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IT WAS THE
TURNING POINT OF WORLD WAR II...
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THREE MILLION SOLDIERS,
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF SHIPS, PLANES, AND TANKS,
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A LOGISTICAL COMPLEXITY
UNPRECEDENTED
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IN A MILITARY OPERATION.
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THIS WAS THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY.
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MORE THAN 75 YEARS
SINCE THE END OF THE WAR,
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CERTAIN DETAILS
OF THIS TREMENDOUS BATTLE
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HAVE GONE UNTOLD.
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VERY FEW PEOPLE
COULD TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENS
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IN JUNE AND JULY AND AUGUST
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AND HOW THE BATTLE
FOR NORMANDY ACTUALLY ENDED.
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NOW UNPUBLISHED ARCHIVES,
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20 YEARS OF RESEARCH,
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EXPERTS FROM THE UNITED STATES,
THE UK, AND CANADA
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BRING TO LIFE
THE BOOTS-ON-THE-GROUND REALITY
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OF NORMANDY'S 85 DAYS OF HELL.
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LIBERATION HAS COME
TO NORMANDY, BUT SO HAS WAR.
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THREE MONTHS
OF SAVAGE COMBAT...
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IF WE CAN DESTROY
THE GERMAN ARMY IN NORMANDY,
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THEN THE REST OF FRANCE
WILL BE SAVED.
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...DURING WHICH
THE ALLIES AND THE GERMANS
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WILL FIGHT MERCILESSLY.
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IT'S A BATTLEFIELD
WHERE THEY LIVE AND THEY DIE
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AND WHERE THEY FIGHT AND WHERE THEY KILL.
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FROM THE AVERAGE SOLDIER'S
POINT OF VIEW,
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THIS JUST SEEMS TO BE A HOPELESS SITUATION.
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IT WAS A VERY DIRTY BATTLE,
A SCHMUTZIGER BUSCHKRIEG,
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A DIRTY BUSH WAR.
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EVERYONE PAID
A HECK OF A PRICE FOR THIS.
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D-DAY WAS
JUST THE BEGINNING.
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JUNE 6th, 1944, EARLY MORNING.
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THOUSANDS OF SHIPS EMBARK FROM ENGLAND,
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HEADED TO THE FRENCH COAST
OF NORMANDY.
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TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING,
IT'S AN ALLIED OPERATION
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TO TAKE BACK FRANCE FROM THE GERMANS.
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THEY CALL IT OVERLORD.
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RARELY IN HISTORY
WILL YOU FIND A TIME
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WHERE THESE MAJOR POWERS
ARE ALL MOBILIZED
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ALMOST TO THE FULL EXTENT
OF THEIR STRENGTH
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TO HAVE THIS CONFRONTATION
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OVER WHAT IS TO HAPPEN
WITH THE NORMANDY INVASION.
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ALLIED SOLDIERS
WILL FACE A TERRITORY
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THAT THE GERMANS
HAVE OCCUPIED FOR FOUR YEARS.
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CAEN, CHERBOURG, SAINT-LOÔ...
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ALL THE GREAT CITIES OF
NORMANDYARE UNDER NAZI CONTROL.
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THE LANDING ZONE CHOSEN
IS 80 KILOMETERS LONG.
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PLACED UNDER THE COMMAND
OF U.S. GENERAL EISENHOWER,
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THE TROOPS WILL LAND ON FIVE SECTORS.
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UTAH AND OMAHA BEACHES
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WILL BE TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS;
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GOLD, JUNO, AND SWORD BEACHES
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BY THE BRITISH AND CANADIANS.
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AROUND 6:30 A.M.,
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THE FIRST WAVES OF ALLIED
SOLDIERS LAND ON FRENCH SOIL.
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DURING THE FIRST HOURS
OF THE LANDING,
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THE ALLIES SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES
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FROM THE ENTRENCHED GERMAN DEFENSES.
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BUT SOLDIERS AND ARMORED
VEHICLES CONTINUE TO LAND,
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PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE ENEMY.
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THE VITAL PART
OF ANY SEABORNE INVASION
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LIKE OPERATION OVERLORD
WAS TO GET GROUND RAPIDLY
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BECAUSE ONLY THEN COULD YOU
START TO PUSH BACK THE ENEMY
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SO THAT THEY COULD NOT
KEEP FIRING AT THE BEACHES.
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AFTER JUST ONE DAY,
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THOUSANDS OF ALLIED SOLDIERS
HAVE ALREADY BEEN KILLED,
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BUT THE WIDE SCOPE OF THE LANDING
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HAS BEEN FATAL TO THE GERMANS.
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THE FIRST PHASE OF OPERATION
OVERLORD IS COMPLETED.
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SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE LANDING ZONES,
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THE ALLIES MUST NOW REGROUP THE
DIFFERENT UNITS ON THE GROUND.
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YOU'VE GOT TO LINK UP
THOSE FIVE BEACHES
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AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN.
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IF THEY'RE NOT LINKED UP,
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THEN THE GERMANS CAN FILL THE GAPS
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AND CAN BEGIN ATTACKING THE ALLIES
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FROM ANY DIRECTION THEY WANT,
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FROM WHAT MILITARY PEOPLE
CALL THE FLANKS.
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EISENHOWER AND HIS GENERALS
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NEEDED TO CREATE A BUFFER ZONE
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TO PROTECT AGAINST
THE GERMAN COUNTERATTACK
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THAT WOULD COME,
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AND, IN FACT,
THEY PREPARED FOR THAT.
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THE PLAN
FOR SEALING OFF NORMANDY
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WAS CALLED TRANSPORTATION,
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AND THIS MEANT BOMBING
ALL OF THE BRIDGES
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OVER THE RIVER SEINE TO THE EAST
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AND OVER THE RIVER LOIRE
TO THE SOUTH
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SO THAT THE WHOLE OF THE NORMAN
AREA WAS COMPLETELY CUT OFF.
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BUT ALSO IT MEANT SMASHING
HOUSES AND TOWNS AND VILLAGES
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AT CRUCIAL CROSSROADS AND
PLACESTO PREVENT THE GERMANS
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BRINGING UP
REINFORCEMENTS AND SUPPLIES.
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THE AMERICAN PHRASE, WHICH HAD
BEEN INVENTED IN ITALY,
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WAS CALLED PUTTING THE CITY
IN THE STREET,
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WHICH BASICALLY MEANT
SIMPLY BLOCKING THE ROADS
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SO THAT TRAFFIC COULD NOT GET THROUGH.
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EVEN BEFORE
THE FIGHTING STARTS INLAND,
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NORMANDY
IS PARTIALLY DESTROYED...
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NO WATER, NO ELECTRICITY,
NO PHONE LINES.
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AND NOW, AFTER TAKING
THE FIVE LANDING BEACHES,
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THE ALLIES MUST ADVANCE,
WHATEVER THE COST,
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TO PUSH THE GERMANS BACK
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AND OCCUPY ENEMY TERRITORY.
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THE FIRST OBJECTIVE OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY,
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COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH
AND CANADIAN FORCES,
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IS TO SEIZE THE CITY OF CAEN,
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LOCATED NEARLY 20 KILOMETERS
FROM SWORD AND JUNO BEACHES.
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ON DAY 2,
MONTGOMERY IS CONVINCED
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THAT HE WILL SUCCEED
IN RAPIDLY CAPTURING CAEN.
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BUT FACING HIM
IS GENERAL ERWIN ROMMEL,
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KNOWN FOR HIS FEATS IN AFRICA
AND NICKNAMED "THE DESERT FOX."
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ROMMEL MOBILIZES HIS MOST
POWERFUL ARMORED DIVISIONS
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TO MEET THE BRITISH-CANADIAN
FORCES ADVANCING TOWARDS CAEN
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AND BLOCK MONTGOMERY'S
ALLIED OFFENSIVE.
