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Friday, June 6, 2014

Video - Pres Hollande - Obama LIVE from France on D - Day 70

Second Video live Source French


Obama : "I was here 10 years ago LIE?" Pres George W. Bush was there in 2004 to mark the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion.    http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/OBAMA-NO-SHOW-D-DAY.htm#.U5GNtfldX7d

Pres Obama:
"Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg has served ten. I've told Cory's incredible story before, most recently when he sat with my wife, Michelle, at the State of the Union Address. But it was here, at Omaha Beach, on the 65th anniversary of D-Day, where I first met Cory and his fellow Army Rangers, right after they made their own jump into Normandy.
Transcript of Obama's speech on 70th Anniversary of D-Day


"Many, like my grandfather, who served in Patton's Army, lived a quiet life, trading one uniform and set of responsibilities for another -- teacher, doctor, engineer, Dad."


I am looking for any information on the role/mission/whereabouts of the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Co. Aviation during World War II. It was part of the 327th Service Group in the 367th Fighter Group. I am especially interested in anything pertaining to Sgt. Stanley Armour Dunham. 

 This is what I have for the unit, was not in the UK on the 30 Sept 1943 list but shows up at Langar, Nottinghamshire on the 14 Nov 1943 list.
On the 31 Dec 1943 list it is at Ramsbury, Wiltshire. 
On the 21 Feb 1944 list it is at Welford, Berkshire. 
The lists, 31 Mar, 30 Apr, 31 May, abd 30 Jun 1944 show it at Stoney Cross, Hampshire. 
It was not on the UK Station List of 31 Aug 1944 so it must have gone to the Continent. Contiental List of 16 Dec 1944 show the unit at Juivincourt, France which is northwest of Reims. The list for 2 May 1945 has the unit at Eschborn, Germany just west of Frankfurt.

Then and now in pictures: 70 years later, Normandy's beaches retain memory of D-Day invasion

Tweet Below translation:  Picture of the day.......that of the official brochure of # DDay distributed to the press this morning







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D-Day at 70: Russia’s role in opening up the D-Day landing.


D-Day at 70: Russia’s role in opening up the Western front. HT: RBTH.

By weakening the German army and keeping it occupied on the Eastern Front, Soviet Russia prepared for the way for the Allied success of D-Day in the West.

The retired Royal Navy cruiser the HMS Belfast fired its six-round salute at midday on June 5 in London to mark the 70th anniversary of the assembly of the D-Day fleet, beginning the commemoration of one of the key battles of World War II, an amphibious assault that remains the largest the world has ever seen. The Belfast, which is now preserved as a museum, fired one of the opening salvos on June 6, 1944, attacking a German artillery position at La Marefontaine, supporting British forces landing on Gold and Juno beaches.
On June 6, U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, will join veterans from the U.S., the UK and Canada in Normandy to mark their contribution to the defeat of fascism in Europe. Alongside them will be Russian President Vladimir Putin, and while no Soviet forces took part in the amphibious operation itself, his presence there is apt, given the enormous part Russia played in the success of Operation Overlord.

The air supremacy enjoyed by the Allies on D-Day and crucial to its successful outcome owed much to events on the Eastern Front. The combined Allied air forces flew 14,000 sorties in support of the D-Day landings and met with fewer than 100 German ones in response, an overwhelming superiority.
Moreover, in the months preceding D-Day, the Allied air forces had been free to disrupt utterly the arrival of German reinforcements. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in charge of the German defenses of Northern France, desperately wanted Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber units to defend the Atlantic Wall, but was denied them by Hitler who insisted they remain on the Eastern Front.

The situation in the air was mirrored by events on the ground. Two-thirds of the Nazis’ available manpower was tied up fighting on the Eastern Front. Given the huge resistance encountered, particularly by U.S. troops on Omaha beach and the fierce fighting which followed, notably in Falaise, it’s clear that had the D-Day landing force encountered anything like the full strength of the Wehrmacht, the outcome of the battle could have been very different.

Perhaps inevitably, given the rapid post-War cooling of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the West, the Red Army’s role both in the success of the D-Day landing and the outcome of the war itself was drastically underplayed. But, as one document being displayed on HMS Belfast at the June 5 celebration makes clear, not everyone in the West was unaware of the Russian sacrifices.Read the full story here.




More on the 70 year remembrance of D-Day can be found here,(d-day70years.org). - D-DAY 70 CONCERTS




D-day memorial on Omaha_beach Normandy France
D-Day-Monument,-in-Bernieres-sur-Mer
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