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re: The 75th anniversary of D-Day is upon us [UPDATED with PICS]
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:06 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:06 am to FLBooGoTigs1
We were at Omaha Beach for Macron and Trump. The Normandie American Cemetery is stunning. It overlooks the Channel from probably 150 ft.
So many great moments and flyovers and pomp and ceremony. Just a great experience.
So many great moments and flyovers and pomp and ceremony. Just a great experience.
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:19 am to Johnny Roastbeef
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Visiting Normandy and walking the beaches is on my bucket list.
Mine, as well.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:33 am to bayoubengals88
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The 75th anniversary of D-Day is upon us.
It’s currently 5:47 AM in Caen, Normandie as my group is en route to the shore.
I’m thinking on the great sacrifice as I listen to one of the best pieces John Williams ever wrote— Hymn to the Fallen
Thank you all service men and women past and present
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:34 am to bayoubengals88
6 June 1944
Omaha Beach
It's been hours since the first wave hit the beach and the situation is critical. The problem is the 352nd Infantry Division of the German Army. This unit is defending the beach but it wasn't supposed to be here. Recon didn't detect it before D-Day.
The 352nd Infantry Division is not a weak unit filled with old and sick men. Of the 12,020 men of the division, 6,800 are experienced combat troops. And it is an over-strength division. Most German infantry divisions by this time are weaker by a few thousand men at least. Sure, the division's defense sector is far more than what "doctrine" would permit, but, the defense is bolstered by a number of concrete gun emplacements, both large and small.
The German division commander is General Dietrich Kraiss, a WW 1 veteran and an old bird at 54 years old. He's quite satisfied with today's events so far. In fact, he and his staff believe at this very hour that the Allied invasion has been repulsed.
The sad truth is that the situation for the Americans at Omaha Beach didn't let up until the 352nd Infantry Division ran out of ammo during the afternoon hours of D-Day. Some of these battalions of the US 29th Infantry Division have taken such heavy losses that they will be combat ineffective until replacements arrive.
The Omaha Beach wiki is excellent.
LINK
Omaha Beach
It's been hours since the first wave hit the beach and the situation is critical. The problem is the 352nd Infantry Division of the German Army. This unit is defending the beach but it wasn't supposed to be here. Recon didn't detect it before D-Day.
The 352nd Infantry Division is not a weak unit filled with old and sick men. Of the 12,020 men of the division, 6,800 are experienced combat troops. And it is an over-strength division. Most German infantry divisions by this time are weaker by a few thousand men at least. Sure, the division's defense sector is far more than what "doctrine" would permit, but, the defense is bolstered by a number of concrete gun emplacements, both large and small.
The German division commander is General Dietrich Kraiss, a WW 1 veteran and an old bird at 54 years old. He's quite satisfied with today's events so far. In fact, he and his staff believe at this very hour that the Allied invasion has been repulsed.
The sad truth is that the situation for the Americans at Omaha Beach didn't let up until the 352nd Infantry Division ran out of ammo during the afternoon hours of D-Day. Some of these battalions of the US 29th Infantry Division have taken such heavy losses that they will be combat ineffective until replacements arrive.
The Omaha Beach wiki is excellent.
LINK
This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 8:38 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 9:24 am to Champagne
I saw it mentioned earlier in this thread.
"The Longest Day" is showing tonight at 7:00 Central on TCM - Turner Classic Movies.
Rated at 4 1/2 of 5 stars.
It was made in 1962 and stars
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Henry Fonda
Rod Steiger
Robert Ryan
Richard Burton
Roddy McDowall
Eddie Albert
Sean Connery
Robert Wagner
Red Buttons
Mel Ferrer
"The Longest Day" is showing tonight at 7:00 Central on TCM - Turner Classic Movies.
Rated at 4 1/2 of 5 stars.
It was made in 1962 and stars
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Henry Fonda
Rod Steiger
Robert Ryan
Richard Burton
Roddy McDowall
Eddie Albert
Sean Connery
Robert Wagner
Red Buttons
Mel Ferrer
Posted on 6/6/19 at 9:25 am to Tiger Ree
I don't normally like colorized versions of classic films, but, The Longest Day is an exception. I would like to see a high-quality colorized version of this film.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 9:27 am to Champagne
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I don't normally like colorized versions of classic films, but, The Longest Day is an exception. I would like to see a high-quality colorized version of this film.
Negative, would still look wonky
Also, Utah beach is a great story too. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was a fascinating individual.
This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 9:29 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 9:42 am to bayoubengals88
Posted on 6/6/19 at 9:53 am to TigerAlumni2010
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BOSTON —
The USS Constitution is scheduled to set sail from the Charlestown Navy Yard on Friday morning to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Battle of Normandy.
Soldiers and sailors will join to commemorate the historical milestone in a first-ever Army/Navy underway cruise.
The event is meant to highlight the service-to-service partnership between the U.S. Army and Navy both during World War II and today.
The ship will travel to Fort Independence on Castle Island, where it will fire a 21-gun salute at approximately 12 p.m. with a return salute from the 101st Field Artillery Regiment Massachusetts National Guard.
