D-Day, June 6 1944

[Singlemalt]

It's gonna take some time to realize, but if you look
inside im sure you'll find, over your shoulder you know that I told you I'd always be picking you up when you're down so just turn around Ooooooooh.

Don't need you to pick me up, Jessie; I'll be dead by the time you could. I appreciate the thought, and see some potential in you; whether or not you step up is still unknown' so I leave you a way out. Don't fuck up kid

 

[Shea_Heights]

What's so fantastic about d day I know it was a major event in history but it's old now.

Whats so fantastic about D-Day? I hope you are not being serious because D-Day was the biggest seaborne invasion and the greatest military campaign the world has seen. All of these are facts about D-Day:

Allied troops landed in Normandy156,115
American (Omaha & Utah beaches + airborne)73,000
British (Gold & Sword beaches + airborne)61,715
Canadian (Juno Beach)21,400
Airborne troops (included in figures above)23,400
Aircraft supporting the landings 11,590
Sorties flown by allied aircraft14,674
Aircraft lost 127
Naval vessels in Operation Neptune6939
Naval combat ships1213
Landing ships and landing craft4126
Ancillary craft736
Merchant vessels864
Personnel in Operation Neptune 195,700
American52,889
British112,824
Other allied4988

• Until the very last minute, the place of invasion - Normandy - was the most heavily guarded secret on the planet.

• Even the units conducting the initial assaults did not know the locations of their landings.

• Surprise was crucial since Germany had 55 divisions in France - the Allies could transport no more than 8 divisions on D-Day morning.

• It is estimated that nearly 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen were involved in Operation Overlord, including U.S., British, and Canadians who were scheduled to fight after men on the ground secured a Normandy bridgehead.

• 195,000 naval personnel manned 6,939 naval vessels (including 1,200 warships and 15 hospital ships).

• About 17 million maps supported the mission.

• Training maps used fake names.

• The United States shipped 7 million tons of supplies (that translates into 14 billion pounds of material).

• Of those supplies, ammunition accounted for 448,000 tons.

• Air-support operations - often overlooked in the success of D-Day - sustained significant losses: Between the 1st of April and the 5th of June, 1944, the Allies flew 14,000 missions losing 12,000 airmen and 2,000 aircraft.

• 127 more planes were lost on D-Day.

• By the end of the Normandy campaign, 28,000 airmen were dead.

• Instead of two days, it took Germany's 2nd Waffen SS Division two weeks to reach the front. Allied air power, Eisenhower's spies and French Resistance contacts all contributed to that result.

• There are 9,386 graves in the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. Each grave faces west, toward America.

• 307 of those graves contain the remains of "unknown" soldiers.

• 1,557 names are listed in The Garden of the Missing for those who were never found.

• 4,868 British dead are buried in the Bayeux Cemetery.

• 1,837 British names are listed at Bayeux for those who were never found.

• There were 946 Canadian casualties in the Normandy campaign.

• 21,500 German dead are buried at LaCambe.
  
  
  "these men came here - British and our allies, and Americans - to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom. . . . Many thousands of men have died for such ideals as these. . . but these young boys. . . were cut off in their prime. . . I devoutly hope that we will never again have to see such scenes as these. I think and hope, and pray, that humanity will have learned. . . we must find some way . . . to gain an eternal peace for this world"-General Eisenhower
  
  Most of these heros had zero military experience(Farmers,Fishermen,Factory workers and 17/18 year old kids just out of school) and were thrown in small landing craft headed toward concret bunkers with mounted machine guns aimed at them as soon as the craft doors let down and nowhere to go besides foward toward the guns shooting at them. D-Day was a all or nothing invasion that if the allied forces had lost d-day Germany would of won the war and all of us would be speaking in German right now. Next time your enjoying smoking on some good bud remember its because of them heros on dday who gave there lifes fightting for their freedom for back then and our freedom for the now.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

[panhead]

What's so fantastic about d day I know it was a major event in history but it's old now.

If your truly anaware of why those men are heros of the largest kind rent the hbo miniseries called Band of Brothers , its the story of the usa's 1st attempt at airborn troops parachuting behind enemy lines , the 101st airborns easy companys exploits are shown .

