June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord

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Juno Beach, Bernires-sur-Mer, #Normandie
06/06/1944 - #DDay
Dbarquement de la 9th Infantry Brigade canadienne en milieu de journe.
Landing of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade in the middle of the day, at high tide.

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Cimetire militaire amricain de Colleville-sur-Mer en 1957, quelques mois aprs son inauguration officielle.
American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in 1957, a few months after its official inauguration.

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Sword Beach, #Ouistreham - D-Day - 06/06/1944
Les commandos (dont les Franais aux ordres de Kieffer) abordent le point d'appui du "casino" avec le renfort de blinds.
Commandos (including Free France units led by Kieffer) reach the "Casino" strongpoint, supported by tanks.

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11:53a, 9/27/23
Mission: to take the two bridges at Bnouville and Ranville intact. Success is based on the surprise, the speed of execution and the determination to overcome. A counter-attack will be expected and you will have to wait for reinforcement". Order of the 6th Airborne Division

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12:04p, 9/28/23
At 9pm on June 6, 1944, Operation Elmira began: the 82nd Airborne Division was reinforced by gliders. A total of 1,190 glidermen were deployed at Les Forges, near Blosville. 157 of them were killed or wounded.

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11:41a, 9/29/23
Michel de Vallavieille, wounded by an American soldier's shot on D-Day, didn't return home until February 1945. Elected mayor of Ste-Marie-du-Mont in 1962, he decided to create a memorial to the Franco-American friendship: the Utah Beach Museum was born.

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In the Gold Beach sector, on June 30, 1944, the British personnel of N4 Beach Squadron, part of the Royal Air Force, make their first pay distribution since arriving in Normandy. The Adjudant's "desk" (Flight Lieutenant Smith) is a SdKfz 302 "Goliath"...

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Omaha Beach, Vierville/Mer
Cette statue de Yannec Tomada commmore le 116th (US) Infantry Regimentet son assaut d'Omaha Beach le Jour J, 6 juin 1944.
This statue by Yannec Tomada commemorates the 116th (US) Infantry Regiment and its assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day.

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Juno Beach - Bernires-sur-Mer, Normandie
Monument Signal

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Omaha Beach - 2004
Commmorations du dbarquement de Normandie.
D-Day Commemorations - Normandy.
dday-overlord.com

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Utah Beach - D-Day - 06/06/1944]
Un soldat amricain de la 4th Infantry Division avec une mitrailleuse Browning 1917A1 et des cartouches M2 de 7,62 mm.
An American soldier of the 4th Infantry Division carries a Browning 1917A1 machine gun and .30 M2 cartridges.
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8:15a, 10/15/23
US veteran Jack Hamlin celebrates his 102nd birthday today! On June 6, 1944, he was operating off Omaha Beach with Rescue Flotilla One (Coast Guards), helping to save nearly 170 lives that day. Bravo, thank you and happy birthday Jack!
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[Juno Beach, Bernires-sur-Mer, Normandie]
Monument aux morts du Rgiment de la Chaudire.
War Memorial of the Regiment of La Chaudire

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The M1942 herringbone twill (HBT) camouflage uniform was issued to a few american units in the European theater of operations, the most famous being the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, but the US Army did not renew its orders and kept the drab olive uniform.

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1918 Art Carney, actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners), was born in Mount Vernon, NY. Carney was born into an Irish-Catholic family and baptized Arthur William Matthew Carney. His father was a newspaperman and publicist. After appearing in amateur theatricals and imitating radio personalities, Carney won a job in 1937 traveling with Horace Heidt's dance band, doing impressions and singing novelty songs. "There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler," he told People magazine in 1974. "He would order gin and grapefruit juice for us in the morning, and it was great. … No responsibilities, no remorse. I was an alcoholic, even then." Later he won a job at $225 a week imitating Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and other world leaders on a radio show, "Report to the Nation." He was drafted into the Army in 1944 and took part in the D-Day landing at Normandy. A piece of shrapnel shattered his right leg. He was left with a leg three-quarters of an inch shorter than the other and a lifelong limp.
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Trooper David Louis Morris of the 4th County of London Yeomanry, who died at the age of 21 on June 11, 1944, remained missing. On that date, his unit was engaged in furious fighting between Bucels and Tilly-sur-Seulles against Panzergrenadier-Lehr-Regiment 901.

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After further research, his body was formally identified. His name was engraved on the stele under which he officially rests at the Tilly-sur-Seulles military cemetery since Thursday September 21, 2023.
Photos: Crown Copyright & MOD War Detectives
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24 Dec 1943: General Dwight D. #Eisenhower is appointed supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion) by President Roosevelt. Many believed U.S. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall would get the position.
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On this Christmas Day, let us also think of the fighters who exchanged the best years of their youth for our freedom, sometimes to the point of sacrificing their lives.

Let us never forget them.

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In reply to 82TxPackFan • 6:45p, 12/26/23
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RIP members of the greatest generation!!


My dad was on 1st wave at Normandy and the only radio man to make it to the beach for 8 hrs. Out of the 175 members of his HS class that enrolled when Pearl Harbor only 5 made it back - they all followed Dad in lifelong membership of the church my grand father built and served as first minister.
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During the Battle of Normandy, a German Luftwaffe prisoner who had worked for 10 years as a butcher in New York City before the war was transported to England with the US Navy, alongside a lieutenant from the Military Police.

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