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THE FIRST DAYS OF FIGHTING
NORTH OF CAEN ARE DEVASTATING.
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THE PERFECTLY ORGANIZED
GERMAN DEFENSES
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INVARIABLY REPEL ALL ENGLISH
AND CANADIAN ATTEMPTS.
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FACING THE GERMAN MARK IV,
MARK V, AND TIGER TANKS,
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THE AMERICAN SHERMAN TANKS
USED BY THE ALLIES
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ARE JUST NOT UP TO THE MARK.
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WHAT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IS
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EVERY AMERICAN SHERMAN TANK
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HAS TO BE SHIPPED TO THE BATTLEFIELD,
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SO IT MEANS YOU HAVE TO
PRODUCE SOMETHING
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THAT'S REASONABLY LIGHT ENOUGH
TO BE ABLE TO SHIP
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AND SMALL ENOUGH THAT YOU CAN
GET IT ON THE SHIP.
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IT'S A REASONABLY GOOD TANK,
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BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO BE
IN A TOE-TO-TOE BATTLE
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WITH A GERMAN TANK HEAD-ON.
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33 TONS FOR THE SHERMAN.
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MORE THAN 43 TONS FOR THE GERMAN TANKS.
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MORE ROBUST, WITH ARMOR
SUPERIORTO THE AMERICANS',
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THEY DELIVERED
DEVASTATING CANNON POWER.
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THE MUZZLE VELOCITY
OF THOSE TANKS
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MEANT THAT IF IT HIT YOU,
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THAT SHELL WAS GOING TO
PENETRATE YOUR ARMOR PROBABLY,
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YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY ALONG THE SIDES,
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AND EITHER GO
STRAIGHT THROUGH OR WORSE,
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RATTLE AROUND INSIDE AND EXPLODE.
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WHILE THE BRITISH
AND THE CANADIANS
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ARE DEFEATED ON THE EAST FLANK,
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THE AMERICANS START
ADVANCING ON THE OTHER SIDE.
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GENERAL BRADLEY COMMANDS THE TROOPS.
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THEIR FIRST OBJECTIVE IS
17 KILOMETERS FROM THE COAST...
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THE SMALL TOWN OF CARENTAN
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AND ITS NETWORK OF ROADS AND RAILWAYS.
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CARENTAN IS REALLY THE KEY
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TO SEAL OFF THE COTENTIN PENINSULA
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AND THEN CAPTURE CHERBOURG,
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WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, THE GREATEST
HARBOR IN NORMANDY.
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BUT ALSO IN TANDEM WITH THAT,
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YOU'RE GONNA START MOVING SOUTHWARD
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TOWARDS THE TOWN OF SAINT-LOÔ.
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THE 101st
AMERICAN AIRBORNE DIVISION
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SURROUNDS CARENTAN ON JUNE 9th, 1944.
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THE FIGHTING, RUTHLESS AND SAVAGE,
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WOULD LAST FOUR DAYS AND FOUR NIGHTS.
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ON JUNE 12th, CARENTAN
FALLS INTO AMERICAN HANDS...
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...WITH HEAVY LOSSES
ON BOTH SIDES.
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BUT THE ALLIES
HAVE ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL.
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SIX DAYS AFTER THE LANDINGS,
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ALL THE COALITION FORCES
ARE FINALLY LINKED UP.
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THE TROOPS OCCUPY A BEACHHEAD
80 KILOMETERS LONG,
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REACHING AT CERTAIN POINTS
10 TO 30 KILOMETERS DEEP,
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WHILE ON THE WEST SIDE,
THE AMERICANS ADVANCE
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TOWARDS CHERBOURG
AND SAINT-LOÔ,
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ON THE EAST SIDE,
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THE BRITISH AND CANADIANS
STILL CLASH WITH THE GERMANS,
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WHO MAINTAIN THEIR POSITIONS
AROUND CAEN.
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THESE REPEATED DEFEATS
PUT MONTGOMERY
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IN A DIFFICULT POSITION
WITH THE U.S. COMMAND.
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HE'S DESPERATE TO WIN
A FIRST IRREFUTABLE VICTORY
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ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
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ON JUNE 12th, HE ATTEMPTS
AN ENCIRCLEMENT MANEUVER
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BY SKIRTING CAEN FROM THE WEST
TO TRAP THE GERMAN DIVISIONS.
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THE 7th BRITISH ARMORED DIVISION
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IS SENT TO THE SMALL TOWN
OF VILLERS-BOCAGE.
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BUT THE GERMANS ANTICIPATE THE MOVE
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AND AMBUSH THE BRITISH
WITH A TIGER TANK BATTALION
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COMMANDED BY MICHAEL WITTMANN,
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THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TANK
COMMANDER OF WORLD WAR II.
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ONE BY ONE, THE BRITISH TANKS
ARE DESTROYED.
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THE FAILURE
TO CAPTURE VILLERS-BOCAGE
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BY THE 7th ARMORED DIVISION
AND XXX CORPS
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DID IMPACT BADLY ON MORALE.
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THEY JUST REALIZED THAT IT WAS
GOING TO BE A FAR TOUGHER JOB
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THAN THEY HAD THOUGHT ABOUT
OR IMAGINED WHEN THEY SET SAIL.
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IN THESE CONDITIONS,
TAKING THE PORT OF CHERBOURG
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BECOMES AN ABSOLUTE PRIORITY
FOR THE ALLIES.
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AFTER CAPTURING CARENTAN,
THE AMERICANS TAKE TEN DAYS
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TO TRAVEL 50 KILOMETERS
AND REACH CHERBOURG.
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THE 4th, 9th, AND 79th
U.S. DIVISIONS
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FINALLY REACH THE CITY
ON JUNE 21st.
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THEY LAUNCH THE ATTACK
THE FOLLOWING DAY.
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THREE U.S. DIVISIONS
ARE ALL JUST ADVANCING
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NORTH TOWARD CHERBOURG
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AND TRYING TO GET INTO THE TOWN
AS QUICKLY AS THEY CAN.
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THE CITY IS DEFENDED
BY 30,000 TROOPS
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TRAPPED BY THE ALLIES.
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THEY'RE DOOMED
BECAUSE THE ALLIED NAVY
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FROM THE SEAWARD SIDE CAN POUND THEM,
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AND THEN THE AMERICAN ARMY
COMING FROM THE LANDWARD SIDE
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CAN KINDA JUST CATCH THEM IN A VISE.
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SO, THE WHOLE THING KIND OF JUST DEVOLVES
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INTO THIS SORT OF BLOCK BY BLOCK FIGHT.
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IT WILL TAKE A FEW DAYS
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BEFORE THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS
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DRIVE OUT ALL POCKETS
OF RESISTANCE IN THE CITY.
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ON JUNE 26th, THE GERMANS SURRENDER.
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THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS ARE TAKEN PRISONER.
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AFTER FOUR LONG YEARS OF OCCUPATION,
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CHERBOURG FINALLY
TASTES FREEDOM ONCE AGAIN.
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CHERBOURG IS CERTAINLY
THE BIGGEST CITY
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AT THAT POINT THAT IS LIBERATED.
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THERE IS THIS LARGER GERMAN SURRENDER,
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AND THE ALLIES THEN HAVE IT.
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00:13:44,858 --> 00:13:46,446
AS AN AVERAGE SOLDIER,
218
00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,517
THAT STILL WASN'T
NECESSARILY YOUR TYPICAL DAY,
219
00:13:48,551 --> 00:13:50,795
SO THOSE WHO WERE THERE,
SAY, AT CHERBOURG,
220
00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:51,865
TENDED TO REMEMBER THAT.
