Today is 6th of June, 57,500 Americans and 75,215 British and Canadians from the sea and 15,500 Americans and 7,900 British from the air.
set-off in one of most daring operations. Let's dump some pics in honor.
>>30187113
Damn I never realised there were more bongs at the Normandy invasion than burgers. Guess that's due to me being a burger and we're basically taught that they invasion was mostly us with a little assistance from being bongland.
A handwritten note believed to have been drafted a month or two before the D-Day landings shows that Montgomery’s battle plan boiled down to a single piece of paper.
>>30187228
if OP's numbers are correct, there were 73.000 americans and some 83.000 bongs/canucks involved. which isnt that much of a difference, considering the latter had 3 beaches and one drop zone whereas the yanks had two of both
having said that, Omaha and the american drops didnt go all to well, whereas the bongs/canuks were relatively more succesful (iirc) which makes them less interesting topics
>>30187262
>>30187250
>Montgomery’s battle plan boiled down to a single piece of paper.
I think the best battle plans are stupidly simple.
Napoleon is even to have said that he favored a bold plan to a clever one.
>>30187269
>>30187262
2 American beaches
3 British beaches
2 Canadian beaches
2 US airborne divisions
1 UK airborne division
Roughly equal, but yes you're right that popular history suggests the Americans did almsot all of it. Remember also that in Russia many haven't even heard of D-day, and they (rather correctly) see the whole western front as a bit of a sideshow.
Do you think those guys would have jumped out of that plane over France if they knew they were fighting so 70 years later boys could use the girls bathroom?
>>30187289
I think we shouldn't try to pretend that generalizing the opinions of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of men is in anyway a good idea or good use of a post.
Unless you have some 150,000 interviews you would like to share.
>>30187289
Yes because 70-80 years down the road isn't their problem
>>30187250
>most secret double underlined
>SIMPLICITY triple underlined
I like this battle plan.
>>30187281
>3 British beaches
>2 Canadian beaches
Gold was all British, Sword was British/Canadian and Juno was British/French and i'm sure somewhere there were some poles involved aswell
>>30187289
i like how this bathroom issue is dividing a nation
just make a single bathroom with out of sight urinals and unisex toilet stalls
>less cost for the owner
>less space taken by bathrooms
>no bullshit for swjs to get their knickers in a knot over
the only real losers would be toilet bowl manufactures
>>30187289
Yes, we should let genocidal fascists conquer Europe because something bad might happen in 70 years. What a spineless little worm you are.
>>30187281
That is a bit ridiculous, German air assets having to be moved between 2-3 fronts alone was pretty significant. And without the material support of the allies they simply would have failed.
>>30187326
>genocidal fascists
I think that's a bit harsh, the Soviets weren't exactly fascist even if the shoe fits.
>>30187342
>I think that's a bit harsh, the Soviets weren't exactly fascist even if the shoe fits.
If "the shoe fits" is not the deciding factor if you are a fascist or not, then what is?
>>30187281
>Remember also that in Russia many haven't even heard of D-day
Which is pretty amusing considering how rectal ravaged Stalin was about the Allies opening up a second front.
>>30187325
>unisex toilet stalls
That'll go over well. Women don't want to piss with men pissing right next to them.
The nation isn't cool with this idea, no matter how much the SJWs think otherwise.
>>30187289
pls don't say this, you'll just trigger some sjw cuck here that will tell you to GO BACK 2 /PAWL/
>>30187357
>teaching your subjects that the man of steel begged the capitalist dogs for a second front because he couldnt handle hitler himself
>>30187228
We had more troops there than the British, the Canadians had another 15,000 or so troops
OP here, as for numbers they are Bongan estimate. Source : Ellis, Allen & Warhurst 2004
But other statistics and estimates state "150,000" Average.
what I didn't know Patton was so fucking mad that he was put in charge of a fictitious combat unit.
Photo : British SAS Operation Bulbasket (crew)
Couldn't find a larger one
>>30187325
Juno was mostly canadian with british commandos there as well. Sword was British and French.
