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June 6, 1944, D-Day: The Invasion That Saved The World
The Lid Blog ^
| 5 June 2020
| Jeff Dunetz
Posted on 06/06/2020 2:13:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan
June 6, 2020, is the 76th Anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. The invasion that saved the world from Nazi tyranny. On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Codenamed Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which we will accept nothing less than full victory.
The invasion was supposed to happen on the 5th, but the weather forced Eisenhower to delay:
apt. James Martin Stagg was the chief meteorologist of the British Royal Air Force and was the one to brief Eisenhower about the rough seas and lashing rain affecting the shore on June 5. Stagg previsioned the small window of better weather for early morning June 6
.The Germans did not foresee this brief break in the bad weather. In fact, they forecast unsettled weather until mid-June. In charge with the defense of the invasion of beaches with the Germans, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was certain there would be no invasion between June 5 and 8 because the tides would not be favorable.
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KEYWORDS: 19440606; dday; godsgravesglyphs; longestday; operationoverlord; overlord; worldwareleven; wwii
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On June 6th, more than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by days end, the Allies gained a foothold in Continental Europe. Within ten days, there were half a million troops ashore, and within three weeks, there were two million.
The numbers are simply staggering. Unbelievable.
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posted on
06/06/2020 2:13:40 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
06/06/2020 2:19:42 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: All
I’m not so sure we saved it.
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posted on
06/06/2020 2:20:44 PM PDT
by
gibsonguy
To: Rummyfan
Unbelievable whats going on in our country on this anniversary. What would the greatest generation say? I can honestly say I am glad my WWII veteran father is DEAD so he does not have to see it.
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posted on
06/06/2020 2:22:45 PM PDT
by
gcparent
(Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
To: gcparent
On June 6, 1944 American Soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, on June 6, 2020 rioters are storm businesses to steal anything they can....quite a contrast don’t you think.
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posted on
06/06/2020 2:30:09 PM PDT
by
srmanuel
To: srmanuel
Save the world? Hitler didn’t want the US. Obvious.
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posted on
06/06/2020 2:38:42 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Rummyfan
this picture, where it looks like General Eisenhower was firing up the troops...
He was actually talking with the paratrooper (a fellow Kansan) about working in a grocery store growing up.
To: DIRTYSECRET
Dont forget - many COMMUNISTS here agreed with his policies and supported him which was why we stayed out of the war for so long.
It wasnt until he turned against Russia that the communists decided he wasnt a true socialist and demanded war.
Then went revisionist history about how Hitler was always evil.
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posted on
06/06/2020 3:12:49 PM PDT
by
Skywise
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- D-Day snub to Queen: Palace fury as Sarkozy refuses to invite royals to 65th Anniversary [2009]
- 05-26 D-Day question of the day [2009]
- 05-25 D-Day question of the day [2009]
- who's in charge? [2009]
- UK: D-Day bomb raids were 'close to a war crime' says author [2009]
- Obama's D-Day [2009]
- The Incredible Arrogance of Obama [2009]
- Obama Bans the Commonfolk from Normandy [2009]
- Obama Bans the Commonfolk from Normandy [2009]
- D-Day memories: Hampton Roads welcomes last surviving Army diver [2009]
- Elisha Ray Nance, D-Day vet from noted Va. Guard unit [2009]
- Last Remaining Bedford Boy Dies [2009]
- Obama to visit France for D-Day anniversary [2009]
- D-Day is cancelled (if D-Day were today) [2009]