221
00:14:01,426 --> 00:14:04,050
DESPITETHIS FIRST
VICTORY IN CHERBOURG,
222
00:14:04,084 --> 00:14:09,020
THE CASUALTIES AFTER THREE WEEKS
OF FIGHTING ARE STAGGERING.
223
00:14:09,055 --> 00:14:12,679
THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS HAVE
ALREADY BEEN KILLED OR WOUNDED.
224
00:14:15,924 --> 00:14:17,960
ON THE BATTLEFIELD, THE MEDICAL TEAMS
225
00:14:17,995 --> 00:14:22,585
TRY TO INTERVENE
AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
226
00:14:22,620 --> 00:14:24,864
THEY TRANSPORT BLOOD,
227
00:14:24,898 --> 00:14:27,383
SET UP FIELD HOSPITALS.
228
00:14:27,418 --> 00:14:29,938
A COMPLEX ORGANIZATION
IS ESTABLISHED
229
00:14:29,972 --> 00:14:32,768
TO FOLLOW THE TROOPS AS THEY ADVANCE.
230
00:14:36,945 --> 00:14:40,880
IN SPITE OF THE LOSSES,
THE ALLIES KEEP MOVING FORWARD
231
00:14:40,914 --> 00:14:43,261
DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY.
232
00:14:45,746 --> 00:14:48,991
AFTER THE AMERICANSTAKE
CHERBOURG, THEY HEAD SOUTH.
233
00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,444
THE NEXT ALLIED TARGET IS
234
00:14:53,478 --> 00:14:55,860
LESS THAN 90 KILOMETERS AWAY...
235
00:14:55,895 --> 00:14:57,689
THE CITY OF SAINT-LOÔ.
236
00:14:59,795 --> 00:15:01,693
BUT THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS FACE
237
00:15:01,728 --> 00:15:06,043
ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUSREGIONS
FOR INFANTRY AND TANKS...
238
00:15:06,077 --> 00:15:08,045
THE NORMANDY BOCAGE.
239
00:15:10,771 --> 00:15:13,913
THE BOCAGE IS MADE UP OF CULTIVATED FIELDS
240
00:15:13,947 --> 00:15:16,985
SEPARATED BY DITCHES AND EMBANKMENTS,
241
00:15:17,019 --> 00:15:20,402
CANOPIED BY HEDGEROWS SEVERAL METERS HIGH.
242
00:15:28,997 --> 00:15:31,620
IT'S BASICALLY
A MAZE OF THESE HEDGEROWS,
243
00:15:31,654 --> 00:15:35,727
MOST OF WHICH ARE ABOUT 8 FEET
TO 13 FEET HIGH,
244
00:15:35,762 --> 00:15:38,730
THAT THICK NORMAN SOIL,
CLAY-LIKE SOIL,
245
00:15:38,765 --> 00:15:42,010
PACKED AROUND FENCES AND STONE
246
00:15:42,044 --> 00:15:44,805
THAT CERTAINLY INDIVIDUAL
SOLDIERS CAN'T GET THROUGH,
247
00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,946
SO THE HEDGEROW OPENING
BECOMES A KILL ZONE.
248
00:15:49,603 --> 00:15:53,987
THE GERMANS HAD FOUR
YEARS TO PREPARE THEIR DEFENSE.
249
00:15:54,022 --> 00:15:55,678
HEAVY MACHINE GUNS WERE POSITIONED
250
00:15:55,713 --> 00:15:57,853
IN THE CORNERS OF EACH FIELD.
251
00:16:00,683 --> 00:16:05,792
MORTARS TARGET EVERY SPOT
THE ALLIES MIGHT CROSS,
252
00:16:05,826 --> 00:16:09,934
AND MINES HIDE IN THEIR PATHWAYS.
253
00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:13,041
WITH A VISIBILITY OF NO MORE
THAN A COUPLE OF METERS,
254
00:16:13,075 --> 00:16:15,905
THE AMERICANS ADVANCE BLINDLY.
255
00:16:26,468 --> 00:16:28,297
UP AGAINST THE GERMANS,
256
00:16:28,332 --> 00:16:33,026
DOZENS OF ALLIED SOLDIERSDIE
TAKING BACK A MERE MEADOW...
257
00:16:35,891 --> 00:16:39,308
...OR A SINGLE HEDGE.
258
00:16:50,699 --> 00:16:53,012
THE U.S. ARMY
FINDS ITSELF IN NORMANDY
259
00:16:53,046 --> 00:16:56,049
IN THE MIDDLE OF A BLOODBATH,
ABSOLUTE BLOODBATH.
260
00:16:56,084 --> 00:16:58,983
DAY BY DAY, HEDGEROW BY HEDGEROW,
261
00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:01,813
CHOKE POINT TOWN BY CHOKE POINT TOWN,
262
00:17:01,848 --> 00:17:04,023
EVERY ONE OF THEM WHERE YOU FIGHT,
263
00:17:04,057 --> 00:17:05,576
YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER CASUALTIES.
264
00:17:09,476 --> 00:17:10,788
FROM THE AVERAGE SOLDIER'S
POINT OF VIEW,
265
00:17:10,822 --> 00:17:13,515
THIS JUST SEEMS TO BE A HOPELESS SITUATION.
266
00:17:16,759 --> 00:17:18,313
YOU JUST KNOW THAT THIS SEEMS TO BE
267
00:17:18,347 --> 00:17:21,661
KIND OF THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
IN NORMANDY.
268
00:17:31,705 --> 00:17:33,431
AS THE AMERICANS
TRY TO NAVIGATE
269
00:17:33,466 --> 00:17:34,846
THE NORMANDY HEDGEROWS,
270
00:17:34,881 --> 00:17:36,331
THE BRITISH AND CANADIANS
271
00:17:36,365 --> 00:17:37,539
ARE STILL ATTEMPTING
272
00:17:37,573 --> 00:17:39,575
TO BREAK THE GERMAN STRONGHOLD
273
00:17:39,610 --> 00:17:41,784
AROUND THE CITY OF CAEN.
274
00:17:44,477 --> 00:17:48,653
THE BRITISH GENERAL MONTGOMERYDECIDES
TO CHANGE HIS OFFENSIVE.
275
00:17:48,688 --> 00:17:51,656
HE LAUNCHES OPERATION CHARNWOOD.
276
00:17:54,659 --> 00:17:58,698
ON JULY 7th, 467 ALLIED PLANES
277
00:17:58,732 --> 00:18:01,977
DROP MORE THAN 2,500 TONS OF BOMBS
278
00:18:02,011 --> 00:18:04,876
ON ENEMY-OCCUPIED AREAS
AROUND CAEN.
279
00:18:14,921 --> 00:18:18,476
AFTER HAVING BEEN
HEAVILY BOMBED ON JUNE 6th,
280
00:18:18,511 --> 00:18:22,411
THE CITY OF CAEN IS DECIMATED.
281
00:18:34,423 --> 00:18:37,357
ON JULY 9th, THE BRITISH
AND CANADIAN SOLDIERS
282
00:18:37,392 --> 00:18:40,533
FINALLY ENTER THE CITY
FROM THE NORTH.
283
00:18:51,406 --> 00:18:53,925
AS THE CANADIANS
AND BRITISH FOUGHT INTO CAEN,
284
00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,791
THROUGH THE RUBBLE,
THEY SAW FRENCH CIVILIANS
285
00:18:57,826 --> 00:18:59,379
WHO HAD SURVIVED THE BOMBING
286
00:18:59,414 --> 00:19:03,487
BUT WHOSE FAMILY MEMBERS
HAD BEEN KILLED.
287
00:19:03,521 --> 00:19:05,937
THEY TALKED ABOUT HEARING
THE SCREAMS
288
00:19:05,972 --> 00:19:09,078
OF THE FRENCH CIVILIANS
WHO WERE TRAPPED.
