{"id":6208,"date":"2017-06-06T10:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:39:05","slug":"1944-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6208","title":{"rendered":"1944: D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Allied landing in Normandy began on this date in 1944, 73-years ago today.<\/p>\n

There is extensive literature about that incredible day, and every year sees a couple more books published about the landing — deservedly so.<\/p>\n

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Most of the men in this famous picture never made it to the beach; they were machine-gunned and their corpses bobbing in the bloody water as wave after wave of soldiers pushed past them and gained a toehold on the beach. That achieved, the Army Rangers assaulted Pointe du Hoc<\/i>, a promontory midway between Utah and Omaha beaches. At the top there were guns to be taken out.<\/p>\n

They scaled up the 100-foot cliffs using ropes. Many of the first men to the top were shot as they topped the cliff … and then the man behind them would resume the climb upward as the body of their fellow soldier tumbled down.<\/p>\n

Nobody will deny the military genius of D-Day, but it was the courage and persistence of citizen-soldiers that pulled it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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