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D-Day Countdown
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:10 am
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:10 am
This is pretty cool, guy does an hour by hour countdown leading up to D-Day.
This is not post one but you can go to his twitter and work backwards if wanted.
alex kershaw
@kershaw_alex
A few big picture things to consider as the first to fight get kitted up and prepare to jump into France in a few hours' time. This will help with my coverage today, tonight and tomorrow. You'll have to be up at 1.30 am on 6 June US time for first waves landing on the beaches. Here are the five phases to the operation. See below. The airborne drop, the first for most of the men, is already underway as C-47s and gliders are now being loaded. Almost every Allied commander is uncertain this will work.
Kershaw X LINK
This is not post one but you can go to his twitter and work backwards if wanted.
alex kershaw
@kershaw_alex
A few big picture things to consider as the first to fight get kitted up and prepare to jump into France in a few hours' time. This will help with my coverage today, tonight and tomorrow. You'll have to be up at 1.30 am on 6 June US time for first waves landing on the beaches. Here are the five phases to the operation. See below. The airborne drop, the first for most of the men, is already underway as C-47s and gliders are now being loaded. Almost every Allied commander is uncertain this will work.
Kershaw X LINK
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:11 am to OU Guy
alex kershaw
@kershaw_alex
D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong
@kershaw_alex
D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:13 am to OU Guy
"Think not of their passing. Remember the glory of their spirit." Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. 34 of these men are from Bedford, Virginia. 19 Bedford Boys in gray here now have less than 24 hours of life left. #TheBedfordBoys.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:13 am to OU Guy
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:22 am to OU Guy
I’ve always wanted to read Bedford Boys. Absolutely tragic what happened to Company A at Omaha Beach.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:33 am to OU Guy
DDAY 24 Hour coverage pt 1-4
All 24 hours of our D-Day coverage. Experience Operation Neptune with its full impact, and learn about many of the events and factors involved as well!
All 24 hours of our D-Day coverage. Experience Operation Neptune with its full impact, and learn about many of the events and factors involved as well!
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:34 am to sledgehammer
The Battlefield Explorer
@battlefieldexpl
Every parachute hook was still locked. When the crash site near Beuzeville-au-Plain was excavated, that one detail proved none of the men had got out. This is where Easy Company lost its commander before the company fired a shot.
On the night of 5-6 June 1944 a C-47 carrying First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III and the entire company headquarters group was hit by flak and came down here, north-east of Sainte-Mère-Église.
All twenty-two aboard died, and command of Easy Company passed to Lieutenant Richard Winters. A recovered watch had stopped at 01:12, the moment of the crash.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:37 am to OU Guy
Take time to read the replies to this post its children of the parents. A rare X post with all great heartfelt replies of their families relationships to the war.
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:43 am to OU Guy
I went to Point Du Hoc a few years ago and holy shite I can’t imagine climbing those walls that morning.
The video of the surviving soldiers talking about it in the museum there is tough to listen to.
The video of the surviving soldiers talking about it in the museum there is tough to listen to.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:44 am to OU Guy
Sergeant Jerome David Salinger, Utah Beach.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:54 am to OU Guy
Wish I had more info, My Grandfather was a glider pilot and did fly in that day, he was with the 101st, an original member I do believe. Retired as a Colonel was quartermaster at Ft Lee. He never spoke of it, as I cannot image what he went through.
Cousins have the little betty boop thing off of one of his gliders. I have his medals and a couple of spoils of war.
Cousins have the little betty boop thing off of one of his gliders. I have his medals and a couple of spoils of war.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:55 am to OU Guy
The bravest of the brave 
Posted on 6/5/26 at 11:56 am to highpockets
Duty calls. Americans on their way to France today. Most are 22-26 years old. 6,600 will be casualties in the next 24 hours. The price of European freedom.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 12:01 pm to HarryHoudini
Same. Very emotional place to be. The contour of Utah & Omaha is still scarred from the shelling. Read something last year that said something like 4% of the sand is shrapnel today.
There's an ol boy in town that was there. Still in good shape. Going to give him a call tomorrow.
There's an ol boy in town that was there. Still in good shape. Going to give him a call tomorrow.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 12:11 pm to OU Guy
Not an easy day. And we bitch often about things that don't really matter (I know I do and shouldn't). Very grateful for these men.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 12:38 pm to theballguy
Leon Gautier stands with his fellow French commandos and hundreds of Brits. He listens to Lord Lovat. “You are going home,” Lovat stresses in French. “You will be the first French soldiers to fight the [German] bastards in France itself. Each of you will have his own Boche." Photo by John Snowdon.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 12:42 pm to OU Guy
Greatness. Eisenhower's note, written today, in which he takes full responsibility - "mine alone" - in the event that D-Day fails.
Factoid: He was so nervous he signed it as July 5 not June 5
Factoid: He was so nervous he signed it as July 5 not June 5
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