289
00:19:15,568 --> 00:19:17,501
BUT FOR THE ALLIED COMMAND,
290
00:19:17,535 --> 00:19:19,019
THE ANNIHILATION OF CAEN
291
00:19:19,054 --> 00:19:21,090
AND THE THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS KILLED
292
00:19:21,125 --> 00:19:23,714
UNDER THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH BOMBS
293
00:19:23,748 --> 00:19:26,026
WAS A NECESSARY EVIL...
294
00:19:26,061 --> 00:19:29,064
THE PRICE TO PAY IN WINNING THE BATTLE.
295
00:19:29,098 --> 00:19:31,446
IT'S ALWAYS HARD
TALKING ABOUT ENDS AND MEANS
296
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,794
AND WHAT JUSTIFIES WHAT
IN WARFARE.
297
00:19:34,828 --> 00:19:38,038
A MORAL DECISION WOULD BE
THAT THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS
298
00:19:38,073 --> 00:19:40,351
IS, ALMOST BY DEFINITION,
A WAR CRIME.
299
00:19:40,386 --> 00:19:42,940
BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE
TO AVOID IT IN REALITY.
300
00:19:52,812 --> 00:19:54,917
THE PRIORITY WAS
WE'VE GOT TO DEFEAT THE GERMANS
301
00:19:54,952 --> 00:19:59,474
BECAUSE, IN A WAY, WE ACCEPT
THAT NORMANDY IS GOING TO BE
302
00:19:59,508 --> 00:20:02,546
REALLY THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB
FOR THE WHOLE OF FRANCE.
303
00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:05,721
IF WE CAN DESTROY
THE GERMAN ARMY IN NORMANDY,
304
00:20:05,756 --> 00:20:08,034
THEN THE REST OF FRANCE
WILL BE SAVED.
305
00:20:14,661 --> 00:20:16,353
WHILE THE BRITISH
AND CANADIAN TROOPS
306
00:20:16,387 --> 00:20:18,976
GRADUALLY LIBERATE THE CITY OF CAEN,
307
00:20:19,010 --> 00:20:20,943
THE AMERICANS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE
308
00:20:20,978 --> 00:20:23,567
AGAINST A STRONG GERMAN RESISTANCE
309
00:20:23,601 --> 00:20:25,534
ON THEIR WAY TO SAINT-LOÔ.
310
00:20:35,889 --> 00:20:38,513
THOUSANDS OF ALLIED SOLDIERS
ARE TRAPPED
311
00:20:38,547 --> 00:20:40,480
IN THE NORMANDY BOCAGE.
312
00:20:40,515 --> 00:20:45,451
THE INCESSANT RAIN AND MUD
SLOW THEIR PROGRESS EVEN MORE.
313
00:20:45,485 --> 00:20:51,664
TO ESCAPE THIS FATAL LABYRINTH,
THEY TRY AN INGENIOUS STRATEGY.
314
00:20:51,698 --> 00:20:53,044
WE'VE GOT TO CREATE
A NEW OPENING
315
00:20:53,079 --> 00:20:54,839
THROUGH THE HEDGEROWS,
BECAUSE THE MAIN ONE,
316
00:20:54,874 --> 00:20:56,082
THE GERMANS HAVE COVERED,
317
00:20:56,116 --> 00:20:57,048
AND THEY'RE GOING TO KILL EVERYBODY
318
00:20:57,083 --> 00:20:58,843
WHO MOVES THROUGH THERE.
319
00:21:02,399 --> 00:21:05,056
SO, THEY BEGIN TO WELD,
IRONICALLY ENOUGH,
320
00:21:05,091 --> 00:21:07,921
THE REMNANTS
OF GERMAN BEACH OBSTACLES,
321
00:21:07,956 --> 00:21:11,028
THE METAL, ONTO THE FRONT
OF TANKS WITH PRONGS...
322
00:21:16,344 --> 00:21:17,862
...AND BEGIN TO USE
THE TANKS THEN
323
00:21:17,897 --> 00:21:20,348
TO PUNCH A NEW OPENING
THROUGH THE HEDGEROW.
324
00:21:34,603 --> 00:21:37,537
WITH THESE
SO-CALLED RHINO TANKS,
325
00:21:37,572 --> 00:21:40,644
THE ALLIES TAKE THE GERMANS
BY SURPRISE.
326
00:21:40,678 --> 00:21:42,508
BUT FOR EVERY HEDGE CROSSED,
327
00:21:42,542 --> 00:21:45,994
THEY REMAIN AT THE MERCY
OF THE ENEMY SOLDIERS.
328
00:21:47,754 --> 00:21:49,687
AS THE GERMANS HAVE
IN THE DITCHES,
329
00:21:49,722 --> 00:21:52,552
BEYOND THE HEDGEROW,
A LOT OF PANZERFAUST GUNNERS.
330
00:21:52,587 --> 00:21:55,762
IT'S A ONE-TIME, ONE-SHOT
KIND OF ANTI-TANK WEAPON
331
00:21:55,797 --> 00:21:57,488
THAT CAN BLOW UP YOUR TANK,
332
00:21:57,523 --> 00:22:00,526
SO THE INFANTRYMEN HAVE TO MOVE
VERY CLOSE TO THE TANK
333
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,839
AND BASICALLY WHAT
THE MILITARY CALLS "CLEAN OUT"
334
00:22:03,874 --> 00:22:05,358
THE GERMANS IN THE DITCHES.
335
00:22:05,393 --> 00:22:06,773
THAT BASICALLY MEANS KILL THEM.
336
00:22:06,808 --> 00:22:09,431
AND VERY CLOSE,
FACE-TO-FACE QUITE OFTEN.
337
00:22:09,466 --> 00:22:10,812
AND THEN THE TANKERS WILL LAY DOWN
338
00:22:10,846 --> 00:22:12,814
WHAT'S CALLED
WHITE PHOSPHOROUS FIRE,
339
00:22:12,848 --> 00:22:15,368
AND WHITE PHOSPHORUS IS A TERRIBLE WEAPON.
340
00:22:15,403 --> 00:22:19,510
IT'S BASICALLY A CHEMICAL
THAT WILL JUST BURN THROUGH YOU
341
00:22:19,545 --> 00:22:22,927
AS LONG AS IT HAS OXYGEN.
342
00:22:24,826 --> 00:22:27,069
IT WAS A VERY DIRTY BATTLE.
343
00:22:27,104 --> 00:22:28,864
I MEAN, THE GERMANS THEMSELVES
DESCRIBED IT
344
00:22:28,899 --> 00:22:32,592
AS A SCHMUTZIGER BUSCHKRIEG,
A DIRTY BUSH WAR.
345
00:22:32,627 --> 00:22:35,388
AND GENERAL COLLINS, WHO'D BEEN
FIGHTING IN THE FAR EAST,
346
00:22:35,423 --> 00:22:36,769
SAID THIS WAS WORSE THAN THE JUNGLE.
347
00:22:55,891 --> 00:22:57,445
ON JULY 18th,
348
00:22:57,479 --> 00:22:59,550
AFTER THREE WEEKS OF RELENTLESS FIGHTING
349
00:22:59,585 --> 00:23:01,690
SINCE THE CAPTURING OF CHERBOURG,
350
00:23:01,725 --> 00:23:05,763
THE ALLIED SOLDIERS FINALLY
ENTER THE CITY OF SAINT-LOÔ.
351
00:23:05,798 --> 00:23:09,422
BUT UPON ARRIVAL, NOT MUCH REMAINS.
352
00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:21,641
THE SOLDIERS HAVE TO ADVANCE
EXTREMELY SLOWLY
353
00:23:21,676 --> 00:23:24,989
AS THE GERMANS HAVE MINED
THE ENTIRE CITY.
