[Dilbert San Diego]

I wonder how they teach World War 2 in schools today?

Listening to some liberals, World War 2 history consists of the alleged crime of interring Japanese-Americans, and the alleged crime of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I wonder if they teach the significance of D-Day to this generation of children. Or do they teach that we imprisoned our own people, and that we were wrong to use an atomic bomb.

[yarddog]

Sort of odd that this guy makes a mistake himself.

It was not Normandy and Omaha beaches. The area was the beaches of Normandy, but the individual beaches were named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword and Juno.

[Axenolith]

ARF! No beach was named Normandy either, they were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword...

[bjc]

If it wasn’t for the movie “Saving Private Ryan”, I doubt the number would have hit 70%. I bet that the % who have the basic facts about WWI or the Korean War or the Civil War is miniscule.

[Marathoner]

I’m reading Stephen Ambrose’s classic book on D-Day this week in honor of the occasion. It’s a shame far too many youth are totally ignorant of this significant event.

[Repeal The 17th]

D-Day Timeline
How events unfolded on June 6, 1944.

0000: First airborne troops begin to land.

0100: First Navy hands ordered to man battle stations. Landing craft begin to be lowered into the water; paratroopers cut phone lines and knock down telephone poles.

0200: First bombers take off to attack targets around the beachhead.

0300: Gliders begin to reinforce paratroops.

0309: German radar detects Allied invasion fleet. Adm. Krancke orders shore batteries to prepare for invasion.

0348: German E-boat flotillas and two armed trawlers get under way.

0430: First P-47s take off.

0520: Sunrise. Bombers drop first bombs on German targets.

0535: German shore batteries open fire; Allied naval forces return fire.

0537: E-boats commanded by Adm. Kranche fire torpedoes at Allied destroyers.

0600: LCT launch their DD tanks.

0620: Allied landing craft approach the beach.

0630: H-Hour on Utah, Omaha Beach; LCT 535 lands the first tanks on Omaha; 116th and 16th Infantry land at Omaha; Higgins boats near the beach; 8th Infantry Regiment lands at Utah Beach.

0641: USS Corry forced to abandon ship due to heavy gunfire and mine damage.

0645: Rangers assault Point-du-Hoc; 70th Tank Battalion begins to land at Utah.

0725: H-Hour for Sword Beach; British 3rd Division begins to land.

0735: British UDT and Royal Engineers land at Gold Beach, followed by Infantry from the 50th Division.

0800: 3rd Canadian Division lands at Juno Beach.

0830: LCM, LCT and LSTs land armor at Omaha.

0900: 2nd Ranger Battalion soldiers take Point-du-Hoc and defend it for the rest of the day.

0950: Destroyers engage the enemy for at Omaha under orders of Adm. C.F. Bryant; 18th Infantry goes ashore at Omaha.

1030: 115th Infantry lands at Omaha.

1030: 12th Infantry lands at Utah.

1045: Utah fairly secure, reserve battalions coming ashore.

1100: 18th Infantry begins to land at Omaha.

1110: 101st and 4th divisions linkup on Utah securing the first exit from the beach.

1300: Troops at Omaha begin to secure the beach.

1600: Hitler finally gives approval to release Panzer divisions.

1800: Elements of the 3rd Canadian Div, North Nova Scotia Highlanders reach five kilometers inland. 1st Hussar tanks cross the Caen-Bayeux railway, fifteen kilometers inland. Canadian Scottish link up with the 50th Division at Creully.

1900: 1st Division commander, General Huebner sets up command post on Omaha.

[ScottinVA]

To the dumbed-down class, the “D” in D-Day means “Da munny.”

[Nea Wood]

If they could have foreseen what America would become and how little their descendants know, or care, about their sacrifice, would they have done what they did?

It's not their descendents. It's post-1965 immigrants and THEIR descendents, who came here to make money and couldn't care less about WWII or any American history, (except how horrible and racist this country was and is.) That is the problem.

[dfwgator]

[Ditto]

Fewer than half knew Franklin Roosevelt was president and 15 percent identified the location of the landing as Pearl Harbor, not beaches named Normandy and Omaha.

Hummmmm? Normandy is the region of French where the landings took place. The code names for the landing beaches were Utah, Omaha, Sword, Juno, and Gold.

[GreenHornet]

a lot of people are clueless about central elements of the Allied invasion of the European continent on June 6, 1944.

A lot of people in this country are clueless about Benghazi, after all, "Dude, that was two years ago."

[Travis T. OJustice]

This wounds my heart with a monotonous langour.

[dfwgator]

Excellent website for the day’s radio broadcast as it happened.

https://archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day

[vetvetdoug]

AFR 35-10 required us to wear our Class A dress blue uniform every June 6th. I think that regulation probably has been repealed because the last time I was on a USAF base on June 6th it was just another day for them in uniform. Stationed on the coast in Mississippi on June 6th I hated to see that day fall on a weekday because it meant I was going to burn up that day. My NCOIC said to me that it wasn't nearly as hot and uncomfortable as what the men that fought on that date were.

[Fiji Hill]

June 6 is also the anniversary of the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918, in which the US Marines brought Germany’s springtime offensive to a halt and—arguably—turned the tide of World War I. How many young people today know that?

[Billthedrill]

BTT. One German pilot was quoted by Liddell Hart as stating that he knew the war was lost when he sighted the invasion fleet. I can believe it.

[Rusty0604]

But they know who Harvey Milk is and that’s all that matters.

[RobinOfKingston]

Colleges and universities clearly are not teaching what they once did.

The facts up to this point in the article were not college or university level material. At least up to 1965, they were either high school level, or facts that were absorbed by simply being American, not needing to be taught.

[potlatch]

WE'LL MEET AGAIN

WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

[geologist]

THANK YOU FOR THIS THREAD.

For the troops coming in, it was MORE horrible THAN anything any of us will experience, as is all war.

BRAVE MEN, ALL!

GOD BLESS THE SPIRIT OF 0UR FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA.