Just One Moment to Remember…June 6, 1944.
Because there are things that happened in the world before most of us were born, a belated remembrance of the longest day:
H/t for a reminder of the date to Paul Krugman, whose pun on this I cannot top.
Images: Chief Photographer’s Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard, official U.S. Coast Guard photograph, 6 June 1944.
The build-up of Omaha Beach. Reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland. SC193082 {PD-USGov-Military}
Photograph by Taylor, American assault troops of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, injured while storming Omaha Beach, wait by the Chalk Cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for further medical treatment. Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.
Tristan Nitot, The Omaha Beach Cemetery, aka World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, near Colleville-sur-mer in Normandy, France
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June 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm
I’m taking my family to Normandy next month.
June 9, 2011 at 10:22 am
Yes, quite a day, but as I never tire of pointing out, on the Eastern Front, there was a D-Day every week.
I offer this dyspeptic note as a corrective to the deeply-held idea in the USA that WE won the war. Churchill was not so naive.