354
00:23:28,683 --> 00:23:31,444
A FEW CIVILIANS EMERGE
FROM THEIR SHELTERS
355
00:23:31,479 --> 00:23:34,758
TO SEARCH THE RUBBLE FOR
OBJECTSTHAT MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED
356
00:23:34,792 --> 00:23:36,829
THE ONSLAUGHT OF ALLIED BOMBS.
357
00:23:44,043 --> 00:23:47,702
AFTER CHERBOURG, SAINT-LOÔ
IS THE SECOND GREAT VICTORY
358
00:23:47,736 --> 00:23:50,498
FOR THE ALLIED COMMAND.
359
00:23:50,532 --> 00:23:51,878
BUT THE STATE OF THE CITY,
360
00:23:51,913 --> 00:23:54,881
WHICH IS LATER NICKNAMED
"CAPITAL OF THE RUINS,"
361
00:23:54,916 --> 00:23:58,816
EXEMPLIFIES THE HIGH PRICE
OF LIBERATING NORMANDY.
362
00:24:20,389 --> 00:24:22,115
AFTER A MONTH AND A HALF
OF FIGHTING,
363
00:24:22,150 --> 00:24:25,809
THE TROOPS' MORALE
IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW.
364
00:24:25,843 --> 00:24:28,087
EVERY FOOT GAINED AGAINST THE GERMANS
365
00:24:28,121 --> 00:24:31,780
COMES AT THE COSTOF
INTENSE AND MERCILESS COMBAT.
366
00:24:42,791 --> 00:24:45,104
THERE'S THE STRESS
OF NOT KNOWING
367
00:24:45,138 --> 00:24:47,762
WHEN THE NEXT GERMAN SHELL
IS GOING TO COME IN
368
00:24:47,796 --> 00:24:51,386
AND WHETHER IT'S GOING TO HIT
NEAR YOU OR NOT.
369
00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:53,422
THEY SEE
A VERY LIMITED BATTLEFIELD.
370
00:24:53,457 --> 00:24:55,666
IT'S A BATTLEFIELD
WHERE THEY LIVE AND THEY DIE
371
00:24:55,701 --> 00:24:57,772
AND WHERE THEY FIGHT AND WHERE THEY KILL.
372
00:25:13,442 --> 00:25:16,791
FOR THE SOLDIERS,
THE WARM WELCOME OF THE LOCALS
373
00:25:16,825 --> 00:25:20,760
REMINDS THEM WHY THEY CAME HERE
TO RISK THEIR LIVES.
374
00:25:58,591 --> 00:26:02,008
A LITTLE ALCOHOL, CIGARETTES,
375
00:26:02,043 --> 00:26:04,666
SIMPLE GIFTS
THAT LIFT THE MEN'S SPIRITS
376
00:26:04,701 --> 00:26:06,703
BEFORE THE NEXT ADVANCEMENT,
377
00:26:06,737 --> 00:26:08,877
THE NEXT MORTAR FIRE,
378
00:26:08,912 --> 00:26:10,707
THE NEXT DEAD.
379
00:26:12,709 --> 00:26:16,609
OVER TIME, MANY OF THEM
REALIZE THAT THE ONLY WAY OUT
380
00:26:16,644 --> 00:26:18,024
WAS TO BE KILLED OR WOUNDED,
381
00:26:18,059 --> 00:26:20,924
EVEN AS REINFORCEMENTS
CAME BEHIND THEM.
382
00:26:29,657 --> 00:26:31,866
THEIR WORLD BECAME VERY SMALL.
383
00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:34,765
BATTLE STRESS BECAME A TREMENDOUS PROBLEM
384
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,011
IN THE FIGHTING IN NORMANDY,
AND IN JULY AND IN AUGUST,
385
00:26:39,045 --> 00:26:41,392
AS THE STRAIN CONTINUED,
386
00:26:41,427 --> 00:26:44,741
BETWEEN ABOUT 20 AND 30 PERCENT
OF THE CASUALTIES
387
00:26:44,775 --> 00:26:46,777
WERE COMBAT STRESS.
388
00:26:53,888 --> 00:26:55,786
TO COMPENSATE
FOR LOSSES,
389
00:26:55,821 --> 00:26:58,893
REINFORCEMENTS LAND DAILY
ON THE NORMANDY BEACHES
390
00:26:58,927 --> 00:27:00,929
AND ARE IMMEDIATELY
SENT TO THE FRONT LINE.
391
00:27:05,451 --> 00:27:07,798
AFTER A MONTH AND A HALF
OF INTENSE FIGHTING,
392
00:27:07,833 --> 00:27:09,662
THE MAIN CITIES OF NORMANDY
393
00:27:09,697 --> 00:27:12,665
HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE HANDS
OF THE GERMANS,
394
00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,943
BUT THE BATTLE IS FAR FROM OVER.
395
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,440
TO PIERCE THE GERMAN DEFENSES
396
00:27:29,475 --> 00:27:31,615
AND ACCELERATE THE TROOPS' MOVEMENT,
397
00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:35,067
THE ALLIED COMMAND
LAUNCHES OPERATION COBRA.
398
00:27:48,459 --> 00:27:50,565
COBRA IS CONCEIVED
AROUND THE IDEA OF, GOSH,
399
00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:52,394
WE HAVE ALL THESE GREAT BOMBERS,
400
00:27:52,429 --> 00:27:54,707
ALL THIS AIRPOWER WE'VE BEEN
USING TO PUMMEL GERMAN CITIES.
401
00:27:54,742 --> 00:27:56,882
WHAT IF WE CARPET-BOMBED
402
00:27:56,916 --> 00:27:59,574
A PART OF THE GERMAN LINES
IN THESE HEDGEROWS
403
00:27:59,608 --> 00:28:01,990
TO PUNCH A HOLE
AND HAVE AN OPENING NOW
404
00:28:02,025 --> 00:28:04,372
FOR OUR ARMOR
AND ALL OF OUR OTHER TROOPS
405
00:28:04,406 --> 00:28:07,444
TO GET THROUGH HERE VERY QUICKLY?
406
00:28:07,478 --> 00:28:09,964
IT MAKES A GREAT DEAL OF SENSE ON PAPER.
407
00:28:09,998 --> 00:28:11,620
IT'S IN THE IMPLEMENTATION
408
00:28:11,655 --> 00:28:13,519
THAT IT CREATES SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
409
00:28:13,553 --> 00:28:17,350
WHY? BECAUSE THE BOMBERS
ARE NOT THAT ACCURATE.
410
00:28:17,385 --> 00:28:19,111
YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO DO SOMETHING
411
00:28:19,145 --> 00:28:20,733
THEY'RE NOT REALLY CAPABLE OF DOING,
412
00:28:20,768 --> 00:28:23,046
WHICH IS TO BOMB CLOSE,
413
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,531
WITHIN ABOUT 1,000 TO 2,000 METERS
414
00:28:25,565 --> 00:28:28,430
OF THEIR OWN GROUND TROOPS.
415
00:28:28,465 --> 00:28:31,848
THEY'RE LUCKY TO HIT A TARGET
WITHIN THREE MILES OR SO.
416
00:29:10,818 --> 00:29:13,682
FOR TWO DAYS,
THOUSANDS OF BOMBS
417
00:29:13,717 --> 00:29:16,651
HIT THE FRONT LINE
SOUTHEAST OF SAINT-LOÔ.
418
00:29:31,804 --> 00:29:32,771
OVER THE COURSE OF TWO DAYS,
419
00:29:32,805 --> 00:29:35,670
JULY 24th AND 25th, 1944,
420
00:29:35,704 --> 00:29:38,121
THE HEAVY BOMBERS COME OVER FROM ENGLAND
421
00:29:38,155 --> 00:29:41,676
AND THEY BOMB IN FRONT
OF THE U.S. ASSAULT DIVISION.
