Thomas S Adams

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

@halbritz Lmao none of this is even remotely true.

Where do you come up with this shit? 😂

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Ok new deal. For every one of these you post, please post something normal.

Cats getting "purrmoted" for example. We liked that one.

Or idk, literally anything that's gonna make the force better.

Please.

Please just make us like you.

1 for 1. Not too much to ask.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Half of America believes our nation's elections are not honest.

In any other nation that fact alone would be a crisis, and politicians of every political stripe and kind would be doing everything imaginable to restore confidence.

But not Democrats, no sir.

They RELY on election laws that are so loose that fraud is both easy and generally unprovable to a courtroom standard. The system is purposely designed this way.

[Aviation @xAviation]

When the shutter speed matches the rotor speed

📹: icemanr8

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

You’re welcome, Boss.

[Dave Brown @dave_brown24]

The unmanned surface vessel, a Saronic Corsair, located the Apache crew, who had spent two hours in the waters off the coast of Oman and brought them to shore https://t.co/2ioXSuxX68 @jmalsin @shelbyholliday

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

The personal effects of Easy Company’s CO on D-Day, Lt. Thomas Meehan, that were recovered in Normandy. 🪂

Meehan and the men in his plane were all killed after their plane was hit by German anti-aircraft fire. 🪦

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On June 6, 1944, the most powerful invasion fleet in human history crossed the English Channel. 7,000 ships. 1,200 warships. The sky black with Allied aircraft.

Here is every single branch of the Kriegsmarine's response, piece by piece. It gets worse as you go.

THE E-BOATS

The torpedo boat crews from Le Havre actually showed up and deserve credit for it. They sortied straight into the armada in the dark, fired every torpedo they had, and sank exactly one ship, the Norwegian destroyer Svenner. The flotilla out of Cherbourg also sortied and accomplished nothing. That was not cowardice. That was 31 speedboats staring down a navy.

THE DESTROYERS

Germany's 8th Destroyer Flotilla, four ships total, put to sea from Brest on June 6 to attack the invasion fleet. British aircraft found them immediately. Z32 took rocket hits before the flotilla even reached the Channel. They limped into port.

They tried again on June 8. The British had read their orders via Ultra before the ships even left harbor. Eight Allied destroyers were waiting. ZH1 was torpedoed and sunk. Z32 was chased by Canadian destroyers Haida and Huron, ran aground on a French island, and was wrecked. The entire operation was over before it could trouble a single Allied transport.

THE U-BOATS

Doenitz suspended all Atlantic operations and threw 36 U-boats at the invasion fleet. This was his moment. Only 9 had snorkels, the device that allowed a submarine to recharge its batteries while submerged. The other 27 had to surface to breathe, directly into the most heavily patrolled water on earth. Doenitz knew this. His own war diary entry for June 6 states plainly that for boats without snorkels "this means the last operation." He sent them anyway.

Result: 36 U-boats against 5,339 Allied vessels. Ships sunk: 8. U-boats lost: 13. The Channel swallowed them.

THE NAVAL AIR ARM

The Kriegsmarine relied on the Luftwaffe's Fliegerführer Atlantik command for maritime patrol and anti-shipping strikes. By June 1944 that force was a ghost. The entire Luftwaffe could muster 815 aircraft over Normandy on D-Day. The Allies had 9,543. German naval air operations over the invasion fleet amounted to scattered night sorties that achieved nothing. Germany had no eyes and no reach.

THE MINES

Here is the most maddening part of this entire story.

Germany had developed the Oyster mine, a pressure-activated device that sat on the seabed and detonated when a ship's hull passed overhead. No minesweeper could neutralize it because no minesweeper could replicate the pressure wave of a fully loaded transport. It was essentially uncountermeasurable. Germany had thousands of them.

Doenitz held them back for years, terrified that deploying them early would let the Allies reverse-engineer the technology. He finally authorized their use at Normandy. The problem: by June 1944 he had almost no aircraft left to lay them and no surface ships capable of reaching the invasion area. Only a handful reached the beaches. The ones that did were lethal. A single Oyster mine off Sword Beach sank a British transport and killed 208 men in one moment.

Germany's most effective naval weapon on D-Day was a mine. Passive. Stationary. Waiting on the ocean floor. And they barely got any of them there.

THE CAPITAL SHIPS

Where were the big guns?

The Scharnhorst: at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. Sunk at the Battle of the North Cape, December 26, 1943, six months before D-Day.

The Tirpitz: hiding in a Norwegian fjord. The largest battleship Germany ever built, anchored in Altenfjord doing nothing, because the Kriegsmarine admitted it could no longer protect her from Allied aircraft. She never fired a single shot at an Allied vessel in her entire career. Lancaster bombers killed her in November 1944 while she sat there.

The Bismarck: sunk 1941.

The Gneisenau: bombed in drydock, never returned to service.

The Lutzow and Hipper, the very ships whose failure triggered this entire collapse: in the Baltic, completely irrelevant.

SO WHY DID ANY OF THIS HAPPEN?

Go back to New Year's Day, 1943. German cruisers had just failed to sink a single British convoy in the Barents Sea, beaten off by frigates a fraction of their size. Raeder initially reported it as a VICTORY. Admiral Kummetz had radioed that "the sky was red." Raeder assumed burning ships. It was the Aurora Borealis.

When Hitler found out the truth, he summoned Raeder and savaged him for over two hours. He accused naval officers of cowardice. He called the surface fleet a waste of Reichsmarks. He announced he was scrapping every capital ship, stripping their guns for coastal defense, and sending the crews to the Eastern Front as infantry.

