Posted on 06/05/2017 6:25:07 PM PDT by John S Mosby
Timeline of the D-Day landings of 6th June 1944 hour by hour as events unfolded on the day
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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God Bless our Soldiers.
I post this every year:
https://archive.org/details/CBD440606CBSDDayCBS
Here’s another network’s version:
https://archive.org/details/NBCCompleteBroadcastDDay
Remembering the American contribution to both World Wars.
Good thing that Hitler declared war on America.
Same here. He never talked about it. He was a forward artillery observer with the 93rd Armored Field Artillery batallion.
A great many fine, young men spent a sleepless night tossing and turning, praying, and scared sh*tless, then died in the morning.
God bless all who took part.
That was my father’s opinion of Patton.
The dice are on the carpet.
I don’t remember a lot of losses in North Africa either. I think the problem was the overall experience said the doctrine behind paratroop landings did not work. I see from Sicily, they painted three white stripes on every airplane that was part of the invasion,
My Father had unusual tastes in Generals but I think he was ultimately correct. He practically worshiped Patton and that was long before the movie came out.
He also thought Montgomery was both a fine man and general.
He hated Eisenhower until the day he died at age 90. Didn’t like Bradley but did like Simpson.
June 5.... CNN interviews Erwin Rommel and asks what he thinks of the coming attack.
Erwin replies “Vas? Vat attack!
CNN gives all the details.
I read a great memoir about a Marine group in Vietnam, a group that a good friend of mine served with. They occupied a place known as “Hill 55”, near Da Nang. The book, the story was written based on the commanding officer’s diary/log of events during their tour. It was very factual, and it was well-written. Well-written enough to pull the reader into the story.
It took him 30 years to write the book. PTSD, just dealing with the demons of the war. He saw people die. Digest that for a minute!
I have a copy autographed by my friend (not the author), but I fully understand from reading it, how hard it was to write it. How hard to document the situation. Had he not kept an accurate journal, it wouldn’t have been written.
BTW, it was basically a self-published book. It won’t be on Amazon or the NYT best seller’s list. I’m privileged to have read it.
LOL - my dad loved Patton, didn’t like Montgomery or anything else British. I think he was drawn in by the competition between the US and Britain that developed throughout the European campaign. A competition that was healthy, I might add.
It wasn’t just about beating the Germans - it was about beating the Germans before the English beat the Germans!
Interestingly, despite liking Montgomery, Daddy did not like the English. He did like the Scots but he liked the French more than any.
He thought the French were more like Americans. He attended the Follies Bergere (sp)? and said one of the comedians acted just like his Brother.
“D-Day” by Stephen Amrose has a lot of first-hand comments. The Omaha Beach section was particularly grisly.
There was one guy who lost all his gear getting off the landing craft just before it blew up, crawled ashore, went back and dragged the wounded out of the incoming tide, picked up an M-1 and grenades from a deal comrade, took out a pillbox with them, clawed his way up the Vierville exit, through a mine field and the legless casualties. When he reach the top, he took a break and remembered “Gee, today is my 18th birthday.”
Can you recommend one over the other? Ive started the CBS one.
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