From the second they hit the ground they were surrounded on all sides by the SS & Whermacht , they had to fight their way over 100 miles in enemy territory to link up with the men storming the beaches , the 12 men of E company attacked heavily fortified german positions that were firing four 105 mm artillery directly into the soldiers srorming the beach causing mass slaughter , the 12 men overtook the 4 artillery squads along with 2 mg 42 machine gun positions ( fastest machine gun in the world ) & destroyed all 4 artillery guns making the beach landings much safer , their mission should of took 50 men but they did it with 12 .

Later in the war in whats known as the Battle of the Bulge Hitlers SS started a feirce counter attack along a 100 mile front & was killing americans & taking huge amounts of US held terratory , it was one of the feircest battles of ww2 , E company was sent in to hold the line in 20- zero weather with no winter clothing & very little ammo , they suffered huge losses by the SS shelling their position with their deadly 88 mm versitile artillery guns using tree burst shells , the men of E company were shelled by high explosives hitting the ground & landing in trees sending shattered peices of trees thru the air that cut men in half , they were surrounded by the SS without food , medicine or ammuntion to fight back & when the germans offered them an honorable surrender they told the germans to fuck off & held the line .

WW2's most famous general George Pattons men had been fighting for 30 days straight on a rampage that covered more miles of attack than any other battle group in the history of war , after fighting non stop Patton ordered his army to head for Bastogne where E company was surrounded & being slaughtered , Pattons men marched for 3 days 24 hours a day non stop to reach Bastogne in time to rescue E company , after 3 & 1/2 days of non stop travel pattons army reached the lines , beat the germans back & rescued E company .

General Pattons rampage was so feared by the germans the us army used Patton as a decoy in another area so Hitler would think Patton was attacking Callis & allow our forces to storm the beaches at Normandy , when general Patton did pick up the attack his 3rd armys attack of the germans was so fast & dealdy when the leader of our armies ( Ike ) toured the battle zone left by Pattons men he was horrified at the death , his memouirs say he thought he could walk for miles stepping on nothing but dead bodies , Pattons armored Battle techniques & E companys assult of a heavily fortified fixed position are still taught at west point military academy today .

And the war in europe was the easy war, the war the marines fought in the pacific against japan was the largest assembly of men , machines & ships ever assembled in the history of war & even larger than the force used in Normandy on D day , marines fought & died for inches of ground on islands like Tarawa , in the battle of guatacanal the us navy lost well over 5,000 men from japanese fighter pilots who flew their planes directly into the decks of US navy ships like flying bombs , once marines did hit the beaches they faced the japaneese army who would rather die than surrender , most had to be burned alive using flame throwers or grenades thrown in caves & underground tunnels , at that time the japanese navy was the best naval force in the world with the most firepower & our navy had to slug it out with them , the death toll of marines fighting japan was so horrific it dwarfed all deaths in the war in europe , us command expected atleast 1 million casulties if we invaded the home island of japan , thats when the decision to drop the atomic bomb took place .

The death toll of rhe russians caused by german soldiers was well over 2 million men & germany came within miles of capturing moscow , the severe russian winter saved them from certian defeat .

Thats ww2 in a nutshell .

Watch the movie titled Patton , then the follow up The last days of Patton as well as the mini series Band of Brothers & you'll understand why men like my father were the greatest generation , many fighting the war of all wars as young as 14 yrs old .

 

[panhead]

My great uncle got a silver star in WW2 don't think he did D-Day though not sure what he did was dead before I was born.

My father didnt get any significant medals in ww2 but he did in the Korean war , he was part of the frozen chozen group , after surviving ww2 in the pacific he was called back to active duty for the Korean war .

To the day my dad died he had a way about him that made me respect him , he was my hero for sure & won serious medals in Korea.

 

[panhead]

You shouldn't you have any idea what Hitler would have done with black people? I'm not sure but either death or slavery I would guess damn sure not going to a white mans rehab. lol

I know what Hitler & Himler woulda done to black people , they were considered Untermensch just like jews & all mixed races , they'd of made lamp shades out of his ass & stuffed pillow cases with his hair .

Supprisingly many blacks did fight on the side of the Axis powers supporting Hitler , some even in the Waffen SS .

 

[Singlemalt]

I know what Hitler & Himler woulda done to black people , they were considered Untermensch just like jews & all mixed races , they'd of made lamp shades out of his ass & stuffed pillow cases with his hair .

Supprisingly many blacks did fight on the side of the Axis powers supporting Hitler , some even in the Waffen SS .

