#Normandy Beach

[timmurleyart]

The sands of Normandy. 🏝️💣🧨

[eugenesisland]

Survivor Willys MB at Normandy

[secondworldwarremembrancedays]

Remember the D-Day invasion: June 1944.

The largest amphibious operation in history involved more than 5,000 ships landing Allied troops on a heavily-defended 50-mile stretch of Normandy coastline, while thousands more took part in an airborne assault.

A major deception operation fooled the Germans into thinking that the landings were a feint, and resistance was light at four out of five landing sites. On the fifth, Omaha Beach, U.S. forces came under heavy fire and 2,000 died as they fought to break out of the beachhead. The Germans failed to organize rapidly to meet the threat. Within a week, the Allies had landed more than 300,000 troops in Normandy.

[jonberry555]

NatGeo's Eyewitness D-Day Review

My review of National Geographic's Eyewitness D-Day Narrated by Qarie Marshal, written & produced by Paul Olding, and Directed by Hereward Pelling. And a look at D-Day in media.

[rdng1230]

I was lucky enough that my family’s Normandy beach fighter was still around when I was a teenager. I’m pretty sure he woulda ripped that woman to shreds too. RIP Junie, (first person in the second row there) we miss you around here.

smacked right in the mouth

[tearsofrefugees]

French police stand by as Channel migrants leave Normandy beach for Britain

[mikehaysbooks]

A Words Look: General Eisenhower’s D-Day Letter to the Allied Expeditionary Force

DDay+80—eighty years since the Greatest Generation began the greatest offensive in all human history directed at the face of tyranny.  With three writing projects in the orbit of three different eras of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s professional life, I’ve done quite a bit of reading and research on Ike Eisenhower. The most important thing I’ve discovered in this work is how much I find Ike’s ideas and…

[fathersonholygore]

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon SEASON 1 FINALE "Coming Home"

AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 1×06 “Coming Home” Directed by Daniel Percival Written by Jason Richman & Laura Snow * For a recap & review of the penultimate episode, click here. * Season 2 recaps & reviews to come next year! Last we left Daryl he was in the pit with a zombie about to fight. This episode opens with soldiers strewn across a beach. Is this a scene from Normandy in World War…

[pqgeographies]

The Atlantic Wall

It said that world could be a better place if we would build bridges instead of walls. Perhaps like me you wondered what are those concrete bunkers that litter coasts of Channel Islands, Norway, Denmark, Lower Countries and France. Covered with colourful graffiti and long ago washed off their original positions they look surreal on the wide sandy Atlantic beaches. The story goes they are…

[opdrie]

[theworldatwar]

US soldiers give cover on Omaha beach - 6th June 1944

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach. Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still, caught in the moment by US Army Signal Corps photographer Walter Rosenblum in one of the most famous images of D-Day.

This image quickly became one of the most iconic of D-Day, used and reproduced by the thousands to represent the titanic struggle that started on the beaches of Northern France on June 6. The only complication to this representation is this photo was taken on June 7, D+1.

(Photo by: Walter Rosenblum/USA)

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I will never be over Jake mentioning that his great-grandfather was in World War II, and Marco casually going "oh yeah, me too, WWII sucked real bad." I know this is the 31st book in the series and all, but it literally never gets explained in context.

[bonefall]

Man I love women happy Bumble day everyone

Happy Bumble Day to all who celebrate, 1 Hour Long Moonkitti talking video has come drifting down from the heavens like an empyrean feather off an angel's wing.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" I had it bad. The empty camera trembled in my hands. It was a new kind of fear shaking my body from toe to hair, and twisting my face. Remembrance of landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day. "

- Robert Capa

📷 Robert Capa