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- HeyArnold, on 07/14/2009, -8/+379I must get this to the Führer at once!
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -6/+319Tak a moment to think about this,
* There are 9,386 graves in the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. Each grave faces west, toward America.
* 307 of those graves contain the remains of "unknown" soldiers.
* 1,557 names are listed in The Garden of the Missing for those who were never found.
* 4,868 British dead are buried in the Bayeux Cemetery.
* 1,837 British names are listed at Bayeux for those who were never found.
* There were 946 Canadian casualties in the Normandy campaign.
* 21,500 German dead are buried at LaCambe.
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/normandy-inv ... - Wargala, on 07/14/2009, -2/+299You're welcome,
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Grandpa - BoneStamp, on 07/14/2009, -8/+216Pro Tip: When your image contains text and few colors, export as a PNG instead of a JPG.
- Dragonspawn, on 07/14/2009, -10/+182Seems to be a major error in that image, it has British and Canadian soldiers listed. Hollywood movies have always taught me it was an American only invasion.
- Awwzm, on 07/14/2009, -6/+161Awesome infographic. ***** description.
- crackerjack20, on 07/14/2009, -2/+135According to the text near the upper right part (out in the ocean), there were "71,213 naval combat ships" and only 195,000 navy personnel. So only 2 or 3 people could run an entire ship? Awesome!
Seriously though, if there's an obvious error like that, I have a hard time believing anything else on that "infographic". - borez, on 07/14/2009, -1/+101I've been to some of those cemeteries, you don't actually realise the scale of the loss of life until your stood in the middle of them.
- Kriegg, on 07/14/2009, -1/+98I never realized what those guys went through until I saw Saving Private Ryan...whole entire theater left and was speechless. I called my Grandfather the next day and said "Thank you".
- zaren, on 07/14/2009, -4/+101"Dwigth"?
Proofreading FTL. - isfan, on 07/14/2009, -3/+96Overall casualties of WW2 - 73 million
US and British combined casualties throughout WW2 - 1,445,500
Soviet casualties of the war - 23,100,000
It's not a competition of death counts but... it's worth a thought - Ruger11mcrdpi, on 07/14/2009, -0/+87It was an epic event, and the soldiers that took part in that really are the Greatest Generation. I've stood on Dog Green at Normandy, and looked up at the cliffs, cannon emplacements still pockmark the sea cliffs. Many you can't see from the water, you can only see from the beach, and they cross coverage the whole area.
If you ever get a chance, visit Pointe du Hoc. It's an unbelievable experience. Stand in the German bunkers and look where the Rangers climbed a sheer cliff face straight through the enemy line of sight. Look out to sea to your left and you can make out Utah Beach and it's massive expanse of sand to your left, and down from the cliffs to your right you can see the Dog Green and the rest of Omaha beach that's clearly bracketed by German gun emplacements. A truly amazing accomplishment of willpower, determination and courage. It's a humbling experience.
Lastly, the US/French/Allied cemetery above Omaha Beach is equally impressive. Stay long enough to hear the US National Anthem played by bells as you walk among the crosses... it was a moving experience. I had a chance to talk to several veterans there and thank them for their service. That generation is fading away rapidly, and sadly will not be around much longer. We owe them so much. - taketheleap, on 07/14/2009, -0/+86... and my Dziadzia. (polish for grandpa).
He was the second wave of D-Day.
Think about the horrors he saw on the second wave... he never spoke of it and took it to his grave. - borez, on 07/14/2009, -0/+83Agreed, there were actually 1213 naval combat vessels, obviously a typo, but you'd think he'd have proof read his own work.
- nevinl, on 07/14/2009, -5/+85Watch Ken Burns - The War, Episode Four: "Pride Of Our Nation", released fall of 2007
***Incredible*** seven part series. Everyone should watch it. It is a great honest look into the good, bad, and the terribly ugly. It's one of those things that even if you really aren't into war/military, you'll be glued to your chair for the next 4 hours watching it.
