SEABEES IN NORMANDY - CBs in Normandy on D-Day 8022
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Originally classified restricted and bearing a title marked "Secret", this film was made in 1944 just after the D-Day Invasion. Presumably, it was made as an indoctrination film for those combat engineers who would be participating in any seaborne invasion of the Japanese Mainland. This film tells the story of how the approximately 10,000 Seabees of Naval Construction Regiment 25 installed an artificial harbor and pontoon causeways on the beaches of Normandy. One of the largest engineering feats of the European campaign, the artificial harbor allowed tons of equipment and supplies to be landed rapidly, and helped ensure that the Allied beachhead in Normandy would grow. The effort was not without its share of disaster, as the film shows - a large storm in the English Channel nearly crippled the newly-installed harbor.
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MCB 1 Seabee here. 1974-1978. Thanks for posting these historic films.
NMCB 1 here also 80 to 86 EO2 first and the finest
MCB 1 74 - 76 EO 3
The first and the finest.
proud to have been a Seabee!
My oldest brother was a Seabee, Vietnam 68-70,-74 Reserves, Bronze Star. R.I.P Douglas McGaw 5/12/022
The start of this with the popping sound and the warped sound of the music starting reminds me of those films we watched in school.
My hat is off to the men and women of this era!! The ingenuity of everyone there is amazing. I see each Navy Seabee as a problem solver not just high command. Thank each one of you individually. Ex- marine 1969-1973. One million thumbs up.....Texas
It’s a natural talent that we have
They were a British idea, British built and British tested! The Yanks built the kit they were given using to few bolts. When a storm came up the American "Mulberry" sank! You damn Yanks claim everything yet nearly every ship snd aircraft shown was Commonweath NOT American!
Dad was a Seabee!!! After he retired he couldn’t stop building and now has a very successful remodeling company!!
Thank you for making this available to the public!!!
My Uncle Paul was a Seabee in the Pacific. Landed on Iwo Jima February 19, the 1st day we landed there. Told me a few stories, my hats off to you and your fellow sailors.
You commenters should be ashamed of yourselves for criticizing the contributions of the Allied nations in this terrible war. It took teamwork to fight and win the war. The petty bickering about who screwed up, who did more, who lost more, etc, is totally shameful. The Allies contributed and sacrificed material, manpower and mountains of treasure to make a free world. You should all be grateful the way the war concluded and thank your ancestors and your Gods.
I have noted that to some people call any thing that is positive about any western country they are quick to call it "propaganda". If you could look into their minds you would find them to be rather naive and do not think things threw. They are intellectually cannon fodder for con men and revolutionaries who will quickly dispense with them as soon as possible.
the periscope film logo on the bottom for the entire video is a total pain.
Wow, I'm glad I saw there was a higher quality version available before I watched to much of this one. Big difference. Thanks for uploading and sharing.
An impressive work. Respect for all involved 🙏
My great uncle Woodums Clark was there serving as a navy seabee , I've got some of his photos and war booty . We must never forget what these men did for humanity .
15:00, the British beach “harbor” had taken longer to build, but it had been installed as intended, at Omaha, the Americans assembled theirs as fast as possible with minimal securing of the components….that the storm was unexpected is true, the Americans had intended to secure the assembly as they found time before autumn storms.
I liked how they had the word Secret at the bottom at the title of the episode i liked how they talked about the seebees bravery courage and how they build Bridges harbors and road during war and not
My dad was in the 111th See bees D Day invasion.
I am not sure what unit my dad was in. After D Day he and his unit were sent to reopen the harbor at Cherbourg. They ended up with the 3rd Army. At one point, they were unloading landing craft and hauling them to be used to cross the Rhine.
My great uncle served there too as a seabee , perhaps they knew each other .
Reading the comment section on the films are beyond amazing to me ! To every single person who has and is serving in the armed forces, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE so that we can live free!
Very interesting activity at post D-Day Normandy. Thank you for posting.
My grandfather was a seabee there. Survived the war- came home and worked on the Boston docks in the union. Amazingly- he expertly built all of those things during war time but had a mysterious " forklift accident" resulting in an injury very similar to a cosh to the head on the union dock..during a time when some of the members were questioning some ethical issues of the union.
Excellent film that shows perfectly how large the 'non-combat' effort to insure the success of the Normandy landing. But I must make one correction. At about minute 19 the narrator introduces the 'Commander' in his captured German car. That car was probably used by the Germans but it was every inch a French vehicle, in fact a Citroen Traction Avant, probably an 11BL. One of the most popular cars in France then due to its innovative front wheel drive.
