Saturday, June 06, 2009

FDR's D-Day Speech & Prayer



Hat Tip: Flopping Aces

British IBA contributor, Ray Boyd, is, rightly, concerned with the America-centric remembrance of the D-Day Operation. He passed along this important information:

The facts are that there were 48,000 US troops participating in D-Day. The British troops numbered 52,000. Canadian troops numbered 14,000 on that day.

British sailors were responsible for the seaborne operation, the Royal Navy the only allied seaforce. Even the US landing craft were manned by British sailors.

The floating harbours, undersea fuel pipeline and other logistical operations were designed built and installed by British personnel.

Whilst the French would liked to have excluded Britain from yesterday's events in Normandy we must remember the facts, not the fiction - British forces predomindated in numbers in the D-day landings AND will not be written out of history.

3 comments:

Ray Boyd said...

I see that British forces did not feature in any of the images.We must not believe the Hollywood fiction that D-Day was won by US Forces.

The facts are that there were 48,000 US troops participating in D-Day. The British troops numbered 52,000. Canadian troops numbered 14,000 on that day.

British sailors were responsible for the seaborne operation, the Royal Navy the only allied seaforce. Even the US landing craft were manned by British sailors.

The floating harbours, undersea fuel pipeline and other logistical operations were designed built and installed by British personnel.

Whilst the French would liked to have excluded Britain from yesterday's events in Normandy we must remember the facts, not the fiction - British forces predomindated in numbers in the D-day landings AND will not be written out of history.

Carlos Echevarria said...

Ray, I have videos/pics over at my personal blog regarding the Brits, as well as Maggie Thatcher and Winston Churchill, my hero, on my sidebar....

Plus Shakespeare and the Rolling Stones, as well, so I am a pretty big Anglophile.

I did not create the video, just passed it along, please enter my blog if you wish.

As for what transpired between Her Majesty the Queen and the French govenment, I believe that was outrageous...

Many of my posts also deal with what is tranpiring within the UK, in terms of the hideous encroachment of Sharia and the dhimmitude by govt officials.

Sarkozy jumped the shark for me when he feted Obama prior to him winning the election in a manner that exceeded protocol, especially when he had been rather cool towards McCain....

Pastorius said...

Ray,
Thanks.

I'll add your comment to the post.