Photo : fucking up of the Atlantic wall.
Can anyone identify the bombers ?
>>30187490
Shit here's the photo
>>30187487
woops, little mix-up on my behalf
>>30187493
A-20's, and the aerial bombardement was mostly ineffective due to the bombs falling too far inland because of the fear to hit their own troops
also, is that Pointe du Hoc?
>>30187458
It was a smart move. 1 the germas were sure that patton would lead the invasion
2 to punish patton and keep him in check.
This here is a Bomb, the only Canadian Sherman tank that fought without interruption from D-Day to VE-day.
>>30187113
Today i'm in Normandy, and the weather is quite similar, military reenactors are everywhere, and i'm stuck at my stupid work
desu i think you shouldn't forget thosands of czechs, poles, belgians and fuckton others.
>>30187559
Oh man, too bad you suddenly got food poisoning and have to leave work
>>30187568
Dont forget all the Germans who made D-Day possible.
>>30187587
kek
>>30187577
I want to, believe me, even my gf told me not to go to word (since we work together) and that she'll make up some story.
But i'm a paramedic, so letting peoples down in my field is not sth you forget about while you watch this great armada.rolling in the boccage.
At least I saw the 2014's one, shit was more epic than a Hans Zimmer soundtrack.
I'll try to go get some pics in the parade fields if they're still there when I leave. Just went by a small covoy of Jeeps and GMC on my way to work this morning, they were probably rallying the beaches.
>>30187534
He had some temper - I've read somewhere
that if he wasn't "in action" he would go fucking nuts.
>>30187568
Yep I remember don't worryI will try to find exact numbers. Being Pole with a double citizenship it's my job to list every nation.
>>30187559
Ah, for fucks sake
>>30187534
Thanks for clarifying - yeah that's Pointe du Hoc
Here's General Maczek of the 1st Armoured Division with Ike
>>30187618
Damn, again
>>30187618
tbqh i think that listing each nation accurately is impossible
tens of thousands of expats fought (and were counted as) under different flag than their own simply because instead of enlisting into their armies in exile they enlisted british or american one. That or their governments did not form one.
>>30187609
>paramedic
Well i guess you might have done the right thing anon. That does sound cool tho, wonder if someone's recording it
>>30187272
That's in keeping with the French fighting spirit at the time. Boldness and speed of action was more important to them than meticulous planning. And there's some truth in that, when you have the right elements to use (as Napoleon often did).
>>30187634
Years than don't end in "4" are more scarce, I'm not even sur that the French president will be there, it's more about some private reenactors from all across europe (there a fair share of Americans and Canadians too), rolling around with their toys in military outfits.
It's basically /k/ all around, at least when the ceremony's over, drunk peoples everywhere, shooting their blanks at the sky like no tomorrow.
In '4' ending years, shit is pretty formal, and there's even more vehiculs, tanks and shit around.
12 years ago there was a shooting range with actual WW2 weapons, except it was all pellet guns...
TL:DR, watch the 2014 one, best one around to this day.
>>30187665
Addendum: the 2004 show had the actual 101st airborne paratroopers jump from the same planes, they were 60-70 y/o at the time.
Now most are in bad shape, if not dead. The 2024 one will probably look like what we recall of WW1 cermonies, poilus in wheelchairs.
All political bullshit aside, thanks for their service, dying here for a place they didn't knew.
F
>>30187281
Can't find proper source right now but think the brits also supplied something like 75% of naval and 65% of airport for d day
>>30187325
My university had this. They weren't "gender neutral" bathrooms, they were just fucking BATHROOMS. There were no urinals, just a fuck load of stalls/cubicles.
>>30187665
Man that's a lot of pristine hardware, glad they had some German stuff there too. Never been to france, maybe 2024 will be the year
>>30187765
I wish you do, Americans and Frenchies usually get along well when not separated by an ocean or a online shitposting device.