- Video - Normandy invasion - D-Day German footage - Amazing [2009]
- Secret footage unearthed of American troops practising Normandy invasion [2009]
- Secret footage unearthed of American troops practising D-Day landings at Devon [2009]
- On Thanking Our Veterans [2008]
- Robert Murphy, at 83; led paratroopers to D-day site [2008]
- Washington Post Claims McCain Wildly Exaggerated D-Day, says Soviets better [2008]
- Revealed: The astonishing D-Day tanks found at the bottom of the English Channel [2008]
- Officials fell trees inscribed by US soldiers who fought for France [2008]
- Walter Reed FReep 164. June 6, 2008, 64th D Day Anniversary [2008]
- Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day [2008]
- D-Day Video [2008]
- D-Day 1944 [2008]
- Medal of Honor Recipients, Normandy Invasion [2008]
- D-Day: June 6, 1944 [2008]
- Southeast Texas Seniors describe Storming Beqach at Normandy as Young Men [2008]
- Erin Pyle from Normandy..D-Day June 1944 [2008]
- D-Day in Context (Oliver North) [2008]
- FReeper Canteen ~ D-Day, June 6, 1944 ~ 06 June 08 [2008]
- GUIDE TO NORMANDY 1944 - June 6, the invasion to save the world from the Nazis [2008]
- World War II US D-Day invasion tank unearthed in France [2008]
- George S. PattonT - To the 3rd Army, June 5, 1944 [2008]
- In Memoriam - June 6, 1944 [2008]
- Rest in Peace: Fred Reese, D-Day Hero (16th Infantry, 1st Division, Omaha Beach) [2008]
- Crumpled map solves mystery of German gun behind 'Private Ryan' D-Day massacre [2008]
- Crumpled map solves mystery of German gun behind D-Day massacre (Amateur historian finds at a fair) [2008]
- SARKOZY'S TRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S VETERANS [2007]
- French leader to present Legion of Honor to World War II hero (one of 7 heroes) [2007]
- Normandy D-Day site gets visitor center [2007]
- 'Beast of Omaha' weeps as he recalls slaughter of thousands on beach [2007]
- The Lessons from D-Day [2007]
- USS Intrepid Returns to NYC on D-Day [2007]
- Special D-Day Post - America, we love your Heroes (Thank You, with Love from Europe) [2007]
- D-Day Story [2007]
- D-Day - What If the Greatest Generation were stuck with our generation's media? [2007]
- D-Day Soldier's Dog Tag Found in Sand [2007]
- If D-Day at Normandy Was Happening This Week (Media Speculation) [2007]
- FDR leads nation in prayer again (Freeper's video featured) [2007]
- Today in History: D-DAY A/K/A OPERATION OVERLORD AND THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY [2007]
- This day in History: D-Day, June 6, 1944 [2007]
- D-DAY - June 6, 1944: the greatest generation saved the world from the Nazis [2007]
- Invasion of Normandy coast re-created on XM Track 4, June 6, 2007 [2007]
- XM recreates D-Day radio coverage in real-time [2007]
- France : US sacrifice of D-Day honoured at new centre [2007]
- COOOOOOL VIDEO DEDICATED TO D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944 [2007]
- Dedication of New Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Set for June 6, 2007 [2007]
- Gates Says No 'D-Day' for Troop Surge Into Iraq [2007]
- EXCLUSIVE: BRITAIN'S LAST WITCH TRIAL[UK] [2006]
- Rest in Peace: Vincent DiGaetano, D-Day Hero (16th Infantry, 1st Division, Omaha Beach) [2006]
- Comedian Red Buttons Dies in L.A. at 87 [2006]
- A Day at the Beach [2006]
- DFU SONG: Candle in the Wind (D-Day: brave men saved the world from the Nazis) [2006]
- My thoughts on the Normandy anniversary [2006]
- Ronald Reagan Speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day [2006]
- Bombs, bullets and bravery at Omaha Beach (D-Day Veteran's story) [2006]
- Normandy Honors Memories of D-Day Landings [2006]
- June 6,1944 D-Day [2006]
- Remarks at the U.S. Ranger Monument, Pointe du Hoc, France [2006]
- President Reagan Omaha Beach 1984 Speech [2006]
- June 6, 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlord [2006]
- Did Veterans Sacrifice For This? [2006]
- The Entire Broadcast Day from June 6, 1944 - Streaming on WarTime Homefront Radio [2006]
- ("What if" in History - No. 3) June 1, 1944: NEW YORK TIMES breaks OPERATION OVERLORD [2006]
- D-Day Memorial Poem [2006]
- Medal of Honor for Richard Winters - Band of Brothers [2006]
- Tourists in retreat from peace-loving war museum (French D-Day museum downplays war) [2006]
- Museum to D-Day fails to mention the war [2006]
- The ties that bind [2006]
