The Longest Day

[Gokartmozart]

To those British, Canadian, US and other allied forces who set out to sea 68 years ago today and gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy.

I raise my glass here at Schiphol and salute you.


Apart from Hiroshima I have always considerd D-Day to be the biggest single event in WW2.

[Eric Mc]

Don't forget the epic battles on the Eastern Front.

[jmorgan]

Hats off to them.


But the eastern front, lots people do not know about there, just getting around to that and what I have read so far, wow. Different topic.

[Gokartmozart]

True about the East, but I cannot think of a single event over 24 hours that was so significant.

I think the largest engaagemet of armour occurred in a single day during the battle of Kursk
but the battle was over several months.

Imagine if the bridgeheads on D-Day had not been established how long would that of prolonged the War.

Do you sometimes think we should have a history section on here ?.

[Hugo a Gogo]

in the whole D-Day story, the assault on Pointe du Hoc was fairly important
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/dday/poi...

225 men of the US Rangers assaulted up a sheer 100ft cliff face, destroyed the guns (that had been moved back) which could have decimated the men on the beaches, defended from 5 German counter attacks over 2 days with no resupply and suffered 70% casualties

oh and not forgetting Bill Millin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/militar...

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Wednesday 6th June 19:27