6th of June 1944

[Sergio Natali]

Originally Posted by mrerick

I'm reading an excellent book drawn from the British war diaries on the Normandy invasion.

Normandy 1944 The Road to Victory

This book's detail discusses not only the landings, but also the weeks that followed as the Allies consolidated, battled German tank corps and infantry and then fought their way to Paris.

Today, we tend to forget that none of this was a "sure thing" in 1944, and that there was always the very real possibility of Rommel and von Rundstadt driving the Allies back into the sea like a second Dunkirk.

Our fathers and grandfathers took this land one hill and valley, one bridge and river, one house and town at a time.

They make any mention of "great" and "greatest" about today's world seem trivial in comparison.

Marc

I agree 100%
I remember that when I was a child on tv they used to show WWII videos and films quite often, but I'm sure that if now we ask a teenager some questions about WWII we'd probably receive just puzzled looks...

[Eugen]

A friend sent me this description of the scale of the operation, which is almost incomprehensible:

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by Eugen

A friend sent me this description of the scale of the operation, which is almost incomprehensible:

Saved it. Thanks!