Also 2024 will probably see the Saumur museum come with it's Shermans, retrofited hobart funnies, and most importantly der only remaining Tiger 2 still functional.
They talk about something like that since it's been working again.
>>30187150
nice find, but this is most likely from Market Garden,,, Overlord drops were all at night.
Seems like the perfect day to fly a c-47
Not that I have an extra $250 sitting around but does this seem like a good buy?
>D-Day Infantryman Package
http://www.atthefrontshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=USPKGDD
>>30187511
Yep, that is.
>>30187326
It's looking more appealing every day.
>>30187289
You've probably used bathrooms with them a few times by now without even knowing it
Why do you give a fuck about gay this and trans that anyway?
their annoying shit storms only mean anything because people give them attention
I didn't care when gays were getting btfo'd by kikestians, I didn't care when they "fought" for the right to get married, I didn't care when kikestians got btfo'd by them and I REALL REALL REALLY don't care about where the take a shit so long as it's not in my mouth
>>30189140
>>30189155
>>30189164
>>30189181
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8EITu5ZYo8
americans are cowards
Wasn't there a famous photographer who landed with the first wave on Omaha, took hundreds of pictures, but then the person developing them screwed up and destroyed nearly all the photos? Such a damn shame.
>>30189193
>>30189290
>>30189300
Amazing how everything that could go wrong, did go wrong during the invasion, yet every beach was successfully taken.
>>30187150
how can any other feeling compare to the one where you're falling while being para dropped deep into enemy territory during day time along with over 1000+ comrades?
I was in Normandy for the 70th anniversary doing some ceremonial duties and with quite a bit of sight seeing and stuff in between. It was amazing.
>>30189194
>americans are cowards
>because this general has a different opinion than me
All better men than me.
Today is my 21st birthday, and in a weird way, I feel connected to these men. My grandpa jumped into D-Day as a combat medic, and I'm going to get a 68w/Opt 40 contract at the end of this year.
I'll drink to all of them, tonight.
>>30189443
>rivets
disgusting.
>>30189555
>welds
My dad's old boss was a Major (or Captain) and was at one of the British beaches.
>beach was littered with British dead
>no time to clear them out of the way
>priority was to land as much hardware in as short a time as possible
>tanks were slowly weaving up the beach inbetween corpses
>boss runs up to leading tank
>screams at commander to drive full throttle up beach to support infantry
>all tanks share command and obey
>churned up bodies were unrecognisable after a few minutes
Incidently he got shot just beyond the landing zone not long after, he said it was like being hit full force by a sledgehammer, he had all tge wind knocked out of him and collapsed to the floor in shock. And except for a spell in Palestine in 1945, that was his war over.
>>30187250
Keep It Simple Stupid
>>30189871
>slavshit welds
>>30189871
As a welder this shit is both offensive and terrifying.
>>30187269
>America has DECLARED WAR.jpg
>>30189333
>Amazing how everything that could go wrong, did go wrong
Not quite. The Nazis basically bit into every single misdirection play that the allies played that day. Hitler being Hitler also prevented a proper counterstrike.
>>30190254
That's what happens when your factory's head welder is a potato farming woman born in the early 1880s.
>>30190292
I meant more for the allies storming the beaches
>rough weather
>paratroopers drowned
>tanks sank
>bombers killed more teammates than targets
>>30187289
A clumsy alt-right appropriation of D-Day with a political message only a lunatic could make.
Shameful.
>dreaming I'm in a modern D-Day invasion
>in landing craft
>surrounded by other soldiers dressed in WW2 garb
>looking up at fortified machine gun emplacements just WAITING for us to get into range
>Why the fuck are we doing it this way? In the last 70 years, I would think we could come up with a better way!
>>30188659
>http://www.atthefrontshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=USPKGDD
hows the quality of those repros?
>>30187113
>papaw went into normandy on D-Day +6
>to the 3rd beach a farmers son from the Appalachian mountains had ever seen and the first to actually walk on.
>said it was still covered in bodies and washed up wreckage of landing craft full of dead soldiers who never got onto the beach
>said it smelled worse than a ripped gut of a cow
>said he knew he wouldn't have a problem killing Germans because of what he saw
>refused to set foot on another beach the rest of his life
if this is 6 days AFTER the first landing, i dont want to know what it was like on the first day.
>>30189333
you shove enough meat into the grinder and it eventually gets clogged.
>>30187113
The remains of SS Panzer Ace Michael Wittman's Tiger Tank after it was ambushed and the ammo cooked off, blowing the turret clear off the chassis.
>>30190647
first day probably wasn't too bad
aside from the krauts trying to kill you of course
the dead wouldn't have started rotting or being picked apart by sea creatures yet but a week later after sitting exposed to the elements/in the water/on wet sand it would be pretty messed up
Oho - today is Heinrich Severloh Tag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inbmkoU_QUI
This is an explanation for the big fireworks
>>30190725
it would smell like fresh blood and meat instead of rotting blood and meat. im not sure which would be worse given the contexts.
>>30190775
>However, Severloh’s claim is not viewed as credible by either US or German historians. Total US casualties (Killed, Wounded, Missing) from all sources at Omaha Beach on D-Day is estimated at 3,686.[1]
>>30190795
Poor Proof: 1,000 is less than 3,686
No matter! I celebrate anyway with a nice cup of american tears.
>>30190967
>I celebrate anyway with a nice cup of american tears.
It sure feels bad winning every world war.
>>30190967
>drinking from an empty cup
>>30187130
GLIDERS! FUCK YEAH!
War Thunder players are fucking idiots. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIyI6_y5ZY
>>30191018
I listened to him for 45 seconds and I started nodding.
>>30187349
Small f facist means rule by authority and force. Soviets were facist and couldn't admit it.
>>30190967
>lost the war
>country split in two for over 40 years
>now getting invaded by mudslime refugees
lmao
>>30190986
Better than to take part only when the game is nearly finished - as the USA did two times
>>30191082
>Better than
topkek
no
>>30191082
You should open a history book sometime.
>>30190485
I bought a pair of boots from ATF years ago. They were still made in America at the time. I still wear them at my daily wearers probably 3 times a week. After 8 years, I had to get them resoled for the first time. Not a shill cause I can't speak for the rest of their stuff but the boots are comfy and rugged as fuck and they look like the real deal.
About a third of our NCOs the RSM, the CSM and every officer above the rank of Major were of WW2 vintage. We were in very good hands.
d-day piper Bill Millin, avoided being shot to pieces as the Germans thought he had gone mad marching up and down the beach playing as everyone was being cut down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VtvTNzG-jg
I never realized the insane numerical advantage the allies had during D-day.
>german with M1 carbine
>>30191161
You generally need that when invading.
>>30191174
Yes I understand that, I guess what amazes me the most is the fact that the germans didnt have more resistance on the beaches. I know they were tricked by alot of misdirection but surely they could have pulled some divisions from Italy and Africa to help defend the fucking coast line.
>>30190994
underrated post
>>30189254
Is this true? Damn.
>>30191199
Italy was contending with an invasion of its own, and Africa was already lost.
>>30191279
>>30189254
Frank Capra. He was later killed while documenting the French in Vietnam.
>>30191199
At that point of the war it was pretty much the beginning of the "why can't I hold all these fronts" step for Germany.
>>30189254
Frank Capa
>>30189254
Frank Coppola
>>30190662
>you spend enough time planning, thinking, setting things up and planning again, mixed in with a bit of luck, balls and naval and air supremacy and eventually you win
FTFY
>>30191310
It's Frank Capa, the still photographer/photojournalist. Not Frank Capra, the Hollywood director.
