This order was issued by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to encourage Allied soldiers taking part in the D-day invasion of June 6, 1944. Almost immediately after France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Allies planned a cross-Channel assault on the German occupying forces, ultimately code-named Operation Overlord
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Nightline had a special program commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
That was 39 years ago.
I’m getting old.
If you pay attention to who’s destroying America, it starts to feel like we fought on the wrong side. I love how my both grandfathers fought the nazis only for me to called a Nazi by the vermin they saved.
A couple of good shows on the last couple nights, one I’d never seen. These were mostly 17 and 18 year old boys led to slaughter. Too many Nazis got off easy after the war.
If you think God will save us from the totalitarians you don’t know history.
Anonymous: sometimes real life enters the picture. Unfortunately the infrastructure needed to be run in Germany after the war, and most of the people who knew how to do it were probably involved with nazism to some extent or another. The decision had to be made to either turn a blind eye to some things or to sow the seeds for another Hitler to come to power.
They probably also knew that they could not get everybody so they had to prioritize.
Every American should visit the Normandy Beaches, to walk the solemn grounds of the cemetery.
I went about 10 years ago and was struck by a few things. The distance from the shoreline to actual cover on Omaha was unreal and there was no place to hide. And the cemetery; quiet, perfectly manicured lawns, and not a piece of litter in sight, every step wrestling with emotion.
Spend a few minutes with those brave boys that are still alive, have a Kleenex handy;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmrQ6s-DY0
65 and 64 years ago I had several high school teachers tell their classes that Ike was a “White Nationalist”!Why? “OPERATIN WETBACK”!
Liberal teachers have been indoctrinating students on how “Ugly Americans” are for almost70 years.
dI argued with liberal teachers 65 years ago; as I argue with liberals today. Americans are good!
We need another national Operation Wetback now, we could call it Operation Send Back.
@Rich Taylor, I took my son there in 2014 after he was done competing in an equestrian competition in Caen. It was very sobering and very difficult not to weep; not only for the loss of all of those men, but their families and the necessity of burying them so far from home.
In 1966 when De Gaulle ordered “every American soldier out of France” Rusk asked “including the cemeteries?”
De Gaulle refused to answer.
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@ Tim: IMO, De Gaulle was MAYBE one noticeable step up from Biden – and B. L. Montgomery, for that matter.
@ Tim: I often wonder how many of our soldiers were lost to assuage the egomania of those two. General Eisenhower was VERY wise to have kept DeGaulle out of the planning for D-Day and subsequent attacks.
NAAC – FJBLGB,
Every death in Market-Garden was senseless – American AND British – dumbest operation on the Western Front.
As Eisenhower said, Montgomery WAS a psychopath.
De Gaulle was the epitome of France – vain, egotistical, inept, lazy (though De Gaulle wasn’t physically lazy – his reasoning was), easily offended (without cause), and quarrelsome.
He was, truly, the greatest Frenchman of his era.
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izlamo delenda est …
Operation Market Garden was a bridge too far. I’ve never been a fan of or understood why the Brits like Montgomery so much. He was an egotistical SOB worse than Patton.