The Longest Day

Thank you for creating this video and honoring our men!

I can safely assume you did not learn about the Civil War in school. As a child, my mom and I walked the lands from Gettysburg to Williamburg. AT my age knowing ballistics, the Minie Ball was a devasting projectile that took so many lives. We walked hollowed ground that now may become housing developments and shopping centers.

The Union was failing. There was a Draft Riot. President Lincoln issued 'Emancipation Proclamation' to gain Negro troops in support of Union cause.

Give me a break. The Civil War was about slavery. Period.

Oh My Lord there is You with a BAR. Grace

Thanks for that. Operation Market Garden cost Britain dearly to the point Americans were asked to contribute personal firearms that they never got back. Again, Britain contributed what they could till the point that what was available was needed for home defense and US picked up on that. 'Why We Fight' was a series of documentaries to keep defense plant workers going on manufacturing weapons/materiels to make the 'Red Menace' our friend. Wonder what happened to Hurricanes and P-38s sent.

We were talking about 1940. The big strategic mistakes were made by Roosevelt and Eisenhower. The former's 'No surrender' policy, coupled with his cosying up to stalin at the expense of Britain, that prolonged the war by making the Germans fight fanatically to the last and Eisenhowers Broad Front strategy that made Market Garden fail. These combined enabled Russia to get a good grip on Eastern Europe.

Britain ran winter convoys to Russia carrying Hurricanes and other materiel. Read HMS Ulysses for an account of the hell of those convoys. The escorts on the eastern parts of those runs were British and they certainly did run the gauntlet of U-Boats, Dive-bombers and torpedo bombers as well as the lacerating cold.

Thank you for presentation. I hope young people see it, learn and yearn for more. Our modern history and technology starts with US Civil War....taught in school it was a war to 'free the slaves.' NOTHING could be further from the TRUTH!!! Major wars had one thing in common: OCCUPATION of independent nations to sieze or protect sources of RAW MATERIELS. We went to WAR against IRAQ because they siezed KUWAIT and were on their way to SAUDI ARABIA failing to sieze IRAN. BLESS OUR SOLDIERS.

At close of European Theatre, US troops under order pulled back. PATTON WAS PISSED!!! Post-war as commander of POW camps he raised a ten thousand German Army unit...then there was the automobile 'accident' he died from.

US troops faced crack Hungarian troops on the Italien border in 1946/47 in a stand-off. Austria was occupied by USSR..so was Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Finland despite past war retained independence. There was nothing to fight another war over..an 'Iron Curtain' raised

Nothing of this was taught in school 50 years ago. Today, schools teach about Martin Luther King and 'rap music.' When I took 'Western Civilisation II' in college 40 years ago, course ended with assasination of Archduke Ferdinand.

'Could' is a wide word. Germans were never prepared or supplied for Russian Winters like in Stalingrad. Russia moved as much heavy war manufacturing machinery as she could to Siberia but lacked in two items: FUEL and RAW MATERIELS

No. France was a ally of Germany under Vichy Regime at the time. Britain had already lost many weapons/ships/vehicles when they had to abandon all retreating from failed French coastal invasion. BTW: Past British dabblings with 'White Russia' till 1927 left a lot of bad will.

Actually, it was the US that supplied Russia as whatever the British had to give was limited....Lend Lease. The convoys you speak of were US Maritime fleet and armed. The fear of travel was not German U-boats in winter months but cold: steel hulls became brittle and cracked in the extremly cold sea water (like Titanic.) It was probable that your ship had to lay up for Winter in Russia. The Alaskan highway was built to do the Aleutian Island run after the Japs capitulated and left...Ice Road.

It was discussed but sanity prevailed. How would they have hit Russia, anyway? Germany was quite enough thanks. Anyway, why didn't USA take on Russia.

Russia invaded Poland too after Germany did, Hitler and Starlin signed a pact together, But then in 1940/41 Germany declared war on Russia. And if it wasn't for the Arms and Equipment that the British gave the Russians in the early part of the War, Germany would of annexed Russia. The Germans was how many miles from Moscow? Look up the Russian Convoys if you don't believe me.

God bless America and her allies!!!!!!!!!

Operation Downfall is the alternative