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6. Juni 1944

#VictorKlemperer #Tagebücher #NS #Nationalsozialismus #Antisemitismus #Shoah #OTD #Geschichte #Befreiung #D-Day #Cherburg #Alliierte #Landung #Normandie #OperationNeptun #ExerciseTiger
Zeitgeschehen: 6. Juni 1944 D-Day Mit 6.000 Schiffen beginnt in der Normandie die Invasion der Alliierten in Westeuropa. Mit der Landung von 150.000 Soldaten werden mehrere Brückenköpfe gebildet. Auch wegen der Lufthoheit der 14.000 alliierten Bomber können die deutschen Einheiten keine entscheidende Abwehr leisten. Der deutsche Nachschub wird unterbunden. Historic event on June 6, 1944 D-Day The Allied invasion of Western Europe begins in Normandy with 6,000 ships. Several bridgeheads are established with the landing of 150,000 troops. German units are unable to mount a decisive defense, partly due to the air superiority held by the 14,000 Allied bombers. German supply lines are cut off.
June 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
vctrustee.bsky.social
Remembering Exercise Tiger (1944)

#OTD a D-Day rehearsal off the Devon coast ended in tragedy when German E-boats attacked, costing hundreds of American lives

@theveteranscharity.bsky.social lead wreath for our #DDay80 tribute visited the site, before heading to Normandy.

#ExerciseTiger #WWII
April 28, 2026 at 12:58 PM
vexiupdate.bsky.social
26APR24
The #US #ExerciseTiger Foundation flew original 48-star #flag to commemorate 80th anniversary of Exercise Tiger, a 1944 rehearsal for D-Day marred by German torpedo boat attacks. The flag raising took place at the Columbia Armory.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
benking01.bsky.social
#ExerciseTiger
#WitnessHistory
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Witness History - Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal - BBC Sounds
In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
davyh.bsky.social
D-Day began many months before June 6th: here’s to the hundreds of #SouthHams villagers who had to surrender their homes & farms to the military for the ‘rehearsals’ - and the many, mostly American, young men who died off the West Country coast before even crossing the Channel #ExerciseTiger #Devon
‘Herbert Read supervising the careful removal of parts of the screen from Slapton Church’ (1944) - the church historian is assisted by two young American soldiers: they are carefully packing the wooden screen into a straw-lined box
June 5, 2024 at 9:47 PM