Red and Rover by Brian Basset for June 07, 2022

Freshly baked croissants is better, I can understand!!

Sanglier à la crème pour moi, s’il vous plaît….

Pain fraîchement cuit avec du fromage – très délicieux !

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, President Roosevelt addressed the nation and included a prayer which many believe played an important part in gaining public support for the months of battle still ahead. The prayer is too long to repeat here – but you can a copy of that prayer at the following link – which is part of the Roosevelt Library on line

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President Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer

FROM the Roosevelt Library

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/d-day

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Le jour J, le 6 juin 1944, le président Roosevelt s’est adressé à la nation et a inclus une prière qui, selon beaucoup, a joué un rôle important dans l’obtention du soutien du public pour les mois de bataille encore à venir. La prière est trop longue pour être répétée ici – mais vous pouvez obtenir une copie de cette prière au lien suivant – qui fait partie de la bibliothèque Roosevelt en ligne -

Rover’s mission is not exactly the same as Red’s. Still … they are a team and they look out for each other and keep each other safe.

Well, an army does march on its’ stomach!

What a fine Medic Rover would be

May it be that Red never has to do such a thing. But I know he would. He is a Patriotic young man.

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Wednesday, June 7, 1944For the time being, the landing of Normandy is a success even if all the initially planned objectives are not reached. To the west of the invasion beaches, the American sector is held by the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions parachuted on the night of June 6th (these two divisions suffered a lot of casualties) and by the 4th Infantry Division having landed at Utah Beach at dawn (without encountering any major problems). The American parachute troops have a 15-kilometer bridgehead on the evening of June 7th. In Omaha Beach, the situation of the 1st and 29th American infantry divisions landed at dawn is more critical. Only a small part of the soil of France is under their control. The Commonwealth landings on the eastern flank (on Gold, Juno and Sword beaches) have encountered difficulties but it is generally a great success. The paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division seized the bridges over the Orne and made their junction with the troops disembarked at Sword Beach.

On the German side, the surprise is total. The storm which reigned the day before in the English Channel did not trouble the sentries on the coasts, nor the officers in their staffs. Allied air superiority prevents any movement and for the time being no Panzer division was fully engaged to push back the attackers to the sea. Hitler was not informed of the allied invasion until nine o’clock on the morning of June 6 : having gone to bed late, he fell asleep with sleeping pills and gave as instructions that no one wakes him up. Meanwhile, Rommel is in Germany and celebrates the anniversary of his wife. The same day, he rode towards Normandy to take matters into his own hands.

The Germans launched their first counter-offensive towards Port-en-Bessin north of Bayeux, where US and British troops tried to join their bridgeheads. The 716th German Infantry Division and the 21st Panzer Division are designated to counter-attack.

To read further: https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/

Rover is a Dog Treat in himself.

The Higgina Boat is aground….

Dogs are at “the front” these days,detecting explosives.

Glad the troops made it to shore. Many didn’t. Looks like the Higgins boat took a hit.

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Dad never mentioned those.