As for the DDay part, it shows the naval fleet coming across the channel. It is staggering to see such a large force, stretching out of sight. It seemed like just about any boat that was in the area they used...it looked like some were even fishing boats. Each ship that took months upon months to build filled with crewman. Then to see some of the amphibious vehicles released too far from the shore and have nearly every single soldier trapped in it and sink to the bottom of the sea. And to see footage of SPRyan-like events....=`(
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/about_letter_from_produc ...
Although I torrent'ed the set, I ended up dropping the $110 for the DVD series. - shadebane, on 07/14/2009, -4/+79This helps put everything in perspective. Now its time to put in Band of Brothers while simultaneously playing Company of Heroes to kill some Krauts.
- Megadeth222, on 07/14/2009, -0/+72I felt the same way when i saw star wars. You never realize what our grandparents had to go through back in those days :\
- sanosuke001, on 07/14/2009, -6/+77Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916,
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly?
Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And, though you died back in 1916,
To that loyal heart are you forever 19?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained,
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.
And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.
"The Green Fields of France"
(WWI but still relevant I think) - HeyArnold, on 07/14/2009, -0/+60You've gotta be ***** kidding.
- d3athr1d3r, on 07/14/2009, -3/+59My grandfather fought in the pacific campaign on D-Day. He passed away one week ago. The only time he ever talked to me about his experiences in the war was when I told him I'd signed up to follow in his foot steps and become a Marine but nothing can ever compare to the horrors of WWII.
- tugger, on 07/14/2009, -0/+54Recognition from a brit... [and quite frankly we need to recognise more, the effort made by non-brit/usa allies]
The Germans said that fighting the scottish and canadian regiments was always the toughest.
Recognition also to the indian army. At the start of war, the uk asked india for assistance with people, supplies and cash. They responded with 1 million volunteers!! the largest ever mobilisation of armed forces on the planet, ever.
They were never officially acknowleged or thanked. - LittleDas, on 07/14/2009, -0/+51***** nazi time travelers
- tugger, on 07/14/2009, -1/+51Stalin killed off another 38 million of his own people in his purges...
Last year Stalin was voted the greatest russian to have ever lived....
worth a thought. - Hero0fTime, on 07/14/2009, -0/+48"I treasure my remark to my grandson who asked, "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" Grandpa said, "No... but I served in a company of heroes"."
- Richard D. Winters, Band of Brothers - RogaDanar, on 07/14/2009, -0/+43Come on now...no one likes a Nazi.
- kayosthery, on 07/14/2009, -2/+39You ruined his joke.
- Jo9100, on 07/14/2009, -1/+32"'[Agent Michael Scarn :] Samuel you are such an idiot! You are the worst assistant ever, and you're disgusting, Dwigt!' ... Wait who's Dwigt?"
- homercles337, on 07/14/2009, -3/+34The blow up of the area in the small map is totally innacurate. The coast line and the area that was blown up is not even close.
- BoneStamp, on 07/14/2009, -0/+29Some people would say the same for JPG. There is a proper use for each. Photographs can usually look good as JPGs while being considerably smaller than PNGs in file size. Vector graphics and text are usually better looking and smaller in file size as PNGs.
- ph0replay, on 07/14/2009, -0/+28I recently had a chance to visit the D-Day beaches while in France. Standing at the observation posts at the top of the beach really puts the entire event into perspective. Anyone going to Paris should definitely take the day trip to check it out.
- BottledViolence, on 07/14/2009, -1/+27No, burying ignorance.
The entire operation was led by an American, so all of the success would be American by your measure.
Personally I figure it was an allied operation regardless of the fact that the US lend-lease program supplied so much of the equipment used by the British and Canadian forces... - Ev3nt372, on 07/14/2009, -3/+29Not to be insulting or anything but even if D-Day never happened Berlin would still be stormed by the Red Army but at a slower pace. 75% of all German units were already fighting on the eastern front and they 70% of their casualties there losing decisive battles in the war such as Kursk(largest tank battle of .9mil Ger and 1.1mil Rus) leaving the German military by the time of D-Day a mere shadow of its former self. The Russians did most of the work in killing off Nazi Germany. Its only too bad that there are not that many good movies on the Eastern Front and I think the Eastern front deserves at least its own entire game since it involved more land combat than all the other fronts put together.
