Posted on 06/05/2024 11:30:08 AM PDT by DFG
Tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history, which begun of the liberation of France and western Europe from the Nazis.
Operation Overlord, the code name given to the invasion, saw more than 150,000 troops from the Allied forces land on five beaches in Normandy.
Candles will be lit on graves across Normandy this evening to remember the fallen, while world leaders, including the King and US President Joe Biden will be attending events on Thursday in commemoration.
Monday June 5, 1944
7.30am: At this moment precisely, naval officers are breaking open their sealed orders and discovering the best-kept military secret in history. Tomorrow, they’ll be sailing for Normandy. The Allied invasion will centre on five beaches, each of which has been given a code name. The British and Canadians have opted for Gold, Juno and Sword — from a list supplied by the British Army. The Americans will land on Utah and Omaha — names chosen by their generals.
9.00: Already, the biggest invasion force the world has ever seen is mobilising off the South Coast. In all, D-Day will involve more than 6,203 vessels — 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft and 864 merchant vessels.
1.00pm: At the Berghof, Adolf Hitler’s headquarters in the Bavarian Alps, his personal doctor Dr Theodor Morell is arriving for his daily appointment. The 54-year-old Fuhrer is a hypochondriac — and willingly takes the 28 different pills and injections Morell gives him every day. At Downing Street, as usual, Winston Churchill is having a large lunch with plenty of wine.
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"John has a long mustache"
And Joe Biden was there as a kid.
“D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIOQwPZ7-E
Beau was killed on Omaha Beach.
No way! Everyone knows he was single handedly scaling the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc and taking out the artillery all by himself!
Retroactively armchair quarterbacking here, but it doesn’t seem like a really great strategy to send thousands of people to be targets for the purpose of using up the enemy’s bullets. If it wasn’t for the sheer number of people that went ashore, they might have not made it. The natural selection component was that the men who were killed were more representative of the masculine nature of males. In the long run, bravery would be reduced among a population group. You could see how social engineering could be accomplished using wars.
Biden will somehow equate the death of his son to the men killed on D-Day. Almost guaranteed.
AC/DC did a song about this called, “Big balls.”
5.56mm
When we had a real president.
Ronald Reagan’s 40th Anniversary Of D-Day Speech
Wait? What!!!. I thought he said Beau was impaled on a church steeple in St Mer Eglise and Joe had him taken down.
The exchange rate at the time was $4.04 to £1. Factoring in inflation, at Govt-reported rates - the kid was carrying the equivalent of $259,104.67 into battle!
Wait? What!!!. I thought he said Beau was impaled on a church steeple in St Mer Eglise and Joe had him taken down.
And he never got a dinner!
Lost a leg and one arm in that adventure - now wearing the latest in leg and arm appliances, can’t tell.
Really? I thought died when his glider crashed on landing near St. Mere Eglise.
Beau was the one who got shot thinking the German soldier gave two clicks, when he was just reloading his rifle.
The SLA Marshall account is also very good -
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1960/11/first-wave-at-omaha-beach/303365/
Lest we forget.
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