#d-day landings

[footprintsinthesxnd]

Operation Overlord - D-Day - June 6th 1944

On this day 79 years ago allied troops began landing on beaches in Normandy for the D-Day invasions. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day.

#D-Day landings #Normandy #june 6 1944 #paratroopers #utah beach #omaha beach #Pegasus bridge #operation overlord #sword beach #gold beach #Juno beach

[ruporas]

can’t talk about it

[ID: Black and white comic of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. The comic starts with the sounds "thud, thud, click". Vash, mid-action of peeling an apple, turns to the sound, noticing who it was that entered, and says, "Oh, Wolfwood, you're back." He resumes back to his apple in the next panel as he speaks, "Where'd you go? You snuck out of bed quickly this morning..." Wolfwood's hand then enters the panel, hovering over Vash's cheek and Vash looks up as Wolfwood asks, "Can I?" Vash responds, "Not going to talk about it?" while using a hand to gently hold Wolfwood's hovering hand and presses a kiss to his inner palm.

Vash then gets up fully, setting down the knife down on the table and the apple onto a plate, He leans into Wolfwood as Wolfwood explains, "Had to meet someone. Nothing interesting to talk about." Vash kisses Wolfwood's left cheek and a hand moves to cup his other cheek while muttering, "You're being vague." Wolfwood says neutrally, "If yer really that curious, keep askin'. We  can talk about that instead of doing this." Vash leans back and responds, "Let's talk after, since... You look so tired."

The panel pans to a close up of Wolfwood's downcast eyes, bags heavy underneath his eyes. He doesn't allow Vash to sit in that moment for long though, then saying, "Yer not helping, Spikey. Being all slow with it... I could fall asleep right now." He moves his hand to start unclasping Vash's coat, starting from his collar. Vash with red cheeks, responds briskly, "Oh, shut up. I'm worried about you. I can't be worried?"

The final shot shows Wolfwood's back to the viewer while Vash's softened expression can be seen as he holds gently onto the side of Wolfwood's face and a hand firm on his waist. Wolfwood responds, "I'm fine, seriously," pausing for a moment before continuing, "Is it okay to still..?" Vash responds, "Yeah, it's okay."

The next image is a shot from later that night after the previous comic. Vash and Wolfwood are now in bed, half naked. Wolfwood's buries his face into Vash's chest, his arms wrapped around him, while Vash is petting at his hair. Vash reminds him, "Hey. You said we'd talk about it." Wolfwood pauses for a moment before piping up, "In the morning? I'm sleepy." Vash says, "Okay..."

The next two pages start from the morning after. Wolfwood is already fully awake, pulling on his outer jacket as he says to Vash, whos' still bundled in his blankets, "Breakfast is on the table. Make sure to eat it. I'm going to grab some things in town and then we're leavin'. Got it?" Vash says, "Mh." Wolfwood responds, "Good. See ya in a bit." The dialogue starts to shift into Vash's inner thoughts now, as he gets up and eats toast, thinking, "Wait. Weren't we supposed to... talk about it?" The next shot then shows him fully up, meeting Wolfwood in town. He carries a half worried expression with him while Wolfwood slides on his glasses for him. A quick panel shows Wolfwood's tired expression from the night before and quickly juxtaposes with Wolfwood in front of him who's smiling gently, the shades covering his eye bags. Wolfwood asks him, "Still not awake yet?" Vash pauses, his thoughts stirring, thinking, "Oh. I guess I was getting ahead of myself... thinking you owe me that kind of honesty." He smiles at Wolfwood and responds, "I'm awake!" His thoughts continue, "Maybe one day, you'd trust me enough to share your burdens."

