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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    #1

    Link to video

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      jon-nyc
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      #2

      Wow. What a find.

      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
      -Cormac McCarthy

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        Loki
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        I’ve been watching Band of Brothers. It’s amazing to me how willing we were to give our lives on foreign soil. Not possible today at least with a draft, I mean even a covid shot is an affront to many. I guess the counter argument might be I am willing to give my life to Covid in the name of freedom.

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          Jolly
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          #4

          I think you'll find a lot of those lads who find a mandatory COVID shot appalling, will be the very best you have when the shit hits the fan.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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            taiwan_girl
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            80 years ago today.

            "Some gave all, all gave some!" 😢

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              taiwan_girl
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              ![alt text](image url)

              https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/robert-capa-d-day-photograph

              A soldier crawls in the surf. War craft looms in the sea behind him. The image is blurry, mirroring the chaotic motion of the real-life scene: D-Day.

              Robert Capa’s iconic photograph of a soldier in the sea captures one of the defining battles of World War II on a human scale. On June 6, 1944—80 years ago this year—the war reached a turning point when 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in what would become the largest sea invasion in history.

              The waterlogged men who swam, stumbled, and crawled onto the French coastline that day were armed with rifles—and Capa was armed with his camera. It became a lens that would give millions of civilians a glimpse of the horrors of war. But even though Capa survived the battle, his photographs nearly didn’t.

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              • JollyJ Offline
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                Jolly
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                #7

                Worked with a guy whose Dad was on Omaha Beach. About all he knew, was that his dad was on the beach on D-Day. His dad never spoke about it.

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  The video is unavailable btw.

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                    89th
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                    #9

                    Also, I went to look up stats on how many WWII veterans are still with us, and this chart made me mildly infuriated based on the Y-axis changing scale:

                    image.png

                    Here is an Excel version I just created:

                    99b9f76d-bae6-4d5b-ae46-ccee82be8725-image.png

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      Worked with a guy whose Dad was on Omaha Beach. About all he knew, was that his dad was on the beach on D-Day. His dad never spoke about it.

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                      blondie
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                      @Jolly said in D-Day, colorized:

                      Worked with a guy whose Dad was on Omaha Beach. About all he knew, was that his dad was on the beach on D-Day. His dad never spoke about it.

                      I’ve been watching the news of the Canadian contributions during this time of WWII. My Dad received his commission (Lieutenant) at Sandhurst prior to D-Day. Prior he was a Gunner with the 3rd Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He never spoke much of the War with us kids. It seemed a taboo subject. I just remember little bits of his “fingers hurting” during cold weather, his “hearing” (so my mom said), him talking of the ladies and pubs in England, and playing “War” with my brother using his army gear. Dad would cry talking of friends he lost between 1940 to 1945; most all his post war friends were veterans. I have a little book of the history of his Regiment. There are 5 full pages of members wounded or killed. Mom used to say he deeply regretted not being with his Regiment 1944 onward. I’m still trying to piece together where he would’ve been before and then. I wish I’d asked more questions when he was alive, but mom discouraged it.

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                        @Jolly said in D-Day, colorized:

                        Worked with a guy whose Dad was on Omaha Beach. About all he knew, was that his dad was on the beach on D-Day. His dad never spoke about it.

                        I’ve been watching the news of the Canadian contributions during this time of WWII. My Dad received his commission (Lieutenant) at Sandhurst prior to D-Day. Prior he was a Gunner with the 3rd Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He never spoke much of the War with us kids. It seemed a taboo subject. I just remember little bits of his “fingers hurting” during cold weather, his “hearing” (so my mom said), him talking of the ladies and pubs in England, and playing “War” with my brother using his army gear. Dad would cry talking of friends he lost between 1940 to 1945; most all his post war friends were veterans. I have a little book of the history of his Regiment. There are 5 full pages of members wounded or killed. Mom used to say he deeply regretted not being with his Regiment 1944 onward. I’m still trying to piece together where he would’ve been before and then. I wish I’d asked more questions when he was alive, but mom discouraged it.

