Showing posts with label D Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Donald Trump screws up D-Day tweet with photo from wrong year

Rare Color D-Day Footage Donald Trumps D-Day memorial tweet gets an F. The presumptive GOP nominee tried honoring the invasions 72nd anniversary Monday in a tweet and somehow chose a picture that isnt even from D-Day. Remembering the fallen heroes on #DDay June 6, 1944, the billionaire buffoon wrote with a picture of soldiers running on a beach. The photo was captioned: D-Day June 6, 1944. Donald Trump...
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FDR"s D-Day prayer recited on Senate floor

D-Day in Colour (FULL)WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has marked the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion with a recitation of the prayer that President Franklin Roosevelt led that day in a nationwide radio broadcast.Ohio Senator Rob Portman read the prayer, in which FDR asked G*d to protect the American and allied troops storming n**i-controlled France, declaring that with thy blessing we shall prevail over the unholy forces...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

D-Day: Debunking the myths of the Normandy landings

Saving Private Ryan - Omaha Beach Scene1. MYTH: D-Day was predominantly an American operationREALITY: For many people, D-Day is defined by the bloodshed at Omaha -- the codename for one of the five beaches where Allied forces landed -- and the American airborne drops. Even in Germany, the perception is still that D-Day was a largely American show; in a German TV mini-series shown in recent years, "Generation War," there...
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