Random History Discussion

[burmafrd1944]

and it did not really change all that much. Though the Germans never again risked their fleet.

now as regards Naval Warfare, it did cause some serious looks at a number of things
The British Battlecruisers blowing up one after another was the greatest scandal to come out of it

 

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[Irish#1]

My Father in Law was there. He came in one of those gliders that crashed behind German lines.

 

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My grandpa was there shortly after the invasion. He helped deliver a baby for the mayor of Sainte-Mère-Église. My family received letters from them for a long time but stopped getting letters sometime in the 90s.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Not a D-Day story, but my grandfather was killed in the Ukraine by German soldiers. They took my grandmother, then pregnant with my father back to Germany to a work camp.
He was born on March 26, 1945 in a German labor camp and luckily, they were liberated a few weeks later. Unfortunately, they had mo way to make it back home so my father was raised in Germany until the early 1960's. St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic church in Chicago was searching for refugees from the war and brought them on a ship to Ellis Island and then relocated them to Chicago.

My grandmother stayed in Ukrainian Village until 2013 and was eternally grateful to America and the church for saving them.

 

[thekid33]

My Pop-Pop was in the Big Red 1 on Omaha. It's been more than half my life since he's gone, but today I always think of him a little more than normal.

 

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Holy cow, first time I have seen footage like this

 

[burmafrd1944]

Holy cow, first time I have seen footage like this

The old pre dreadnaught (built in 1905) actually fired the first shots of WW2.

Schleswig-Holstein​

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[Bishop2b5]

I never knew this. Thanks. I've been to Gettysburg. It's an amazing experience. When you look around at the battlefield, it just seems like normal farmland and it's hard to envision the violence and bloodshed that took place there.

 

[Irish#1]

Panoramic view

 

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[Huntr]

She caused a massive stir among the Virginians when she publicly insisted that Pickett’s Charge, in fact, was Longstreet’s and that he was acting under Lee's direct orders. He was not the scapegoat.

Guys, guys. Let's not fight. You were all fuckin stupid.