The final image shows Wolfwood pulling at Vash's cheek and Vash complains, "Owwwww why..." Wolfwood quickly says, "You were thinking something stupid, right? It's all over yer face." Vash mutters, "Nooo, I wasn't..." END ID]

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #Theyre both thoroughly exhausted tired individuals -- vash having to fight this lonely battle for over a hundred years and getting dragged #back into inevitable situation with knives after a 2 years hiatus of being a gunslinger. they both need so much Rest and comfort in this #department... .SIGHS. BUT I JUST THINK ABOUT WOLFWOOD . AND HOW... LITTLE He has existed on no man's land. how majority of his years being #alive is being used as a weapon and to kill when him at his very core is the most giving and selfless individual ever #badlands rumble inspired me a bit but i do think wolfwood gets dragged into occasional tasks from the eye of michael while on his duty of #guiding vash -- or i think that one chapter where we got to see other members of eom -- there's like a clear division within the eom too #i think.... so i figured similarly to vash but not to the same amount -- there are people that look for wolfwood too. but most of the time #it's probably wolfwood that has to look for someone else and take them out. i feel like it happens ever so occasionally. #evidentially these two don't talk enough canonically but they always know how to express things properly to affirm that they're okay #they have the worst time ever sharing burdens - can't willingly burden the other and has neeever asked for help or reprieve in their #desperate situations... vw is a huge case of right person wrong time syndrome so they just. in the time they get to spend together -- even #if romantically - they don't have enough time to heal to get over that kind of hurdle. They've just never asked for help in all the years #they've been alive -- they don't even know how to and its just aughhhsgskg #and well! they don't even need to ask! because they'll be there for each other anyway at the end of the day -- company and presence alone. #ruporas art

[obikinetic]

Missing your obikin art hours pls come back to us 💓💓

Anon you are so sweet and I made this just for you 🥺💖

#you made my day friend 💕 #I apologize for my absence y’all I’ve been in hp land 🥺 #but I thank you so much for all the love you’ve shown me and I always read the rb tags!!! #everyone is always so nice and funny and ily #when obikin inspiration strikes again you know I’ll be here :D #star wars #obikin #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #fanart

[theworldatwar]

US soldiers use the high, thick bocage as cover as they try to engage the enemy - Normandy, June 1944

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #bocage #1944 #dday #d day landings #France #usarmy #us army #us armed forces

[blackswaneuroparedux]

You get your ass on the beach. I'll be there waiting for you and I'll tell you what to do. There ain't anything in this plan that is going to go right.

- Colonel Paul R. Goode, in a pre-attack briefing to the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach, Normandy D-Day June 1944

#goode #colonel paul goode #quote #normandy #normandy landings #D Day #D-Day #US army #soldier #second world war #war #history #liberation of france

[victoryrifle]

Today is the 79th anniversary of the Normandy landings

Band of Brothers | Currahee & Day of Days

#bobedit #hbowaredit #bandofbrothersedit #hbowardaily #perioddramaedit #band of brothers #currahee #day of days #history #wwii #d-day #operation neptune #normandy landings #operation overlord #flashing gif #shaky gif #mine #gif:mine #gif:bandofbrothers #not the best quality it looks so choppy rip me. but i wanted to post this today obvs so i couldnt spend the whole day upscaling it

[dead-chela]

TristampParty day 4: Wolfwood!!!!!!

And a happy woowoo Wednesday to all 😌

#the way day 4 prompt landed ON a Wednesday #just magical #think this is my favorite one so far #maybe working ay ungodly hours of the morning makes render better #trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #tristamp #Trigun stampede #tristampparty #chela draws

[lionofchaeronea]

Members of the French Resistance discuss the military situation with paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division during the Battle of Normandy, June 1944. Photo credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps / Regional Council of Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA.

#history #military history #WW2 #WWII #World War Two #Second World War #D-Day #Normandy Landings #French Resistance #photography #lest we forget

[momentary-moss]

legs for running with

#phos hnk #phosphophyllite #houseki no kuni #land of the lustrous #sea leggies phos #happy hnk day everybun!!(is late) #im showing the anime to my younger sibling #they like it so far :D yippeeeee!!!!!

