INVASION!
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Operation Overlord Begins
Allied Troops Assault Five Normandy Beaches
Dateline: Tuesday June 6, 1944
Location: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
Reporter: Major George Armstrong "Old Man" Custer
Today the Army Times presents a triple-header, publishing in the Warfare, Social, and Politics categories at the same time. Be sure to click over and see the other editions as well!
Today's Army Times - Social edition is Educational, presenting material related to the D-Day Allied invasion at Normandy.
While we play a war game of no real consequence, and real soldiers fight and die overseas for reasons never made clear, history is rich with wars with clear objectives... and soldiers, as in all wars, who just wanted to live out the day.
The D-Day operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history, with over 160,000 troops landing on 6 June 1944. 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were involved.
The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead.
The Allied Commanders
January 1944 meeting of Operation Overlord Commanders: General Eisenhower, Walter B. Smith, Omar Bradley, Arthur Tedder, Bernard Montgomery, Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Bertram Ramsay.
D-Day in color US forces WWII operation Overlord US Service Medley
Ctrl+Click the photo to watch this YouTube video in another tab.
The New York Times; June 7, 1944
Ctrl+Click the photo to read the actual Associated Press article.
Letters from the Front
Read a few letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day.
Ctrl+Click the photo to open the PBS American Experience page in a new tab.
Radio Report from Normandy
Ctrl+Click so the audio link opens in another tab.
Here is an eyewitness report by CBS reporter Charles Collingwood who was aboard a troop ship, an LST, interviewing some of the soldiers who were heading toward the beach. You'll note the reference to security of information. Despite that the Collingwood report was being recorded and not live broadcast, the soldiers were very specifically doing as they were told not to talk openly about the invasion.
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Follow the Normandy Campaign from D-Day through the Liberation of Paris.
Ctrl+Click to access this interactive program, in another tab.
Announcements:
Donations continue to come in to support the Army Times' give-away promotions.
One such contributor was Jon Konning, whose $500 will provide 28 Q5 tanks to Times readers.
If you are a Q5 tank manufacturer, consider selling the Times a batch at a reduced price... or even donating a bunch.
Every USMilitary personnel who commented at the Friday Times articles-- both in the Social and in the Warfare categories-- received a Q5 tank. Several readers commented at both and received two tanks.
I didn't count the number of tanks I sent out, but considering there were almost 100 Comments to the two articles I'd guess 70 or more tanks were given away.
This is not a "vote, subscribe, and post your numbers" hustle.
If you like the articles, then by all means do vote and sub.
I try to come up with random, abstract, reasons to give away tanks.
Maybe the next round will go to all civilians, or all foreigners, or maybe I'll pick a fighting unit and send their Quartermaster one for every active fighter he has... hard tellin', the next free tank could be yours!
If you want to join the USArmy,
First let the Training Corps show you how to operate that weapon.
Major George Armstrong Custer
Army Public Affairs Senior Officer
Recommended Reading:
Today's Army Times
: http://tinyurl.com/June6D-day
: http://tinyurl.com/GiveEmHellGlove
: http://tinyurl.com/AmericaAtWar1294
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Allied Troops Assault Five Normandy Beaches
Dateline: Tuesday June 6, 1944
Location: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
Reporter: Major George Armstrong "Old Man" Custer
Today the Army Times presents a triple-header, publishing in the Warfare, Social, and Politics categories at the same time. Be sure to click over and see the other editions as well!
Today's Army Times - Social edition is Educational, presenting material related to the D-Day Allied invasion at Normandy.
While we play a war game of no real consequence, and real soldiers fight and die overseas for reasons never made clear, history is rich with wars with clear objectives... and soldiers, as in all wars, who just wanted to live out the day.
The D-Day operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history, with over 160,000 troops landing on 6 June 1944. 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were involved.
The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead.
The Allied Commanders
January 1944 meeting of Operation Overlord Commanders: General Eisenhower, Walter B. Smith, Omar Bradley, Arthur Tedder, Bernard Montgomery, Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Bertram Ramsay.
D-Day in color US forces WWII operation Overlord US Service Medley
Ctrl+Click the photo to watch this YouTube video in another tab.
The New York Times; June 7, 1944
Ctrl+Click the photo to read the actual Associated Press article.
Letters from the Front
Read a few letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day.Ctrl+Click the photo to open the PBS American Experience page in a new tab.
Radio Report from Normandy
Ctrl+Click so the audio link opens in another tab.
Here is an eyewitness report by CBS reporter Charles Collingwood who was aboard a troop ship, an LST, interviewing some of the soldiers who were heading toward the beach. You'll note the reference to security of information. Despite that the Collingwood report was being recorded and not live broadcast, the soldiers were very specifically doing as they were told not to talk openly about the invasion.
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Follow the Normandy Campaign from D-Day through the Liberation of Paris.
Ctrl+Click to access this interactive program, in another tab.
Announcements:
Donations continue to come in to support the Army Times' give-away promotions.
One such contributor was Jon Konning, whose $500 will provide 28 Q5 tanks to Times readers.
If you are a Q5 tank manufacturer, consider selling the Times a batch at a reduced price... or even donating a bunch.
Every USMilitary personnel who commented at the Friday Times articles-- both in the Social and in the Warfare categories-- received a Q5 tank. Several readers commented at both and received two tanks.
I didn't count the number of tanks I sent out, but considering there were almost 100 Comments to the two articles I'd guess 70 or more tanks were given away.
This is not a "vote, subscribe, and post your numbers" hustle.
If you like the articles, then by all means do vote and sub.
I try to come up with random, abstract, reasons to give away tanks.
Maybe the next round will go to all civilians, or all foreigners, or maybe I'll pick a fighting unit and send their Quartermaster one for every active fighter he has... hard tellin', the next free tank could be yours!
If you want to join the USArmy,
First let the Training Corps show you how to operate that weapon.
Major George Armstrong Custer
Army Public Affairs Senior Officer
Recommended Reading:Today's Army Times
: http://tinyurl.com/June6D-day
: http://tinyurl.com/GiveEmHellGlove
: http://tinyurl.com/AmericaAtWar1294
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On June 6, 1944, over 1 million ground troops hit the five beaches at Normandy. The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead.
Be sure to click over and see today's other Army Times editions as well!
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Voted for Custer. Needs more Custer.
I love the history lesson Custer. Thank you 🙂
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I think you inflated the numbers a bit on that one. There were 6 divisions involved on the first day of Operation Overlord for a total of around 120,000. There were not a million allied troops in France until close to the end of June 1944.
whoa, dude... I must have been asleep to let that get by.
re-checking my sources, I found one citing "over 1 million" and three others-- more reliable sources-- with numbers like you suggest.
I edited the article, copy pasting a line from Wikipedia.
thanks! there'll be a little something extra in your ammo box today.
Greatest Generation FTW!
voted, TC 🙂
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Well done, Custer
Excellent,
To their Honor
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o7 vote
Awesome.
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