#6 june 1944

[newyorkthegoldenage]

D-Day services at Congregation Emunath Israel on West 23rd Street, June 6, 1944.

Photo: Howard Hollem et al. for the Office of War Information via Shorpy

[walkingthroughthisworld]

Troops watch activity ashore on Omaha Beach as their landing craft approaches the shore on D-Day, 6 June 1944, during the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. (Photo courtesy of the Army Signal Corps Collection via the National Archives)

[vox-anglosphere]

D-Day paratroopers over Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 and in 2004

[ireton]

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. 

[freetheshit-outofyou]

I have no words that have not already been said about the men and women who embarked on this endeavor, but I still thank them. I thank them from a place very few will ever know.

“We’ll start the war from right here!”

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division, first wave on Utah Beach. He would die 5 weeks later from a heart attack at 56 yo.

"You get your ass on the beach. I'll be there waiting for you and I'll tell you what to do. There ain't anything in this plan that is going to go right."

Colonel Paul R. Goode, in a pre-attack briefing to the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach

[oldschoolfrp]

D-Day, designed by Charles S Roberts for Avalon Hill, 1961 -- Credited as the first "hex and chit" wargame, D-Day was published only 17 years after the events of June 6, 1944. My copy of D-Day appears to be the 1962 first revision, aka "1961B." The annual Charles S Roberts awards are named for the pioneering designer and founder of Avalon Hill.

[spiritundaunted]

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80 years ago

[walkingthroughthisworld]

[theghostwhotumbles]

Shame on you America!

Did they die in vain? HEADLINE: U.S. Capitol police stop children’s choir from singing the National Anthem because “it might offend someone.” https://billmichelmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/b3wjh8.mp4 HEADLINE: Fort Bragg in North Carolina renamed because the historic garrison was named after General Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general. Many boys from the South were among the brave souls…

[floridaboiler]

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans in 2024 see Hitler and Nazi Germany as aspirational.

Trump would have praised Hitler in 1938 and bragged about love letters.

History has the facts of fascism. It was horrible. It targeted and killed millions. It was crushed by democracy. The end of fascism and victory by the US in WWII, along with strong domestic social policies like social security, GI bill, and tax rates that provided all the spending with no deficits or borrowing, ushered in the strongest economy ever seen.

80 years after D-Day, lazy, crass Republicans have failed so horribly at personal growth and histroical awareness that they want to regurgitate fascism. Fcuk that.

[theworldatwar]

US soldiers on board ship get ready for the D-Day landings - June 1944 CREDIT IWM

[vox-anglosphere]

Media coverage of D-Day was superb, on both sides of the Atlantic!

As D-Day celebrations come to an end, we take a look back at some of the special moments 

[iceman-kazansky]

On this day, 79 years ago, 326,547 troops and 54,186 vehicles were deployed to the beaches of Normandy.

This day is better known as The Day of Days or D-day, codenamed "Operation Overlord."

[vox-anglosphere]

On this day in 1944, the hinge of European history began to turn.