IF D-DAY DID NOT HAPPEN ALMOST ALL OF EUROPE WOULD BE RED. - cygnus2112, on 07/14/2009, -2/+27Damnit, now I want to play Call of Duty 1 & 2 again. Thanks infographic!
- MikeyMoose, on 07/14/2009, -0/+25The Canadian numbers are a tad misleading.
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
* 14,000 Canadians landed. 359 killed, 574 wounded, and 47 taken prisoner.
Normandy Campaign (June 6-August 23, 1944):
* Nearly 90,000 Canadians participated. 18,444 casualties (killed, injured or taken prisoner) - ivanmarsh, on 07/14/2009, -0/+25The contribution of the Soviets during WWII is often overlooked or played down since the cold war. Look into the battle of Kursk sometime.
- Tgg161, on 07/14/2009, -2/+26It's appropriate on any day that you're not speaking German.
- freetyme, on 07/14/2009, -1/+24My birthday is June 6th. I'm 18 years old and every since I learned the day my birth was the anniversary of I made sure to tell people "It's also D-Day" whenever they wish me happy birthday. Most don't understand, or just say "oh. . .that 's nice"-- but it's my little way of remembering all of those who died, no not just Americans (although there were tragic losses for the USA), trying to end the War in Europe many years before I was born.
- bmcnally, on 07/14/2009, -0/+23It says that they were collaborators. I.e., traitors to their country who had sided with the enemy. In some cases, it was in conquered territory (Vichy France), in others it was in allied territory (Japan?), and others were from sympathizers abroad (Russia).
- benderillo, on 07/14/2009, -0/+23dugg for Dziadzia.
Man I miss my grandpa, there was so much I never had the chance to ask him.
</sob story> - Awwzm, on 07/14/2009, -2/+22Original description: "Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world...."
Thanks for updating the description. - RudeTurnip, on 07/14/2009, -0/+20secret asian men
- mrnathan, on 07/14/2009, -1/+20untill we decided to use the country as one massive call center and outsourcer :)
- gerrylazlo, on 07/14/2009, -2/+21Company of Heroes taught me most of what I know about this event.
- PointGiven, on 07/14/2009, -0/+19Obvious troll is obvious.
Also go read up on Operation Market Garden if you think the British were invincible - glinsvad, on 07/14/2009, -2/+20I've been there too at the age of 19. Looking back I realize that most of the fallen soldiers were about my age, at the fact that they fell has meant that, some 50 years later, kids like myself could grow up in a free and democratic country. Lest we forget.
- themastersb, on 07/14/2009, -4/+22A Much Better Pro Tip: Shoot the Cyberdemon until it dies.
- TimoMcD, on 07/14/2009, -3/+20They managed to accomplish many objetives before he invasion.
Wow, at least have someone look over your infographic before posting. - blingbin, on 07/14/2009, -1/+18im not exactly sure if it still applied in WW2 but in WW1 the Canadians were the most feared combat group
i dont really care who did what, the fact of the matter is thankfully it worked and the war is over. we owe everything to these men - nevinl, on 07/14/2009, -2/+18Part of it involved the mess up of the parachuter drop offs and bombing runs. The bombs were supposed to land on the beach and create craters for men to sit in/hide from the shelling. Instead, because of the fog the night before the event, the bombers dropped them too far inland.
Another part was that the ships were so far from the shoreline. I think that the water was too shallow near the shore so the battleships stayed really far from the shore....then they had longer runs to get there. And some of the vehicles just dropped to the bottom of the ocean because they were too far out.
Watch in Ken Burns "The War", episode #4 - SkinnerBox, on 07/15/2009, -0/+16Did you get a chance to see Omaha beach with the tide all the way out? It's like the length of two or three football fields of open beach to charge. It was staggering to stand there and consider running all the way in under machine gun fire.
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