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This day in History: D-Day, June 6, 1944
History.com ^ | June 6, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 06/06/2007 5:12:35 AM PDT by abb

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Lest we forget
1 posted on 06/06/2007 5:12:38 AM PDT by abb
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Amazing...notice that the word “quagmire” doesn’t appear in the article..despite the 3,000 KIA, and the “failure” to land only half of the needed material.


2 posted on 06/06/2007 5:15:30 AM PDT by ken5050
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I’m putting The Longest Day on when I get home tonight.


3 posted on 06/06/2007 5:23:46 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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The libs whine about every casualty in Iraq. Compare this to D-Day, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Belleau Wood, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, the Wilderness, and the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

One day’s battle in WWI on the western front - OVER 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) DEAD!!!! IN ONE DAY!!!!

For the people who have lost sons and daughters, yes it is a tragedy. But taken overall, in context, the casualty list is amazingly small.

4 posted on 06/06/2007 5:24:08 AM PDT by fredhead (Teach a man to fish.......and he'll fish for a lifetime.)
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To: theDentist

I’m putting on The Longest Yard....ooops, the wrong longest!


5 posted on 06/06/2007 5:28:56 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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That’s because it was a successful ‘surge’. And, never mind that the US military was ‘Johnny on the spot’ for a free world resigned to defeat and a UK bled white and about bankrupt by that time!
6 posted on 06/06/2007 5:30:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the solders and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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That depends... is it the original Longest Yard, with Burt Reynolds, or the remake of Longest Yard, also with Burt Reynolds?


7 posted on 06/06/2007 5:35:05 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: abb

On this day in history, my dad was with Mark Clark and the 5th Army helping to liberate the city of Rome from the Axis powers


8 posted on 06/06/2007 5:37:26 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: fredhead
One day’s battle in WWI on the western front - OVER 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) DEAD!!!! IN ONE DAY!!!!

Not quite. The Battle of Somme in WWI on July 1st 1916, the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead in 1 day. But by the end of the battle Feb 24 1917, their was over 1 million dead.

9 posted on 06/06/2007 5:39:08 AM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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One day’s battle in WWI on the western front - OVER 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) DEAD!!!! IN ONE DAY!!!!

C'mon, I think that's a bit of a stretch.

Two of the deadliest battles of The Great War were Verdun and the Somme.

Verdun killed and wounded around a million, but that was over the course of nearly a year.

At the Somme, Britain's worst losses were 20,000 killed and 30,000 wounded on the first day. Ultimately, nearly a third of a million men combined (English, French and German) were killed and twice that many wounded.

The Great War was truly barbaric beyond words, but a million killed in one day? That's a stretch.

10 posted on 06/06/2007 5:41:28 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Channel 4 on XM is running their programming as if it was June 6, 1944, including breaking news interuptions, prayers by major religious leaders in the US and the like. Kind of amazing to hear the announcer talking about prayers, God, and NBC, all at once.


11 posted on 06/06/2007 5:43:24 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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God bless your father - we owe him and his a debt that we can never repay.

My next-door neighbor passed away four years ago - on this day, 1944, he was in a landing craft, going ashore at Normandy. I made sure that my daughter got to meet him, got to hear some of his experiences, and got a better understanding of what that generation did for those of us that weren’t born yet.


12 posted on 06/06/2007 5:46:03 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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Until then........

You can listen to the day unfold as it did on the radio on June 6, 1944. My internet radio station is streaming the entire day's broadcast as it happened. Go to:

War Time Homefront Radio

13 posted on 06/06/2007 5:46:50 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: abb
Operation Overlord, code-named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.

D-Day is what the first day of any amphibious landing was called.

The code name was Operation Overlord.

You'd think an educational channel would do the research to learn this.

14 posted on 06/06/2007 5:47:22 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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I wonder how bad LBJ would have screwed this up if Pearl Harbor had happened and Churchill asked for help? For that matter, Eisenhower never would have been trusted to give the “go ahead” for the invasion. Probably the most important decision of the 20th century.


15 posted on 06/06/2007 5:49:16 AM PDT by BerryDingle
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To: Bommer
As bloody as WWII was, the First War had to be the nastiest in terms of concentrated horror and senseless slaughter. The things those guys endured, trenches, gas, tanks, flamethrowers, some of which had never been seen before in battle and some on not as large a scale, are the kinds of things we can't imagine going through today.

That said, it is a day to honor those who went ashore on that fateful day in 1944 and literally saved the world from the despotism and insanity of Hitler and the Third Reich. My Dad was among them, in the 79th Infantry that went ashore on Utah beach. As much as I'd ask him, he'd never talk about it, except once, when I asked him what he saw as he waded ashore in the choppy and chilly surf, he said "Debris and bodies." Not the kind of thing one wants to recall, I imagine.

16 posted on 06/06/2007 5:51:14 AM PDT by chimera
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To: abb

BTT


17 posted on 06/06/2007 6:01:23 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: abb

Historic amnesia bump.


18 posted on 06/06/2007 6:10:01 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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And, never mind that the US military was ‘Johnny on the spot’ for a free world resigned to defeat and a UK bled white and about bankrupt by that time!

That's a strange and unhistorical comment. If the Free world was indeed resigned to defeat then it would have been defeated in 1940.

Half the forces at D-Day were Canadian, UK or 'Commonwealth' (India, Australia and many others). Half the forces in Italy on 6th June were Canadian, UK or Commonwealth, also Polish and French. Most of the forces in Burma were UK or Commonwealth. The only thing the Free World were resigned to was a long struggle.

19 posted on 06/06/2007 6:17:59 AM PDT by agere_contra
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Did the Dems talk of an exit strategy that afternoon?
20 posted on 06/06/2007 6:22:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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