Greatest Tank Battles | Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Battle of Normandy

This weird tank show keeps interrupting this non-stop chain of advertisements that I'm trying to watch

Terrible depiction of the war

The role the Canadians played is oft times forgotten by those interested in history. We must never forget the price they paid.

The panzer 4 had less armor than a sherman. The powers that be did not want to bother with the 76 sherman, we don,t need it, we did well in africa with out it. dumb.

Imagine the fear those men had. rip to all fallen soldiers

Can you put all the other episodes in a playlist plz?

Why is it that I've watched five ( 5 ) of these videos and the Damn Volume Keeps Going Down .
Other Document / Historical videos have Normal Volume .
If some of them were worth a damn I'd go and watch them .

DON'T GIVE US THAT RESTRICTION GARBAGE .
VOLUME CAN NOT BE COPYWRITED .

The history channel does a terrible job at presenting these stories. They constantly repeat portions over and over. Very annoying.

Funny how the documentary shows all this footage of very impressive huge German gun emplacements and big coastal fortresses, but those were mostly at the Pas de Calais. The Normandy beaches had nothing even close to that. Sure, there were some pillboxes here and there, but some beaches in Normandy were barely defended at all.

That guy’s sleeping gunner doesn’t sound very useful. First he’s asleep as a gunner then after they move him to codriver he almost lets them get blown apart by a Tiger cause he forgets to release the clutch.

"...and then he fired back."

You mightn’t fear a Sherman but you’d fear a Sherman Firefly

Italian wwii movies

God save canada

you forgot ep 6

Thank you for the video and thank you to all the men and women for your service and 👍 thumbs up to the soldier who said he saw a tank burning in front of him and one next to him but you can't stop you got to keep going these are powerful wise words from an amazing soldier in a crazy time👍🙏 may God keep you all. 😭War is horrible. Almost forgot to say thank you to all the men and women of Canada for their sacrifice and service matter of fact not just them everybody that contributed throughout the 1930s and 40s may you all rest in peace and may God forgive us all for our sins.

This music goes hard.

Montgomery: the most overrated general of WWII. Operation GoodWood: Monty ordered the attack during a rainstorm so that NO AIR FORCE support was available producing 400 tanks destroyed with 1000s of casualties. Incompetent recon, blind WWI artillery barrage to warn the Nazis, and moronic tank cavalry attacks by night.

Repetitive action recapping at length the previous minutes story produces a very poor story.

Sad thing is Europeans killing Europeans in all out war. This is how america and canada was stolen over 500 years ago. Yet we see the same thing now with nato backed ukraine. War and domination have always been the way of gentiles. Sad

Even if there were 8 tanks instead of 64 you would need more than 12 Shermans.

The Canadian army is the one that performed the best amongs allies. They ran the germans out of Rome but were asked by commandment to stay put outside the city to let the americans take the city. Stupid politics! Bravo to all Canadian forces in WWII.

Ce très bien fait félicitation

The Canadians that stormed juno were the first to reach their objectives and stormed the farthest inland bless all of you that fought against this evil ideology

Trever is a bot , don't believe, ask him.

1130 hrs the attack started so noon, I think he ment 2330 hrs, at night.

What always disturbs me most when I watch this otherwise excellent documentary is that Fritz Langanke is quite obviously an UNREPENTANT, POMPOUS NAZI. I suppose one should expect that from a man who chose to be a part not just of the Wehrmacht—the regular German Army—but of one of the most monstrous organisations in history: the SS. He should be humble and grateful the Allies allowed him to live after the War. The SS—unlike the Wehrmacht—-was a criminal organisation whose very purpose was GENOCIDE.

