PaulD🇻🇦

Catholic Convert ✝️ Former British Army 🇬🇧Bibliophile. History Nerd. Man City Fan.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Toasting the incredible life of Charles Shay, who died last year aged 100. He was the last living medic who saved lives on Omaha Beach. Now, in 1944, he's crossing the English Channel with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st ID, bound for Easy Red Sector. See more: https://t.co/1fyMyIOKpL

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

British airborne troops admiring the graffiti chalked on the side of their Horsa Mk I glider, 6 Jun 1944

[BBC Surrey @BBCSurrey]

Tributes have been paid to Lt Lily-Mae Fisher, the 31-year-old Royal Navy commando from Virginia Water, who was one of three personnel killed in a helicopter training crash on Wednesday.

More here: https://t.co/8Wry4I2D26

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

"Bloody Omaha" where 34,000 US troops are now headed.

[War Times @wartirnes]

D-Day in Color: Reinforcements Continue to Pour Into Normandy 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Allied troops wade ashore during the Normandy landings as more waves of infantry, vehicles, and supplies arrive behind the initial assault.

LCIs ferry fresh troops from transport ships while LSTs unload jeeps, trucks, and equipment onto smaller landing craft just offshore.

An endless flow of men and machinery that kept the invasion moving after the initial landings.

[War Times @wartirnes]

D-Day in Color: Reinforcements Secure the Beachhead 🇺🇸🇬🇧

The Normandy beachhead is now firmly in Allied hands as supply convoys, DUKWs, and fresh troops continue moving inland after the initial assault.

German prisoners are gathered under guard while Coast Guard rescue boats and hospital ships work offshore to recover survivors and evacuate the wounded.

A sweeping panoramic view reveals the massive scale of the secured beachhead, now packed with ships, vehicles, supply depots, and the wreckage left behind by the invasion.

The largest amphibious invasion in history was now firmly underway.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

RIGHT NOW in 1944, the first of 20,000 Allied paratroopers are dropping into Normandy. The long-awaited liberation of France is underway.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The first Americans to drop into France are fighting now. Here's where. See more at: https://t.co/EEg00P06y6

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

#OTD In the early hours of 6 June 1944, Major John Howard and his troops landed silently just after midnight in complete darkness...

Within minutes they had seized Pegasus Bridge and severed the German lines of reinforcement.

D-Day was on.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Lt. Den Brotheridge, Ox and Bucks, has just been shot after crossing Pegasus Bridge. He is the first Allied soldier killed on D Day.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

How the Brits took Pegasus Bridge. The greatest coup de main in British history.

[James Brun @LeBrunJames81]

Soldiers from The North Shore Regiment, landing at Juno Beach, Nan Red sector, 6 June 1944.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

There are 40,000 German soldiers in the landing areas. 150,000 Allied ground troops are fast approaching. Not one German is aware of this right now. By the time the Battle of Normandy is over, 300,000 Germans will be casualties. The Longest Day is less than an hour away. See more at https://t.co/kdNsJCZwFZ

[Ben Mayne @BattlefieldBen]

Glider 1, 2 and 3 were now down on the ground at the Caen Canal bridge, forever now known as Pegasus Bridge. Major John Howard and his men leading the way.

HAM & JAM

The liberation of north west europe was not underway.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

It’s Kaleb & Taya’s 10 year anniversary today, congratulations to them both! Here’s to many more!🍻❤️

[PaulD🇻🇦 @_Sitrep]

@DavonbrownSBG @City_Xtra This chat by our chairman is done every year at the end of each season. It has nothing to do with Pep.

[KeyserSosse @KeyserSosse]

5th June, 2011

Rifleman Martin Jon Lamb, aged 27 from Dursley, Gloucestershire, and of 1st Battalion The Rifles, was killed by an IED blast whilst on patrol in the Haji Kareen area of Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Lest we Forget this brave young man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Supermarkets Shed 18,000 Jobs and Blame Labour Taxes and Wage Hikes https://t.co/BhBw9ZtSHT

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

It is with great sadness that we can confirm the deaths of Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson and Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher of 846 Naval Air Squadron, and Petty Officer Owen Green of 845 Naval Air Squadron, who died in Devon during routine training activity on 3 June.

[Tom Cotterill @TomCotterillX]

BREAKING: The Ministry of Defence has revealed the names of the three naval aviators killed in yesterday’s tragic Merlin helicopter crash.

Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson and Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher of 846 Naval Air Squadron, and Petty Officer Owen Green of 845 Naval Air Squadron, died in Devon during routine training activity.

Commander of Joint Aviation Command, Air Vice-Marshal Lee Turner RAF, said:  “The loss of three deeply capable and professional aviators during the tragic incident yesterday is the cause of profound sadness across the Joint Aviation Command and the Commando Helicopter Force in particular.  

“They will be greatly missed, and our thoughts are with the families and all those affected.”