Willy's War Films

A channel dedicated to military history, and war movie clips! Video descriptions will contain a citation, and any historical context.


Willy's War Films

Four of the worldโ€™s most iconic tall ships raced head-to-head offshore, before making their way to Boston for "Sail250." An absolutely breathtaking sight...

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D-Day - June 6th, 1944

Allied forces launch the largest amphibious assault in world history, in an attempt to establish a beachhead in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord.

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Memorial Day
To Honor Those Who Never Came Home

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America didnโ€™t just lose factories, It lost places where ordinary people could build an entire life without needing to escape their hometowns.

A lot of Americaโ€™s social distrust, regional anger, and cultural fragmentation grew in the shadow of industrial systems that once felt permanent and suddenly werenโ€™t.

Our industrial might was destroyed by globalism, so that sneakers made by child slaves in sweatshops might be a bit cheaper.

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Camp Matilda was a forward operating base used by US forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom, located near the city of Al Kut in eastern Iraq. Operated primarily by elements of the United States Marine Corps and coalition forces during various phases of the conflict, the camp served as a staging area for security patrols, counterinsurgency missions, logistics, and regional stabilization operations.

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Never Apologize for Greatness.

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๐—ง๐—›๐—จ๐—ก๐——๐—˜๐—ฅ ๐—ข๐—™๐—™ ๐—–๐—”๐—ฃ๐—˜ ๐—–๐—”๐—ก๐—”๐—ฉ๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—”๐—Ÿ

The American sloop USS Peacock, led by Lewis Warrington, fought the British brig HMS Epervier off the coast of Cape Canaveral, 1814. Peacock won a fierce forty-five-minute duel with minimal losses, earning Warrington a Congressional gold medal. Showing that American naval gunnery was superior.

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Some people lack the ability to fact check themselves before commenting, so Iโ€™m just going to set the record straight. My use of the word โ€œFounderโ€ in the Titanic video is correct. Here are the definitions from the dictionary, and the exact quote from the script. It IS โ€œfounder,โ€ NOT โ€œflounder.โ€

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Deck of a gunboat during the US Civil war - 1865

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On April 23, 1778, Commander John Paul Jones led a small detachment of two boats from the USS Ranger to raid the port at Whitehaven, England just before sunrise. One of the only American attacks on British soil during the war.

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