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They went by air and by sea across the Channel to the beaches of Normandy.
In history’s greatest amphibious invasion, almost 7,000 vessels and 11,500 airplanes supported the 156,000 Allied soldiers who crossed from Britain to five beaches in France 75 years ago on June 6, 1944 — D-Day.
Beyond the cinematic re-enactments of noise and chaos and bloodletting, it is hard for subsequent generations raised on Europe’s expectations of peace — or, at the most, on the menace of the Cold War — to imagine how a truly hot war might have been.
Only a handful of veterans, now in their 90s and beyond, survive to recall how it was to spill from steel-sided landing craft into chilly seas to advance neck-deep in water toward beaches enfiladed by German snipers and machine-guns, strewn with land mines and bodies and barbed wire. Or to spring into the night from low-flying aircraft to secure bridges inland.
In history’s greatest amphibious invasion, almost 7,000 vessels and 11,500 airplanes supported the 156,000 Allied soldiers who crossed from Britain to five beaches in France 75 years ago on June 6, 1944 — D-Day.
Beyond the cinematic re-enactments of noise and chaos and bloodletting, it is hard for subsequent generations raised on Europe’s expectations of peace — or, at the most, on the menace of the Cold War — to imagine how a truly hot war might have been.
Only a handful of veterans, now in their 90s and beyond, survive to recall how it was to spill from steel-sided landing craft into chilly seas to advance neck-deep in water toward beaches enfiladed by German snipers and machine-guns, strewn with land mines and bodies and barbed wire. Or to spring into the night from low-flying aircraft to secure bridges inland.
Heroes of a More Certain Time
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D-Day
Military History
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WWII World War Two
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Right and wrong has never been hard to define, and the bad guys of the world readily identify as such. Assad. Saddam. Kim Jong Un. Al Baghdadi. They are evil, and their deeds proclaim it.
It is we who have become morally conflicted, with wavering on calling a spade a spade for political correctness, fear of hurting feelings, and often times naked political expediency.
It isn't the times that are uncertain, it is us.
It is we who have become morally conflicted, with wavering on calling a spade a spade for political correctness, fear of hurting feelings, and often times naked political expediency.
It isn't the times that are uncertain, it is us.
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Good D-Day morning to you PO1 William "Chip" Nagel...and thank you for this wonderful Post on D-Day!!! It is a wonderful Tribute to all those "Heros of a More Certain Time". Awesome Share, Chip!
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