66 years ago today our troops landed at
 

...Normandy. Today is D-Day. I salute the fallen and those that survived that day...there are fewer and fewer of them every year that goes by.

They were The Greatest Generation, no doubt.

Anybody in Europe want to add their thoughts, for what the day means to you?

I agree... :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

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My uncle was there and he didn't have 1 kind word for President Eisenhower. He has passed btw. :-(

Why did it take you 5 years to join the party?

is that the war the usa joined near the end?

The Canadians got Juno Beach.

My Grandfather was there. Fortunately he survived.

Because they wanted to shaft Britain first by expecting the UK to pay for them. It worked too, because of WW2, Britain lost an empire and gained massive debts. Most of Britain's woes since, including the present day can be traced back to the war.
Even Churchill said after the war that if he could chose he would be an American because he knew that the UK had also effectively lost the war.

Didn’t know that.

Yes...the war that wouldn't have been won if thw US wasn't sending our young men to fight for your ground and our factories pumping armements out 24/7 to support the cause. Our entire country was dedicated to do our best to help win.

On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000

The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate - and much higher - figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2500 dead).

The breakdown of US casualties was 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured. Of the total US figure, 2499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2000 casualties at Omaha Beach.

The total German casualties on D-Day are not known, but are estimated as being between 4000 and 9000 men.

Naval losses for June 1944 included 24 warships and 35 merchantmen or auxiliaries sunk, and a further 120 vessels damaged.

Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces. Of the Allied casualties, 83,045 were from 21st Army Group (British, Canadian and Polish ground forces), 125,847 from the US ground forces. The losses of the German forces during the Battle of Normandy can only be estimated. Roughly 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded. The Allies also captured 200,000 prisoners of war (not included in the 425,000 total, above). During the fighting around the Falaise Pocket (August 1944) alone, the Germans suffered losses of around 90,000, including prisoners.

Today, twenty-seven war cemeteries hold the remains of over 110,000 dead from both sides: 77,866 German, 9386 American, 17,769 British, 5002 Canadian and 650 Poles.

Better late than never.

The History channel occasionally show some good stuff, if you can get past some of the crap US edutainment they show. Ome proggy was really good, in the 50's (i think it was the 50's) the UK government almost brought back conscription to get people working on the fields, they were that desperate for food and cash.

It didn't take five years...sport.

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WW2 began in 1939.
Soviets fought Nazi since 1941. By the time D-day happen Reds were taking over Poland and kicking German's ass all over Eastern front. Little bit of history for you, son.

Oh really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

World War II, or the Second World War[1] (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945

The U.S. did not join near the end of the war...but it did join near the end of Europe's fall.

i am happy about the liberation from hitler, i just wish it would have happened earlier and cost a few million lives less.

WW2 fights are always good.

yes...and the US enacted the draft bill in Sept. 1940

Yes...the European war began in '39...the U.S. entered in '41...which is two years not five years...sport. The U.S. fought the Germans in Norh Africa...Sicily, and opened up the Italian front which was still being fought when D-Day took place and in fact was still being fought untill the Germans surrendered. A little hisory lesson for you kid...thank you very much.

I am sure knowing that really helped those who were fighting Nazis between '39 and '44

Kinda like soviets fighting Japs in China?
You do realize the scale of WW2 in Europe and N. African campaign doesn’t even come close?

You left off two ohter major campaigns...sport...and the Soviets did not enter the war against Japan untill 8 August after the A bombs were dropped on Japan...try again sport.

Just wanted to keep the record straight.

Don't forget the Canadian effort. Over the course of the war, 1.1 million Canadians served in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Of these more than 45,000 lost their lives and another 54,000 were wounded. Additionally, the Canadian Merchant Navy completed over 25,000 voyages across the Atlantic.Canadians also served in the militaries of various Allied countries.