- Nazis' secret base found (Omaha Beach battery contains 40 buildings "untouched" since D-Day) [2006]
- ("What if" in History - No. 3) June 1, 1944: NEW YORK TIMES breaks OPERATION OVERLORD [2005]
- Brothers in Arms:History Channel [2005]
- D-Day Museum Reopens in New Orleans [2005]
- Waging War Over Reality [2005]
- History Channel - Shootout - tonight! Bracourt Manner and Gainges (sp?)Vanity [2005]
- Historical Folly of "Exit Strategy" for Iraq [2005]
- D-Day Veteran Recalls Historic Day [2005]
- How a Peruvian beauty stopped a Nazi tank division in its tracks [dble agent: D-Day: Bay of Biscay] [2005]
- Hurrican Katrina - Museums destroyed, damaged or looted. [2005]
- T.R. Fahrenbach: One V-J observation: Suicide missions don't work [2005]
- The FReeper Foxhole Revisits the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc (6/6/1944) - August 12th, 2005 [2005]
- James Doohan's (Scotty) World War II Service (Rest in Peace) [2005]
- Congressman pushes for Medal of Honor for D-Day commander (Dick Winters) [2005]
- Looking Back [2005]
- June 6, 1944: D-Day [2005]
- Xm Radio offers historical replay of D-Day [2005]
- Has everyone forgotten that this is D-Day [2005]
- This is D-Day, or have you forgotten??? [2005]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers D-Day - Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches(6/6/1944)-June 6th, 2005 [2005]
- Our (Canadian and American) Veterans Deserve Better [2005]
- FDR's D-Day prayer -- apt for Memorial Day [2005]
- The Indomitable 'Dame Qui Boite'-(Virginia Hall, "Wild Bill" Donavan's American WWII lady OSS agent) [2005]
- U.S. panel backs off ban on women in combat roles [2005]
- Bedford Boys: Soldiers Carry on Tradition of Forefathers (military history folks might like this) [2005]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bedford Boys (6/6/1944) - Feb 28th, 2005 [2005]
- Canadians with bicycles on D-Day (1944) [2005]
- They died - and now we sneer [2005]
- They Died - and Now we Sneer [2005]
- Rev. George Barber, veteran of D- Day invasion, dies at 90 (Was last living chaplain from D-Day) [2004]
- Scores demonstrate against plan for dump at D-Day landing site [2004]
- a question regarding D-day 6/6/44(vanity) [2004]
- D-DAY...as reported by CNN today [2004]
- Eggheads for Evil [2004]
- If D-Day Had Been Reported On Today [2004]
- Barnes: A Close-Run Thing [2004]
- Vanity...Help finding a Freeper D-Day Spoof [2004]
- Imagine a PC D-Day (Why We Can't Have D-Day Today -Joseph Farah On A PC D-Day) [My Title}) [2004]
- Bush Conquers Europe [2004]
- Here is how the media would cover D-Day today [2004]
- D-Day, Chirac Style: How France and its allies liberated Germany, and other E.U. fantasies. [2004]
- Honouring the brave [2004]
- The Greatest Generation of Engineers [2004]
- 'Not the Time to Betray Our American Brothers' (Rara avis, a pro-American, pro-Bush Frenchman) [2004]
- PHOTO OF THE DAY (Octogenarian paratrooper!) [2004]
- Melanie Phillips: D-Day for Defeatism (Recommended!) [2004]
- Six US war veterans defy age to recreate legendary parachute jump [2004]
- If D-Day Had Been Reported On Today [2004]
- David Warren: D-Day [2004]
- Tears, Pride Mark D-Day Ceremony in France [2004]
- Blessed are the peacemakers [2004]
- Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder. Dirty dancing on D-Day. [2004]
- Twenty years ago, Reagan came up big in Normandy [2004]
- Bush and Chirac put up united front but rift remains [2004]
- Bush honors D-Day heroes [2004]
- The importance of this crusade [2004]
- For the Germans, the War's Ambiguities Persist (WHY the Germans are insisting they're WW II victims) [2004]
- Ugly Americans: Europe Cannot Blame It All On Bush [2004]
- what we learned this weekend [2004]
- U.S. Soldiers in France for D-Day events [2004]
- Bad weather could have scuppered D-Day [2004]
- Germany and France: Then and Now (a pictorial history) [2004]
- President Honors Fallen at Normandy [2004]
- A Day at Juno Beach [2004]
- D-Day's meaning today [2004]
- Germany's first D-Day ceremony [2004]
- Schroeder says Germany accepts blame for war [2004]
- The Boys of Normandy [2004]
- Chirac Honors American Veteran for Leading Secret Counterespionage Mission on D-Day [2004]
- One last time they gather, the Greatest Generation [2004]
- A day to honour true friends [2004]
