D-Day beaches seen from a drone: amazing sights.

This is just stunning if you wantto see the D-Day beaches!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APA0B0le1Vg

 

At Pointe du Hoc you can see what look like ropes leading down the cliff edges. Those *can't* be the original ropes used by the Rangers, right??

 

Amazing

 

I suppose they are not the orignal ropes indeed.

 

Thank you very much for sharing this amazing video!

 

It is an interesting view of the Us beaches and Arromanches, but it can't really be described as "the D Dayt beaches" Three out of the five beaches were East of Arromanches. Nor does it show the huge traffic jams inland!

There were good reasons for the Czech TV company did not include Sword beach, because that was hosting the international commemorations and the worlds security services would have taken exception to inbound UAVs.

I took a helicopter flight around the beaches many years ago. I came away with the impression of how shallow the beach head was, and how I coul easily make out Bayewux and Caen form the air.

 

Great stuff! I love the 17th Airborne flag at 0:16. Amazing cinematography. I'd love to see one flying from east to west along the whole shoreline. But not complaining--this is incredible.

 

Skipper, many thanks for the link, beautiful to watch and many other links are as well. nice way to have coffee and watch . Now only if I had some good French bread, real butter and Camembert !

Gaines

 

Hello,

You talk about what you see on the cliff ? This are not ropes, they are metalics nets to prevent erosion of the rock.

 

makes me hungry....and I am!...eating GScout cookies now.....Samoas.......Point du Hoc was like assaulting a castle 1944 , etc...straight up......this drone video really illustrates that

 

What a waste of time. Half a story as usual spun by the american contingent as the whole story. Get back to your history books and read about how many beaches and the troops involved.

Some good pictures but the willingness of so many uneducated people to accept this as a reflection of Operation Overlord makes me wonder what other half truths are being peddled and believed here.

Brian

 

All full of piss and vinegar...

Ask yourself...
Why do most of the "American" vehicles appear to be flying a Czech flag?
Is .cz the end of an American web address or a Czechoslovakian web address?
Who is Michal Čeliš?

Finally, put on you "big boy" pants and enjoy an excellent Czechoslovakian video.

 

The terminology is apt. A lot of folk wetting themselves over yet another misrepresentation of history. Brian

 

Please excuse my ignorance, but could a couple of 8" cruisers have been stationed few miles off the cost and have them turn Point du Hoc into rubble?



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The availability of the beaches was likely limited by the other events going on, as Sheldrake mentioned. You can't fault them for that.

As for the American vehicles, uniforms and flags (most of which are too small to stand out except in the close-in shots), I'd guess that this is a WW2 American re-enactment group out of the Czech Republic. Would you rather they parade around in modern clothes and made-in-Korea subcompacts instead of period-correct uniforms and wonderfully restored vehicles that they likely already had long before making the trip to Normandy? Perhaps next year you can rally up a column of Bren carriers and CMPs to "correct the record"? It should be noted that the Commonwealth made use of American vehicles (especially Willys MBs), and that the "American star" was the standard marking for Allied vehicles.

However, they've committed some very serious errors. Note that the 50-star US flags and the Czech flags are anachronisms that do not belong on the Normandy beaches. There's also a postwar M38A1 mixed in along with what appears to be a Willys MB LRDG mockup. The horror!

Why don't you just enjoy it for what it is -- a remarkably well-made video that presents novel views of some of the area?