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350k and 1M+ views on Trinity & Bryce edits? oh the GP is waking up fast, mind you they were in last place in rankings last week ๐ฅน๐ญ #loveislandusa
As much as I love brinity, the community might still be too small to pull of a move of convincing the public not to vote Jen with Bryce, we NEED more promotion yall otherwise trinity is vulnerable
The photograph is often associated with Operation Konrad, the German-Hungarian attempt to relieve the encircled troops in Budapest in the winter of 1945.
like how can u not move for this???
10:00 this morning we put our dog Roofus down. 15 years of life, the last 6 years by my side almost 24 hours day. I'll miss my boy forever. What a gut punch.
Here he is at 930 this morning .
Love you buddy.
โWe need some pay cuts today!โ
Ye when the sound team accidentally played "All of the Lights" instead of "Flashing Lights" ๐ญ
A tourist captured the most beautiful sunset of the week in Cape Town by accidentally turning on recording.
this gotta be the most unpredictable edit iโve seen ๐ญ๐ฅ
June 9, 1944. D-Day plus 3.
Rangers finally silenced the gun battery that had been shelling Omaha and Utah Beach for 72 straight hours.
It was not Pointe du Hoc.
Most people have never heard of it.
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You know the Pointe du Hoc story. 225 Rangers scaled 100-foot cliffs on D-Day. Found the guns missing. Two sergeants tracked them to an orchard and destroyed them.
What nobody tells you is this:
Pointe du Hoc was always the decoy.
The Germans had deliberately focused every piece of Allied intelligence toward that cliff. They made sure reconnaissance photos, agent reports, and pre-invasion planning all pointed to Pointe du Hoc as the primary threat.
Meanwhile, 6 kilometres to the south, they quietly built something else entirely.
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The Maisy Battery did not appear on a single Allied soldier's invasion map on June 6, 1944.
It wasn't an oversight.
The Germans constructed it under total secrecy, using only forced laborers from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. No French workers. Not a single local. Specifically because French workers might leak its existence to the Resistance, who would tell London, who would tell the planners.
The site had over 2 kilometres of connected trenches, underground bunkers, a field hospital, a radar station, a kitchen, an officers' quarters, and ammunition storage. It housed a garrison of 450 men.
Its guns: six 155mm French World War One howitzers, four 105mm guns, and four 150mm pieces at a nearby farm. Enough firepower to cover the entire western end of Omaha Beach and the southern end of Utah Beach simultaneously.
Both beaches.
At the same time.
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On June 6, while the Rangers bled and died climbing the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, the Maisy Battery opened fire.
On June 7, it kept firing.
On June 8, it kept firing.
For three consecutive days, American soldiers landing on and moving inland from Omaha and Utah were being shelled by a battery that wasn't on their maps, that nobody had been sent to destroy, that the official plan had essentially ignored.
Here is where the story becomes strange.
Colonel Rudder, the Ranger commander, had a full intelligence dossier on Maisy. RAF aerial photographs. Detailed maps. A briefing. He knew it existed. But the orders to assault Maisy were apparently held back somewhere in the command chain and never reached the Rangers in the field.
The men who were sent to silence the guns were never told about the real guns.
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On June 9, five companies of Rangers finally assaulted the Maisy Battery from three directions simultaneously.
The battle lasted five hours. Some of it was hand to hand.
When the German defenders retreated into the underground field hospital, the Rangers blew it up with them inside.
By late morning, the battery was silent.
The guns that had been firing on American troops since the first hour of D-Day were finally destroyed, 72 hours after they should have been.
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Then something happened that has never been fully explained.
After the war ended, the United States military buried the Maisy Battery.
Not demolished. Not preserved. Buried. Under one to two meters of soil. Every bunker, every trench, every gun emplacement, covered and hidden. The site was returned to farmland.
No memorial. No marker. No museum. No mention.
For 60 years, Maisy vanished.
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In January 2004, a British amateur historian named Gary Sterne was searching for a location to build a museum near Grandcamp-Maisy. He had found an old invasion map inside clothing that once belonged to an American veteran. Marked on the map, in the area between the beaches, were two words:
"Area of high resistance."
He started digging.
What he found was an intact German fortress. Trenches still connected. Bunkers still standing underground. Gun emplacements preserved. Canteen walls still bearing handwriting from 1943. Czechoslovakian 150mm guns exactly where they had been left.
The largest German gun battery capable of hitting Omaha Beach had been sitting buried under a farmer's field for six decades.
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Why was Pointe du Hoc made the famous target while Maisy kept firing for three days?
Why did Rudder have the intelligence but the Rangers never get the order?
Why did the United States bury the site after the war?
Nobody has ever given a clean answer to any of these questions.
Pointe du Hoc got the memorial, the museum, and the presidential speech. Ronald Reagan stood there in 1984 and called it the site of the most important mission of D-Day.
Maisy got two metres of dirt.
The real story of what happened between Omaha and Utah Beach in June 1944 was buried on purpose.
It stayed buried for sixty years.
A British civilian with a dead veteran's map found it on a rainy morning in 2004.
how it feels getting caught working out in your room
yes brinity got me bruh
wait why are they mugging like this-
End of Era. Machali (T-16) Queen of Ranthambore, Crocodile Killer.
The legendary tigress who ruled the wild has breathed her last
These final moments of the greatest queen Ranthambore has ever known. A chapter of tiger history closes forever
i'm starting to get too attached to brinity... ima fuck around and be the one crying on the floor after casa
the fake gagging at ariana madix always gets me
I donโt even blame them who tf is this ๐ญ๐ญ
Trinity & Bryce are too cute ๐
Bryce is so๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
THE WAY HE RAN TO HER #loveislandusa
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