- Remarks by President Bush and President Chirac in a Joint Press Availability (June 5, 2004) [2004]
- Leaders Honor D-Day Soldiers in France [2004]
- Leaders Converge on Normandy to Mark D-Day [2004]
- Schroeder Says Germany Accepts Blame For War (Decides JOOOOOOS Weren't Really To Blame, After All) [2004]
- The President's Prayer on D-Day, June 6, 1944 [2004]
- D Day International Ceremony - Live on C-Span - Comment Thread [2004]
- Twenty Years Ago Today - President Reagan At Omaha Beach [2004]
- Ronald Reagan: Message for the Allies - I will not fail thee nor forsake thee [2004]
- A tribute to the Men of D-day and my dad, a B17 pilot You done good boys! [2004]
- President George W. Bush's Remarks on the 60th Anniversary of D-Day [2004]
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) D-Day Message [2004]
- EASY RED, FOX GREEN: THE MEANING OF OMAHA BEACH [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the USS SAMUEL CHASE at Omaha Beach(6/6/1944) - June 6th, 2004 [2004]
- Live Thread: D-Day Coverage - Bush Speech [2004]
- Live Coverage of the D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944 [2004]
- "Ronald Reagan, D-Day.....and the War on Terror" [2004]
- "These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc" (Reagan speech at Normandy, June 6 1984) [2004]
- Rivalry at Normandy [2004]
- D-Day June 6, 1944 Broadcast via Rat Patrol Radio and Live365 [2004]
- A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT BUSH (PHOTOS): WEEKEND EDITION 6.5.04 [2004]
- Address at the U.S.-French Ceremony at Omaha Beach on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day. [2004]
- Ronald Reagan D-Day speech June 6, 1984 [2004]
- Ronald Reagan - D-Day 1984 [2004]
- My dad was a war hero - and I didn't know [2004]
- Frequently Asked Questions for D-Day and the Battle of Normandy [2004]
- Code Red alert for D-Day party [2004]
- A Joke for today... [2004]
- D-Day Special Internet Radio Broadcast [2004]
- BUSH-CHIRAC NEWS CONFERENCE (1:25 PM EDT -- Live Thread) [2004]
- Radio Address by the President to the Nation, 06-05-04 [2004]
- HISTORY LESSONS: June 6, 1944 - The Normandy Invasion [2004]
- Parachute drops begins tribute to D-day heroes [2004]
- Peggy Noonan: The Most Exalting Day [2004]
- Have We Lost WWII Generation's "Deep Knowledge?" [2004]
- D-Day OD: Why World War II nostalgia has gone too far (Centtople barf alert!) [2004]
- Ronald Wilson Reagan: 40th Anniversary of D-Day Address [2004]
- Just Whose Liberation was Begun on June 6? (Were the Germans victims too?) [2004]
- European Press Review: America is Not Washington [2004]
- More Like D-Day (Is Dubya really a dull-witted, God-bothering fascist?) [2004]
- Remembering D-Day and Eisenhower [2004]
- Remembering D-Day and Eisenhower [2004]
- His mission is to educate (WW2 vet to get Legion of Honor) [2004]
- Normandy -- 60 Years After D-Day [2004]
- Why D-Day was the most ambitious military operation [2004]
- Normandy Sacrifices Places Debt on All [2004]
- Rumsfeld Likens Terror War Sacrifices to Normandy Invasion [2004]
- John Kerry At 7 Months Old [2004]
- If D-Day Had Been Reported On Today (long but good read) [2004]
- Jewish vet among 100 to be honored at France's D-Day anniversary (to receive Legion of Honor award) [2004]
- From the National Mall to Normandy [2004]
- D-Day (Paul Johnson) [2004]
- D-Day Trip May Help Bush in Polls, But Poses Risks [2004]
- Vets Return to Omaha Beach 60 Years Later [2004]
- A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos)- 6.3.04 [2004]
- Tragic French Offensive Stalled On Beaches [2004]
- They won the war but lost the peace [2004]
- 101st paratroopers to jump in Normandy for D-Day anniversary [2004]
- WWII era "Colossus" codebreaking computer rebuilt for D-Day anniversary [2004]
- Chirac balks at reviving friendship [2004]
- Bush To Compare Middle East With War-Time Europe [2004]
- French have much to be humble about (good reminder from Australian moderate/leftist no less!) [2004]
- Vanity-Ike-Countdown to DDay [2004]
- Tom Selleck Stars in 'Ike' D-Day Drama [2004]
- French Have Much to be Humble About [2004]
- D-Day 60 Year On: The Longest Day [2004]
- Planes That Breach D-Day Airspace 'Will Be Shot Down' [2004]
- Living memory of D-Day [2004]
- The 'Longest Day' was the first of a war that lasted 45 years - [2004]
- D-Day? France Preferred Us to the U.S. Even Then, Says German Veteran [2004]