422
00:29:43,574 --> 00:29:46,957
THEY BOMB SHORT, AND THEY KILL
SEVERAL HUNDRED AMERICANS.
423
00:29:49,822 --> 00:29:52,998
THIS IS, I BELIEVE, THE
GREATESTFRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENT
424
00:29:53,032 --> 00:29:55,000
IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
425
00:29:59,073 --> 00:30:01,972
BUT ALSO THE GOOD NEWS IS
IT DOES TREMENDOUS DAMAGE,
426
00:30:02,007 --> 00:30:03,663
OF COURSE,
TO THE PANZER LEHR DIVISION,
427
00:30:03,698 --> 00:30:06,597
THE GERMANS WHO WERE
ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS,
428
00:30:06,632 --> 00:30:11,050
AND SO COBRA DOES
WHAT IT'S DESIGNED FOR.
429
00:30:19,714 --> 00:30:20,853
THE PANZER LEHR
DIVISION,
430
00:30:20,888 --> 00:30:22,372
OTHER GERMAN DIVISIONS,
431
00:30:22,406 --> 00:30:25,133
WERE SO BADLY THROWN BY THE HEAVY BOMBING
432
00:30:25,168 --> 00:30:27,032
THAT THEY WERE
IN A COMPLETELY DAZED STATE
433
00:30:27,066 --> 00:30:29,137
WHEN THE AMERICANS GOT TO THEM.
434
00:30:29,172 --> 00:30:32,900
WITHIN TWO DAYS, THE REAL
BREAKTHROUGH HAD BEEN ACHIEVED.
435
00:30:36,041 --> 00:30:37,905
IN JUST A FEW DAYS,
436
00:30:37,939 --> 00:30:40,700
THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ARE TAKEN PRISONER.
437
00:30:40,735 --> 00:30:44,083
THE REICH FORCES HAVE SUFFERED
ONE OF THEIR HEAVIEST DEFEATS
438
00:30:44,118 --> 00:30:46,051
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR.
439
00:30:46,085 --> 00:30:48,018
DESPITE THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE,
440
00:30:48,053 --> 00:30:50,883
THE MILITARY SUCCESS OF OPERATION COBRA
441
00:30:50,918 --> 00:30:54,093
BRINGS THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY
INTO A NEW PHASE.
442
00:31:10,420 --> 00:31:12,422
ON JULY 28th,
443
00:31:12,456 --> 00:31:16,702
THE TOWN OF COUTANCES
IS CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES.
444
00:31:16,736 --> 00:31:19,981
THE SAME DAY,
A NEW COMMANDER ARRIVES...
445
00:31:20,016 --> 00:31:22,708
GENERAL PATTON.
446
00:31:22,742 --> 00:31:25,849
FAMOUS FOR HIS FEATS
IN NORTH AFRICA AND SICILY,
447
00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:29,888
PATTON HAS JUST TAKEN COMMAND
OF THE THIRD U.S. ARMY.
448
00:31:29,922 --> 00:31:33,650
HIS MISSION... MAKE A BREAKTHROUGHTO
THE SOUTH OF NORMANDY.
449
00:31:38,034 --> 00:31:39,621
THE GERMANS FEARED PATTON
450
00:31:39,656 --> 00:31:42,141
MORE THAN ANY OTHER ALLIED GENERAL.
451
00:31:42,176 --> 00:31:45,558
PATTON'S NEW JOB, WHICH HE WAS
EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT,
452
00:31:45,593 --> 00:31:48,561
WAS THE PROSPECT OF TAKING
OVER, HAVING HIS OWN ARMY,
453
00:31:48,596 --> 00:31:50,943
ONCE THE BREAKOUT CAME FROM NORMANDY.
454
00:31:58,157 --> 00:32:00,056
IN JUST FOUR DAYS,
455
00:32:00,090 --> 00:32:02,713
PATTON'S TROOPS WILL RETAKE THE CITIES
456
00:32:02,748 --> 00:32:04,992
BETWEEN COUTANCES AND AVRANCHES
457
00:32:05,026 --> 00:32:08,478
AND ADVANCE MORE THAN
50 KILOMETERS TO THE SOUTH
458
00:32:08,512 --> 00:32:11,067
AT A PACE NOT YET SEEN
IN THIS BATTLE.
459
00:32:21,767 --> 00:32:23,355
AS THEY PROGRESS,
460
00:32:23,389 --> 00:32:26,496
THOUSANDS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS
ARE TAKEN CAPTIVE.
461
00:32:26,530 --> 00:32:28,394
THIS REALLY TOOK THE AMERICANS
462
00:32:28,429 --> 00:32:30,879
ALL THE WAY THROUGH, DOWN PAST AVRANCHES,
463
00:32:30,914 --> 00:32:34,953
AND OUT OF NORMANDY,
EVEN INTO NORTHERN BRITTANY.
464
00:32:37,093 --> 00:32:42,995
IT WAS A SPECTACULAR SMASHING
OFTHE GERMAN ARMIES IN NORMANDY.
465
00:32:46,136 --> 00:32:49,588
THIS WAS DEFINITELY
THE START OF TAKING THE FIGHT
466
00:32:49,622 --> 00:32:52,004
RIGHT THE WAY THROUGH INTO FRANCE.
467
00:33:01,082 --> 00:33:03,878
ON JULY 31st,
PATTON AND HIS TROOPS
468
00:33:03,912 --> 00:33:08,434
RECLAIM THE PONTAUBAULT BRIDGE
THAT CROSSES THE SEÉLUNE RIVER.
469
00:33:08,469 --> 00:33:12,576
THEY GAIN DIRECT ACCESS TO THE
WEST OF FRANCE AND TO BRITTANY.
470
00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:21,654
THE FOLLOWING DAY,
471
00:33:21,689 --> 00:33:24,450
THE AMERICANS ARRIVE
AT MONT-SAINT-MICHEL,
472
00:33:24,485 --> 00:33:26,763
COMPLETELY ABANDONED BY THE ENEMY.
473
00:33:42,744 --> 00:33:44,056
PATTON'S BREAKTHROUGH IS A SERIOUS SETBACK
474
00:33:44,091 --> 00:33:45,851
FOR THE GERMAN ARMY.
475
00:33:49,510 --> 00:33:51,477
THE GERMANS ARE
IN AN EXISTENTIAL SITUATION
476
00:33:51,512 --> 00:33:52,513
IN NORMANDY.
477
00:33:52,547 --> 00:33:53,997
AND THE LOGICAL THING TO DO
478
00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,792
WOULD BE TO SIMPLY RETREAT EASTWARD
479
00:33:55,826 --> 00:33:59,002
AND GET OUT OF THERE
AND FIGHT SOMEWHERE ELSE,
480
00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,590
BUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT LOGIC
481
00:34:00,624 --> 00:34:02,833
WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
SOMEONE LIKE ADOLF HITLER.
482
00:34:06,803 --> 00:34:09,495
INSTEAD OF ORDERING
HIS TROOPS TO RETREAT,
483
00:34:09,530 --> 00:34:12,464
HITLER DECIDES
TO COUNTER-ATTACK.
484
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:17,986
HIS PLAN... SEND HIS TANKS
TO THE TOWN OF MORTAIN,
485
00:34:18,021 --> 00:34:21,404
CLOSE TO WHERE SEVERAL
AMERICAN UNITS HAVE JOINED UP.
486
00:34:21,438 --> 00:34:24,855
THE GOAL IS TO CREATE A BREACH
IN THE ALLIED CONFIGURATION
487
00:34:24,890 --> 00:34:26,754
MEANT TO REACH AVRANCHES
488
00:34:26,788 --> 00:34:29,032
BY CUTTING
THE AMERICAN ARMY IN TWO
489
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,655
AND REGAINING CONTROL OF THE AREA.
