This Day in History

[pineapplemike]

There's a Youtube account I follow that uploads the daily Fox News This Day in History pieces from Sheppy Smith, I'm going to start with yesterday's since today's (Enron went broke) isn't as interesting



link to the others: https://www.youtube.com/user/Wakethehel ... in+history

[C-Mag]

Today is the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway (main battle), the US sank 4 Japanese Carriers and 1 Heavy Cruiser at the cost of 1 Carrier and 1 Destroyer. The Battle turned the tied in the Pacific forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... nese_fleet

[C-Mag]

100 Years ago today, the United States started the Draft.


The effort gave us this image.

[C-Mag]

June 6th, 1944

D-Day

Utah Beach
VII Corps, commanded by Major General J. Lawton Collins[72]
4th Infantry Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton[72]
82nd Airborne Division: Major General Matthew Ridgway[72]
90th Infantry Division: Brigadier General Jay W. MacKelvie[72]
101st Airborne Division: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor[72]

Omaha Beach
V Corps, commanded by Major General Leonard T. Gerow, making up 34,250 men[73]
1st Infantry Division: Major General Clarence R. Huebner[74]
29th Infantry Division: Major General Charles H. Gerhardt[74]

Gold Beach
XXX Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall[77]
50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division: Major General D.A.H. Graham[77]

Juno Beach
British I Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General John Crocker[78]
3rd Canadian Division: Major General Rod Keller[78]

Sword Beach
British I Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General John Crocker[79]
3rd Infantry Division: Major General Tom Rennie[79]
6th Airborne Division: Major General R.N. Gale[79]
79th Armoured Division: Major General Percy Hobart[80]


Thanks Boys

[heydaralon]

Fuck yes DDAY! Great day for America. I believe today is also my grandfather's birthday. He served, but did not storm Normandy. Spent most of his time in the Pacific theater. Ended up in the Philippines for awhile when the war was over.

[TheReal_ND]

My grandpa remembered air raids. Vietnam was a funny story though.

An Indian and a white man get on a train together. The draft is up

What are you here for

Drafted same as you, let's get drunk!



Indian passed the piss test and I guess my grandpa had to sober up for a day. Of course the next day he was too old to be drafted so he decided to go back home on the train.

[Smitty-48]

Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813. American Brigade routed by single battalion from Upper Canada, two American Generals captured. <flexes>

[TheReal_ND]

Good job canucks. Really. Out of the frying pan and all.

[C-Mag]

91 years ago today, Mel Brooks was born.

[Speaker to Animals]

91 years ago today, Mel Brooks was born.

Wise man.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator, you never win.