There are going to be those, especially those of a certain age, who are not going to like my “AI” treatment of D Day on the site … because of AI itself, because of the water guzzling data centres … maybe because of the US-centric take, compared to our European usual.
I say it’s not a bad overview and we need to commemorate the day, drawing in all our allues and reflecting on what was being fought over … was it not the West itself, even Christendom?
I would say the main tragedy of June 6th, 1944, was that over the next 82 years, it was almost all lost to Woke Fabianism, to the destructive politics warned about in the early 50s, e.g. by Senator William Jenner, through to Enoch Powell over here. Entrenched treachery which was going to destroy the West one way or another … slowly at first, then in a flood near the end.
D-day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc1nV0vKBj0
Operation Overlord was one of several operations that took place on the 6th June 1944. Operation Neptune, the naval phase that preceded the Battle of Normandy, was massive with near-on 7,000 vessels involved.
But what of Operation Deadstick? Well that was last night, 82 years ago, which began at what was then RAF Tarrant Rushton, in Dorset. You cycle by these places when you’re a kid, not knowing what went on there all those years ago – in my case 25 years or so before when me and my mates found it, covered in grass with a few wooden huts, windows broken.
It was the place and the time where gliders sat waiting, for the soldiers of D Company, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 6th Airlanding Brigade. Commanded by Major John Howard. You can read an amazing account of it here:
https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy/armed-forces/gb/6th-airborne-division/2nd-ox-and-bucks-d-company
As an aside the actor Richard Todd, who played Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters, was a lieutenant in 7 Para and was given a field promotion to captain during the action at ‘Pegasus Bridge’.
Apologies that link is D Company Battle Order, 1st June 1944. This is the correct one:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/pegasus-bridge-operation-deadsticks-glider-assault/