D-Day – Page 3 – History of Sorts

June 5, 2017

Operation Tonga

Operation Tonga was the code name given to the airborne operation undertaken by the British 6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during the Second World War. The paratroopers and glider-borne airborne troops of the division, commanded by Major-General Richard Nelson Gale,…

Chanson d’Automne—A Coded Message

Chanson d’Automne (Autumn Song) is a poem by Paul Verlaine, one of the best-known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine’s first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part of the paysages tristes (sad landscapes) section of the collection. In World War II lines from the…

They gave their lives for our freedom

I was born many years after WWII but it is because of those brave men who gave their lives I was born a free man. NEVER FORGET THE REAL HEROES WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR OURS. The Fallen 9000 Sand Project by Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss