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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Maverick on June 05, 2008, 11:40:51 PM
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"June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied Troops landed long a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler."
64 years have passed and so many of them are gone forever. For those who were there and participated, Thanks. For those that passed on that day and later, RIP.
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(http://www.truthmove.org/workspace/photos-content/rfk_shot2.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Robertkennedy.jpg)
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and what dose he have to do with D-Day??? he was shot in 68 right? The thred was for the troops who landed on D-Day. :furious
And to thouse troops :salute past and present
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Besides, Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5th, not June 6th.
(if you're going to hijack, at least be accurate with your tools!)
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He was shot June 5th and died the next day. But, yeah, obviously the thread was about Operation Overlord.
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Ever wonder how the outcome might have been if Ike chose to bring the troops back and wait for better weather rather than send them off the Normandy on June 6th? Do you think it would still have been a success??
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The allies had the german high command duped so profoundly through counter-intelligence operations that, yes, I believe it still would have been a success. Also, Hitler's sheer stupidity/madness helped the allies on many occasions, including this one.
:salute to the fallen.
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My father-in law was there. Let me relay his story.
There were dead bodies and landing crafts on fire up and down the beach on Omaha. He was carrying an 88mm mortar that he was supposed to leave on the beach. He lost his M1 Garand in the surf coming ashore. There were still active gun enplacements on the hill firing down on them.
He got to get up behind a concrete emplacement free from sniper fire and was approached by an officer who asked where his weapon was. He told the officer about losing it in the surf, and the officer ordered him to find another among the dead & wounded, which he did. After picking it up, he ran to a nearby small concrete white building with another soldier in tow. A mortar shell landed and killed the other solder, and small bits of schrapnel hit his left leg.
Shortly thereafter, the order came to go up the hill, and he did. Once to the top of the hill, others started firing at some snipers that had gotten in to some slit trenches. He got down and pulled back his Garand only to find he had charged the hill emplacements with an unloaded weapon. He reloaded it from his bandolier, but by this time there was nothing to fire at.
He spent that night in a ditch, all the while incoming artillery zinging over his head.
The next few nights were better, he actually had a foxhole on the American extreme left. The next foxhole over was the British extreme right.
Today....he HATES SPAM and refuses to eat it.
To (then) Pvt John Chrismas :salute :salute :salute :salute
He was a citizen of Canada serving in the 1st.
Also 2x Bronze Star recipient--wounded at Hertegen Forest.
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