Sean

ASU Football, very bad golfer, mountain biker, lover of beer, builder of old cars, and old hip hop snob.

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

82 years ago today, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, launching the liberation of Europe.

We are free because they were brave. 🇺🇸

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

The people of Normandy showing up for our World War II veterans! What an honor it was to be there with them today! Thank you to the Best Defense Foundation for all you do for our Greatest Generation 🙏🇺🇸

[Sean @SirMinus]

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[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Taking another Jump in Normandy 75 years later.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

82 years ago Today, the largest amphibious invasion in history began along the coast of Normandy, known as D-Day.

Real footage in color.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

REAL FOOTAGE OF OMAHA BEACH | 4K COLORIZED

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Today 82 years ago, the largest amphibious invasion in history began along the coast of Normandy, known as D-Day

[🗾 World in Maps]

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

82 years ago, thousands of Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and changed the course of history

Today, we honor the courage, sacrifice, and legacy of the heroes of D-Day 🇺🇸

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

82 years ago nearly all of the men on the first few boats that landed on the beach in Normandy were dead before days end.
Sit here with that for a while.
Look at them.
Really look at them.
Look into their eyes.
Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s sweetheart someone’s father.
They never came home.
And every privilege, every convenience, every freedom and every little thing that you want to bitch about you have because of them and they paid the ultimate price for you to have those freedoms. #dday #FreedomIsNeverFree

[Walk Among Heroes @walkamongheroes]

On the eve of D-Day’s 82nd Anniversary, World War II Veteran Jack Hugman lifted a beer in honor of his brothers who made the ultimate sacrifice.

@Normandy @WW2Facts

#dday #normandy #heroes #neverforget #ww2history

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Out of 16.4 million Americans who served in WWII, only about 40,000 are still alive.

They’re dying at a rate of ~100 per day.

These are the heroes who saved the world from tyranny.

Find one. Thank one. Listen to their stories.

While you still can.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Righteous warriors gather now for a group photo before boarding the C-47 behind them. They are the very first Americans to see combat on the ground on D Day. Pathfinders from the 502nd PIR. Stick One. Plane One. Courage counts.

[BARNABY JAMESON @Silk_Scribbler]

For tomorrow’s sacred 82nd anniversary, we remember the men who stepped off from the boats into hell itself.

Waves stained by real crimson blood, skies torn by fire, and courage that refused to break.

[Sean @SirMinus]

If you haven't read his book, McNasty is one of the best from the 506th. Highly recommended.

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They refused to bathe. They refused to salute. They poached deer from an English lord's estate and used their washing water ration to cook it.

The night before D-Day they shaved mohawks and painted their faces like warriors.

Then they jumped into Normandy on one of the deadliest missions of the invasion.

This is the story of the Filthy Thirteen..🧵1/7

[Band of Brothers Behind the Scenes @BandBehind]

Tonight,
Is the night,
Of nights.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

Wreath laying by 100-year-old Henry Rice off the Normandy coast.

#DDay82 commemorations have begun.