better things in war

Because I'm that kind of person, here's all the things that I saw were wrong with this: 0:00 This never happened. The bombs dropped about 5 miles behind enemy lines because it was cloudy and the pilots didn't trust the radar as it was recent tech. None of the bunkers or any bit of the beaches were damaged via aircraft 0:26 The Nazis were only caught slightly off-guard because the assault started at 6am and half of them were asleep. The ships were easily visible to the ones awake and they were more than ready before any of the allies laid a foot on the beaches 0:45 None of the AA weapons were this close to the beach; They were at least 500ft behind the "Atlantic Wall" (nickname for the fortifications along the Normandy beaches). The AA this close also never fired because the planes that did fly over were committing a nighttime raid, and none of the AA guns this close to the beach were aware of their existence 1:05 No fighter planes were used during the start of Operation Overlord 1:32 The ships that were deploying the Higgin's boats did not fire upon the beaches until the beaches were almost fully taken. This is because in order to stay out of range of Nazi artillery, they had to stay too far out at sea for them to be able to fire. They only fired very late into the marine invasion because it would have meant a complete commitment to the mission and a possible sacrifice of the ships, a risk that would only be taken if they were sure of the mission's success 1:32 They did not send out this many Higgin's boats at the beginning of the invasion. The boats came in waves smaller than this, although more in total were sent out throughout the whole 3 hour mission 1:58 The point in the beach that they landed on was nowhere near this shallow, and almost no one made it going out the front of the Higgin's boats in the first wave. Most of them dove off the edge of the boat, which would drown quite a few of them, as most of them were seasick carrying 80+ pounds of gear diving into 10ft deep water 2:02 The Nazis would have started firing long before this, let alone before the ramps dropped 2:10 On Omaha beach, which I assume this is supposed to be depicting (there were 5 beaches: Sword, Gold, Juno, Utah, and Omaha, the bloodiest and most famous of them all), the Americans were not able to run this far into the beach on the first wave, as most were pinned down behind dead bodies of their friends or tank blockades for cover under heavy suppressing fire from all angles up the wall of the beach while trying to not get blown up by mortars, artillery, and mines 2:16 The beach in this scene seems to be at most 300ft long. Assuming this is Omaha again, this beach would have been 1000ft long, strewn with tank blockades and anti-boat ramps for the first few hundred and the rest being covered in mines and barbwire lines. It took the Americans 3 hours to advance along the whole beach and start to fight back, at which point the tides shrunk the beach almost up to the wall, which happened to be one of the bigger motivators to get soldiers to move up the beach 2:25 Americans grouped up like this would have been completely annihilated. The MG42 (the Nazi machineguns being used in this scene) fired at a minimum of 1200 rounds per minute, earning it the nickname "Hitler's Buzzsaw" because it sounded similar to a saw being used when fired. It also shot 7.92x57mm Mauser, which is a really big round if you didn't know. That size of rounds going downrange that quickly would tear apart any soldier before they'd realize they hit the ground, not to mention how many of those were posted up and shooting onto the beaches. All a Nazi would have had to do was spray in the general direction of any of these groups and they'd all be dead in about a second or so. Multiple of those posted up and I think you can see why groups like this wouldn't have lasted this far into the beach 2:31 Why is there a Nazi standing in front of the sandbags? Is he suicidal? Does he need a hug? 2:35 As discussed previously, this is about half the minimum firerate of the actual MG42. In the amount of time these machineguns are seen firing, the barrels would've started getting a bit red 2:42 The grapple mortars were not used on the beach section of Omaha. They were used specifically by the rangers who had to scale a cliffside as their mission was to attempt to take out the artillery positions behind the lines of the Nazis This concludes my Ted-talk

Respect for the Camera Man risking their own live just to film and time traveling

I love how SPR set the trend for backwards facing wooden “tank traps” on beaches.

But imagine how terrifying it was for the Germans too, just seemingly endless waves of Americans streaming out of boats, seemingly without fear, coming to kill the guy who just killed one of their team mates

Whoever wrote this movie script doesn't know a thing about dday

Ants: (lives outside near the road, chillin, doing ant stuff) Ants when its Raining:

1) the allied bombers almost completely missed the fortifications 2) nearly all of the troops in the first landing died before reaching even halfway up the beach and it took waves upon waves of landing craft and tanks to make any progress on the beach

My grandfather was a veteran of Normandy and he vividly described the confusion of the constantly changing camera angles

Teacher: Were taking a field trip to France Girls: ugh France is so boring Boys:

hmmm, saving private Ryan was more accurate than this Edit. For those I've offended. Sorry. What I was trying to say is that the effects felt more real SPR than what this video was showing. if what I said still offends you, I dont' know what to say

This is actually pretty good as an amalgam of the stories and perceptions from all of the sectors on all of the miles of beaches involved. What I want to know is how all of the naval gun support was made up of more Cleveland class-ish cruisers than were ever made.

i’ve been realizing something. Germany signed the treaty, also knowing that WW2 would happen soon. The signed it because they knew the strong countries wouldn’t be back in shape in that quick of time.

