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[GS78]

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general ... ml#article

[Drumstix61]

VJ Day?

[GS78]

At last midnight, just over twenty-four hours after the beginning of the operation, these were the salient points in the military situation:

1. Despite underwater obstacles and beach defenses, which in some areas extended for more than 1,000 yards inland, the Atlantic Wall has been breached by Allied infantry.

2. The largest air-borne force ever launched by the Allies has been successfully dropped behind the Atlantic Wall and has attacked by second echelon of German defenses vigorously. The Germans estimate this force at not less than four divisions, two American and two British, of paratroops and air-borne infantry.

3. Most of the German coastal batteries in the invasion area have been silenced by 10,000 tons of bombs and by shelling from 640 naval ships. The shelling was so intense that H M S Tanatside, a British destroyer, had exhausted all her ammunition by 8 o' clock yesterday morning.

4. Against 7,500 sorties flown from Monday midnight to 8 A.M., Tuesday, by the Allied Air Forces during the first day of the invasion the Luftwaffe has flown fifty, and the main weight of the enemy air force in the west, estimated at 1,750 aircraft, has not entered the battle.

5. The first enemy naval assault on the Allied invasion armada was beaten off with the loss of one enemy trawler and severe damage to another.

the link above is what people across the world were reading in their newspapers tommorrow......a day after the D-Day invasion.


Contrast it with todays' newspaper reports on "allied" conflicts.....

[GS78]

VJ Day?

close but no cigar.....today is the anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. 6 june 1944.


the allied forces lost more men on that day than we have lost in ten years of fighting in Afghanistan. All the hooplah we are hearing about Americas longest conflict....sadly we have reached one thousand dead in afghanistan.....but by comparison, there is none.

[Drumstix61]

D-Day was my first thought mate...

Roger that,
VJ Day was later with Japan.

actually It came to my mind as the" Invasion of the Normandy Beaches of the German Stronghold there".

Some brutal stuff happened on this day,
so long ago that some do not remember.


Good vigilance GS78...

"Lest we not remember,so we shall forget".

[Nat]

The National D-Day memorial in Bedford is having a day long celebration today in honor of the 66th Anniversary of the invasion. Bedford lost more men per capita than any locality in the Nation - thats why we have the memorial here in Bedford.
It is a beautiful place.

[pvfd304]

About six weeks after the landing date, my grandmother was informed that her son was KIA on the first wave of the assault. I never knew my great-uncle Noel, but he has lived on as a family hero.

Thanks to him and all the others who gave all, we can enjoy freedom.