I’ll never understand WHY the Allies did not make much more of an effort to have whole squadrons of Pershing heavy tanks (rather than just Fireflies) with the Shermans when the Americans left utah and Omaha to take the Cotentin and the port of Cherbourg; and the British and Canadians left Juno, Gold, and Sword beaches to advance on Caen…For years I have tried to get someone who is an “expert” historically on WW2 to LOGICALLY explain to me WHY throughout the second half of 1944 the Allies persisted in the near-suicidal “strategy” of sending British medium Churchills and Cromwells and swarms of medium-tank Shermans against Panther tanks and Tigers supporting formations of Panzer Mark IV s (to whom the Allied tanks were theoretically equal). I’ve been told the Allies 1) used the Sherman primarily so that logistically the Allied forces would have no trouble procuring or swapping out spare parts when they needed them; AND that 2) the cost of transporting heavy tanks across the Atlantic was prohibitive…,

What is implicit in both those so-called “explanations” is that the Allies were not concerned really with preserving the lives of individual soldiers: they USED A STRATEGY OF *ATTRITION.* In other words, they were willing to sacrifice a few Sherman tank crews against a German Tiger or Panther tank so long as the German tank crew was overwhelmed and exhausted eventually, and could then be destroyed by yet more waves of Shermans; in the cold eyes of Allied High Command, the Allies could “afford” to lose several Shermans every time a Tiger, Panther, or Mark IV was destroyed, whereas Germany could not afford to lose tanks—the Germans needed every tank they had in 1944, as the curtains were closing on the Third Reich from both the East and the West, and day and night Allied carpet bombing of the German homeland drove their manufacturing industry to have to operate in more and more difficult, cramped conditions underground, with undependable slave labour only…

In the Pacific Theatre the Sherman was indeed a formidable tank, as the Type 95 Ha-Go Japanese light tank wasn’t even a match for an American Stuart light tank; and the Type 97 Japanese Chi Ha medium tank was a “medium” tank in name only, with its underpowered gun and thin armour. THAT is where the Allies should have used the Shermans, and in Europe, **the Allies should have primarily employed a tank that was at least the equal of a Panther: the Pershing. Had the Allies used Pershings instead of just Shermans, Cromwells, and Churchills, it would have saved A LOT MORE ALLIED SOLDIERS’ LIVES, even if it had cost more to get the Pershings to Europe.

An interesting programme, my Father was in Normandy, 21 Army Group and had a very high opinion of the Canadians soldiers.
He told me that once street battles started, most of the time about all one saw was smoke, dust and the area for maybe 50 yards around one.
He said, you had to hope the soldiers you saw were on your side.
As for this series of programmes, they are spoilt by frequent and monotonous repetition.
As if we viewers are unable to understand first time or use rewind.
It's really quite insulting to viewers.

"If you're not lucky, you're not going to make it." So says the lucky one. Incredible story.

Glad to see Canadian efforts given credit, mainly always thrown in as British achievements rather then our own. Same for america.. we were in vietnam. Things those men achomplished with less of everything compared to everyone else blows my mind.prpud military before even ww1 were we took vimy ridge that every major army couldnt at the time. Been shock troopers since the start of ww1 and continued into ww2. Canadians stepped onto the field you knew to buckle up cause itd get intense. Juno beach 2nd hardest beach punched the farthest and as this vid shows fought the elite ss Armour unit

Phil Lawrence got a good sense of humour lucky if that’s your grandfather

These close call stories are so spotty.
They are face to face with a Tiger, and suddenly they just get away, and that’s it.
I’ve heard so many of these detail free accounts that it gets frustrating.

I love this ep. I watch it so much my wife is asking for other eps. I tell her, but this ones the best by far an we watch again.just kidding they ALL are great eps.thanks again

Man I feel bad about Canada soldiers and rest in peace. War is terrifying.

Gotta Love Those Canucks .

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D Day was a decisive battle, which we won!! Thank you for those that fought there.

Gunner asleep? Hard to imagine how tired some of these guys would be by the time they came ashore.

British were short of Infantry, which were needed for Goodwood! A waste of tanks, which could be replaced, but not so the tankers.

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