"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
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.
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
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!
The SLA Marshall account is also very good -
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1960/11/first-wave-at-omaha-beach/303365/
What a great read.
Shameless plug time. If you are ever in St. Lucie County, Fl. Visit, The National Navy SEAL Museum.
https://www.navysealmuseum.org/fort-pierce
Fort Pierce is where training for DDay was done.
Excellent book: “Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France” by James Holland. 650 pages.
I feel very fortunate to have been able to visit the D-Day Landing Beaches back in 2006. It was the only reason I went to Paris, so I could book a bus tour for the day.
On that day, my father was riding in the top turret of a B17 while bombing the beaches. Unfortunately for the landing, the bombs fell too far inland. Fortunately for the beachhead, the bombs held back German reinforcements.
As Stephen Ambrose wrote, the allies succeeded on D-Day because for everything that went wrong, something else went right.
At roughly 3:30 PM EST the Paratroopers took off (9:30 PM UK Time) for the coast of Normandy. Each of 20 C-47s carried TEN US 82nd Airborne Division or TEN US 101st Airborne Division elite Paratroopers. Oxfordshire & Buckingham Light Infantry took off at 10:46PM in wooden/canvas gliders towed by Halifax Bombers toward the Caen Canal and Orne River and the Pegasus & Horsa bridges there- 372 miles in gliders.
For a better than 2 hour flight across the Channel to parachute into the landing zones/attack zones that were to be assaulted- and mark them. Arriving at 12 midnite (6:00 PM EST US-80 Years Ago) to 2AM Normandy time scattered behind the intended beachheads.. Incredible. The British gliders arrived at 12:16 AM (6:16PM 80 years ago EST).
Humbling to think and to remember. God Bless these Brave Soldiers.
Changed history alright. Now germany is gay and full of muzzy degenerates
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