490
00:34:38,697 --> 00:34:41,424
RELUCTANTLY, THE GERMAN
GENERALS ON THE GROUND
491
00:34:41,458 --> 00:34:43,564
PREPARE THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE.
492
00:34:45,152 --> 00:34:47,671
THEY HAD
THESE FIRM ORDERS FROM HITLER,
493
00:34:47,706 --> 00:34:49,708
EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THE COMMANDERS
494
00:34:49,742 --> 00:34:51,537
OF THE GERMAN PANZER UNITS
495
00:34:51,572 --> 00:34:54,126
WERE DUBIOUSABOUT THIS
PARTICULAR OPERATION.
496
00:34:54,161 --> 00:34:56,646
BUT THEY HAD NO OPTION, BUT THEY
HAD TO GO AHEAD AND ATTACK.
497
00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:03,687
ON AUGUST 7th, 1944,
498
00:35:03,722 --> 00:35:08,485
THE GERMANS LAUNCH
A COUNTERATTACK IN MORTAIN,
499
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,385
CODE NAME... OPERATION LUÜTTICH.
500
00:35:22,499 --> 00:35:26,503
COLUMNS OF PANZERS ATTACK
THE 30th U.S. INFANTRY DIVISION
501
00:35:26,538 --> 00:35:27,884
WITH FULL FORCE.
502
00:35:32,544 --> 00:35:35,616
THE GIs RESIST
THE POWERFUL GERMAN TANKS
503
00:35:35,650 --> 00:35:38,998
AND MANAGE TO SLOW
THE NAZI TROOPS' PROGRESS,
504
00:35:39,033 --> 00:35:41,932
GIVING TIME
FOR REINFORCEMENTS TO ARRIVE.
505
00:35:45,108 --> 00:35:49,008
WITHIN A FEW DAYS, THE MASSIVE
INFLUX OF ALLIED FORCES
506
00:35:49,043 --> 00:35:51,977
PUSHES BACK
THE GERMAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE.
507
00:35:52,011 --> 00:35:56,913
HITLER'S OPERATION LUÜTTICH
IS A TOTAL FAILURE.
508
00:35:56,947 --> 00:35:59,053
THE GERMANS SUFFER
AT LEAST 50 PERCENT CASUALTIES,
509
00:35:59,087 --> 00:36:01,469
PARTICULARLY ALONG THE ROADS
THAT KIND OF ENVELOP
510
00:36:01,504 --> 00:36:03,782
ON EITHER SIDE OF MORTAIN.
511
00:36:03,816 --> 00:36:05,922
IT'S REALLY A DISASTER
FOR THE GERMANS.
512
00:36:11,928 --> 00:36:16,139
BY MID-AUGUST,
THE GERMAN FORCES ARE DEFEATED.
513
00:36:16,174 --> 00:36:21,144
ON AUGUST 15th, 1944,
HITLER THROWS IN THE TOWEL
514
00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:24,458
AND ORDERS HIS TROOPS TO FLEE NORMANDY.
515
00:36:27,806 --> 00:36:29,980
ARRIVING FROM THE WEST,
516
00:36:30,015 --> 00:36:31,050
THE AMERICANS ADVANCE
517
00:36:31,085 --> 00:36:33,432
AT FULL SPEED TOWARDS ARGENTAN
518
00:36:33,467 --> 00:36:36,401
TO JOIN FORCES
WITH THE BRITISH AND CANADIANS.
519
00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:42,717
VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE,
ONE BY ONE,
520
00:36:42,752 --> 00:36:44,650
THEY OCCUPY ENEMY POSITIONS.
521
00:36:48,758 --> 00:36:51,623
THEY ANNIHILATE THE AREAS
OF GERMAN RESISTANCE.
522
00:36:55,489 --> 00:36:57,076
THE SMALL VILLAGE OF RAÂNES,
523
00:36:57,111 --> 00:37:00,839
TIRELESSLY HELD BY THE WEHRMACHT
AND AN SS UNIT,
524
00:37:00,873 --> 00:37:02,841
IS REDUCED TO RUBBLE.
525
00:37:11,090 --> 00:37:14,370
DOZENS OF CIVILIANS ARE KILLED.
526
00:37:14,404 --> 00:37:16,406
BUT NOW IS THE TIME TO EXPEL
527
00:37:16,441 --> 00:37:20,514
EVERY LAST STANDING
GERMAN SOLDIER IN NORMANDY.
528
00:37:29,557 --> 00:37:30,972
BRADLEY AND MONTGOMERY
529
00:37:31,007 --> 00:37:34,493
COORDINATE
THE ALLIED TROOPS' MOVEMENT.
530
00:37:34,528 --> 00:37:35,770
IN THE WEST, THE AMERICANS
531
00:37:35,805 --> 00:37:37,703
ADVANCE TOWARDS THE SEINE.
532
00:37:37,738 --> 00:37:38,704
IN THE NORTH,
533
00:37:38,739 --> 00:37:39,774
THE BRITISH AND CANADIANS
534
00:37:39,809 --> 00:37:40,982
INCREASE THEIR PRESSURE
535
00:37:41,017 --> 00:37:42,570
ON FALAISE.
536
00:37:42,605 --> 00:37:43,675
IN THE SOUTH,
537
00:37:43,709 --> 00:37:44,676
THE FRENCH ARMORED DIVISION
538
00:37:44,710 --> 00:37:46,367
OF GENERAL LECLERC,
539
00:37:46,402 --> 00:37:50,578
ALONG WITH THE AMERICANS,
HEAD BACK UP TO ARGENTAN.
540
00:37:50,613 --> 00:37:53,443
BETWEEN THE CITIES
OF FALAISE AND CHAMBOIS,
541
00:37:53,478 --> 00:37:55,376
A POCKET STARTS TO FORM,
542
00:37:55,411 --> 00:37:59,069
TRAPPING NEARLY 100,000
GERMAN SOLDIERS.
543
00:37:59,104 --> 00:38:02,866
IF THE ALLIES MANAGE TO CLOSE
THE GAP ON THE EAST SIDE,
544
00:38:02,901 --> 00:38:05,766
THEY WILL CUT OFF ANY CHANCE FOR ESCAPE.
545
00:38:07,837 --> 00:38:10,184
BRADLEY BOASTED
TO VISITORS TO HEADQUARTERS,
546
00:38:10,218 --> 00:38:13,670
"NEVER DOES A GENERAL GET
AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE WE HAVE NOW
547
00:38:13,705 --> 00:38:16,949
TO CLOSE THIS GAPAND
BASICALLY TO SEAL THEM OFF."
548
00:38:16,984 --> 00:38:19,883
THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY
HAD BEEN FOUGHT
549
00:38:19,918 --> 00:38:22,886
OVER HUNDREDS OF SQUARE MILES,
550
00:38:22,921 --> 00:38:26,027
BUT IT SEEMED TO FUNNEL
AT THE FALAISE GAP.
551
00:38:29,445 --> 00:38:32,137
AND THIS ENORMOUS BATTLEFIELD
OF HUNDREDS OF MILES
552
00:38:32,171 --> 00:38:36,762
GETS FOCUSED DOWN
TO A VERY SMALL DEADLY PLACE.
553
00:38:42,768 --> 00:38:45,944
TO WEAKEN
THE ENEMY'S FINAL DEFENSES,
554
00:38:45,978 --> 00:38:49,534
THE ALLIED AIR FORCES
HAMMER THE GERMAN POSITIONS.
555
00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:54,055
ON THE GROUND,
THE FIGHTING IS UNPRECEDENTED.
556
00:38:59,923 --> 00:39:01,994
THE CANADIANS TAKE FALAISE
557
00:39:02,029 --> 00:39:03,755
ON AUGUST 17th,
558
00:39:03,789 --> 00:39:05,481
TRUN, THE 18th.
