Post by Die Fledermaus on Jun 6, 2008 22:49:54 GMT -4
D-Day. June 6th, 1944. It used to be mentioned and commemorated alot; now, it is no longer even mentioned.
>> On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code-named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.
By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches. At Omaha, the U.S. First Division battled high seas, mist, mines, burning vehicles-and German coastal batteries, including an elite infantry division, which spewed heavy fire. Many wounded Americans ultimately drowned in the high tide. British divisions, which landed at Gold, and Sword beaches, and Canadian troops, landing at Juno <<
Besides that, June 4th was the date of the great 1942 naval battle, Midway, one of the most decisive ever, in which the U.S. Navy led by its aircraft carriers, staggered the previously unbeaten Imperial Japanese Navy which not only lost four aircraft carriers but their entire highly trained and irreplaceable pilots, the same ones who bombed Pearl Harbor. Those pilots were at least as irreplaceable for the Japanese as the carriers.
On June 5th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. This changed the course of American history as he surely would have been the next president instead of Nixon.
On June 3rd, 1989, the Chinese government began its murderous crackdown on those seeking democracy, that at Bejing's Tianenmen Square. Hundreds were brutally slaughtered and many subsequently executed. Owing to the cynical realities of trade and money, China, which continues to practice brutal policies at home and in occupied Tibet, and which supports the worst dictators in the world, from Darfur to Burma, will be hosting the next Olympics. China's practices on pollution and the treatment of animals remains dismal also.
>> On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code-named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.
By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches. At Omaha, the U.S. First Division battled high seas, mist, mines, burning vehicles-and German coastal batteries, including an elite infantry division, which spewed heavy fire. Many wounded Americans ultimately drowned in the high tide. British divisions, which landed at Gold, and Sword beaches, and Canadian troops, landing at Juno <<
Besides that, June 4th was the date of the great 1942 naval battle, Midway, one of the most decisive ever, in which the U.S. Navy led by its aircraft carriers, staggered the previously unbeaten Imperial Japanese Navy which not only lost four aircraft carriers but their entire highly trained and irreplaceable pilots, the same ones who bombed Pearl Harbor. Those pilots were at least as irreplaceable for the Japanese as the carriers.
On June 5th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. This changed the course of American history as he surely would have been the next president instead of Nixon.
On June 3rd, 1989, the Chinese government began its murderous crackdown on those seeking democracy, that at Bejing's Tianenmen Square. Hundreds were brutally slaughtered and many subsequently executed. Owing to the cynical realities of trade and money, China, which continues to practice brutal policies at home and in occupied Tibet, and which supports the worst dictators in the world, from Darfur to Burma, will be hosting the next Olympics. China's practices on pollution and the treatment of animals remains dismal also.