#normandy landings

[theworldatwar]

A US Medical Unit wades ashore through the shallows at Utah Beach - Normandy, 6th June 1944

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #normandy #normandy landings #dday #dday landings #Utah beach #Utah #France #1944 #january 6th #medic

[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

[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

[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.

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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.

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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

[carbone14]

Les Pathfinders 17 du 508e PIR de la 82e Division aéroportée américaine et les membres d'équipage posent devant leur Douglas C-47 avant le départ pour la France – Opération Boston – Débarquement de Normandie – Base aérienne de la RAF à North Witham – Angleterre – 5 juin 1944

Les éclaireurs (pathfinders) de la 82e Division aéroportée comme ceux de la 101e Airborne étaient équipées de balises radio au sol Eureka qui communiquaient avec un émetteur/récepteur Rebecca embarqué dans les appareils de parachutage. Le système de guidage indiquait au pilote la distance et l'alignement de son appareil le séparant de la zone de parachutage. Les Pathfinders décollent d'Angleterre depuis la base de la RAF North Witham et sont les premiers soldats à toucher le sol français en vue de baliser les zones de largage (DZ) des deux divisions de parachutistes américains : la 82nd et la 101st.

La composition type d'une équipe de Pathinders est la suivante :

1 officier chef d’équipe, de grade Lieutenant

1 officier assistant chef d’équipe

2 opérateurs de la balise EUREKA

2 assistants opérateur de la balise

1 chef de section lampe holophane

7 hommes équipés chacun de deux lampes holophanes

4 à 6 hommes pour protéger la DZ

#WWII #opération overlord #overlord #débarquement de normandie #normandy landings #opérations aéroportées #airborne operations #opération boston #mission boston #82e division aéroportée us #82nd airborne division #all american #508e régiment d'infanterie parachutiste #508th parachute infantry regiment #éclaireur #pathfinder #base aérienne de north witham #raf north witham #north witham #angleterre #england #05/06/1944 #06/1944 #1944

[vox-anglosphere]

On this day in 1944, the hinge of European history began to turn.

#On this day #6 June 1944 #Juno Beach #France #WWII #Normandy landings #Allied invasion #British Army #Europe #Operation Overlord #US Army #armed forces #Canadian Army

[selkiesstories]

This is such a great sequence, I really love how the scene starts with individualized shots of Easy Company then widens to the planes taking off, then finally opens and we get an idea of the sheer scale of the Normandy forces.

Also, notice how they went from late afternoon/evening, to the dark interior of a airplane, to an exterior nightime shot and there's no need to adjust the screen brightness.

#history #WWII #D-Day #operation overlord #Battle of Normandy #normandy landings #Band of Brothers #Youtube

[walkingthroughthisworld]

#d day #d day78 #operation overlord #normandy landings #lest we forget #infographic

[indynerdgirl]

A Message From Omaha Beach

I know a woman who visited the famous Omaha Beach, where the D-Day invasion occurred, and she met a veteran there she didn’t expect to encounter. He’d been a Nazi soldier at D-Day. And he shared with her the terror that he felt seeing a massive fleet of ships approach the beach. And when the Allies had gotten the upper hand, he had one bullet left in his gun and he thought, “This is the end.”

A U.S. soldier charged him. He lifted his gun and took a shot. The soldier fell to his knees, took his helmet off, fell to his back, made the Sign of the Cross, and died.

“It was at that moment,” the old man said, “that I realized Hitler was not God.” He miraculously survived that day — and the war — and came back 74 years later to honor the man who changed his life forever.

That soldier whose name we do not know — but who’s honored in heaven forever, I promise you — that soldier didn’t storm the beach that day animated by fear. He didn’t storm the beach that day animated by animosity toward people who had set themselves up as his enemy. He was animated by love — love for God — and laying down his life for his friends.

You want to be a reminder to the world that there’s more? More than what sucks us into darkness? More than what divides us? Live like that man died.

God, give us that grace.

