Thank you

[Skybird]

https://www.liberationroute.com/pictures/1399/normandy-american-cemetery-5_1280_1280_fit_90.jpg
Colleville-sur-mer.



D-day June 6th.


Everybody remember this before giving up the Ukraine light-heartedly. If back then many young men would not have died, we today would not be able to form our free views nd free opinions of whether or not the Ukraine is worth "it".


We shall have only one choice. Help them, whatever it takes.

[mapuc]

I couldn't agree more on what you said Skybird-Give all the help we can.

The Ukrainian fighter pilot is very skilled, but it would take too long for them to learn how to fly a F-16.

Markus

[Moonlight]

Yep, it's not F16's they need but long range artillery to match the Russians, or even better them.

[Skybird]

We leave such specifics to the Ukraine thread, okay? I was about something very different when I started this thread. And that is that we all benefit from the fact that back then politicians in that war did not make decisions of the kind that some politicians today either openly recommend or indirectly imply to be applied to today's war. We must resist to this. Else our thanks for the victims and sacrifices made back then are just empty word shells and mean nothing.

[Commander Wallace]

Today marks the 78th anniversary of Operation Overlord which saw the allied forces of the U.S, England and Canada taking five separate beach heads. By the end of August of 1944, all of northern France was liberated and the allied forces being reorganized for the drive into Nazi Germany. These forces met the Soviet Army moving westward from the East to bring about the end for the Nazi Reich.

Quote: The National D-Day Memorial Foundation (https://www.dday.org/) is one of those organizations. At its memorial site in Bedford, Virginia, there are 4,414 names enshrined in bronze plaques representing every Allied soldier, sailor, airman and coast guardsman who died on D-Day. That figure
was the result of years of exhaustive research by librarian and genealogist Carol Tuckwiller on behalf of the Foundation, and remains the most accurate count of Allied fatalities within the 24-hour period known as D-Day.

John Long, director of education at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, says that when the memorial was first being planned in the late 1990s, there were wildly different estimates for Allied D-Day fatalities ranging from 5,000 to 12,000. German casualties on D-Day, meanwhile, have been estimated to be between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing. The Allies also captured some 200,000 German prisoners of war.


https://www.history.com/news/d-day-casualties-deaths-allies


https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion


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To those brave men who fought and died on those beaches and those brave souls who lost their lives in the cause of freedom 78 years ago. :Kaleun_Salute:
~ We will never forget. ~




Edit. Administrators, please combine with the post by Skybird. I hadn't seen his post and had held off posting the anniversary thread so that others could post on this date 78 years ago. although, my article is more in depth and completely about this solemn event, date and significance of the landings.



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[mapuc]

I responded mostly on this phrase

"We shall have only one choice. Help them, whatever it takes."

It was more the words -whatever it takes-

I'll try to write in a historical perspective next time.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

When I see topic matter like this I always think of the great many that gave so much and in particular my father who was there with the first wave.

~SALUTE~

[Jimbuna]

Threads merged.