Posted on 12/28/2018 4:39:14 PM PST by DFG
The Royal Mail got a good licking for planning to release a stamp marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day by using an image of US forces landing about 8,500 miles from Normandy Beach, according to a report.
Captioned “Allied soldiers and medics wade ashore,” the stamp was meant to depict the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, in France — but was actually taken in Dutch New Guinea in what is modern-day Indonesia, according to the BBC.
The stamp — which was expected to be released next year in a “Best of British” collection — sparked a backlash on social media during a Thursday preview.
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If you ask a millennial what D-Day was, you’ll probably get the wrong answer.
So it’s about a $1.62 to mail a letter in England, kind of pricey.
I know of a rather intelligent and competent guy who believed that the Germans did bomb Pearl Harbor.
" Bloody OOPS "
By the time England goes full on muslim dominated, infidel history won’t be thought of
Indonesia.....France........
They’re almost spelled the same.
Half the Normandy invaders were British or Canadian. They couldn't find any pictures of Brits?
The E-Frame hadn’t been invented by then.
I believe beaches Gold, Juno, and Sword were the Canadian, British, and French beaches.
No French landed on D-Day itself that I know of.
Yes, those three beaches were English/Commonwealth (Canadian)
However, EVERY beach landing “day” was H-Hour on D-Day! It was only after the Normandy landing on June 44 that “the D Day” invasion “name” was claimed by the “writers” as unique to the June Normandy invasion.
By naming D Day, and H-Hour generically, any schedule could be made up with dates extending before and after the actual date for reinforcement and supply buildup. D Day + 1, D-Day +2, D Day + 4...10 could be planned. And, if the invasion were rescheduled, the plan remained correct.
Ingrate Limey poofters.
Letter
24 cm long
16.5cm wide
0.5cm thick
100g
First class: 67p
Second class: 58p
No idea what requires 1.25 pounds.
Interesting. I had a neighbor kid I went to grade school with. His dad landed at Omaha beach. Never heard his dad Reid ever mention it. I also knew a man that landed on day 3 of the Iwo Jima battle. Three Carpenters I worked with as a laborer my last year in High school all servered in WWII just before my Navy time in the 70’s. None spoke of combat, just the hell raising and the coming home. All three told me I wasn’t going to like it. They were right.
That stamp will be a collectors item.
Pardon my ignorance but aren’t medics also soldiers? Why do we need to differentiate?
If I was a British subject, I’d raise hell about the mistake. The US beach Omaha sucked most but none of them were a peach. How hard can it be to get history right? Next will be a stamp with the RAF fighting me-109’s in a freaking ballon. They need a Churchill to kick some a@@ again.
That is a very valuable stamp.
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