Very engaging subject and well explained. This despite using a generic format of having the historians pose as interviewees and drive the narrative along by asking questions to which they already know the answers.
Maybe the world will have to wait until 100 years after the Normandy Landings for the truth to be revealed, if it is ever fully declassified.
What distracts from the story is the incessant pounding music in the background. No, it doesn't make it more exciting. It just irritates.
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The Mystery of the Maisy Batteries at Utah and Omaha Beach
fabian526 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This is a first class production of the Maisy Batteries, a little known but well entrenched and heavily armed massive Nazi battery at the corners of Utah and Omaha Beach which poured heavy and devastating barrages on Allied troops from June 6 to June 9, 1944....when it was finally taken by US troops.
This episode outlines Maisy's discovery located partly underground with secret trenches and places for artillery pieces by Gary Sterne, a British military historian in 2004, and raises the question of why Allied historians 'forgot' about its existence and simply turned it over to local French villagers until US rangers verified to the media that they did attacked and storm this heavily fortified German position. Rommel's propaganda caused the Allies to focus their attention on Pointe du Hoc on the D-Day landings and forget all about Maisy, which was a costly mistake. Rommel was sly as a fox.
This episode outlines Maisy's discovery located partly underground with secret trenches and places for artillery pieces by Gary Sterne, a British military historian in 2004, and raises the question of why Allied historians 'forgot' about its existence and simply turned it over to local French villagers until US rangers verified to the media that they did attacked and storm this heavily fortified German position. Rommel's propaganda caused the Allies to focus their attention on Pointe du Hoc on the D-Day landings and forget all about Maisy, which was a costly mistake. Rommel was sly as a fox.
Fascinating topic, annoying presentation!
ricks-779783 February 2022
As is typical of this series, all the pertinent facts of this topic could be covered in 10 minutes but this is stretched out
with so much repetition, as a production it's infuriating to sit through.
You're better off to read about it.
You're better off to read about it.
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