The USS Constitution will fire an additional 17-gun salute as it passes U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston, the former site of the Edmund Hartt’s shipyard where the Constitution was built and launched Oct. 21, 1797.
The public is encouraged to view the USS Constitution’s turnaround along the Boston Harbor Walk, Castle Island or Charlestown Navy Yard.
The USS Constitution will reopen for public tours on Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and will resume normal tour hours Saturday, June 8, at 10 a.m.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:20 am to bayoubengals88
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:26 am to rgsa
Anyone, like myself, who digs all things WWII owes it to themselves to read this book. It's amazing. This one launched me into all the other greats from Ambrose (who was from Wisconsin )
) This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 10:27 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 11:06 am to Jim Rockford
Holy Toledo that will be awesome. I've visited the USS Constitution in Boston Harbor but the thought of it weighing anchor, getting underway and firing a gun salute would be well worth another trip there.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 11:24 am to Chucktown_Badger
Stephen A was awesome and it is too bad that he is gone.
I think that he would agree that at this point in the history of The Longest Day, whether these landings would be successful was still uncertain.
If the Germans had positioned a couple more of their many armored divisions in France close to the landing zone, the counterattacks that they would be launching just now might just be able to crush the Allied troops on the beaches.
Just such a situation occurred during the September 1943 Salerno landings. The elements of the US 36th Infantry Division landing at Paestum were immediately counter-attacked by the 16th Panzer Division. The only thing that prevented the Americans from being wiped out and driven back into the sea was 6 inch naval gun-fire support from ships parked only 100 yards off-shore.
There is a Pearl Harbor Attack veteran that I personally know. He told me the story of his most horrible day of active duty and, strangely enough, Pearl Harbor wasn't it. You see, he was a US Navy landing craft helmsman for the landings at Paestum. Late in the day of the landings, his landing craft was tasked to go ashore to pick up the casualties of the US 36th Infantry Division. He told that the American dead were stacked on the beaches in piles like cord-wood. That sight gave him his nightmares more than what happened when his ship was attacked at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941.
The Boys of Paestum who suffered most were from the 141st Infantry Regiment (1st Texas) of the 36th Infantry Division.
Paestum
I think that he would agree that at this point in the history of The Longest Day, whether these landings would be successful was still uncertain.
If the Germans had positioned a couple more of their many armored divisions in France close to the landing zone, the counterattacks that they would be launching just now might just be able to crush the Allied troops on the beaches.
Just such a situation occurred during the September 1943 Salerno landings. The elements of the US 36th Infantry Division landing at Paestum were immediately counter-attacked by the 16th Panzer Division. The only thing that prevented the Americans from being wiped out and driven back into the sea was 6 inch naval gun-fire support from ships parked only 100 yards off-shore.
There is a Pearl Harbor Attack veteran that I personally know. He told me the story of his most horrible day of active duty and, strangely enough, Pearl Harbor wasn't it. You see, he was a US Navy landing craft helmsman for the landings at Paestum. Late in the day of the landings, his landing craft was tasked to go ashore to pick up the casualties of the US 36th Infantry Division. He told that the American dead were stacked on the beaches in piles like cord-wood. That sight gave him his nightmares more than what happened when his ship was attacked at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941.
The Boys of Paestum who suffered most were from the 141st Infantry Regiment (1st Texas) of the 36th Infantry Division.
Paestum
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:05 pm to Tiger Ree
Saw The Longest Day with my dad at a drive-in movie. He was a WWII vet. It seemed to me, as a young girl, to be the longest movie ever - it started to rain and I could barely see the screen. Daddy wouldn't leave. Miss him dearly.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:11 pm to Champagne
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He told that the American dead were stacked on the beaches in piles like cord-wood. That sight gave him his nightmares more than what happened when his ship was attacked at Pearl Harbor
I was raised not to ask my grandfather about WWII because he had a hard time adjusting when he returned.
One of the only times he spoke about the war was telling us about North Africa and seeing a convoy of "deuce and a halfs" heading towards the rear completely filled with dead GI's. He was marching towards the front
Imagine that. You are walking in the direction of a battle where literal truck loads of bodies are being carried back.
Found out later he was the skinniest guy in his unit. Think Capt America pre-radiation. He found himself in hand to hand combat with a huge German in Sicily, got his arse kicked and was about to be bayonetted when his buddy shot the Kraut
He later earned a Bronze star and an Army Cross for charging a MG nest at Anzio
This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:25 pm to Tigeralum2008
6 June 1944
21st Panzer Division Counter-attacks !
This vaunted panzer division, a veteran of the Afrika Korps, was stationed just south of Caen on that fateful day. Now their tanks and panzergrenadiers are hell-bent on driving the Canadian and British forces back into the sea.
Counterattack
21st Panzer Division Counter-attacks !
This vaunted panzer division, a veteran of the Afrika Korps, was stationed just south of Caen on that fateful day. Now their tanks and panzergrenadiers are hell-bent on driving the Canadian and British forces back into the sea.
Counterattack
This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:31 pm to Champagne
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Caen
That was a big clusterfrick for ol' Monty.
Did anyone here attend the 50th anniversary of D-Day reenactment at Pontchartrain Beach back in the day? I remember it well.
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