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Sixth of June, 75 years ago today, by the numbers.
6 years ago
Stephen Green, of Vodka Pundit breaks down the numbers:
The Logistical concerns of the operation are staggering, and even today the wrecked pontoons of the Mulberry ports are still scattered across the coasts of France. But this was how our grandfathers and great grandfathers liberated Europe from tyranny. As Colin Powell once said to the former archbishop of Canterbury,
That is our legacy.
"I want you to imagine picking up every resident of a medium-sized city, everything they'll need to eat and drink and rest for a few days, any vehicles they might need, gasoline of course, plus lots of guns and ammo -- did I mention this was a hunting trip? -- and then moving them all in a few short hours a distance of anywhere from 30 to 125 miles or so.
Now imagine you have to move all those people and all that stuff partly by air, but mostly across heavy seas in foul weather.
Under enemy fire."The Logistical concerns of the operation are staggering, and even today the wrecked pontoons of the Mulberry ports are still scattered across the coasts of France. But this was how our grandfathers and great grandfathers liberated Europe from tyranny. As Colin Powell once said to the former archbishop of Canterbury,
“We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace."
That is our legacy.
I'm going to pop in Band of Brothers, episode 2, then pop in The Longest Day.
Official video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVH.....;feature=share
Fan made video using clips from Saving Private Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJAwCBbnuc