Time Team Special 17 (2004) - D-Day (Normandy, France)



To mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Time Team travel to Gold Beach in Normandy to retrace the movements of the Dorset Regiment on that day. The battalion, having landed near Bayeux were given three objectives: to capture "Point 54", to take a place known as "Herod's Well", and to silence a battery of nearby German guns. They were opposed along the way by elements of the German 352nd Infantry Division, who used trenches, barbed-wire, concrete bunkers, machine gun nests, and powerful anti-tank guns in defence. Using aerial photographic records, they identify period features that help them identify where to place their trenches. No copyright infringement has been intended by the uploading of this video; I am simply trying to share this amazingly interesting series.

Comments

  1. If you want to be taken seriously as an archaeologist, you have to point at things with your pinky finger, not your index finger.
  2. what an idiot the man in charged with the plan. why would he think they would just be in the open. like look at me I'm in a bunker. fuck anyone would use the small Forrest as to conceal more guns..
  3. I don't think the British soldier provided a good reason why the SS were bad, the scenario he described, any enemy soldier would have done the same. Killing the enemy is exactly what he was supposed to be doing as well.
    I mean, the SS were scum, no doubt, but that was a pretty underwhelming story on why the SS were assholes. Just my two cents.

    That said, thanks for your service, Old Boy. Cheers
  4. Gold Beach...A piece of cake compared to Omaha Beach.
  5. The shell casings dosen´t stay in the belt after firing.
  6. I've been watching 'Time Team' videos on this channel for the last few hours. Amazing! I had never heard of this show before this evening. Thanks for uploading them!
  7. This is a good one.
  8. the navy didnt take out their targets and many americans died because of the navy not doing their job.
  9. they should call it: "This Old Bunker".......LOL!!!
  10. I hear American kids are no longer taught this stuff in school. So sad. Creating a new generation of easy victims.
  11. I never get tired of watching this amazing programme, thanks for the uploads! :)
  12. The Germans have so little to want to remember the second world war for.Flagrant breaches of the Geneva convention,weapons of mass destruction in the wings.That is why they would rather all was just forgotten and time erased.But the facts will never be.
  13. Not a german 75
  14. and the French hate us lol
  15. Why does it seem like the British are more interested in digging up and uncovering the wars history and secrets then the Germans? Both have a huge contribution to the area. Here in America we always talk about D-Day. I never knew the landing was "mostly" British soldiers. Very early American history is full of British soldiers kicking our asses all over North America. It seems England has been kicking peoples asses for centuries cheers :)
  16. 41:09 It makes me guffaw when I hear an F-bomb in a pukka British accent!
  17. One of my grandfather's was in the Battle over "Gold", the other fought in Russia. I do not understand why they did ask a german solider. Really each and every man here (in Austria) of the right age was in the war and in the last 15 years most of them wrote down or told their grandchildren their experiences.
  18. Absolutely fascinating. It is amazing the things you can find after so many years.
  19. I wonder how much they worry about unstable,unused ordinance exploding? Im sure they do but i never hear them talk about it.


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