Those were Africans, who were snookered; the colonialist Euros hadn't treated them well

 

[dux]

Can't even imagine the courage of men back in the 1940's !!
So many good lives were stopped because of a dilusional German nut job, still so sad...

 

[panhead]

Most of these kids have no idea how close the world came to being nazified , Hitlers bad decision making is the only thing that stopped it from happening , had the german luftwaffe continued its attack in the Battle of Britain the Brits woulda been beaten in just a few weeks .

Hitler forced changes be made to the worlds 1st jet fighter plane demanding it be a fighter bomber , that set the program back 2 full yrs , had he not delayed their production no allied fighter coulda fought off a force of ME 262's , germany woulda dominated the sky .

Hitler also stuck his hands in the worlds 1st radar invisable long range bomber , the Horton HO 229 was the worlds 1st stealth aircraft & decades ahead of its time .

Hitler also wouldnt allow his infantry to be armed with the worlds 1st assult rifle the STG 44 Stormgiver , only small portions of the SS were allowed to adopt the weapon .

Allied leaders thought about assassinating Hitler but decided the Germans would be much harder to beat without Hitlers meddling in military projects & campaigns.

Fuk , they had the worlds 1st guided missles , the worlds 1st ballistic missles & Hitler misused those advantages as well .

All this ww2 talk made me break out the movies , im doing Band of Brothers disc 3 right now where their talking about Ronald Spears exploits of running thru deadly mg 42 machine gun fire twice to recon with the attack group & where he single handed took out the last 105 artillery hitting Ohmaha beach on D day , all those dudes back then were bad ass .

 

[panhead]

Anybody else pissed off of the fact we & the brits had to fight the french troops we were trying to liberate ? Those Vichy french that fought for Hitler shoulda been hung & General Dugal made to suk Churchills cock .

 

[vostok]

I know what Hitler & Himler woulda done to black people , they were considered Untermensch just like jews & all mixed races , they'd of made lamp shades out of his ass & stuffed pillow cases with his hair .

Surprisingly many blacks did fight on the side of the Axis powers supporting Hitler , some even in the Waffen SS .

This is correct ...at high school years ago I wrote a thesis on the racial discrimination on both sides of the war, usa blacks were kept in the rear, doing repair stuff, very few made it to the front line, the vast majority of yanks at the time didn't trust them, and were in fact afraid they would join the German side in the war, however Jewish Gi's were encouraged, and even many German GI's made it to the pacific instead, to this day many Brits can talk about the GI blacks giving it to the British women ...back in them soviet days we were well trained on the ways of the forthcoming nato and their tricks ...lol

 

[ttystikk]

If the early years of this century parallel the Roaring Twenties and the past few years have been analogous to the Great Depression, I'm very concerned about what comes next.

History likes to repeat herself until her lessons are well learned- or there is no one left to learn them.

 

[panhead]

This is correct ...at high school years ago I wrote a thesis on the racial discrimination on both sides of the war, usa blacks were kept in the rear, doing repair stuff, very few made it to the front line, the vast majority of yanks at the time didn't trust them, and were in fact afraid they would join the German side in the war, however Jewish Gi's were encouraged, and even many German GI's made it to the pacific instead, to this day many Brits can talk about the GI blacks giving it to the British women ...back in them soviet days we were well trained on the ways of the forthcoming nato and their tricks ...lol

The USSR days were fun while growing up , i remember in grade school being taught to duck & cover in the event we were in an atomic explosion from a Russion nuke .

Looking back we were an ignorant bunch , wtf is hiding under a school desk gonna do if a nuke drops near you

I remember my dad & his friends all helping each other dig bomb shelters in our basements & stocking canned food & water incase a nuke hit Detroit ,our shelter connected with the next door neighbors shelter between the houses , i wish somebody would make a doccumentary about the hidden bomb & fallout shelters of the 50's , we all thought mutually assured destruction was gonna happen , different times though ,now people dont give a thought to nuclear war .

 

[vostok]

it never occur d to any of us, to go to the west, not until I was about 17 and my flying instructor was always on about it, we kept quiet initially thinking he was a political cop, in the end I followed him thru all the turns, even got the shit beat out of me, by the British army cops, but still its character building lol
right now it wake up time for all the Russian Christians who have been starved of prayer for the last 70 years, keep them happy and your world is your oyster ...just ask Putin ...lol

 

[BarnBuster]

worth an annual bump