>>30189254
Steven Spielberg
>>30189254
Quentin Tarantino
>>30187325
>Juno was British/French
https://youtu.be/z1cfVQyrQ3Q?t=1m44s
>>30191082
In what world does that make sense? I'd rather turn up 10 minutes late to everything and never lose than be them from the start and get my ribs broken, my arsehole ravaged, my head split, my toe nails pulled out and my hairy sac ripped off and used as a coin purse by some Russian named Boris.
>>30189290
Lucky strike hasn't changed a bit.
It's interesting a that i can't tell the age of the men by looking at them. They seem to me in their thirties. Whatever they are they seem to be in good spirits.
>>30187736
I fail to see a problem with this.
>>30191345
It's Francis FordCoppola, he directed the God Father.
>>30191410
He's just mad because when the US shows up, it means shit's about to get done.
>We were jerkin' on our dicks for 5 years, Americans show up and suddenly, 4 months later, we're in fuggin' Berlin!
You can either write that up to "We were JUUUUUUUST about to actually do fucking something until the Americans showed up and took all the credit!"
or you can see it as "America came, they saw, they fucked the enemy's shit up and got it done 10x faster than anyone else did, even after they gave us every chance to do so."
For your enjoyment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTqmb8GdFc
>>30191719
Are you retarded?
You're arguing with a German fanboy not a Brit.
And America was in the war for more than 2 years before D-Day, let alone the taking of Berlin, which the Russians beat us to whilst facing much tougher opposition anyway.
>>30187714
The RAF had an entire command dedicated to it; the 2nd tactical air force. the U.S. 8th Air Force was dedicated to strategic bombardment (except for operation cobra but that was a shitshow) and the 9th Air Force had a mixture of tactical and strategic airpower. Simply put, the british had more aircraft suited for that kind of operation.
>>30190485
They're pretty good
>>30192154
That deal is one day -Today only for D-day. I'm kinda on the fence about it.
>>30189531
>68w
Damn, I was going to go with that MOS, but I've found I'm kinda squeamish. I guess it was a good thing to learn in highschool.
I'm gonna go 11b for a contract or two then re-assign as 12m (firefighter)
> I hope re-assigning isn't a shit show but what ever.
> I doubt I'll ever get to re-assign, I'll probably be dead when I'm 24 or so, 5 years to waste eh?
Cheers
>>30191719
Well that's an unfortunately american-centric way to look at it...
As a canuck, here is how I picture each world war's western front.
So you have a bar, and there's this guy, Otto. Otto picks a fight with William. William doesn't want to get his face punched, so he calls his little brother Ricky. Ricky's a lil bit rural, so he isn't afraid to take a punch, and he and Otto go at er. Loads more people get sucked into the fight, and now we're four hours later. Everyone is missing teeth, William has a busted jaw and once again Pierre is unconscious. When Steve shows up. Now, we called Steve like, three hours ago, so we're kinda a bit pissed Steve took so fuckin long. Buuuuut, Steve is fresh, uninjured, and brought a lead pipe and a helmet, so whatever, lets get this done. Ricky holds Otto's arms and Steve cracks him in the teeth and there, we're finally done.
America shows up late every time. Not because they are JUST SO GREAT THAT THEY END WARS and not because their glory hogging cowards, but because while they're still your friend, they're a little bit self-serving, so they wanted to make sure they were all ready, prepared, equipped, and fighting a wounded foe, so as to minimize risk to themselves. Even if it's sorta at the cost of their allies.
All of you seem to assume the US didn't do shit until Pearl Harbor.
Doesn't the Battle of the Atlantic ring a bell?
>>30194015
It's not because they want to be dicks, it's that America being an isolated continent it's pretty understandable that they tried to stay away from the usual European shitflinging that's been going on pretty much nonstop for literal millennia.
>>30194392
Well sure.
Hard to fault that, when Canucks get chucked into the path of every punch sent towards the Brits, because they'd rather spend our lives than their own.
I can see the value in just not getting involved. Hell, most Canucks want to fire the Queen these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZm4zseMok0
can't believe this hasn't been posted yet