By D-Day, June 6, 1944, the landings at Normandy were accomplished by two beachheads made by the American forces at Omaha and Utah, two by British forces, Sword and Gold, and the final was a Canadian effort at Juno with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division penetrating farther into France than any other Allied force. After the Normandy landings a Canadian spearhead drove northeast into the Netherlands, where the Canadians liberated that nation.

i am german and happy the nazi regime failed :thumbsup

Are you stupid? WWII started in 1939. The USA entered the war in 1941. AFTER we were attacked. No reason to enter it before. You want to blame someon for Britian getting assfucked for those years blame Chamberlain for signing treaties with Hitler.

That was my point. Clean up when its just about to be over.
D-day wasn't about fighting Nazis, it was about protecting Europe from communism.

We are talking about D-day and Europe. US waited until 1944. Doing it in 1941 would have helped a lot more.
Now turn off your internet connection and leave.

If you are saying the U.S. engaged in clean up...you are ignorant of events.

And the OP made the post to honor those that were at Normandy...salute the fallen and those that survived that day.

you mean the war the USA ended?

The "Big Three"...Roosevelt...Churchill and Stalin all agreed in '43 on when the so called "Second Front"/D-Day would begin. The Soviets did not even take back the entirety of their country until after D-Day began.

By 1944 it was pretty much over. Nazi’s lost their Russian campaign and was getting their asses kicked on Eastern Front. No disrespect to those that fought but come on.

Oh, Im sorry. I was off my one month.
July 28th is when Soviets crossed in to german territory. My bad.

http://www.century-of-flight.net/Avi...2_timeline.htm

If it wan't for d-day they would have lost the war for sure.

I second this. Can't beat the generation of the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. We're in the shittiest generation right now.

wars are lame

The U.S./Allies had entire German Armies tied down in Italy and France...for years...so the Soviets may very well have lost if these German Armies would have been free to engage them.

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Oh, I see. After 3 years of fighting Germans who got within 60 mile range of Moscow, Russians kick them all the way back to Germany and that’s when they suddenly have a change of heart and surrender so Germans can take over Soviet empire. Good one.

The German military suffered around 2,800,000 killed. Of these around 2,000,000 died on the Eastern Front, 300,000 died on other fronts, and 500,000 died in captivity.

You really are not very bright...now are you sport? If the U.S./Allies did not have entire German Armies tied down...in North Africa...Sicily...Italy and France...a very high level of possibility exists that the Soviets would not have been able to take back their country from the Germans let alone push into Germany.

Romel had 150 000 people army in N. Africa during Desert Fox. Anywhere from 2.8 to 4 million Germans DIED in E. front.
Jesus, so many ignorant and arrogant idiots here.

Once again you left off Sicily...Italy and France and the multiple German Armies that were engaging the U.S./Allies and thus were not able to engage the Soviets.

booooooooya

Listen fucking idiot turd so what you are saying the US should have invaded Europe in WWII because obviously Europe's was too pussy to get rid of their German problem themsleves?

Tune of YOUR connection fucktard goat raper. Really? You want to fuck with me?

Congratulations and there was a celebration about it at Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada. Canadians are allies of the USA. Among the veterans on hand at the ceremony was Warrant Officer Edward “Teddy” O’Halloran.

Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.

Love all the patriotic arrogance. Winning the war was a combined effort, no one country came along and wiped the floor with everybody else.

Good point. Most of the American firepower, manpower, and resources were in the Pacific Theater fighting the Japanese. Most of the heavy lifting in the European Theater was done by the Soviet Red Army.

Not to diminish D-Day and everything--it was a momentous day. However, I'm making the point above for perspective.

The U.S. policy was Europe first the Pacific war second...so you are not correct...the bulk of war materials went to Europe. When the U.S. entered the war the Soviets were losing against the Germans...and did not entirely take their country back until after D-Day began.

The soviets won world war 2. Granted, hitler was kind of a tard and was far too obsessed with the eastern campaign, which turned into a damned nightmare and drained men and resources. But still, you can thank the soviets for helping the germans fall the their knee's.