That was an interesting tid-bit, I bet who ever wrote the script did not know that.
Joel Grover thanks , I noticed that too , still , a captured German vehicle
Your 'correction' is invalid. OK, the car was a French Citroen, but still it was captured from the Germans.
LST Commonly referred to as Large Slow Targets. Thanks to all for your service.
Sea Bees of the Navy. We can build and we can fight. We build our way to victory and we guard it day and noght. I was a contractor in Iraq in 2004 and I was staying in a tent by the Sandy Squids. I was in Navy when I was 17 back in 1980. I was 41 when I was a contractor. I was a lifeguard at the pool. I also taught some swimming. I was a storekeeper in Navy. I wish I was a Sea Bee. If I was smart I would have waited until I was 21 to join the Navy.
Thanks to all who worked and served ar WWII
Amazing engineering!
Part of the Mulberry harbour which broke away,I believe whilst being towed to France. Sits just off the beach at Greatstone in Kent.
Never Forget!
Very interesting. These guys were tough!
The See-Bee's did amazing things.
The first storm that came, blew everything in on the beach and the yanks had to complete their landing using the mulberries the brits built. Yup, they did amazing things, too bad most of it didn't last more than a few days
They certainly did, with Quality , consistency and speed. and some really complex projects many times in such adverse conditions.
Yes they did, safe and effective use of the Mullbery was not one of those things, in fact due to the USA not operating it as it was designed and built to be used could have had far more consequences than just holding up Spam and Coffee deliveries, without the vital supplies that the harbours brought in the invasion could have failed and the war either lengthened considerably or even lost, due to giving Hitler more time to perfect Vengeance weapons and also the ability to transfer troops back to the eastern front delaying the soviet/Russian forces, again, giving them time to perfect V weapons knowing that the allies would not have been able to mount another invasion for months, maybe years. So whilst I have every respect for the Seabees and their abilities, they got it wrong on this occasion and I think this film was a way of diverting attention away from the very real possibility that thousands of brave young men could have given their lives for nothing, and of course the fact the screwed up big style on this job. Just to be clear, was the backup plan for getting the supplies ashore the Heath Robinson approach utilising bulldozers etc the best that could have been envisaged, or was it a quick fix after the cockup with the moorings?.
I got a chuckle every time he said, "We did this..." and "We did that..." I know the guy was just doing his job and reading the script he was given, but he did this narration back in the States and was never exposed to what "we" did over there. God bless those men and women. So few of them left...
Didn't hear them say it was a British invention the mulberry harbour and that the Americans refused to anchor the bridge to the shore the British one did because we anchored our invention properly
Are they similar in design.
Good for you. Check out the casualties by country for d day. Thanks so much for your marvelous invention mate.
@@michaeloneil2379 Huh?🤡
How admirable. You folks are so wonderful. BFD. And if you Euro/Brits had listened to Churchill and stood up to Hitler in the '30s, there wouldn't have been a need for any of it. My Dad was drafted six weeks after he and my mom were married in 1942. He and a lot of other guys from Nebraska, Texas, New York and California got shipped to Europe to fight a war they didn't start and see a lot of their friends die for you and yours, fool.
Very interesting.
Seabees Rule!
I had two great uncles there during this time.
Most folks can’t even fathom how much hard labor was involved in this operation.
Amazing how the Germans didn’t detect all that equipment wasn’t spotted by German aircraft ai
Naming a French baby delivered by an American Dr. Dr. Anderson was named Cee Bee . LOL ! ^_^
The problem was they only got very limited use because a huge storm broke out and swept most of them onto the shore and sank the whale bridge sections. After that all supplies had to be still brough in to the beach by LST right up until Cherberg could be repaired.
That was because the American Cee-Bees ignored the British inventors' instructions and didn't install their harbour correctly. The British harbour at Arromanches was installed correctly and survived the storm pretty well.
NMCB- 5 PORT HUENEME CA in the house
Proud seabee here, I wonder what has become of Baby Seabee?
These harbours were a British invention as were the seven petrol, or gasoline, lines layed to them and later to Callis. The problem was that as the Sea Bees wouldn't believe the weather was frequently extremely rough there, the US only installed half the anchors on the floating roadways. The US one of course was damaged, taking many lives and capacity with it. The fools responsible for that disaster, worse than having an entire fleet sunk, we're not shot nor hanged. The greatest embarrassment they suffered. Half the capacity lost and men killed because the Johnie come latelys, ignored the fitting instructions. How did we ever win?