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                        Renauda
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                        #11

                        @blondie

                        Blondie, what regiment he had served with and his combat arms trade?

                        Elbows up!

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                          blondie
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                          #12

                          He was with the 17th Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. I don’t understand the 2nd part of your question. He was from your town. Do you know anyone he may have fought with? I think he deployed from Mewata in YYC, then from Winnipeg.

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                            blondie
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                            #13

                            The information I have with his name came from “The History of the Third Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment”, from 17 August 1940 to 7 May 1945 .. the little book I spoke of.

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                              George K
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                              image.jpeg

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                Copper
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                                #15

                                Scottie?

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                                • CopperC Copper

                                  Scottie?

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                                  George K
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                                  #16

                                  @Copper said in D-Day, colorized:

                                  Scottie?

                                  Yup.

                                  Charles Durning was another actor who was part of the Normandy Invasion.

                                  Henry Fonda.

                                  Richard Todd.

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                  • B blondie

                                    @Jolly said in D-Day, colorized:

                                    Worked with a guy whose Dad was on Omaha Beach. About all he knew, was that his dad was on the beach on D-Day. His dad never spoke about it.

                                    I’ve been watching the news of the Canadian contributions during this time of WWII. My Dad received his commission (Lieutenant) at Sandhurst prior to D-Day. Prior he was a Gunner with the 3rd Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He never spoke much of the War with us kids. It seemed a taboo subject. I just remember little bits of his “fingers hurting” during cold weather, his “hearing” (so my mom said), him talking of the ladies and pubs in England, and playing “War” with my brother using his army gear. Dad would cry talking of friends he lost between 1940 to 1945; most all his post war friends were veterans. I have a little book of the history of his Regiment. There are 5 full pages of members wounded or killed. Mom used to say he deeply regretted not being with his Regiment 1944 onward. I’m still trying to piece together where he would’ve been before and then. I wish I’d asked more questions when he was alive, but mom discouraged it.

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                                    Mik
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                                    @blondie I have relatives in the Canadian military currently and several generations back. Lost a couple in WWI and II

                                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    • B blondie

                                      He was with the 17th Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. I don’t understand the 2nd part of your question. He was from your town. Do you know anyone he may have fought with? I think he deployed from Mewata in YYC, then from Winnipeg.

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                                      Renauda
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                                      @blondie said in D-Day, colorized:

                                      He was with the 17th Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. I don’t understand the 2nd part of your question. He was from your town. Do you know anyone he may have fought with? I think he deployed from Mewata in YYC, then from Winnipeg.

                                      That answers my question about his combat arms trade. He was an artillery officer.

                                      No one I can recall of my parents friends or any of the WWII army vets I met. Everyone I recall served in either Italy or Belgium and Holland. Most of my parent’s friends were either RCAF or RCN vets.

                                      The one army vet who would visit the house had been a tanker in the Liri Valley/Monte Cassino Battle in Italy. When I was a Reservist I got to know a couple Loyal Edmonton Regiment vets who used to drop by the Officers’ Mess or attend Mess Dinners as honoured guests. Both were in the Italian campaign and participated in the Battle of Ortona in late 1943.

                                      Elbows up!

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                                      • George KG George K

                                        @Copper said in D-Day, colorized:

                                        Scottie?

                                        Yup.

                                        Charles Durning was another actor who was part of the Normandy Invasion.

                                        Henry Fonda.

                                        Richard Todd.

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                                        taiwan_girl
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                                        @George-K said in D-Day, colorized:

                                        @Copper said in D-Day, colorized:

                                        Scottie?

                                        Yup.

                                        Charles Durning was another actor who was part of the Normandy Invasion.

                                        Henry Fonda.

                                        Richard Todd.

                                        https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/06/06/famous-people-d-day-invasion-salinger-yogi-berra/73964272007/

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