June 6, 2023 / 2:29 PM EDT / CBS News Tuesday, June 6, 2023, is the 79th anniversary of D-Day, when troops from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada landed on the beaches of France. The day was momentous because Allied soldiers infiltrated occupied Western...
From June of 1940 through December of 1941, $36 billion was allocated to the War Department (more than was spent on all of World War I) and $8 billion for the Army alone. Meanwhile, the munitions program was preparing weaponry to sustain a military force of more than 1 million men. [...
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I’m excited to be talking at two #scicomm events this month – the Pint of Science global festival (I’ll be presenting from the White Bear in Bristol tonight – May 15th) and at the Cheltenham Science Festival on June 6th. One of my major themes will be the inconvenient truth that ...
Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resort full speed ahead! June 6, 1944 – What have we learned?introduction and training on the Outrigger brand and The Outrigger Way. In true MITTRAPAB fashion and in the spirit of teamwork, KhunPaul, training manager for Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort,spent ...
On June 6th, 1944, the Allied troops launched a large-scale amphibious assault on Normandy in France to establish a beachhead. The assault was codenamed ''Operation Neptune'' as part of the Overlord Campaign and, as of 2019, was the largest seaborne invasion in history....
What follows is not a fanciful supposition but a sobering look at the inevitable consequences of an Allied failure on June 6, 1944. The truth is that it was never a certainty that Overlord would succeed. Of course, no commander undertakes a military operation of the magnitude of Overlord wi...
Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the Vytautas Magnus university, constructed in 1939. Sadly, this building was destroyed in World War 2. Cultural heart of the occupied Baltics (1940-1990) After the Soviet occupation of Kaunas (1940-1941 and again after 1944), the city's high soc...
Louis Browns in the 1944 World Series, winning the “Fall Classic,” in six games. The 1944 World Series was notable in being the first where all games were played west of the Mississippi River. Both teams also played at the same stadium, Sportsman's Park. Earlier in the year, the ...
December 7th, 1941 is famously known as 'a date which will live in infamy,' and was uttered in a speech by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was a major turning point in 20th-century history and is a date that is somberly noted each year....