Jonny didn't have to come at all. Our fight was with Japan. But we went to Europe and died by the hundreds of thousands to try and help our British friends.
@@adamrussell6155 Adam, your fight was not just with Japan but also with Germany, which had declared war on America after Pearl Harbour. Before that, the US had declined all pleas to join the international fight against the Nazis, despite them clearly threatening world domination. America's invaluable contribution is obvious and welcome, but if only they had joined earlier! Thousands of lives would have been saved. And yes, history records that the Americans failed to properly install the Mulberry harbour off Omaha.
disagree. the storm was violent enough to toss around the caissons and the lobnitz piers, a few more anchors would not have made a difference. the damage was total. a US admiral predicted this when he saw the plans for Mulberry.
And here's the condescending Limey who shits all over America's contribution to the war effort. What a ...shock.
@@adamrussell6155 Germany declared war on the USA you pr××t! You had no choice, Germany were at war with you!
This here is the first I have heard of raids on the beachheads by the Luftwaffe.
At the end of the war,what was done with all this supply and equipment,these big structures???
Surprisingly, I was on those floating facilities and currently still in use when naval ships (smaller ships) is under maintenance (such as HVAC or wiring) Pretty comfortable - Naval Seebee PHIBCB-2
If the periscope group logo's get any bigger we'll just have audio
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NMCB-ONE 86-88. First and the Finest.
Was Captain Nash still the CO,
The Harbours this american newsreel refers to were called (Mulberry Harbours ) and is not totally honest he has omitted events leading up the american harbour being destroyed because of the storm that struck the english channel that day like the see bees rushing the job assembling it properly not securing it or using the anchors specially designed to hold the whole harbour in place in case of bad weather had they followed the plans it could have survived relatively in good order the british came up with idea of bringing your harbour since the french harbours would be to strongly defended to capture and any attempt by the allies to grab one the germans had rigged explosive around the french ports The idea was actually winston churchill during the gallipoli landings this was not forthcoming however the idea was brought up again during the dieppe raid 1942 the need to bring your own port so designers in britain came up with winning design code name mulberry Alan Beckett a civil engineer designed everything that was needed to make it work the two harbours were built fabricated in scotland one was given to the americans at omaha beach the british at Arromanches while the americans messed up their harbour due to negligence improper assembly the british royal engineers took the time and did it as intended simple as that and saved the day the see bees failed
Salute to my forefathers!
My God, all the money, war is very, very expensive
My Dad had other names for Spam.😅
Sea Bees 🐝 can do.
It was the British that came up with this
except the yanks ignored the Royal Engineer Corps instructions on how to properly lash the whole thing and it was destroyed by storms - necessitating the Americans having to use the British one that although taking longer to (properly) set up - survived as designed........
and yet after the storm when Omaha had to revert to amphibious offloading, the tonnage offloaded per day was roughly equal to the tonnage discharged at port Winston. Mulberry was an overthink. an engineering feat, but in the end not necessary. We should have used those resources to build more amphib craft.
@@danielkokal8819 ,. That's what I said! They should have done what the US did in S France. Coordinated with the French Partisans and assaulted Cherbourg on day 1, before the Germans had time to destroy the port facilities. Mark Clark should have been in charge of SHAEF. Operation Dragoon was a much smoother operation than the Normandy invasion. But, Clark was not a politician like Ike, and would not have been so influenced by the typical British over thinking. Our supply problems were never truly relieved until the US forces swung around, captured the Cherbourg peninsula, and then repaired the docks. We then put ashore a whole new Army, Pattons 3rd Army. And you know what? We did all that, and Monty had still not captured Caan. Something he was supposed to do on Day 2. Lol I often wonder how many American casualties were caused by FDR, and Eisenhower, playing PC with British sensitivities..