[sonicattos]

chronic pains been a bitch lately, but i needed to doodle this to spread my sonic, shadow and amy besties propaganda

DONT TAG AS SHIP I’LL KILL YOU. DONT EVEN IMPLY THAT

#they are best friends aside from their respective best friends who have familial relationships with #(like amy/cream team dark and sonic/tails) #saltcat doodles #shadow the hedgehog #amy rose #sonic the hedgehog #sth #was gonna give them a team name like ‘sass’ or ‘sss’ but um. pretty sure people will allude to it being #‘team ass’ so uh. no. they’re just hedgehog minus silver because bitch is stuck in future land til solaris decides he can visit that day. #again. #DONT TAG AS SHIP #ESPECIALLY sh*d*my and s*n*my DONT TAG THAG SHIT ON MY POST BITXH

[walkingthroughthisworld]

(via D-Day's 79th anniversary)

#d-day #DDay79 #operation neptune #operation overlord #normandy #beach landing

[scotianostra]

On 17th August 2010 Bill Millin, piper to Lord Lovat at D Day, died, aged 88.

Born on 14th July 1922 Saskatchewan, Canada to a father of Scottish origin who moved the family to Canada but returned to Glasgow as a policeman when William was three. He grew up and went to school in the Shettleston are of the city. He joined the Territorial Army in Fort William, where his family had moved, and played in the pipe bands of the Highland Light Infantry and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders before volunteering as a commando and training with Lovat at Achnacarry along with French, Dutch, Belgian, Polish, Norwegian, and Czechoslovakian troops.

Lord Lovat had appointed his personal piper during commando training at Achnacarry, and was the only man during the D Day landing who wore a kilt – it was the same Cameron tartan kilt his father had worn in Flanders during World War I – and he was armed only with his pipes and the sgian-dubh sheathed inside his kilt-hose on the right side.

Taken from accounts of 6th June 1944 on Sword Beach Normandy.

Bill began his apparently suicidal serenade immediately upon jumping from the ramp of the landing craft into the icy water on D Day. As the Cameron tartan of his kilt floated to the surface he struck up with Hieland Laddie. He continued even as the man behind him was hit, dropped into the sea and sank.Once ashore Millin did not run, but walked up and down the beach, blasting out a series of tunes. After Hieland Laddie, Lovat, the commander of 1st Special Service Brigade (1 SSB), raised his voice above the crackle of gunfire and the crump of mortar, and asked for another. Millin strode up and down the water’s edge playing The Road to the Isles.

Bodies of the fallen were drifting to and fro in the surf. Soldiers were trying to dig in and, when they heard the pipes, many of them waved and cheered — although one came up to Millin and called him a “mad bastard”.His worst moments were when he was among the wounded. They wanted medical help and were shocked to see this figure strolling up and down playing the bagpipes. To feel so helpless, Millin said afterwards, was horrifying. For many other soldiers, however, the piper provided a unique boost to morale. “I shall never forget hearing the skirl of Bill Millin’s pipes,” said one, Tom Duncan, many years later. “It is hard to describe the impact it had. It gave us a great lift and increased our determination. As well as the pride we felt, it reminded us of home and why we were there fighting for our lives and those of our loved ones.”

When the brigade moved off, Millin was with the group that attacked the rear of Ouistreham. After the capture of the town, he went with Lovat towards Bénouville, piping along the road.

They were very exposed, and were shot at by snipers from across the canal. Millin stopped playing. Everyone threw themselves flat on the ground — apart from Lovat, who went down on one knee. When one of the snipers scrambled down a tree and dived into a cornfield, Lovat stalked him and shot him. He then sent two men into the corn to look for him and they came back with the corpse. “Right, Piper,” said Lovat, “start the pipes again.”

At Bénouville, where they again came under fire, the CO of 6 Commando asked Millin to play them down the main street. He suggested that Millin should run, but the piper insisted on walking and, as he played Blue Bonnets Over the Border, the commandos followed.

When they came to the crossing which later became known as Pegasus Bridge, troops on the other side signalled frantically that it was under sniper fire. Lovat ordered Millin to shoulder his bagpipes and play the commandos over. “It seemed like a very long bridge,” Millin said afterwards.

