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Today I read the Daytona Beach News-Journal [read urinal ] & failed to see any mention of " D-day " at Normandy.
Lived by the radio all day,making an occasional sandwich & drinking 12 0z. Pepsi.We had no biased reporting back then,no Cronkites ,Geraldos or Rathers. We did have Edward R. Murrow,Ernie Pyle & a lot of other on the ground newsmen.
Imagine being anyone involved in that invasion. Virtually no real rest for over 72 hours,quarantined on a pier or in a ship's hold ,waiting for an invasion that your chances of surviving the first day were close to zero !
The weather was extremely bad . T he forecasters had been mistaken & now it was time to move on or forget it for at least another month.The statistics elude me BUT this was the largest military endeavor to date .
Men and material had been amassed in England since we [the Allies ] had almost crippled Hitler's Uboat fleet in 1943. Troops had been training for over a year . Ruses abounded. There were phantom armies throughout England.Inflatable fake tanks,airplanes,supply dumps & oil storage tanks were all over areas likely to be observed by Greman overflights.
Patton [somewhat in disgrace at that moment ] commanded a paper division.
Wet-net training was halted when a practice became a disaster off England's coast,hundreds lost. Evidently the percentages lay in just going ahead & take your losses on the beach.
One of Germany's most audacious,brillant generals,Erwin Rommel [Desert Fox ] had fallen from favor & was reduced to the lowly job of defending the "Atlantic Wall ". Actually it was a great decision,had Hitler released his reserves when Rommel asked we might have been slaughtered on those beaches.
A slight weather break occured & it went from iffy to go. Imagine what kind of physical & mental condition our men were in.Countless were seasick. The Peter boats [Lcvp-- landing craft-vehicle-personell ] were filled with retching troops. Entire beaches were missed,wrong place landings,botched schedules were common.
The beaches were partially clear but some landing craft grounded 300 yards from the beach,making the troops targets from the Mauser rifle on up to those wicked '88's.
Fox & Pathe news later showed the first waves staggering ashore overloaded with gear,dragging their dead & wounded ashore under withering fire. Only when they reached the cliffs were they afforded any bit of shelter. At one point,General Marsharr was about to order a withdrawl but soon realized we would lose even more men & equipment. Tenacious troops held on & finally succeeded .
Out "greatest generation's " sacrifices ignored.....For shame !
So,our far left newspaper chose to ignore this moment in history,instead they focused on sorcery & the 666 fetish.
Uncle Alan
Lived by the radio all day,making an occasional sandwich & drinking 12 0z. Pepsi.We had no biased reporting back then,no Cronkites ,Geraldos or Rathers. We did have Edward R. Murrow,Ernie Pyle & a lot of other on the ground newsmen.
Imagine being anyone involved in that invasion. Virtually no real rest for over 72 hours,quarantined on a pier or in a ship's hold ,waiting for an invasion that your chances of surviving the first day were close to zero !
The weather was extremely bad . T he forecasters had been mistaken & now it was time to move on or forget it for at least another month.The statistics elude me BUT this was the largest military endeavor to date .
Men and material had been amassed in England since we [the Allies ] had almost crippled Hitler's Uboat fleet in 1943. Troops had been training for over a year . Ruses abounded. There were phantom armies throughout England.Inflatable fake tanks,airplanes,supply dumps & oil storage tanks were all over areas likely to be observed by Greman overflights.
Patton [somewhat in disgrace at that moment ] commanded a paper division.
Wet-net training was halted when a practice became a disaster off England's coast,hundreds lost. Evidently the percentages lay in just going ahead & take your losses on the beach.
One of Germany's most audacious,brillant generals,Erwin Rommel [Desert Fox ] had fallen from favor & was reduced to the lowly job of defending the "Atlantic Wall ". Actually it was a great decision,had Hitler released his reserves when Rommel asked we might have been slaughtered on those beaches.
A slight weather break occured & it went from iffy to go. Imagine what kind of physical & mental condition our men were in.Countless were seasick. The Peter boats [Lcvp-- landing craft-vehicle-personell ] were filled with retching troops. Entire beaches were missed,wrong place landings,botched schedules were common.
The beaches were partially clear but some landing craft grounded 300 yards from the beach,making the troops targets from the Mauser rifle on up to those wicked '88's.
Fox & Pathe news later showed the first waves staggering ashore overloaded with gear,dragging their dead & wounded ashore under withering fire. Only when they reached the cliffs were they afforded any bit of shelter. At one point,General Marsharr was about to order a withdrawl but soon realized we would lose even more men & equipment. Tenacious troops held on & finally succeeded .
Out "greatest generation's " sacrifices ignored.....For shame !
So,our far left newspaper chose to ignore this moment in history,instead they focused on sorcery & the 666 fetish.
Uncle Alan