@@danielkokal8819 ,. And another thing; Have you ever noticed how the British took the far left flank, and never venture more than 50 miles from the Channel? Then in the Battle of the Bulge, all Monty did was cover the Northern flank of the Bulge, with US forces I might add, forces temp primarily transferred to his area from the US 9th Army. And, Monty positioned troops way back at the Muess River, in case the US couldnt stop the German forces. I think the bloody lily's were preparing to do a Dunkirk 2.0, and flee back to England. Abandoning us like they did the French..... People say the British were our Allies. Ha,,,, I say they were our dependents. They cost us plenty. We were alot of countries Ally in WWII, but no one, except maybe Australia were our Allies.... Certainly not the British... And, I'm prepared to debate, and win this conversation with anyone. Let's start with why, when they controlled the air over Dunkirk, and the English channel against a weak German Navy, did they withdraw 385k troops? That's more than twice as many that assaulted Normandy, or Okinawa, and the French still had a powerful Navy too. The Royal Navy could have blasted the Germans with their big guns, and supplied those 385k troops with equipment and reinforcements. Why did they run home with their tail between their legs, when any good American Commander would have said, "poor bastards, we got them just where we wanted them." The British were weak. Not their troops. Their leadership from Churchill down was weak. Jelly spines bunch of self preservationist, unwilling to apply themselves with confidence in their own men, or their French allies. The French fought on alone for e weeks after the British abandoned them, without ever confiding to them their true intentions.
@@danielkokal8819 ,. Can you tell I have no respect for the British? I think the British government is the most evil thing to ever plague the planet... There is nowhere on earth today where a conflict or unrest exists that cannot be traced directly back to their's or another European country's oppressive Empire building. Mostly the British, but none of the Europeans are innocent in their self righteous, racial superiority histories of oppression and exploitation to enrich themselves.
@@unitedwestand5100 they tried assaulting Dieppe and concluded that assaulting a well defended port would not work.
Can Do !
somewhere through the sands of time...a PHOENIX became a Mulberry harbour???
you get the impression that these harbours were a yank Idea, yes the SeaBees got they work first but at a cost as they failed to install as designed, cut out the number of anchors to save time, had they done so their harbour may have remain operational in part after the strom.
@@overlord8658 still yanks
SEABEES here, Winston Churchill got the idea in a bath he was taking. Cheers to brits awesome idea my cousins
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Needs more commercials.
Im gonna drop a n placing in god i trust like it says on the dollar bil or even use it at a flag all unamously action of thanksgiving
‘’In god we trust ‘’ wasn’t added to USA money till 1956
Only water i saw in the bees was filling up my fighting position...
Scott .Wallace, Wish i could say the same : Independent duty aboard a oceanographic research vessel. Suppose to be for a maximum 12 months, finally got transfered after making E4 after 18 months aboard. Mostly around S. Korea in the summer and the Philippines during winter. Spent next 18 yrs explaining at every command i reported to how i was never a fleet-tweet, was SeaBee from A-school on . Rain in a foxhole sounds right homey . . .
@@fjb4932 let's get you on a FEX lol I left hot showers for a frost covered sleeping bag at 05:00 in the30 degree mud? Mre`s not bad if rectangular bowl movement is the end goal. anyway I was aviation before the bees flight deck is crazy but the bees can be one fun ride
I wonder if that baby is still alive?
Thus, in April of 1997, Sea Bee Paule Fouchard Ruault and her husband stood in a cold, driving rain before the statue of a gun-toting bee at Davisville, Rhode Island, the former home of the Seabees, to say thanks -- not only to the Seabees who helped her mother in her hour of need -- but also to all of the Allied soldiers who liberated France from the Nazis. The Song of the Seabees begins, "We're the Seabees of the Navy. We can build and we can fight." Perhaps the next line could be, “We can also deliver babies.”
Some information on her birth, if living today she will be age of 76. See July 2, 1944 This Week in Seabee History: June 30 - July 6. seabeemagazine.navylive.dodlive.mil/2019/06/30/this-week-in-seabee-history-june-30-july-6/
Sea Bee Ruault and RADM Bret Muilenburg at the 75th Anniversary Seabee Ball in Washington, D.C., 4 March 2017. See photo... www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/seabee/explore/online-reading-room/seabee-faqs/SeaBeePaule.html
Why do you use your watermark on someone else's video
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The British built a landing area also. Their's took longer to start operations. The British made it through the storm. Claiming that if the Yanks had installed all the Pins and Fasners , it would have made it also . Even in war there is competition, The Americans built theirs first by days.
….because they didn’t install it correctly. And look at the consequences. Similar to the Sherman DD. Not used as intended, and almost all of the American ones sunk.
@@XxBloggs agreed but in the Americans defense, they opened their landing area days before the British. Alot was unloaded in that time. In a way it was a good strategy, 50/50 chances, do both and at least 1 will work out.
So you know what I was saying
Isnt d day nuke day?