- Reagan lauded heroism of D-Day Rangers [2004]
- The Lions of World War II Made D-Day Possible [2004]
- Faith, Risk and Liberty [2004]
- D-Day 1899 and President Denzel Washington is leading liberation of New Zealand from the Nazi's [2004]
- Statement by Maj.Winters Fmr Commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion,506th PIR, 101st Airborne [2004]
- "You done good boys! a tribute to the D-Day invasion [2004]
- Remarks at the U.S. Ranger Monument Pointe du Hoc, France [2004]
- Marching Through Europe With An AAA Battalion [2004]
- Eisenhower Wrote "In Case of Failure" Message Before D-Day [2004]
- France honours British D-Day heroes [2004]
- France to raise anti-terror alert level for D-Day celebration [2004]
- Support Tom Selleck's "Ike" Movie [2004]
- Elderly Paratroopers Prove They Still Have the Right Stuff [2004]
- Did Allies kill GIs in D-Day training horror? [2004]
- The Other D-Day - Normandy Invasion Eclipses Epic Landing in Southern France [2004]
- Peace Message Planned at D - Day Gathering.(Yeah, we shouldn't have been militaristic on 6 June 44) [2004]
- French Appeasers Plan To Exploit 60th Anniversary of D-Day [2004]
- WWII parachutists can't redo Normandy [2004]
- 60 Years Ago Today: Operation TIGER D-Day Training Disaster [2004]
- Veterans Gather to Remember Little-Known World War II Disaster That Killed 749 U.S. Servicemen [2004]
- An Elderly American In France [2004]
- War hero pigeon to be honoured in D-Day show [2004]
- Bush to attend D-Day ceremonies in France [2004]
- Bush Tells Chirac He Will Attend 60th Anniversary of D-Day [2004]
- Tears and Thanks as French Relive D-Day [2004]
- Bush keeps France waiting over D-Day commemoration [2004]
- France Ban Brit Veterans From D-Day Beaches [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Lt. Richard Winters at Brecourt Manor - (6/6/1944) - Jan 21st, 2004 [2004]
- NYT: Playing Politics With D-Day [2004]
- France invites Schröder to be first German leader at D-Day ceremonies [2004]
- Germany invited to D-Day events [2004]
- Germany's Schroeder in unprecedented invitation to D-Day anniversary [2004]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc (6/6/1944) - Dec. 30th, 2003 [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Airborne Assault Behind Utah Beach (6/5-6/1944) - Nov. 18th, 2003 [2003]
- France Planning D-Day Commemorations [2003]
- Legendary wartime Canadian paratrooper leader Fraser Eadie dead at 86 [2003]
- Normandy Veteran DC3 For Sale [2003]
- Five bronze stars shine for parade marshal (My uncle) [2003]
- France Bans U.S. Flags at Normandy Memorial!!! [2003]
- Guess What's Missing From The (French) Normandy Museum? [2003]
- A D-Day F [2003]
- War amnesia [2003]
- First Wave at Omaha Beach - a recounting by military historian S.L.A. Marshall from 1960 [2003]
- D-Day Rememberence [2003]
- The First Wave At Omaha Beach( Long ) [2003]
- D-Day WW2 [2003]
- D-Day: 'I was there' [2003]
- COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY '04 -- 514 DAYS TO REELECT PRESIDENT BUSH [2003]
- D-Day lives on for vets [2003]
- 40th Anniversary of D-Day (reagan speech from 1984) [2003]
- They don't make leaders like Ike these days [2003]
- To All: It's D-Day...thank you veterans [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers D-Day On Omaha Beach (6/6/1944) - June 6th, 2003 [2003]
- D-Day memorial stands tall<br> Canadian vets make trek to Normandy [2003]
- The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Tiger - Slapton Sands (4/28/1944)- Apr. 29th, 2003 [2003]
- General Patton's "Blood and Guts" Speech the Troops (Warning Language) [2003]
- Omaha Beach Veteran on the peach activists [2003]
- Memorial bankrupt D-Day complex seeks Chapter 11 protection [2002]
- Unknown D-Day trivia [2002]
- D-Day veterans revisit sites of their sacrifice and valor [2002]
- A father he never knew [2002]
- June 6, 1944 [2002]
- Hitler's Sea Wall Is Breached, Invaders Fighting Way Inland; New Allied Landings Are Made [2002]
- Geology Picture of the Week, May 26 - June 1, 2002 [2002]
- President counters his critics in Europe [2002]
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posted on
06/06/2020 3:33:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
10
posted on
06/06/2020 3:33:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Rummyfan
The day that saved the world...
