1st Infantry Division D-Day Ceremony NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY, FRANCE 06.03.2019
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NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY, FRANCE
06.03.2019
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A ceremony honoring the 1st Infantry Division, and those Soldiers who lost their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was conducted at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 3, 2019.
Fifteen WWII veterans were in attendance, as well as Soldiers from the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and veterans from the U.S armed forces.
More than 1,300 U.S. Service Members, partnered with 950 troops from across Europe and Canada, have converged in northwestern France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the WWII Allied Invasion of Normandy, commonly known as D-Day. Upwards of 80 ceremonies in 40 French communities in the region will take place between June 1-9, 2019, the apex being held June 6th at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer.
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Bloody Omaha, American Cemetery, Colleville Sur Mer
Visit The War Years The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 and the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its ½ mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
Normandy American Cemetery
Normandy American Cemetery was established as a permanent burial ground for 9,387 American Servicemen and Women in 1956. The cemetery is located at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France on the high bluffs overlooking Omaha Beach. On D-Day, June 6, 1944; soldiers from the newly formed 29th Infantry Division and the battle-experienced Big Red One (1st Infantry Division) stormed ashore seven landing sectors across the heavily defended 3 1/2 mile stretch of beach. Casualties were staggering; but the determination, sheer courage, and self-sacrifice of those who landed on Bloody Omaha that day won the beachhead - and in doing so, gained a foothold on Hitler's Fortress Europe. The 9,387 white crosses at the Normandy American Cemetery are a stark reminder to its visitors that Freedom and Liberty come at a high price. May all those that visit this place remember these brave men, and what they gave on that day and the many days that followed, so that we may live in Peace...
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Beach ceremony to honour surviving D-Day veterans
Nearly 70 years after the Allied Forces' D-Day invasion of France, surviving veterans of the 29th Infantry Division have returned to Normandy to reflect on their experiences.
The 29th Infantry Division landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, and saw some of the heaviest fighting and suffered significant losses
A small group of ten veterans gathered Wednesday morning at a church at Vierville-sur-Mer, where they were met by current members of the 29th Infantry Division.
The veterans were greeted by local French dignitaries, as well as the current commander of the 29th Infantry Division, Major General Charles Whittington, Jr.
One veteran, Harold Baumgarten is a noted author of several books about his experiences on D-Day.
I landed on this beach in the first wave and I got wounded five times. Three times on D-Day and twice on June 7th. I had to stop. I ran out of blood, Baumgarten said.
Baumgarten later would receive his medical doctorate from the University of Miami, and write several books about D-Day.
The group also visited a marker where the first American Cemetery was quickly established in the days following D-Day and placed a wreath at the monument.
Also Wednesday, the veterans attended another honorary ceremony at the Signal Monument in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, against the backdrop of Omaha Beach.
The group has been in Normandy since June 1, and will be at the June 6 ceremony at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer for speeches and wreath laying by the American and French Presidents.
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Soldiers with the 29th Infantry Division commemorated the 75 year anniversary of their landing on D-Day at Omaha Beach, France on June 7, 2019. More than 1,300 U.S. Service Members partnered with 950 troops from across Europe and Canada, have converged in northwestern France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Operation Overlord, WWII Allied Invasion of Normandy, commonly known as D-Day. Upward of 80 ceremonies in 40 French communities in the region will take place between June 1-9, 2019, the apex being June 6th at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. (U.S. Army video taken by Spc. Nicholas Vidro, 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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Normandy cemetery arrivals ahead of D-Day memorial service
(6 Jun 2009)
1. Wide of guests, including veterans, arriving at US military cemetery ahead of D-Day celebrations; seen through crosses of graves
2. Mid of people arriving
3. Veteran in wheelchair
4. US actor, Tom Hanks walking through cemetery grounds
5. Wide of seated area where ceremony will take place
6. Mid of colour guard, veterans, guests with frigate seen background
7. Wide of soldiers standing near US flag
8. US veteran Ralph K. Manley kneeling at grave
9. Tilt up from patch on Manley's arm to his face
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ralph K. Manley, 85-year-old US veteran from Springfield, Missouri:
I can see President Obama on the television when I'm home. But I could never see all the respect and courtesy that all of these people pay to come here this day. That's the part that's really heartwarming for me, and one that makes me feel good about the sacrifices that I made and others in order to do that. And I'm so thankful that I'm not one of these tomb stones right here.
