D-Day

You ask any vet and they wll give you their story of the day and the stats of what happened... in total.

Originally posted by silver_tears
Personally all those lives were lost, and where are we now.

Well, we aren't under the dictatorship of the Nazi War Machine! 😄

Originally posted by Kaleanae
I found out that the Battle of the Bulge:
The single biggest and bloodiest battle American soldiers ever fought. It came as a total surprise, on December 16th, 1944, when 30 German divisions roared across the Allied front in Belgium and Luxembourg.

If you watched Band of Brothers, you'd know about it already...

To watch Band of Brothers I need to rent the DVDs or buy it. I missed the two opportunities I had to watched - once in HBO and the other in the History Channel 😬

History Channel plays it a lot, from 9 PM to whenever.

I want to buy Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, Wind Talkers, and maybe We Were Soldiers. All good movies with (or without) popular actors.

We were soldiers rocks...
There are specials about every battle almost on the history channel

Originally posted by Bagtatta
Antietam is considered the bloodiest battle for U.S.

single day battle

Originally posted by Captain REX
Well, we aren't under the dictatorship of the Nazi War Machine! 😄

Clever Jordan 😛

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Again, I think we are getting rather distracted here...

Today, June 6, we commemorate those soldiers of the U.S. 1st Army and the British 2nd Army, French and Canadian soldiers, American and British paratroopers, that fought in the largest conflict of World War II.

what about the Poles, the Dutch, the Norwegians, The Belgians that also participated in D-Day why is they always forgotten

same reason you forgot to add the Greeks? 😕

(asked evy_o to make sure they were, for this one 😖)

add Aussies and New Zelanders too

you can add a lot of countries to that list.

Anywayz Agent Elrond it aint because SPR is not about the battle at omaha beach that they need to portray it wrong, they could have portrayed it a little more accurate by atleast giving the public the feeling it took them nearly an entire day to get an exit of the beach

Originally posted by Tptmanno1
I disagree. By learning about the war we honor those who died in it.
Remember, those who do not know history are bound to repeat it.

How completely irrelevant! The topic of this thread is the commemoration of D-Day, not the entirity of World War II history and how many died at Stalingrad or even Antietam! Like I say, if you want to get into history, open a different thread.

I know more damn history about this than you do, so don't suggest it is that I am trying to bury.

Finti is right- a lot of nations do not get due credit.

Ush is right this thread has gone a tad off topic

You people should have listened to Ush. This thread is now a thread about WW2 in general, that was not it's original intent.

Closing

accidental post.