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[Hoist!]

The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France during Operation Overlord in World War II. It covers from the initial landings on June 6, 1944 until the Allied breakout in mid-July.

It was the largest seaborne invasion at the time, involving over 850,000 troops crossing the English Channel from the United Kingdom to Normandy by the end of June 1944.

Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on June 6 came from Canada, Free French Forces, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the weeks following the invasion, Polish forces also participated and there were also contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and the Netherlands.[10] Most of the above countries also provided air and naval support, as did the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force and the Royal Norwegian Navy.

The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks, naval bombardments, an early morning amphibious landing and during the evening the remaining elements of the parachute divisions landed. The "D-Day" forces deployed from bases along the south coast of England, the most important of these being Portsmouth.


Date June 6, 1944 – mid-July 1944
Location Normandy, France
Result Decisive Allied victory
 
Belligerents:
 Australia
 Canada
 Free France
 New Zealand
 The Netherlands
 Norway
 Poland
 United Kingdom
 United States

 Germany
 
Commanders:
Dwight Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander)
Arthur Tedder (Deputy Supreme Allied Commander)
Bernard Montgomery (21st Army Group, Ground Forces Commander in Chief)
Trafford Leigh-Mallory (Air Commander in Chief)
Bertram Ramsay (Naval Commander in Chief)
Omar Bradley (U.S. 1st Army)
Miles Dempsey (British 2nd Army)

Gerd von Rundstedt (Oberbefehlshaber West)
Erwin Rommel (Heeresgruppe B)
Friedrich Dollmann (7.Armee Oberkommando)

Strength:
1,000,000 (by July 4)[3] 380,000 (by July 23)

Casualties and losses:
United States: 1,465 dead, 5,138 wounded, missing or captured;
United Kingdom: 2,700 dead, wounded or captured;
Canada: 500 dead; 621 wounded or captured;[5]
Total:10,264 Nazi Germany: Between 4,000 and 9,000 dead, wounded or captured

Another day to remember and appreciate some of the things that make us and have kept us free! Thanks again to our men and women of our Armed Services who protect and maintain our freedom!!!

Hoist!

[NukeIT]

Thanks Hoist for the reminder. For the significance that D-Day holds it surprises me how it can come and go so quietly....

Nuke

[elvislee]

Hoist...Another story of courage and ultimate sacrafice by not just American service members but those of the free world...Thanks to them all and thanks to you for your past posts of acknowledgements to them for which it can never be enough...Salute

[BigR55]

This was in the NewsMax mail this morning:

WASHINGTON -- Sixty-four years ago this week, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came on the radio and implored Americans to "devote themselves in a continuance of prayer ... invoking thy help to our efforts." The "effort" of which he spoke was Operation Overlord, the D-Day landing of 150,000 American and Allied troops at Normandy. The risks were so great that Winston Churchill told the people of Britain: "The invasion has been launched. The result is with God." FDR described it as "a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity."

Since then, those who fought their way ashore June 6, 1944, and successfully breached Hitler's Atlantic Wall have been honored justifiably for their participation in the momentous event. On the 40th anniversary of the operation, Ronald Reagan stood on that "lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France" and spoke of that "giant undertaking unparalleled in human history" and praised "the boys of Pointe du Hoc ... the heroes who helped end a war."

But that was then; and this is now. This year, the anniversary of their achievement received little notice in the so-called mainstream media. Perhaps that's because it would draw uncomfortable parallels between those who stormed the coast of France in 1944 and those who are fighting now -- and winning -- a war against radical Islam. Unlike those who braved their way into Hitler's Fortress Europe, the young Americans fighting today's battles reap few accolades from the potentates of the press or the liberal "leadership" in Washington.

So sad to see that three generations later how few young people even know anything of the sacrifices of that genereration. One hour of the History Channel should be required viewing in schools every day. Each day we lose a few more irreplaceable sources of untold stories. I was fortunate to have visited the Arizona Memorial when they still had volunteers who were actually there conduct the tour and describe first hand what happened on that day. Now it seems as though seven years has erased the memory of 9-11 from a lot of peoples minds. Jay Leno features his "Jay Walking" once a week and although it is intended for entertainment, the results paint a dim picture of the status of the average American. Don't worry, if your reading this thread, your not average!

[BigR55]

Pictures from reinactment today:

[BigR55]

Another

[BigR55]

The las one was an 8 year old with a bag of bullets and some gernades! Nobody called out the swat team!

[BigR55]

Last one

[BigR55]

 

[BigR55]

Sorry, got them posted sideways. How do you fix it once posted?

[Fired00d]

Sorry, got them posted sideways. How do you fix it once posted?

They have been fixed all but Reply #7 it was a duplicate and I didn't rotate that one.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[SPIDERMAN]

When I was a kid, we all had to learn the poem " In Flanders Fields" which is in memorium to D-Day in school
Doubt they even take note of it now.

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses row on row

d00d, can you do your NetHo thing and put up the rest ?

B B

[Fired00d]

John McCrae: In Flanders Fields (1915)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[SPIDERMAN]

Wow, I need to brush up on my history. This was written in 1915, obviously I'm out on Pluto somewhere in my post as to the origins of it

Still a very moving poem though isn't it ?

Thanks d00d, I needed a little smartening up today

B B