| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:06 - Jun 6 with 1087 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
Fascinated by D-Day (it would be my specialist subject if I were to go on Mastermind for a laugh*) and loved touring around Normandy a few years ago. Incredible to visit places like Omaha Beach, Merville Battery, Pegasus Bridge, Pointe du Hoc, or the town square in Sainte-Mère-Église and try to imagine the horror which took place in what are such picturesque settings.
It makes me sad how we are really in the stage now where the world is running out of veterans who are still alive. The fact that there are people still alive who were in the thick of it makes it all the more fascinating for me. I've always wanted to meet and talk to a D-Day veteran but I've never been able to thus far. A few more years and truly the greatest generation will be all but gone.
*Second appearance probably, after I smash it with Peep Show in round one. |  |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:08 - Jun 6 with 1071 views | Oldsmoker |
B4 my time. |  |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:10 - Jun 6 with 1058 views | Lord_Lucan |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:06 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
Fascinated by D-Day (it would be my specialist subject if I were to go on Mastermind for a laugh*) and loved touring around Normandy a few years ago. Incredible to visit places like Omaha Beach, Merville Battery, Pegasus Bridge, Pointe du Hoc, or the town square in Sainte-Mère-Église and try to imagine the horror which took place in what are such picturesque settings.
It makes me sad how we are really in the stage now where the world is running out of veterans who are still alive. The fact that there are people still alive who were in the thick of it makes it all the more fascinating for me. I've always wanted to meet and talk to a D-Day veteran but I've never been able to thus far. A few more years and truly the greatest generation will be all but gone.
*Second appearance probably, after I smash it with Peep Show in round one. |
They ate Mummy! |  |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:13 - Jun 6 with 1048 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:10 - Jun 6 by Lord_Lucan |
They ate Mummy! |
So many chances to get rid of that dog. Makes me mad every time. | |
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| [Redacted] on 16:17 - Jun 6 with 1039 views | victorywilhappen |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:06 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
Fascinated by D-Day (it would be my specialist subject if I were to go on Mastermind for a laugh*) and loved touring around Normandy a few years ago. Incredible to visit places like Omaha Beach, Merville Battery, Pegasus Bridge, Pointe du Hoc, or the town square in Sainte-Mère-Église and try to imagine the horror which took place in what are such picturesque settings.
It makes me sad how we are really in the stage now where the world is running out of veterans who are still alive. The fact that there are people still alive who were in the thick of it makes it all the more fascinating for me. I've always wanted to meet and talk to a D-Day veteran but I've never been able to thus far. A few more years and truly the greatest generation will be all but gone.
*Second appearance probably, after I smash it with Peep Show in round one. |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:55 - Jun 6 with 979 views | factual_blue |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:06 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
Fascinated by D-Day (it would be my specialist subject if I were to go on Mastermind for a laugh*) and loved touring around Normandy a few years ago. Incredible to visit places like Omaha Beach, Merville Battery, Pegasus Bridge, Pointe du Hoc, or the town square in Sainte-Mère-Église and try to imagine the horror which took place in what are such picturesque settings.
It makes me sad how we are really in the stage now where the world is running out of veterans who are still alive. The fact that there are people still alive who were in the thick of it makes it all the more fascinating for me. I've always wanted to meet and talk to a D-Day veteran but I've never been able to thus far. A few more years and truly the greatest generation will be all but gone.
*Second appearance probably, after I smash it with Peep Show in round one. |
What was the significance of Leonard Dawe to D-Day? |  |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 17:03 - Jun 6 with 965 views | factual_blue |
Due to the logistics of loading 150,000 and the accompanying materiel into ships, the loading started on 1 June. Ships had to sail part way out to sea so other vessels could be loaded.
Then the weather started to close in, and Eisenhower took the decision on 4 June to delay the assault from 5 June to 6 June, the main reason being the very low cloud base (0-500 feet) would deprive the allies of their vital air superiority.
