D-Day - the Normandy landings

[Nibble]

My Stepfather is friends with a man that took part in the Normandy Landings. I'm happy to say that he hasn't paid for a pint in his home town for the last 70 years.

 

[symyjym]

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These are my grandad's D-Day orders. He told me that they used to get dummy orders every day, similar to these. When he opened these ones and read them to his men, to a man, they were all sick over the side of the boat.

He led the allied forces out of Portsmouth harbour on D-Day in the two boats he was commanding. They carried on to the -D-Day beaches and his boats went left to the beaches where they were performing dummy exercises to fool the Germans into thinking they were landing there.

Shame the attachment isn't working for me. I watched a program about dummy projects to throw the Germans and this was one of them. I liked the dummy & planes runways we set up as well. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Buzzer]

Shame the attachment isn't working for me. I watched a program about dummy projects to throw the Germans and this was one of them. I liked the dummy & planes runways we set up as well. Fascinating stuff.

Operation Mincemeat aka 'The Man Who Never Was' is a great example of that although I think that was for misinformation about the invasion of Italy.

 

[Braggfan]

Operation Mincemeat aka 'The Man Who Never Was' is a great example of that although I think that was for misinformation about the invasion of Italy.

Operation Mincemeat is fascinating, especially given that it's success amongst other things led to the Nazis ignoring future genuine intellignece finds because they thought they were being duped again.

 

[piersa]

Shame the attachment isn't working for me. I watched a program about dummy projects to throw the Germans and this was one of them. I liked the dummy & planes runways we set up as well. Fascinating stuff.

I just clicked on it and it seems to be working. I will try and post it some other way. I think it is a decent bit of historical data

 

[Norman Potting]

Shame the attachment isn't working for me. I watched a program about dummy projects to throw the Germans and this was one of them. I liked the dummy & planes runways we set up as well. Fascinating stuff.

Same here - see #14 above (sorry Bozza!).

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

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These are my grandad's D-Day orders. He told me that they used to get dummy orders every day, similar to these. When he opened these ones and read them to his men, to a man, they were all sick over the side of the boat.

He led the allied forces out of Portsmouth harbour on D-Day in the two boats he was commanding. They carried on to the -D-Day beaches and his boats went left to the beaches where they were performing dummy exercises to fool the Germans into thinking they were landing there.

Attachment won't open for me either

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

The Longest Day is on Film 4 tomorrow. The best war film ever in my opinion (as opposed to anti-war films like All Quiet on the Western Front and Oh! What a Lovely War.

 

[Buzzer]

The Longest Day is on Film 4 tomorrow. The best war film ever in my opinion (as opposed to anti-war films like All Quiet on the Western Front and Oh! What a Lovely War.

My favourite is 'In Which We Serve'. I love that film, properly love it.

 

[symyjym]

Operation Mincemeat aka 'The Man Who Never Was' is a great example of that although I think that was for misinformation about the invasion of Italy.

Possibly as well. From a documentary I have watched if my memory serves me correctly we set up dummy runways and planes in Kent to fool the Germans that we were going via the shortest route and try and land at Calais.

 

[piersa]

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does this work?

 

[FREDBINNEY]

My Stepfather is friends with a man that took part in the Normandy Landings. I'm happy to say that he hasn't paid for a pint in his home town for the last 70 years.

Your stepfather sounds like a really tight c**t.

 

[BBassic]

My Grandfather was heavily-involved in the planning of D-Day, and this was one of the ideas that they were most proud of.

If the thumbs were still around I'd 'Up' this.

It is quite literally nothing short of genius to come up with something like this. It also seems, to me at least, to be an extremely British solution to the problem!

 

[symyjym]

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does this work?

Unfortunately not, there is a problem with this on NSC.

If you go to Go Advanced and uploaded it as an image it may work. Someone else may advise better on this though.

 

[User removed 4]

My favourite is 'In Which We Serve'. I love that film, properly love it.

The cruel sea for me, the book is superb as well.

 

[skipper734]

Thanks, interesting stuff.

"The Allied casualties figures for D-Day ... a total of 4,413 dead" (accounted for, so there will be more)
"Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces."
"Today, twenty-seven war cemeteries hold the remains of over 110,000 dead from both sides: 77,866 German, 9,386 American, 17,769 British, 5,002 Canadian and 650 Poles"

All those dead from a collection of different nationalities. Where are the French? Presumably there were no deaths among the 77 taking part, making the effort to recapture their own country.

 

[Giraffe]

BBC1, think it was Monday night, spread over two shows.

Quick google suggests it was called D-Day: The Last Heroes. Seems to have been first shown last year. I really enjoyed it though. You can still see it on iPlayer by the looks of it.

Thank you, I'll give it a watch when I get a chance.

 

[Blazing Apostle]

I went over to Normandy for a military tour in 1984 with a coach load of veterans - the evening meals were fascinating as they recounted their stories and when we travelled around they pointed where they had been and what they had seen - I have a US TV commeration folder signed by the veterans and they detail where they landed/were shot down/what ship they were on etc - my step father in law also landed as ASC driver on D Day +1 on Juno beach and he finally told me his war career over a bottle of scotch one summer evening - just fascinating - Sherman tanks being picked off on a hill by a Tiger and each brewing up, driving up to a Chateau which was still in German hands and having their transport shot up and him having to hide under his truck - it was a special night ..sadly he is not with us anymore so I will raise a glass to him on the 7th - to you Pte Roger Parish

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Indeed. Quite a few of the modern occupants of this Country should read up and appreciate what was sacrificed by so many for our continuing freedom.

TNBA

TTF

Utterly agree. I challenge anyone to watch the BBC programmes and still have a dry eye at the end. Also 'The World at War' is well worth the £20 you can pick it up for on Amazon.

 

[cunning fergus]

Thanks, interesting stuff.

"The Allied casualties figures for D-Day ... a total of 4,413 dead" (accounted for, so there will be more)
"Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces."
"Today, twenty-seven war cemeteries hold the remains of over 110,000 dead from both sides: 77,866 German, 9,386 American, 17,769 British, 5,002 Canadian and 650 Poles"

Indeed, its little wonder that the demographic for UKIP voters is white and over 60...................

http://sluggerotoole.com/2013/03/07...-and-more-working-class-but-especially-older/

Surprised the ANL are over there in Normandy giving the old'uns what for?