Posted on 06/06/2021 5:33:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
God Bless The Heroes Who Saved The World On D-Day
June 6, 2021, is the 77th Anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. The invasion that saved the world from Nazi tyranny. allied invasion of Normandy.
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. Code named 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:
Capt. 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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I just watched “We were Soldiers” last night. Women CANNOT operate at this level of physicality. Men hardly can, without great effort.
LBJ told Rusk, "Ask him about the cemetaries, Dean!"
I read yesterday where Brian Williams said Antifa thugsWell, he would know.
were analogous to the men who landed in Normandy.
Well, couple of thing to say about that..... the Russians ertainly weren’t shy about sacrificing me. - and women - to achieve their objectives. Due to the Germans beastly conduct it was total war for them. But they did tie down sixty - seventy German divisions without which Normandy or even Italy would not have been possible or successful..... even taking Berlin cost the Russians over one hundred thousand casualties..... we could talk. About this for hours it im on my phone.... something like 20 million Soviet dead in the war.... I later worked with a German man in the 1980s... his father was taken as a POW by the Russians in the war and he didn’t come home till the 1950s.... and he was one of the lucky ones....
I just watched “We were Soldiers” last night.
About as outstanding a war movie as it gets.
Hal Moore a true American hero. All those guys were.....
Very true, I have read some of Max Hastings books and the one on the Eastern Front was brutal to read and what Stalin did to make his men attack was the m most unreal think I ever read, you had no choice attack going froward or die from behind if you turned back. The Brutality of what happened on the Eastern Front has no comparison to the Western one, and yet it is the forgotten part of the war.
And it is really true that Stalin requested of Roosevelt and Churchill that the top 50K Wehrmacht officers captured by taken And summarily shot. Whether he meant that as a joke or not is open to interpretation.....
Care to explain?
I think Stalin meant it when he said it.
I just finished reading Admiral William Standley’s autobiography , He was Ambassador to Russia during from 1942 to 1944 and dealt quite a bit with Stalin and Molotov. He said it was frustrating to deal with them and Standley was nobody’s fool. He was a former CNO of the Navy.
It is just something posted on Telegram; take it for what it is worth.
/bingo
President Reagan was right about “one generation away”.
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