Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:50 am
Well, the D-Day landings were pretty much an incredible thing. Not to detract from the russians efforts (people don't often know that the Russians lost more men in the second world war than the english, american, canadian, australian AND french put together from what i have read), D-Day was a defining moment in the second world war.
Lets try not to bring politics into this, as everyone pays respects together. People ask "what it was like", because without knowing, its flippin tough to actually APPRECIATE what they went through/did on the landing days.
I also understood that it was close to 200,000 men, and that the americans landed 5 divisions and the english 4........however, the canadians ALSO took their own beach as well. People do seem to forget that a war was waged for years before any real help came, and that the help was in the form countries across the globe pretty much, but this is not a time/place for history lessons or finger pointing about who made the biggest sacrifice. Its about celebration and rememberance. Celebrating the fruits of the fighting mans efforts, and remembering those who gave it there all for people they don't know so that life could return to normal.
Now that is out of the way....
Step in everyones fav - the BBC - where you can watch little animations of the occupation areas etc, as it really does help to realise the positions and more during the war:
here
Edited by - Chips on 6/6/2004 3:51:34 AM
Lets try not to bring politics into this, as everyone pays respects together. People ask "what it was like", because without knowing, its flippin tough to actually APPRECIATE what they went through/did on the landing days.
I also understood that it was close to 200,000 men, and that the americans landed 5 divisions and the english 4........however, the canadians ALSO took their own beach as well. People do seem to forget that a war was waged for years before any real help came, and that the help was in the form countries across the globe pretty much, but this is not a time/place for history lessons or finger pointing about who made the biggest sacrifice. Its about celebration and rememberance. Celebrating the fruits of the fighting mans efforts, and remembering those who gave it there all for people they don't know so that life could return to normal.
Now that is out of the way....
Step in everyones fav - the BBC - where you can watch little animations of the occupation areas etc, as it really does help to realise the positions and more during the war:
here
Edited by - Chips on 6/6/2004 3:51:34 AM
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