June 6 1944 D-Day

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Fantastic success in getting ashore so that Montgomery could spend the next six weeks going nowhere in front of Caen (his assigned objective for day one)
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Fantastic success in getting ashore so that Montgomery could spend the next six weeks going nowhere in front of Caen (his assigned objective for day one)
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Monty: continuously saved by Americans from North Africa to France and perpetually late to the party.
 
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BreatheUT said:
Did the WH put out a statement about the 78th anniversary of D-Day?
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no, they said it was unfair to single out a particular letter of the alphabet for special treatment and that letter diversity was the new goal. Until there is A-Day, B-Day, C-Day, etc, it is hateful and bigoted to commemorate the one day while ignoring the unnoticed contributions of the other 25 letters of the alphabet
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Fantastic success in getting ashore so that Montgomery could spend the next six weeks going nowhere in front of Caen (his assigned objective for day one)
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Not to blow smoke up Monty's ass - because even McClellan might question his caution at times - but the Germans did throw the kitchen sink at Caen. It's probably a major reason the U.S. First Army was eventually able to blow a huge hole in the line west near St. Lo - every German unit reached the front thru the Argentan-Falaise-Caen or Domfront-Flers-Caen highways. Isn't too crazy to commit newly arriving forces to what feels like the immediate threat.
 
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alexbond45 said:
Not to blow smoke up Monty's ass - because even McClellan might question his caution at times - but the Germans did throw the kitchen sink at Caen. It's probably a major reason the U.S. First Army was eventually able to blow a huge hole in the line west near St. Lo - every German unit reached the front thru the Argentan-Falaise-Caen or Domfront-Flers-Caen highways. Isn't too crazy to commit newly arriving forces to what feels like the immediate threat.
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That was Monty‘s excuse for all his failures, he took the brunt of every enemy effort so that others could have success 🙄
 
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OHvol40 said:
Monty: continuously saved by Americans from North Africa to France and perpetually late to the party.
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Monty‘s failure to meet up with the Americans to close the Falaise pocket during the Normandy breakout probably extended the war by six months, costing hundreds of thousands more deaths and basically handing an even larger chunk of Eastern Europe to the Soviet terror.
And don’t even get me started on the debacle that was Operation Market Garden
 
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