Fighting up the Cotentin to Cherbourg | Beyond the Beaches

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In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy hosted its latest symposium, Beyond the Beaches: D+1 and the Battle for Normandy, at The National WWII Museum on June 6-7, 2024.
The program opened Thursday evening with the Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series on World War II, featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson who discussed “Operation Overlord: 80 Years On.”
On Friday, the free daylong public symposium enlightened guests through presentations by leading historians on the challenges, battles, and victories that followed the June 6 Allied landings and made the liberation of Europe from Nazi oppression possible. Sessions covered the struggles of fighting in the Normandy bocage, the bitter battle for Caen, how Allied Air Power assisted the advance, and the ultimate breakout from the Normandy region.
This event was free and open to the public, but registration was required.

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@YourTypicalMental 14 дней назад

Babe, wake up! New Robert Citino lecture just dropped!

@OldWolflad 12 дней назад

Citino is totally wrong about the difficulty of the respective beaches. "The others were comparatively easy" he says. He must be joking and as an esteemed historian he is out of order and totally disrespectful and lacking in knowledge here. Whilst Omaha sector had 37 German strongpoints to overcome, it had no super-strongpoints called 'Stutzpunkten's' that were effectively mini-fortresses. Utah had 15 strongpoints including 2 'Stutzpunkten', and the Canadian Juno sector had just 7 German strongpoints but no 'Stutzpunkten's to overcome. British Gold sector had 28 German strongpoints but no 'Stutzpunkten's to overcome, and finally British Sword sector had 27 strongpoints and 2 'Stutzpunkten' to overcome - these included the infamous 'Strongpoint Hillman' and another 'Stutzpunkten' near the beach nick-named 'Rommel's Tower of death'. The Merville Battery also overlooked it. The British 3rd Division at Sword faced 500 German machine guns, 29 companies of the German 716th Division, and they quickly faced 21st Panzer Division on D-Day. Easy beach eh? The War Graves Commission has in May 2024 released correct figures regards deaths on 6th JUNE 1944, the US lost 2,501 men on 6th June 1944 - D-Day, mostly of course on Omaha. Those American boys deserve medals the size of dustbin lids for what they overcame. But they weren't the only ones, Juno was arguably the least costly sector with 370 Canadian deaths on 6th June. The British original death totals given for D-Day were estimates only, but were under-estimated and have now been totalled at 1,760 deaths mainly Sword. Not far off the mortality rate for the Americans. The link regarding death rates is below: - www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/d-day-casualties-in-numbers/ So I would suggest people take Mr Citino's comments with a pinch of salt.