#D Day #WWII #Normandy Landings #history #military history #Omaha Beach #Youtube

[theworldatwar]

German soldiers captured by US soldiers at Coutances, France 1944

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #normandy #1944 #normandy landings #pow #prisoner of war #prisoner

[jonberry555]

NatGeo's Eyewitness D-Day Review

My review of National Geographic's Eyewitness D-Day Narrated by Qarie Marshal, written & produced by Paul Olding, and Directed by Hereward Pelling. And a look at D-Day in media.

#NatGeo's Eyewitness D-Day Review #My review of National Geographic's Eyewitness D-Day Narrated by Qarie Marshal #written & produced by Paul Olding #and Directed by Hereward Pelling. And a look at D-Day in media. #NatGeo #national geographic #review #youtube #jonberry555 #video #youtube video #d day #normandy beach #normandy landings #world war 2 #history #Youtube

[usa420news]

More than 156,000 Allied soldiers set out on a risky mission that would forever change the course of history on June 6, 1944, 79 years ago. An important turning point in World War II was the Normandy landings, or D-Day, which resulted in the liberation of Europe from Hitler’s Germany. The need to remember the declining ranks of WWII veterans, especially those who took part in this historic operation, grows as we reflect on the anniversary of D-Day. Future generations need to hear .... Read more

#d day #normandy landings #june 2023

[rooster-does-art]

D-Day

June 6, 1944

0048

- DZ A -

"Stand up!"

" Hook up!"

"Equipment check!"

"Sound off equipment check!"

"Eighteen, okay!"

"Seventeen, okay!"

On and on it went until, "One, okay!"

Then they waited. The red light glowed in front of them. But as they waited the night sky suddenly came alive. Explosions suddenly errupted all around them, as streaks of tracer fire rose up into the sky. They could feel the C-47 sway as it tried to evade the anti-aircraft fire. Suddenly, the light turned green. In one swift movement, the line lurched forward, as one after another paratroopers leaped into the night sky.

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The 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne was to drop into DZ A, behind Utah beach. The objective of the regiment was to capture the vital causeways that lead inland from Utah beach, as well as disable a German artillery battery near Saint-Martin-de-Varreville.

However, the drop was hampered by the fact that the pathfiners, who dropped in before the main force to deploy beacons to guide in the C-47s, were dropped in the wrong place. This, combined with anti-aircraft fire, resulted in the transport aircraft getting lost and scattered, which, in turn resulted in the paratroopers being dropped spreadout in the wrong areas. Out of the regiment's three battalions, only the 1st Battalion was able to land on the right place. In fact, they were the only unit, out of the whole 101st Airborne, that landed in the correct spot.

Despite the bad landings, the paratroopers of the 502nd managed to achieve their objectives, securing the causeways and securing Saint-Martin-de-Varreville. Their actions would help in the successful landing of the US 4th Infantry Division on Utah beach.

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Featuring:

@temper-temper and @randomgurustuffs as paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles". Both have the heart insignia of the 502nd PIR on their helmets, which helped scattered paratroopers indicate the units of the troopers next to them.

#temper-temper #randomgurustuffs #Pegasus #Pegasi #MLP #My Little Pony #History #D-Day #Normandy #Normandy Landings #Operation Overlord #World War 2 #WW2 #June 6 #D-Day As It Happened

[carbone14]

Débarquement des commandos du quartier général de la 4th Special Service Brigade à Juno Beach – Secteur Nan Red – Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer – Calvados – Normandie - France – 9 h 00 – Opération Neptune – Opération Overlord – 6 juin 1944

Photographe : Lieutenant Handford - No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - B 5218

#WWII #opération overlord #overlord #opération neptune #operation neptune #débarquement de normandie #normandy landings #armée britannique #british army #comandos britanniques #british commandos #4th special service brigade #juno beach #secteur nan red #nan red sector #saint-aubin-sur-mer #calvados #normandie #normandy #france #06/06/1944 #06/1944 #1944 #d-day

[vox-anglosphere]

Indeed, our war heroes need to be treated with dignity and respect.

#D-Day #Normandy landings #Allied invasion #France #UK #British stamps #6 June 1944 #injured veterans #On this day #Sword Beach #Juno Beach #war heroes #honour #sacrifice