The pipes were damaged by shrapnel later that day, but remained playable. Millin was surprised not to have been shot, and he mentioned this to some Germans who had been taken prisoner.They said that they had not shot at him because they thought he had gone off his head.

The pictures shows Millin playing at Edinburgh Castle in 2001, on Sword beach, 1994 and his statue there which was unveiled in 2013.

#scotland #scottish #history #musician #bagpipes #d day landings #Soldier #World War 2

[urostakako]

eid mubarak!!!! <33

bonus:

#hey if you see any goat inconsistencies theyre irrelevant this is a space goat #'hey why are there goats on noman's land that doesnt make any sense' its a space goat it doesnt have to make sense #it doesnt make sense that gunsmoke has two suns and five moons and the same night and day cycle as earth but here we are #'why is meryl smoking' 'why does vash have that hair and that prosthetic' i can do what i want also 👍and it looks good #anyway. eid mubarak!!! have a great day eat good food stay happy and peaceful 🫶 love and peace!!! 🤞 #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #milly thompson #meryl stryfe #millymeryl #vashwood #'omg wheres wolfwoods cross hes a catholic' #um acshually at the end of trigun he leaves the eye of michael and converts he told me himself ☝️ #hanancouldyounot #hanancouldyoudraw

[nocternalrandomness]

#D-Day #WW2 #Normany #Beach landings #Invasion

[theworldatwar]

US Armoured Division soldiers take the opportunity to brush up on their French - Normandy, July/Aug 1944

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #wwii era #world war 2 #ww2history #Normandy #normandy landings #dday #1944 #d day landings #usarmy #us army #France #french lessons #handbook

[rooster-does-art]

D-Day

June 6, 1944

0710

- Pointe Du Hoc -

They were behind scheadule. Due to a navigational error, the landing crafts were initially bringing the Rangers to the wrong landing zone. After some argument and corrections, which caused a forty minute delay, the Rangers were eventually brought to the correct landing point. But now they had to make up for lost time.

Upon hitting the beach, specially made rocket-launched grappling hooks shot up into the air to grab onto the barbed wire and rocks at the top of the cliff. Many of the hooks fell short, but at least one from each landing craft reach the top of the cliff tops and hooked onto something.

Now came the difficult part, scaling the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc under enemy fire.

----------------------------------------

Pointe Du Hoc was a problem for the US landing force. At the top of the cliffs were 155 mm guns inside concrete casemates. With Pinte Du Hoc located between Omaha and Utah beach, these guns could wreak havoc on the landings US landings on both beaches. Because of this they had to be taken. The task was thus assigned to the US Army Rangers.

Trained under the guidance of the British Commandos, the Rangers were among the US Army's elite forces. Now they were tasked to scale a cliff and destroy the German guns.

The original plan called for Force A, composed of Companies D, E, and F of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, to attack Pointe Du Hoc. Then, Companies A and B of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, and the entirity of the 5th Ranger Battalion, were to join them if they had successfully captured the position, which was to be relayed via signal flare.

However, due to a delay in getting the Force A to the right spot, the signal flare came too late and their reinforcements were thus landed in Omaha beach to support the landings there.

Despite the lack of support, Force A managed to achieve their objective, climbing the cliff and taking Pointe Du Hoc. However, to their shock, the German casemates were emport and the 155 mm guns they were supposed to destroy were not there.

Luckily for the Rangers, a recon patrol found the guns a bit further inland. The guns had been moved away from Pointe Du Hoc after previous Allied bombings made the Germans realize the vulnerability of the position. Quickly the Rangers used thermite grenades to destroy the gun's firing mechanicisms, disabling them.

----------------------------------------

Featuring:

@bexdrey @nopony-ask-mclovin and @whirlwindflux mod as members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion.

#bexdrey #nopony-ask-mclovin #whirlwindflux #Pegasus #Earth Pony #Unicorn #MLP #My Little Pony #History #D-Day #Normandy #Normandy Landings #Operation Overlord #World War 2 #WW2 #June 6 #D-Day As It Happened