#4476967 - 06/06/19 08:43 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: rwatson]
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 24,078
oldgrognard
Administrator
|
Administrator
Lifer
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 24,078
USA
|
That is better than a solid read. It captures the utter overwhelming blanket that descends on you in combat. Your span of command and control shrinks to those you can touch and yell to. Your field of vision narrows and sometimes you are seeing no more than looking through a cardboard tube. Utter chaos. Another good read on the cost and conditions. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...ford_boys_ultimate_sacrifice_140507.html
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
|
|
#4476977 - 06/06/19 09:33 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: Bill_Grant]
|
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,603
malibu43
Senior Member
|
Senior Member
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,603
SoCal
|
That was a very humbling thing to read. Not sure what else to say.
Sager NP8671 17.3" Notebook, i74720HQ (3.6GHz), GTX 970M (3.0GB), 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB 7200RPM HD, TrackIR 4, CH HOTAS and rudder pedals
|
|
#4476984 - 06/06/19 10:14 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: oldgrognard]
|
Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 13,887
F4UDash4
Veteran
|
Veteran
Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 13,887
SC
|
That is better than a solid read. It captures the utter overwhelming blanket that descends on you in combat. Your span of command and control shrinks to those you can touch and yell to. Your field of vision narrows and sometimes you are seeing no more than looking through a cardboard tube. Utter chaos. Another good read on the cost and conditions. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...ford_boys_ultimate_sacrifice_140507.html "The Bedford Boys" is a harrowing read. Very sad.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
|
|
#4476991 - 06/06/19 11:11 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: rwatson]
|
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,503
Pooch
Hotshot
|
Hotshot
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,503
Orlando, FL
|
"Solid read by an author that was there, written in 1960"
Wow...I read that on the edge of my seat. I've read few descriptions of the landings that were as terrifying as that. Some war stories are written in ways that almost make you wish you could have been there. I would not like to have been wading ashore on Omaha Beach, on the morning of June 6th, 1944.
"From our orbital vantage point, we observe an earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence, and we pray that humanity as a whole can imagine a borderless world as we see it, and strive to live as one in peace." Astronaut William C. McCool RIP, January 29, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia
|
|
#4477016 - 06/07/19 04:08 AM
Re: D-Day
[Re: rwatson]
|
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,503
Pooch
Hotshot
|
Hotshot
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,503
Orlando, FL
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHPcg9zcDwThis is a documentary on the very same unit the article talked about, the 116th REG of the 29th Division at Normandy. Some of the men mentioned in the story were interviewed for it.
"From our orbital vantage point, we observe an earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence, and we pray that humanity as a whole can imagine a borderless world as we see it, and strive to live as one in peace." Astronaut William C. McCool RIP, January 29, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia
|
|
#4477037 - 06/07/19 11:44 AM
Re: D-Day
[Re: F4UDash4]
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 3,586
kaa
Senior Member
|
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 3,586
France
|
Also on June 6, 1944 while 156,000 British, American and Canadian troops went ashore on the beaches of Normandy to defeat Hitler another 71,000 Americans embarked on troopships at Pearl Harbor headed for Saipan where they would land about 2 weeks later.
The people of todays world cannot even conceive of such near total mobilization for global warfare. And the day before, Rome fell into allied hands: the first Axis capital town to fall...
"Anyone can shoot you down if you don't see him coming but it takes a wonderfully good Hun to bag a Camel if you're expecting him." Tom Cundall.
|
|
#4477062 - 06/07/19 02:53 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: wormfood]
|
Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 13,887
F4UDash4
Veteran
|
Veteran
Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 13,887
SC
|
I vividly remember that speech. It was and is awesome.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
|
|
#4477066 - 06/07/19 03:01 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: rwatson]
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 24,078
oldgrognard
Administrator
|
Administrator
Lifer
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 24,078
USA
|
That was a great speech.
I’d have taken a bullet for Reagan.
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
|
|
#4477332 - 06/09/19 08:53 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: rwatson]
|
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 24,078
oldgrognard
Administrator
|
Administrator
Lifer
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 24,078
USA
|
That’s a great experience. One he will always treasure ; more in retrospect when he looks back later in life.
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
|
|
#4477357 - 06/09/19 11:20 PM
Re: D-Day
[Re: Alicatt]
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 10,113
KraziKanuK
Veteran
|
Veteran
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 10,113
Ottawa Canada
|
That I'm sure he will, this area owes a lot to the Scots and Welsh Guards who were the main troops that liberated the towns here, and one of the streets is called 12th September straat as that was the day in 1944 that the town was liberated from the occupying German forces. The area I grew up in was a post war development for WW2 vets and had the streets named after battles/areas they fought in. Normandy was the main street and Falaise the second major street. My street was Arnhem tho it took 40 years to have the Dutch spelling not the German spelling on the signs.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
|
|