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D Day
National take your Dog to work
Friday Horoscopes
End with a Song

D Day

Recently, 6th June, it was D Day. This was the day the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.

D Day Numbers
Source War History on Line

6,000,000 people: The number of people involved in the invasion from the Allied side. The largest numbers were American and British, but there were many others. Troops from all over the British Empire and English speaking world. Czechs, French, Hungarians and Poles hoping to free their countries and Jews who had fled Austria and Germany. It was a remarkable alliance.

39 divisions: The number of Allied divisions in southern England immediately before the D-Day landings. Of these, 20 were from the USA, 14 British, 3 Canadian, 1 French and 1 Polish.

138 battleships, cruisers and destroyers: This was the fleet that would bombard the French coast and protect the transports on their crossing.

287 minesweepers: The ships clearing the sea lanes for the Allied fleet.

310 landing ships and 3,817 landing craft and barges: Over 4,000 vessels were used to transport the troops across the Channel and land them on the beaches of Normandy.

423 ships on the construction crew: Once the initial landings had taken place, infrastructure had to be put in to support and supply the invasion. 423 tugs and other ships carried out this construction work. Some transported and assembled the Mulberry harbours. Others laid pipes and cables across the width of the English Channel.

10,000 aircraft: The air force that participated in the operation, fulfilling three vital roles. Some of these planes were used to get troops into the action, dropping paratroopers behind the enemy line or towing gliders to the point where they could detach and make their landing runs.

I wrote a poem about the futility of war...

Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust

Your transient youth

Is naught but rust

Beneath this mouth

Of broken teeth

White carved signed

With grief

Your birth, your death

In one harsh phrase

Belays the cost of those

Dead days

This rest, this place

Eternal sod

Lies told to an

Uncaring God

The truth, the honesty

The killing joke

Is your not there

Somewhere else, scattered and broke

International Take Your Dog to Work Day

Every dog has his day, and today is the day for yours.
So if your boss is OK with it, then why don't you take the lead.....lend him your
i-bone and have a dog day afternoon, and morning.

Just make sure, when you get home he's not dog tired !

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