The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II.
Two decades after D-Day, former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was Supreme Commander in charge of the operation, returned to Normandy. Eisenhower talked with CBS News’ Walter Cronkite about his experiences in June 1944, the tactical decisions behind Operation Overlord, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talked out of joining the invading forces. Eisenhower and Cronkite visited the Allies’ war room on England’s southern coast; the coast of France, including Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach; and the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-on-the-Sea. This special broadcast of “CBS Reports,” featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964.
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This is a non-monetised, ad free showing of the CBS documentary where Eisenhower returned to Normandy in 1964. I just want to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it. Rob
Look at the Children playing happily and carefree.
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Love the video, it gives you a view you don't get to see from the positions of the higher ups and the things they had to do to prepare for the D-Day invasion. Thanks to the scarfice of these soldiers we got the peace and freedom of today. I found this video very informative and educational even it being 20 years after the invasion. I've spent a long time looking into WWII and learned a lot and gained even more from this video so thank you, you have gained a new subscriber.
I was there 15 years ago in May visited all the sites and cemeteries. Barack Obama turned up two weeks later, but of course at the time on the day sixth of June 1944 the general, and then President Eisenhower was the single most important person and he did a magnificent job, so calm so resolute and so effective.🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸👏
Churchill forgot to say Canadian lives will be also lost and they were.
Watch this and realize the price paid to defend democracy by these brave men. Now we have some who would rather have a Dictatorship like Hitler wanted forever. We have had a President who never served a day call these men suckers. Is this what they died for? So sad.
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The greatest invasion of WW2
Never forget what our country did 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇦
very beautiful documentary awesome footage and story thx
My uncle Al was on Omaha Beach with his m 1 rifle 🇺🇸
One has to wonder what President General Dwight Eisenhower would think of today's worldwide sh!tshow.
Today we have politicians that want to end our Democratic Way of Life as obsolete. How soon we we forget.
My father, a British Commando, landed on Sword Beach. He survived the war and had six children. He met my mother, a French woman, in Normandy. I pay tribute to him and all those who landed and fought. I also recognise that Gen. Eisenhower was an exceptional man and I salute him.
The nun on the beach didn't realize who she just walked past.
Two great Americans. They're rolling over in their grave now witnessing Trump and the Republican Party and their sick antics
Back when journalists were journalists not propagandists.
Dan Rather turned out to be such a d**chebag.
Psychotronic Harassement is the Free West
how appropriate this is to this time of year and to this time in our history where our country is so divided I hope a lot of folks will take the time to watch and hear President Eisenhower thoughts and wishes for humanity!
God bless those who gave and sacrificed for freedom! They would be embarrassed with how America is today! 😢🇺🇸🙏✝️
Did he did it like an Ike we like?!
My Dad was there with the soldiers when they beached the shores in Normandy. Then after that he became a P O W .he was a P O W for almost a year .
This has been on youtube for quite sometime. I remember watching it for the 75th anniversary
I wonder if Captain Bone Spurs will pay any homage to all those brave Americans who came to Europe in 1944 to ensure our freedoms.
I think Trump would rename D-day 'Suckers and Losers Day' if he could.
Get rid of the POS.
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The only true peace will come thru Christ!!! God Bless each one of our Brave soldiers!!!!
eienhower didn't run across a beach full of mines and mortars machine guns zeroed in ,WITHOUT SMOKE COVER OR FIGHTER BOMBERS CONSTANTLY STRAFING ROCKETS INTO GERMAN POSITIONS ,PRETTY SHIT PREPARATION ,WORST GENERAL EVER,A J9KE ,AND MONTGOMERY EVEN WORSE
Talker not a fighter,crap general
Naval guns did fuck all Eisenhower, WHERE WAS TO SMOKE AND CONSTANT STRAFING,THIS GUY IS A COMPLETE INCOMPETANT FOOL
Then: in 1964 the children were playing on the beach…!!And now??
Fantastic video, to hear 'from the horse's mouth' how the operation was planned and executed. This is History revisited!! Thanks for posting!! General Eisenhower. The man of all centuries!!
…How ironic after WWll he was the responsible to be in bed 🛌 with the same high ranking Nazi War Criminals,bringing them to the U.S.( Operation Paper Clip) as well shipping thousands more to South and Central America to enforced “ Pax Americana “ across the America’s and around the World, the Einsenhower-Dulles “ Pax Americana enforced by terror the Administration ensured U.S. post global dominance by threatening enemies with Nuclear annihilation with coups d’états-( Iran-Guatemala-Vietnam etc.) This documentry is 100% B.S. he wasn’t in charge of the Government during his Administration, he was busy playing golf ⛳️ with his multibillionair Corporate friends..🐖💨🇺🇸
…He didn’t shed a tear 😢 whe he explicitly order the assassination of Patrick Lumumba in Congo just before he left his Presidency and the aftermath of those criminals desitions affecting millions of people across Africa, or the coup d’état in Guatemala in 1954 where Hundreds of thousands civilians murdered by his Death Squads and subsequent U.S. Administrations about 378,000 Guatemalans were victims from 1954-1996 and still counting, a great achievement for a 5 Start General who supposedly was a heroic person helping to defeat the Nazis, history proof the contrary for this “ Mud Heroe “ than even the Nazis themselves would be ashamed and blushing…🫵🏼💀🇺🇸
This was amazing to see. Thank you
General sosabowski only two years younger than ike
Jumped into arnhem!
May all those heros who lost their life may rest in Peace light will shine on them for ever
My 1944 war town would consider Eisenhower a great American hero.
Fascinating document, thank you for sharing this treasure.
Thank you for the video