Me and the boys: playing with nerf guns our parents: “aww, they’re so cute!” our imagination:

The Bombers and Battleships actually completely missed their targets on D Day

This brings tears to my eyes watching this

HOLY CRAP THIS IS EPIC STUFF I LOVE THIS WW2

Girls at the beach : *swimming in the ocean* Boys at the beach :

Awfully nice weather we're having this D-Day.

Most bombs from planes landed fa away from the intended target. So yeah. Moreover, the battleships are not in range because there are coastal guns positioned.

Most people only remember the nightmare that the people in the landings went through, but truth is, it was terrifying no matter what side you were on.

Nobody: The camera man survived the dday

I can't understand how the camera guys survive this battle. it's so intense. salute him indefinitely.

Well my grandpa was a sergeant in the 2 armor devision He did made it out of the beach but most of his friends died

Well that's pretty good. I've had this movie on DVD for about 5 years or more and never got around to watching it. Guess I better get to it.

No.Their bombings fell inground,not to the shore.It was one of the reasons caused their catastrophe.

Perfect this is a great example of someone who hasn’t open a WW2 history book.

This is a great cinematic display but I agree with what others have said, the air attacks on the beaches were not that effective at all and it wasn't a sunny day it was overcast

I thought we missed. Eh, it's always cool to imagine a world where we didn't.

Pretty sure the bombing took place earlier when the Germans were still in the bunkers and was mostly ineffective. Same with most of the heavy naval gunfire.

This is “Saving Private Reinhard.”

this is the Scenario" What if the allied bombs drop on their designated target"

The distance from the German Division was further than that beach on Omaha. While the bombardment was on they were in their bunkers. They didn’t stand 2 into their positions till it ceased to allow the Rangers to hit the beach. Ship bombardment fell well behind the bunkers.

If anyone actually thought that d day went that smoothly you know nothing about history

This isn't that historically accurate because most of the bombers missed their targets

Historians are questioning why they went into history right about now

A lot of people don't realise that there were several beaches that had landings on them. This clip is not of the Omaha landing where the Allied bombers missed. Also, in those days the beaches were shorter than today because they hadnt been eroded away. Notice how the bunkers in other parts of the world are all lying on the beach today whereas back then they were up on a cliff.

What america wanted it to be like bombing Utah: EZ What actually happend: *M I S S*

Extremely inaccurate, not even going to begin to call out what's wrong with this scene. Looks like Utah beach. That's not what happened.

Thats why they called it german perspective not history text book, they had to report to the Fuhrer..

Looks like a combined shots from Saving Private Ryan and a Korean movie. Brilliant editing to show both sides of the war. Thanks !

fastest d-day fight ever xD allied troops rushed in german positions after 3 minutes

"hurry and grab the machine gun!" *Throws him into AA gun room*

Europe: "fiuf, were done with the war guys, now lets make sure this never happens again" Germany: "Hallo guys, we are doing a sequel. WW2: now it's personal"

We mustn’t forget the German perspective, most who fought on the German side of ww2 either didn’t think about what they were fighting for or mostly didn’t have a choice.

As well done as it is technically - historically, this is not accurate for a number of reasons.

The bombers didnt hit the targets on dday. They missed by a long shot

That was mint!! How can I see full film?

4 of my great grandfathers, which is all of them died in the war. my great grandmothers were giving shelter to allied soldiers, mostly british and american in their basements in northern germany just to end this madness at once

Alternate title: how America wishes d day happened (edit) great arguments everyone! And thanks for all the likes

Why is it a nice , sunny day? The invasion started very early in the morning with extremely bad weather

Aside from whether this is factually correct or not, the basics of what it’s portraying did happen. And the thought of being a young lad on a boat confronted by that terror is mind boggling. My great granddad was killed on the road to Caen on day two. Haunting.

They made it look like it’s the middle of the day when it was really sunrise

This is definitely not accurate at all. The bombing raid was unsuccessful by miles inland and it was cloudy. Planes did not strafe the beach during the boat landings and there were naval bombardments

This reminds me of a joke the German forces told to their fellow solders...."if you see green planes, that's the British air force....if they are white, it's the americans...if you see nothing, that's the German luftwaffa..."

This is peace,in a “Parallel universe”

Imagine if the bombardment/air raid was actually that effective prior to the landing lmao

This is a great film but the allies dropped nearly 17500 tones of bombs on Omaha beach but didn't even kill a single soul.

Fun fact =most of the air force bombers missed there target during d day.

imagine being the guy who has to clear the bodies out of the way of those doors from the water transport vehicles every time the door opens and people get tore up....crazy dude

They did a good job showing the battle without having a ‘Favorite’ side (MC that has plot armor)

Worst and most inaccurate movie representation of dday in movie history... Edit: Thanks for all the likes.

What is that distance between beach and the german defense? It was 1000ft. First 600ft. had hedgehogs and stakes At 800ft. seawall and barbed wire Then mine field with over 17000 mines. At 1000ft. They reached the dunes and only then they can start the attack. All this under continuous heavy machine gun fire over 125 bullets hitting the beach every second.

Even in youtube, the victor can script the history.