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water mark is too big lol
I really think you ought to protect the films that you own. On the other hand, the watermark is way too dark and distracting. Lighten it up a bit.
Honestly it was not very distracting when our channel was monetized and banner ads appeared over the burn-in. Anyway if you look at more recent uploads you will see -- we did make things less distracting.
@@PeriscopeFilm Thanks heaps! yours has the most interesting stuff on it!!
it's a good job we don't have to do that today wee don't make anything in this country enymore o yes get it from China 😞
No one better...no one...😀😀😀
That obnoxious watermarking ruins the footage.
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i been studying your periscope uploads since every thing went digital adding watermarks on history is a sad thing
In other words you have the original footage without?
Your footage has something mark felton don't and his narration although not bad is a tad deceptive to his audience he believes is not out there
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Then a storm came in and wiped it out my dad drove a dues and a hafe off a ship on five cycinders because the stupid supply Sargent. Would not believe him when he showed the cracked sparke plug such was the problems. propaganda
This film is so biased that it lost it's value. The concrete boxes were called Mulberries and not Phoenix. The British harbor survived because they reenforced it while the Americans did not.
Facebook must be destroyed
Property of periscope films? You crap in Yellowstone and say it's your property?
These were built by the British and called Mulberry's! The British built harbour at Normandy was built properly and lasted for years the American built harbour wasn't built properly and didn't last past the first big storm. Typical of Americans, never follow proper instructions and it wax built badly because of that! Then you go and take credit for it all!
Americans are still the ones who fixed your Nazi problem, because last I recall the Europeans weren't very well off till we showed up
The Seabees had a better idea called the rhino ferry , and the magic box.
Chuck Johnson and that worked out how for you? Pretty crap, if you yanks had done what you were told and not been to arrogant to listen the Mullbery would not have been wrecked, and not endangered the whole invasion because of lack of resources. Yanks need to get over themselves and understand that war is about team work and not doing everything your own way, sometimes you have to accept your are not the experts in everything.
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@@thrasher9898 Actually, no. It was the Soviet Union who did the most damage to the Nazi ground forces.
According to this , the Yanks won WW2 all on their own 😗
Don't be such a whining ass. It's tiresome and embarrassing.
The best propaganda video for the yanks ever, maybe one mention of the fact the Mullberys were designed built and assembled by the British in their own area and didn’t collapse completely because it was installed properly,unlike the American harbour that was wrecked because they wouldn’t listen,typical. Thumbs down 👎. This is now my second viewing of this pure propaganda video on behalf of the Seabees, a most fantastic set of personnel put together to be the service engineers for the USA military,no doubting their accomplishments, and as with all branches of any military failures, as is the case here, they didn’t listen to instructions. But I have to vent my spleen again, because, on this second viewing, I have heard even more of the self appreciating hogwash, the Mullbery Harbours as previously stated, designed,built and engineered by the British, not the USA, we acknowledge the accomplishments of our allies, all of them, be they military or civilian, is it to much to ask the Americans to do likewise instead of claiming responsibility for everything that goes well or designed and built, but saying “allied, British, French Russian etc” when things go wrong or just don’t work, and in this case blaming Mother Nature for the wrecking of the American Mullbery by saying that no forecast could have predicted the storm, codswollop, the RAF met forecast for the weather specifically said that the weather was going to worsen post D-day, and any commander in their right mind would have had very frequent updates on the weather, even as frequently as every hour, so that’s that argument done. As for saying the British Mullbery wasn’t damaged (it was,but only slightly) because it was further east/west and had natural defences, that might be the case, but using that to imply the British had it easy is wrong on so many levels, the makers of this film should be ashamed of the total bias and intellectual property theft of this film, America does not, and will not make the best of everything ever invented. Oh and just for information the British military had and still does have some of the finest engineering formations ever created, the REME and PIONEERS to name two. Every branch of our military had/has some form of engineering support.
Where was your support at Yorktown?
@@petersrightbut8297 Where was yours..oh Iforgot..the french army of 15000 men who arrived in time for the defeat, and where were your politiciians in 1816 when they suddenly realised that Napoleon was defeated and the British could nowdeal with its traitors......with a half miilion strong army ewho'd have won do you think?
@@peterforden5917 would of, should of, could of....
@@petersrightbut8297 the whitehouse took 20 years to rebuild..and we ate the presidents party food :)
Peters Right but, what has that got to do with anything, Yorktown was a totally different war and time, irrelevant statement.........NEXT!!!.