11. Wide of white crosses in cemetery
STORYLINE:
Crowds started arriving at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer on France's Normandy coast on Saturday, ahead of an international commemoration to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings which turned the tide of World War II in the Allies' favour.
The event will be attended by by dignitaries including US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the Canadian and British prime ministers and Britain's Prince Charles.
Also expected are Hollywood greats including director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.
Obama will deliver the last speech of his international tour on what is technically US soil, at the American Cemetery on Omaha Beach.
Thousands of veterans and active servicemen and women will be on hand to honour the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 invasion, pivotal to the Allied victory against the Nazis.
The day before, Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation.
The president has a personal interest in Saturday's commemorations - his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, came ashore at Omaha Beach six weeks after D-Day.
Dunham's older brother Ralph, hit Omaha four-days after D-Day.
Some 215-thousand Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were killed or wounded during D-Day and the ensuing nearly three months it took to secure the Allied capture of Normandy.
The cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer has about 9,300 graves.
Most US war dead were repatriated.
Ralph K. Manley, an 85 year-old, US veteran from Springfield, Missouri who was 101 Airborne Division, 501 Parachute Infantry who landed at 23 minutes after midnight on June 6, 1944 said he was heart warmed by the respect and courtesy shown by the people turning out in such large numbers for the commemoration.
The ceremony ends with a 12-plane flyover by French, British and American jets, including a manoeuvre in which one jet fighter suddenly veers off vertically to symbolise a soldier lost in combat.
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D-Day veterans arrive for 60th anniversary events
Vierville-Sur-Mer, Omaha Beach:
1. Wide shot of Omaha Beach with tourists
2. Mid shots people dressed as WWII soldiers walking on the beach
3. American WWII jeep with beach and sea in background
4. Man in jeep with plaque behind him
5. Joseph Liberto, American veteran from California, 83 years old, walking along beach with his wife
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Liberto, American veteran from California, 83 years old:
Question: what do you feel being on this beach 60 years later?- There is a lump in my throat. Those guys who have died (Liberto bursting into tears) I had our first day of burials on June 8th. We managed to bury about 350 American soldiers and approximately that many German soldiers were buried also.
7. Man on WWII motorbike driving on beach
8. Pan from sea to sand sculpture depicting Allied soldiers (called Sands of Remembrance Memorial)
9. Various sand sculpture
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Carmella LaSpada, director of the White House Commission on Remembrance
It was 50 tons of sand from each of the five beaches (Gold, Juno, Omaha, Sword and Utah) and it was brought by six sand sculptors, two from the United States, two from the UK, one from France and one from Canada. It took six days, ten hours a day, so approximately sixty hours in six days.
11. Wide shot Omaha beach with tourists and children
Colleville-Sur-Mer:
12. Military vehicles arriving at entrance of LSA camp (Life Support Area)
13. Wide shot US soldiers checking car at entrance of camp
14. Wide shot white tents inside camp
15. US soldiers in resting room, playing pool
16. Various of US soldiers in dining room, queuing for food and eating
17. Soldiers entering Task Force Log 60 office
18. Set up shot Major Michael Boehme
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Major Michael Boehme, US civil affairs officer, G5
Well every soldier is a security officer out here, not only for ourselves but for all our visitors. We've had a wonderful cooperation from the French government, the French soldiers. We are working together to make this a safe event and a memorable event. It's a good occasion for everybody that wants to come out and pay their respect for those who have come and done such great things for the world.
Vierville-Sur-Mer, Omaha Beach:
20. Wide shot military vehicles convoy on road
STORYLINE:
Tourists and veterans have started to arrive in Normandy ahead of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
Joseph Liberto, an American veteran, made the trip from California with his wife to honour his colleagues who died on the Norman beaches. Joseph was 23 years old when he landed in Omaha beach on June 6th 1944.