...and more and more, lately, we ask “for what”?
11
posted on
06/06/2020 3:48:52 PM PDT
by
TalBlack
To: Skywise
It wasnt until he turned against Russia that the communists decided he wasnt a true socialist and demanded war. Then went revisionist history about how Hitler was always evil.And to this day, Stalin and the USSR are excused all their evils.
12
posted on
06/06/2020 4:18:14 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: SunkenCiv
the REAL anti-fascists
PS Communist AF desecrated the memorial to the fallen military who served in WWII
13
posted on
06/06/2020 6:44:03 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: a fool in paradise
14
posted on
06/06/2020 6:50:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
A good case can be made that the second front wasn't necessary to defeat Germany and fascism because the Russians already had them on the ropes and were not going to stop until Hitler was dead. But, that's a "what if" that armchair quarterbacks living in peacetime can debate. At the time the American high command deemed it essential.
However, we also now know the second front was absolutely necessary to stop Stalin and the Sovs from dominating post-War Europe. By occupying Western and Southern Europe and most of Germany, the Allies saved those countries from Soviet occupation and communist rule.
To: Skywise
And our “ally” Stalin, was perfectly fine with Hitler running roughshod over Europe, until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
Without crucial supplies from the Soviets, it’s doubtful that the Germans could have had the success in France that they did.
16
posted on
06/07/2020 12:59:27 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Rummyfan
Anyone notice that there were no movies or shows on last night about D-Day? Even TCM ignored it.
Disappearing history at the hands of ungrateful little punks.
To: Texas resident
“Anyone notice that there were no movies or shows on last night about D-Day?”
On the other hand, there were all kinds of black-centric movies, shows, and documentaries. I didn’t see the movie, “Gifted Hands”, on any guide list — funny thing about that.
We started binge re-watching “Goliath” on Amazon to escape the propaganda.
18
posted on
06/07/2020 1:06:33 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
To: colorado tanker
Because Hitler was a dumbass who didn't understand strategy or tactics, and would always choose the wrong option when the stakes were highest, the Germans were probably inevitably intercoursed. Just before Kursk, Hitler pulled two divisions out of Op Zitadelle and put them into Italy. Brain dead. The Italian terrain was sufficient, and was some of the hardest fighting of the war. The USSR needed lend-lease and needed the second front, and demanded both from us, and got both.
19
posted on
06/07/2020 1:58:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Yes, the US and Britain committed to open a second front in France, which they reiterated at the first Big Three conference in Teheran. Marshall was adamant he wanted to invade France as soon as possible. Churchill was more wary, and who could blame him after the disastrous BEF experience.
It turned out to be a very good thing that the British talked us into doing North Africa first. Had that same force and commander invaded France D-Day could have turned out very different.
Indeed, Hitler was a dumbass who thought he was a military genius. It didn't help that he deeply distrusted the Prussian aristocracy that was the heart of the General Staff. He made so many idiotic decisions that shortened the war.
I read someplace that there was a secret debate in British intelligence whether they should try to assassinate Hitler should the opportunity present itself. The contra position was based on the fact that Hitler was making so many dumb decisions he was giving the Allies material assistance.
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