Posted on 06/06/2016 12:15:46 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Such obnoxious disregard for the British contributions on D-Day.
Some numbers:
Warships:
British: 78,244
USA: 20,380
Troops:
British: 75,214
USA: 57,500
And so on the gray morning of June 6, 1944 word passed from person to person, through the radio messages, neighbor to neighbor, town to town: a flash flood of news: “The Americans! The Americans!”
I got to here, then it got to blurry to read.
FWIW, my father landed on Omaha Beach that day in the US Army.
This past winter I read Churchill’s six-volume history of WW2, and it left such a deep mark on my heart that I find it very hard to take Limbaugh chest-beating with no mention at all of the British, who were equal partners in the planning and execution of the invasion of Normandy, and who stood alone against the Axis powers for 3 years.
Churchill never would have committed such a slight, and would have found it intolerable I am sure.
WW2 Allied Casualties:
US: 407,300 out of pop. of 131,028,000
UK: 383,700 out of pop. of 47,760,000
Does the UK count include Commonwealth numbers as well?
Kind of looks like a peace dove?
After, we went to the mall and I took this picture: 
As do the people of Normandy, to this day.
A Normandy Girl Thanks American Soldiers Who Died Near Her Village
Feel free to write a tribute of your own to the brave Brits, who earned it.
Thanks for the post. I was in Infantry replacement training at this date. I was lucky I was not 6 months older or I likely would have been there. 5 months later I landed in Marseille part of a Regimental Combat Team. We were first in Patton’s 3rd Army than in Patch’s 7th. The last Nazi counter-attack to take Stassburg drove us back. We regrouped and by March we were on our way into Germany. I was in Munchen on April 30 when Hitler killed myself. Pardon me for writing this but I had to get it down while things were clear. I will be 91 this year so I hope you understand. Thanks Freepers.
God Bless You, Sir.
You are owed more than we can pay.
I was laying on the grass in Berlin today
Thank you, sir.
“but for the bravery of the Americans...”
I don’t think that comment was meant to belittle the contribution of the British and Canadians, but to emphasize the hardships the U.S. forces faced on Omaha beach. By a quirk of fate, Omaha Beach was defended by a veteran Wehrmacht infantry division, the 352nd, not a “static” division comprised of inferior troops.
What the U.S. 1st Div., 29th Div.,and Rangers faced at Omaha Beach was nothing like the other four Allied beaches. I believe the only other two-division amphibious force that could have taken Omaha Beach that day would have been the USMC.
Thank you for your service. We owe you a debt that can never be repaid.
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