Sixty years after, the emotion is still there. I had our first day of burials on June 8th. We managed to bury about 350 American soldiers and approximately that many German soldiers were buried also, he told APTN, bursting into tears.
Other people are also paying tribute to the veterans. An award-winning team of sand sculptors from Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United-States have created a life-size sand sculpture of the D-Day landing, commemorating the 60th anniversary of that historic event.
Fifty tons of sand were brought from the five landing beaches, Gold, Juno, Omaha, Sword and Utah, to build up this Sands of Remembrance Memorial.
With several thousands people and seventeen heads of states and government expected to attend the celebrations, safety is an important issue.
Two American LSA (Life Support Area) military camps have been set up in the region, one in Colleville-Sur-Mer -near the American war cemetery-, the second one in Utah beach.
Nearly 3,000 American soldiers, working closely with the French army, have been temporarily based in Normandy.
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D-Day Memorial Concert on Omaha Beach, June 6th, 2019
This is a concert performed by the D-Day Memorial Wind Ensemble under the direction of Colonel Arnald Gabriel USAF (ret.) on Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 6th, 2019 in memorial of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
From Colonel Gabriel's biography on his web page (
A combat machine gunner with the United States Army’s famed 29th Infantry Division in Europe during WW II, Gabriel received two awards of the Bronze Star Medal, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the French Croix de Guerre. On November 10, 2016, Gabriel was awarded Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France's highest distinction.
He served as Commander/Conductor of the internationally renowned U.S. Air Force Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Singing Sergeants from 1964 to 1985. In 1990, he was named the first Conductor Emeritus of the USAF Band at a special concert held at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. Col. Gabriel served on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia,from 1985 to 1995, as Conductor of the GMU Symphony Orchestra and as Chairman, Department of Music for eight of those years. In recognition of his ten years service to the university, he was named Professor Emeritus of Music.
D-day survivors honour fallen, France decorates veterans
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Vierville-sur-Mer, Omaha Beach - 5 June 2009
1. Wide shot landing beach
2. Sign on beach reading Omaha Beach, Vierville-sur-Mer, June 6th 1944, sector Charlie - Dog Green
3. Entrance of bunker by the beach with people along nearby path
4. Various of people dressed up as US soldiers with jeep on the beach
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Colleville-sur-Mer - 5 June 2009
5. Pan to sign reading: Normandy American cemetery and memorial at the entrance of the cemetery
6. Wide shot white crosses marking graves inside US cemetery, US and French flags at each grave
7. Close-up French and US flags with flowers on grave
8. Preps for tomorrow's ceremony inside US cemetery
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Ranville - 5 June 2009
9. Wide shot of dozens of British paratroopers dropping from C130 Hercules plane
10. British paratroopers touching ground
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La Cambe - 5 June 2009
11. Wide exterior of German military cemetery
12. Wide pan of cemetery, preparations ongoing ahead of ceremony
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Ryan, retired US Army, who was Commander Sergeant Major of the 1st Division, 16th infantry regiment which landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day:
And that's why I came here. Out of respect. 'Cause we're all soldiers, regardless of, you know...they were fighting for their country, we're fighting for ours. And that's not baloney. That's the truth. That's the way we old soldiers feel.
14. Veteran, helped by two others, looking at memorial
15. Ryan and German veteran Karl-Heinz Mayer shaking hands
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Karl-Heinz Mayer, veteran from Oldenburg Germany:
Today I am here for the last time because I am 83 and I'm not that well. We shake hands, so we are all normal people. And I hope there will never be a war again because this slaughter was horrible.
17. Various of wreaths being brought and laid at base of monument UPSOUND: drum roll
18. Mid of veterans watching
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19. Various of Normandy beach landings on June 6, 1944
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Paris - 5 June 2009
20. Various of veterans arriving at Legion of Honour ceremony venue
21. Marching band
22. Close up trumpet
23. American ex-prisoner of war at ceremony
24. Veterans standing for US national anthem
25. Officers carrying trays of Legion of Honour medals
26. Close up of medals
27. French Defence minister, Herve Morin greeting veteran Bentley Kassal
28. Bentley Kassal receiving the Legion of Honour award from Morin
29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bentley Kassal, 92 year-old, US veteran, fought in Europe from 1943 to 1945:
I have the Bronze Star medal which I got during the war, and to get this - the emotion of the situation made me cry as I look around these other veterans. I feel so much in common. What we all went through during these very horrible days. Because as I said living in a fox hole, not knowing if you're going to survive, is a horrible experience.