As one historian of D-Day wrote 'Eisenhower had written [in the message distributed to all of the Allied assault force] that he could smell victory in the air. For the men aboard the delay boats [in the increasingly stormy Channel] the smell was of vomit.' | |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 17:06 - Jun 6 with 956 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 16:55 - Jun 6 by factual_blue |
What was the significance of Leonard Dawe to D-Day? |
He was the the crossword puzzler who was questioned by the security services as some of his answers in the weeks leading up to D-Day were words being used in the invasion plans. 'Mulberry' and 'Overlord' I think were two of them. | |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 17:53 - Jun 6 with 915 views | factual_blue |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 17:06 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
He was the the crossword puzzler who was questioned by the security services as some of his answers in the weeks leading up to D-Day were words being used in the invasion plans. 'Mulberry' and 'Overlord' I think were two of them. |
And Neptune I think.
Possibly not entirely coincidental. He was a schoolmaster at The Strand School which had been evacuated to Surrey.
By 1944 it was therefore in the armed camp that Southern England had become.
It was Mr Dawes' usual practice to invite 6th formers for words for his crosswords. It's therefore possible that these boys heard these words when out and about.
Possibly, but perhaps not that likely: the codewords would have been highly restricted information, probably only BIGOT-cleared. | |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 18:29 - Jun 6 with 876 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 17:53 - Jun 6 by factual_blue |
And Neptune I think.
Possibly not entirely coincidental. He was a schoolmaster at The Strand School which had been evacuated to Surrey.
By 1944 it was therefore in the armed camp that Southern England had become.
It was Mr Dawes' usual practice to invite 6th formers for words for his crosswords. It's therefore possible that these boys heard these words when out and about.
Possibly, but perhaps not that likely: the codewords would have been highly restricted information, probably only BIGOT-cleared. |
Interesting. Like you say though, probably not very likely, especially as the vast majority of troops were confined to camps in the weeks leading up to the day.
Perhaps some careless civvies working in the camps could have heard and mentioned certain things, but you'd like to think they would have kept quiet (although they might too have forced to stay on the camp where they worked - I can't remember). | |
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| [Redacted] on 18:35 - Jun 6 with 865 views | victorywilhappen |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 18:29 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
Interesting. Like you say though, probably not very likely, especially as the vast majority of troops were confined to camps in the weeks leading up to the day.
Perhaps some careless civvies working in the camps could have heard and mentioned certain things, but you'd like to think they would have kept quiet (although they might too have forced to stay on the camp where they worked - I can't remember). |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 18:39 - Jun 6 with 858 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
They were in some editions of The Daily Telegraph.
I'm sure all of that stuff would have happened. But in this case I imagine it was entirely coincidental. | |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 18:58 - Jun 6 with 837 views | HARRY10 |
Pure coincidence, other than certain words like Juno, Omaha and Utah lend themselves to crossword answers (infilling).
My understanding is that code names were not in common (or any) usage beyond those in the need to know. Nor would those British soldiers landing at Juno beach be similarly in contact with the same schoolboys, as US soldiers at Utah beach.
As the words were spread over nearly five weeks, that would mean around a minimum of 2000 other words - which might give the supposed recipients of these leaks a puzzle in itself working out which was relevant.
Then what, with no indication of what they related to. Rather like with contemporary code names used by plod, meaningless on their own. |  | | |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 20:31 - Jun 6 with 797 views | factual_blue |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 18:29 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
Interesting. Like you say though, probably not very likely, especially as the vast majority of troops were confined to camps in the weeks leading up to the day.
Perhaps some careless civvies working in the camps could have heard and mentioned certain things, but you'd like to think they would have kept quiet (although they might too have forced to stay on the camp where they worked - I can't remember). |
Old Uncle Factual (RIP) was locked down in Surrey, even though he was wounded and not fit for duty following a bad wound after the Salerno landings. He had to go to get special permission from a General to come to Suffolk to get married. | |
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| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 20:36 - Jun 6 with 777 views | Wakh |
| D-day. 77 years ago today. on 18:29 - Jun 6 by ThisIsMyUsername |
Interesting. Like you say though, probably not very likely, especially as the vast majority of troops were confined to camps in the weeks leading up to the day.
Perhaps some careless civvies working in the camps could have heard and mentioned certain things, but you'd like to think they would have kept quiet (although they might too have forced to stay on the camp where they worked - I can't remember). |
There is a young girl on twitter called Ellie who is 18 and flies an ex DDay aircraft to the DDay beaches. I am pretty sure she is an Itfc fan. | | | |
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