Happy D Day

peabutler

D Day Should be a Worldwide National Holiday where everyone is obliged to go to a beach or water source and recreate war time fun.

JohnDee

The've already started few days early in Portmarnock

Ten of Swords

peabutler wrote: »

D Day Should be a Worldwide National Holiday

Even in Germany? Can't see that going down too well...

Fr_Dougal

peabutler wrote: »

D Day Should be a Worldwide National Holiday where everyone is obliged to go to a beach or water source and recreate war time fun.

Hmmm...boobies...

IM0

and for added realism go to wexford beaches, cause thats where they filmed the landing scenes in saving private ryan

The Backwards Man

DD Day would be much more fun.

Seachmall

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Even in Germany? Can't see that going down too well...

They can call it "Humility Day".

Capt'n Midnight

AFAIK they didn't always celebrate D-Day in Caen. Instead they remembered the bombing raid of the 8th of July when there were a lot of civilians killed by an allied bombing raid that more or less destroyed the town.

Also on D Day the Germans had 59 divisions in France, Belgium and Holland. Not all of which were in Normandy. They had 157 Divisions in Russia. Make no mistake in the great scheme of things D Day was a large side show.

"Before, during and after the D-Day landings the Allies dropped over 590,000 tons of bombs on France -- equal to almost half the amount of bombs dropped on Germany during the entire course of the war.
"Over 1 million French homes were destroyed by Allied bombing attacks and some cities such as Caen, Saint-Lo, Carentan, Montbourg and Valognes ceased to exist.
"For every German who lost his life resisting the 'Allied' invasion of France, the lives of four Frenchmen were taken. Whereas German troops had wandered at will during their occupation of France, the British and the Americans were repeatedly confined to barracks or had their movements restricted because of the French resistance to their presence on French soil."

Cookie_Monster

"Before, during and after the D-Day landings the Allies dropped over 590,000 tons of bombs on France -- equal to almost half the amount of bombs dropped on Germany during the entire course of the war.
"Over 1 million French homes were destroyed by Allied bombing attacks and some cities such as Caen, Saint-Lo, Carentan, Montbourg and Valognes ceased to exist.
"For every German who lost his life resisting the 'Allied' invasion of France, the lives of four Frenchmen were taken. Whereas German troops had wandered at will during their occupation of France, the British and the Americans were repeatedly confined to barracks or had their movements restricted because of the French resistance to their presence on French soil."

Sounds like they made a pretty good attempt to finally get rid of the French, pity it didn't work out so well in the end.

Ardennes1944

Antony Beevor - D-Day. That will tell you all you need to know!
First time in 3years not being in Normandy for the anniversary but I'm coming back for +70!

666irishguy

Great, I'll get my MG42 and pickup some spare barrels and about 12,000 rounds in the morning. See you at the beach around midday.

donvito99

ColeTrain

Ah D Day, such fond memories. I can member playing Call of Duty 2 all those years ago. Good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XwVw2_STHs

humberklog

Good to see Germany getting into the spirit of the occasion by recreating the Dam Busters by flooding Dresden this week.