30. Band marching
STORYLINE
Americans and Germans who were bitter enemies during the D-Day invasion of France shared stories and moments of silence at a Normandy ceremony on Friday, joining together to honour those who perished in the epochal World War II beach landings.
They held their poignant, low-key ceremony at the German cemetery at La Cambe a day before an international
commemoration nearby, led by President Barack Obama, to mark 65 years since Allied forces landed on Normandy's
shores.
Veterans and tourists were also marking the event at the main American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, walking amid the rows of white crosses and Stars of David as workers finished last minute preparations ahead of Saturday's commemorations.
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Colleville-sur-Mer
American cemetery on the coast of Normandy, overlooking the British Channel and Omaha Beach, where the 1st Division landed, June 6, 1944.
Colleville American Cemetery
The Normandy American Cemetery honors those who fell during the Normandy Campaign in World War 2.
Omaha Beach
Omaha Beach, commonly known as Omaha, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. Omaha is located on the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve River estuary. Landings here were necessary in order to link up the British landings to the east at Gold with the American landing to the west at Utah, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Bay of the Seine. Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport and naval artillery support provided by the U.S. Navy and elements of the British Royal Navy.
On D-Day, the untested 29th Infantry Division, joined by the veteran 1st Infantry Division and nine companies of U.S. Army Rangers redirected from Pointe du Hoc, were to assault the western half of the beach. The battle-hardened 1st Infantry Division was given the eastern half. The initial assault waves, consisting of tanks, infantry, and combat engineer forces, were carefully planned to reduce the coastal defenses and allow the larger ships of the follow-up waves to land.
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US veterans react to D-Day anniversary events
(6 Jun 2019) American veterans on Thursday gathered by the Colleville-Sur-Mer cemetery, to have lunch and share memories of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
The former soldiers met after attending a remembrance service earlier in the day, where they listened to speeches by US President Donald Trump and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
Many of them remembered the landings 75 years ago, with strong emotion.
These guys in the cemetery, they are the heroes. And so, I come here to memorialise them and to remember them because those are the guys that made it possible for me to be here, said Steve Melnikoff, a 99-year-old veteran from Maryland.
Joe Scida, a 93-year-old veteran, remembers exactly where his craft landed on D-Day.
Right in this area, right here, more or less underneath where the cemetery is, Scida said.
Earlier on Thursday, the veterans heard Trump and Macron praising their courage and sacrifice to end the war.
James Carrol from Oregon said he appreciated Trump's speech, despite not always agreeing with his country's leader.
I'm not eye-to-eye on everything he does. But I think he did it right today. He was pretty honest, he did not play politics, he said.
Speaking from experience, some of the veterans expressed criticism of warfare.
War is the most idiotic thing man ever created. It serves no purpose. Sometimes, like the last World War II, our enemies now are our friends, and our friends are our enemies. It doesn't make any sense. Thousands of people lose their lives over nothing. It's going on right now, said Charles Levesque, a 93-year-old World War II veteran who served in the Pacific.
Another veteran, Dr. Steve Weiss, said, It is with regret, that we have never figured out a way to minimise warfare for the next generation, the best and the brightest, don't survive. It is serious, deadly, business.
The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, hastened Germany's defeat.
Still, that single day cost the lives of 4,414 Allied troops, 2,501 of them Americans. More than 5,000 were injured. On the German side, several thousand were killed or wounded.
The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer contains 9,380 graves, most of them for servicemen who lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations.
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Normandy 2012 Day 7. Musée mémorial d'Omaha Beach and Big Red 1 Museum
On the last day of our adventure you will follow us to the winderful museums of Omaha Beach sector (Musée mémorial d'Omaha Beach and the famous Big Red 1 Museum).
It is absolutely worth a visit but make up your own mind by the impressions you will get from the video!
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