Raeder, one of the most decorated admirals in German history, resigned rather than watch his navy dismantled. Gone by January 30, 1943. Doenitz replaced him, pivoted to U-boats, and by mid-1943 was losing them faster than they could be built.

So when June 6, 1944 arrived, Germany had: E-boats that could annoy the fleet, destroyers intercepted before they arrived, U-boats being fed into a slaughterhouse, a naval air arm that no longer existed, a wonder-weapon mine it couldn't deploy, and a graveyard where its surface navy used to be.

Hitler didn't lose D-Day on June 6, 1944.

He lost it on January 1, 1943, screaming at an old man about the Northern Lights.

[Peter Boddie @Pundit_Pete]

@WesleyHuntTX

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[WWII Memorial Friends @WWIIMemorial]

U.S. Army Private First Class Charles Neilans DeGlopper of Grand Island, New York, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on June 9, 1944 in Normandy, France.

DeGlopper joined the Army in November 1942 and trained at Camp Croft, South Carolina, before being deployed overseas in April 1943, where he served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France.
On June 9, 1944, regimental commander Colonel Harry Lewis was ordered to make a crossing of the le Merderet River and help attack the La Fière Bridge from the opposite side. Themselves under attack, C Company 1st Battalion was cut off from the rest of the battalion. Despite coming under increased fire, PFC DeGlopper stood up and began firing at the attacking Germans to suppress their fire and relieve the battalion.

Although wounded, PFC DeGlopper continued to stand and fire, and when hit yet again, still fired although kneeling and bleeding profusely. Meanwhile, as the Germans were distracted and occupied with PFC DeGlopper's automatic fire, the remainder of C Company was able to break off and head for La Fière to join the rest of their battalion.

For his actions on June 9, 1944, DeGlopper was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. He was just 22 years old.

#WeRememberThem

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, before the chaos erupted on the beaches of Normandy, a quieter yet equally daring mission was underway.

Hundreds of Allied gliders, from the British-built Airspeed Horsa to the American Waco CG-4A Hadrian, were towed silently across the English Channel and released behind enemy lines.

Their task was crucial ... deliver troops, artillery, and equipment with precision to secure key positions ahead of the main invasion.

Now, sitting motionless in a Normandy field, their cargo doors hang open, the scene empty and still.

One question remains ... did everyone make it out alive?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A dog gets a massage from a cat and in return gently scratches the cat’s back

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The reason why I am uncouth on here to the “elite” class of military commentators is because of their behavior toward anyone who disagrees with them.

I started out on here writing about lofty ideas. Still do.

The reaction I received was all the same from the “credentialed” among us: “You are being inappropriate, you are a disgrace” etc.

These same people wonder why they get digitally beat down every day. They never wanted to engage an idea, just a man.

So your boos mean nothing to us, we’ve seen what you cheered for over the last 5 years.

For everyone else: you under no obligation to engage with people in good faith who give none in return.

It is a fool’s errand.

Continue the attack.

[Ben Hart @BenHart_Freedom]

Meet DOMINIQUE ALEXANDER, the spokesman for the family of CARMELO ANTHONY.

He seems to be using this case as a springboard to turn himself into the next nationally-famous race hustler in the mold of Al Sharpton or Benjamin Crump.

Mostly, he talks here about his own non-profit organization -- says almost nothing about his client, Carmelo Anthony. I sure would not want Dominique Alexander as a spokesman for me.

Mostly, he just blames white people and "white supremacy" for this situation his client is in.

Though he says he doesn't want violence, calls for "Revolutionary Peace," his rhetoric appears designed to spark Ferguson-Minneapolis-Kenosha-style racial riots if Anthony is found guilty.

Alexander has an interesting criminal history . . .

** In 2011, he pled guilty for causing injury to a child (felony assault). He was arrested for physically abusing his then-girlfriend’s 2-year-old child (allegedly shaking and hitting the child with an object, causing serious bodily injury).

** He has been was convicted or arrested for a wide range of crimes, including for forging a check, stealing a car, falsely claiming a car was stolen, theft, making a false report, and evading arrest.

** He then violated the terms of his probations -- to include missing meetings, leaving the county without permission, unpaid fees, failed to complete his required anger management classes. This led to a 2016 sentence of five years in prison (with credit for time served, resulting in minimal actual jail time, reportedly around eight days. He also faced offensive physical contact and felony theft charges around this period.

** He was arrested for felony theft of property ($2,500–$30,000) involving a 2016 business dispute. The charge was enhanced due to a prior forgery conviction. He pled guilty in 2021 and was sentenced to two days in jail (credit for time served).

** In 2019, he was arrested on allegations of shoving, choking, head-butting, and continuous violence against his longtime girlfriend (mother of his children). He was indicted on a third-degree felony for continuous family violence (plus a misdemeanor). The charges were later dismissed in 2021 after the alleged victim declined to testify.

And he's the PR spokesman for the family of Carmelo Anthony. Yikes!

[Svetlana Lokhova @RealSLokhova]

It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

George Orwell

[Feisty Renegade 🗣🙀🙏⚓ @MsRobotoFL]

@RealSLokhova

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Karmelo Anthony supporter: "What do I tell my 5 boys? What do we do now!?"

Uh… don't murder?

[Mark Stevenson @m_stevenson78]

They say it takes a village, well I made a promise to mother on her death bed that I would make sure my nephew graduated from high school. Mission accomplished. Now he is on his way to an Electrical apprenticeship program so he continue his goal of becoming an electrician.

[Vanguard WWII by Cadet - bringing history to life! @Vanguard_WW2]

Peiper had met his end, albeit after having enjoyed many more years of life than his victims in the East, Italy or Belgium. The ruins of the house still stand in the woods. It is a somewhat creepy place to visit. 8/8