[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "73 years ago right about now..." Archived thread - Read only
    Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences General Topic #1489
Reading Topic #1489
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22410 posts		 Jun-06-17, 04:38 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
"73 years ago right about now..."
 
   ... evening had fallen on the first day of Operation Overlord, and it was beginning to become obvious to a few people—not all, not even most, but a few—on both sides that the war in Western Europe had just turned. That if the Allies hadn't been thrown back into the sea by the end of the first day, they never would be. That possibly, just possibly, nothing much was going to happen in Calais right away...

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Mercutio
Member since May-26-13
942 posts		 Jun-07-17, 11:39 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail Mercutio Click to send private message to Mercutio Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
1. "RE: 73 years ago right about now..."
In response to message #0
 
   Not to steal Overlords thunder, but I would like to once again point out that for this year and the next, there are a number of important centennial dates with regard to the Great War.

For example, a hundred years ago right now a lot of very brave British, German, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers were fighting in the Battle of Messines, an important prelude operation to the Third Battle of Ypres and one of the very few unqualified British successes on the Western Front. Rudyard Kipling's dispatches from the Italian front had just begun to be published back in the UK, which would eventually become the book "The War in the Mountains."

-Merc
Keep Rat


  Printer-friendly page | Top
Gryphonadmin
Charter Member
22410 posts		 Jun-07-17, 04:31 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail Gryphon Click to send private message to Gryphon Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
2. "RE: 73 years ago right about now..."
In response to message #1
 
   LAST EDITED ON Jun-07-17 AT 05:01 PM (EDT)
 
>Not to steal Overlords thunder, but

Have you ever noticed that no statement that begins like this is ever anything but what it says it isn't?

That said, the rest is certainly true, and I once again urge all concerned to check out The Great War on YouTube. (Even though I myself have fallen significantly behind at this moment. That's because I'm crap, not the channel. :)

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


  Printer-friendly page | Top

Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)