559
00:39:05,515 --> 00:39:07,034
LITTLE BY LITTLE, THE VISE
560
00:39:07,068 --> 00:39:08,794
TIGHTENS ON THE GERMANS.
561
00:39:08,829 --> 00:39:10,693
THEY HAVE A CORRIDOR OF NO MORE
562
00:39:10,727 --> 00:39:12,557
THAN SEVEN KILOMETERS WIDE
563
00:39:12,591 --> 00:39:14,662
TO FLEE TO THE EAST.
564
00:39:25,017 --> 00:39:30,851
THE MASSACRE INSIDE
THEPOCKET AT FALAISE WAS HORRIFIC.
565
00:39:30,885 --> 00:39:32,749
THE FIGHTER BOMBERS KEPT ON COMING IN.
566
00:39:32,784 --> 00:39:34,786
ALL OF THE GERMAN TRANSPORT HORSES,
567
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:38,652
DRAGGING FIELD HOSPITALS
OR GUNS OR WHATEVER,
568
00:39:38,686 --> 00:39:41,827
WERE JUST SIMPLY MACHINE-GUNNED
IN THEIR TRACES.
569
00:39:41,862 --> 00:39:44,830
THE SMELL, THE STENCH OF
CORPSESFOR WEEKS AFTERWARDS
570
00:39:44,865 --> 00:39:48,006
WAS SIMPLY APPALLING.
571
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,457
IT WAS A TURKEY SHOOT, AS THE
AMERICANS WOULD HAVE CALLED IT.
572
00:39:54,806 --> 00:39:56,566
ON AUGUST 21st,
573
00:39:56,601 --> 00:40:01,053
THE FALAISE POCKET IS CLOSED
ONCE AND FOR ALL IN CHAMBOIS.
574
00:40:06,956 --> 00:40:10,166
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GERMANS
ARE TAKEN PRISONER,
575
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,410
AND THOUSANDS LAY DEAD.
576
00:40:18,036 --> 00:40:21,936
THE BATTLE WILL LATER BE KNOWN
AS THE STALINGRAD OF NORMANDY.
577
00:40:24,007 --> 00:40:26,907
YOU HAVE THOUSANDS
OF DEAD BODIES,
578
00:40:26,941 --> 00:40:29,565
ANIMALS AND HUMANS, THAT ARE IN THAT AREA.
579
00:40:29,599 --> 00:40:31,187
EISENHOWER WILL LATER WALK IT FAMOUSLY
580
00:40:31,221 --> 00:40:32,568
AND SAY IT WAS POSSIBLE TO WALK
581
00:40:32,602 --> 00:40:34,155
FROM ONE SIDE OF A FIELD
TO ANOTHER
582
00:40:34,190 --> 00:40:37,089
WITHOUT EVER STEPPING
ON ANYTHING BUT DEAD FLESH.
583
00:40:44,511 --> 00:40:49,136
I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING
TO TRY TO IMAGINE TODAY,
584
00:40:49,170 --> 00:40:52,622
THAT FALAISE GAP FILLED WITH CORPSES
585
00:40:52,657 --> 00:40:54,831
AND WOUNDED, SCREAMING MEN.
586
00:41:00,561 --> 00:41:02,149
AND THAT WAS THE PRICE OF VICTORY.
587
00:41:11,054 --> 00:41:12,918
IN THE CITY OF ARGENTAN,
588
00:41:12,953 --> 00:41:17,405
LIBERATED THE DAY BEFORE
BYTHE 80th U.S. INFANTRY DIVISION,
589
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,477
CAMERAS IMMORTALIZE THE MEETING
590
00:41:19,511 --> 00:41:22,065
BETWEEN THE SOLDIERS AND THE CITY'S MAYOR.
591
00:41:24,585 --> 00:41:26,414
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RUBBLE,
592
00:41:26,449 --> 00:41:30,522
SOME CIVILIANS FINALLY DARE
TO EMERGE FROM THEIR SHELTERS.
593
00:41:37,529 --> 00:41:40,601
THE FALAISE-CHAMBOIS BATTLE
WILL BE THE LAST ONE
594
00:41:40,636 --> 00:41:44,467
IN THESE THREE MONTHS
OF FIGHTING IN NORMANDY.
595
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:49,886
ON THE ALLIED SIDE, 220,000SOLDIERS
WERE KILLED OR WOUNDED,
596
00:41:49,921 --> 00:41:53,441
AND 20,000 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED.
597
00:41:53,476 --> 00:41:58,412
ON THE GERMAN SIDE, THE REICH
ARMY LOST MORE THAN 200,000 MEN
598
00:41:58,446 --> 00:42:00,966
AND ANOTHER 200,000 WERE TAKEN PRISONER.
599
00:42:04,763 --> 00:42:07,041
ON AVERAGE, A BATTALION AND A HALF
600
00:42:07,076 --> 00:42:09,078
WERE BEING GROUND DOWN
OR DESTROYED
601
00:42:09,112 --> 00:42:11,149
ROUGHLY EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
602
00:42:11,183 --> 00:42:12,875
IN MANY CASES,
603
00:42:12,909 --> 00:42:16,119
A DIVISION WOULD LAST NO LONGER
THAN, SAY, TWO WEEKS.
604
00:42:16,154 --> 00:42:20,641
WELL, THIS GIVES ONE AN IDEA OF
HOW MUCH NORMANDY CONTRIBUTED,
605
00:42:20,676 --> 00:42:23,610
I THINK, TO THE OVERALL
ALLIED VICTORY,
606
00:42:23,644 --> 00:42:26,095
JUST PURELY IN THE CASE
OF THE DESTRUCTION
607
00:42:26,129 --> 00:42:28,407
OF GERMAN FORMATIONS.
608
00:42:35,069 --> 00:42:36,726
BY THE END OF AUGUST,
609
00:42:36,761 --> 00:42:40,627
HORDES OF SOLDIERS AND VEHICLES
LAND AT CHERBOURG
610
00:42:40,661 --> 00:42:44,147
AND HEAD EAST TO ERADICATE
THE REST OF THE NAZI ARMY.
611
00:42:53,916 --> 00:42:57,540
EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUTTHE
LANDINGS ON THE 6th OF JUNE.
612
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:58,817
VERY FEW PEOPLE COULD TELL YOU
613
00:42:58,852 --> 00:43:01,095
WHAT HAPPENS IN JUNE AND JULY AND AUGUST
614
00:43:01,130 --> 00:43:03,960
AND HOW THE BATTLE
FOR NORMANDY ACTUALLY ENDED.
615
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,691
AND I THINK TO THIS DAY,
616
00:43:10,726 --> 00:43:15,662
WE ARE STILL DEALING
WITH THOSE BATTLES, THAT WAR,
617
00:43:15,696 --> 00:43:18,941
TRYING TO COME TO GRIPS WITH
IT, TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT,
618
00:43:18,975 --> 00:43:24,774
TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE RUINS
OF NORMANDY 75 YEARS AGO.
619
00:43:32,057 --> 00:43:34,646
AS FEW AS 50 CAMERAMEN
620
00:43:34,681 --> 00:43:38,685
TIRELESSLY SHOT EACH DAY
OF THIS HISTORIC BATTLE.
621
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,929
THEY LEFT BEHIND HUNDREDS
OF HOURS OF FOOTAGE,
622
00:43:41,964 --> 00:43:45,139
SOME OF WHICH ONLY SURFACED
DECADES LATER.
623
00:43:48,695 --> 00:43:50,524
FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS,
624
00:43:50,558 --> 00:43:54,010
THESE IMAGES WILL REMAIN
THE FINAL WITNESSES
625
00:43:54,045 --> 00:43:57,635
OF NORMANDY'S 85 DAYS OF HELL.
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