D-Day at 80

[Captain Caveman]

Looks like I hit the nail on the head !! Lmfao

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

How stupid.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Taps and tears: WWII veterans visit D-Dayâs bloodiest beach

A group of nearly 70 World War II veterans visited Omaha Beach as part of what is likely to be the last major set of D-Day commemorations with large numbers of veterans in attendance.

www.stripes.com

 

[odanny]

Do you remember when Band of Brothers premiered on HBO?

September 9th, 2001.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

4,000 high school students give a rousing standing ovation at Normandy

 

[strollingbones]

 

[strollingbones]

 

[strollingbones]

some wise person said..those who trade freedoms for security end up with neither

 

[Stryder50]

Led by Capt. Dale Dye -- a decorated Marine Corps veteran who conducted the original boot camp; served as the show's military adviser; and also played the role of Col. Robert Sink -- more than a dozen "Band of Brothers" cast members will honor the men who landed on those bloody beaches eight decades ago while also raising money for veterans' charities in the process. 'Band of Brothers' Actors Are Training to Parachute into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
PLease dont send Joe or Kammy to this. Send someone with a tad bit more gravitas.

It's likely they jumped from this or one of the many other C-47s there.

CAF to Europe 2024

Learn about the Commemorative Air Force European Tour to Normandy for DDay80

commemorativeairforce.org

This aircraft reportedly was a lead aircraft on those para jumps that night.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Reminder: This massive battle was ordered with the commanders EXPECTING casualties to be about 25%, a significant percentage of them killed.

"We" no longer tolerate that level of risk in military adventures. Indeed, our soldiers would simply refuse to engage. The same is true of basically all "Western" nations today, including, conspicuously, Israel. Compare casualties in Vietnam (50k dead, more or less) with Iraq and Afghanistan - a small fraction of that number even though hostilities went on for a longer period.

Compare with Russia, Middle Eastern countries, any Islamic country, and other primitives. They will engage without regard to expected casualties. They will engage KNOWING that significant numbers of soldiers will be killed. They view it as the cost of engaging...not a problem.

Those who think people in other countries are "just like us" are fools.

It's not that the troops refuse to engage, it's that upper command has become casualty averse. If a commander has too many casualties his career is over.

 

[AZrailwhale]

He ran the "bootcamp" for the actors

Not just for Band of Brothers, he did it for Saving Private Ryan as well. People who went through it said it was really rough, much like real basic training. You can see how well it was done by how they handle their weapons and equipment on screen as well as how they move.

 

[strollingbones]

 

[Ringo]

And who do you represent here, Mr. Zelensky?
SS Division "Galicia".

 

[Deadstick]

And who do you represent here, Mr. Zelensky?
SS Division "Galicia".
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Those scumbags hijacked the events that should have been for the veterans Biden made Speeches that bordered on unhinged, they used the commemorations for political ends to promote their sordid war in Ukraine, only thing missing was the Ukrainian SS.

 

[whitehall]

D Day (June 6) 1944 gets all the hype while the Midway victory (June 4) 1942 turned the tide of war in the Pacific. In two hours the Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers and 40% of their pilots and they never were able to regain the loss.

 

[Ringo]

D Day (June 6) 1944 gets all the hype while the Midway victory (June 4) 1942 turned the tide of war in the Pacific. In two hours the Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers and 40% of their pilots and they never were able to regain the loss.

In the words of Ayatollah Khomeini, Germany was the Big Satan and Japan, the Little Satan. That's why so much attention was paid to the Normandy landings.

 

[whitehall]

In the words of Ayatollah Khomeini, Germany was the Big Satan and Japan, the Little Satan. That's why so much attention was paid to the Normandy landings.

It answers the question why FDR invited an attack at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. criminally underestimated the Japanese military.

 

[Deadstick]

This was the 6th of june this year at Pegasus Bridge, it was a hell of a gathering by the Cafe Gondree right at the side of Pegasus Bridge taken by the 6th airborne Div, three Horsa Giders landed by the Bridge with soldiers of the Oxrordshire and Buckinghamshire light infantry airborne quite an operation carried out in the dark just after midnight, we lost one man cut down my machine gun fire storming the Bridge, an officer Den Brotheridge.