BEGINNING OF THE END, JUNE 6TH, 1944

[Fibber]

It is hard to believe that this day which marks a important date in history ,the beginning of the end of the Third Reich and their allies, will soon be upon us and not a peep on any of the networks or LSM! Without the events of that day, 66 years ago, the world would have been a lot different today than we know it.
They are leaving us now at a accelerating rate and they were the true participants in the real life, and not the sim that we know and love.
To all those who participated to that era, Thank You! :salute:

 

[Jagdflieger]

Not only D-Day on June 6, 1944; but the Battle of Midway was June 4 though the 7th in 1942.

 

[hewman100]

Another one worth noting is 7th June 1940.
On this day, one of the daring feats of WW2 aviation was carried out.

10 Hurricanes of 46 Sqn were evacuated from Norway and successfully landed on the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. This had never been done before and the aircraft were not fitted with any arrester gear.

As a terrible postscript the following day, 8th June, Glorious and her escorts Acasta and Ardent were sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

 

[MaskRider]

Not only D-Day on June 6, 1944; but the Battle of Midway was June 4 though the 7th in 1942.

In a way, the Battle of Midway was more a beginning of the end than June 6th 1944.

After the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor, Stalin felt safe enough in the East, with Japan's attention turned to the USA, to release fresh Siberian Divisions for the Russian Winter Counter Offensive of 1941-1942. With the effective destruction of Japan offensive power at Midway, Stalin felt he could comfortable discount any remaining threat from Japan in the East- this allowed for the release of remaining Siberian Divisions which led to the German Defeat at Stalingrad, July 17, 1942 thru Feb 2, 1943- which was arguably the real beginning of the end for the German Wehrmacht.

The the luck and pluck of the small group of fliers from Torpedo 8 had world changing consequences.

Today, though, we honor those who battled their way ashore at Normandy- and stayed there.

 

[Jean Bomber]

We are grateful until the end of time for all this young men that have loose their lifes for the freedom we have today :salute:

About when was "the begenning of the end" ,today from far away ,after a confortable analyse of the History of these years, I think it was Pearl Harbor ,the day when the USA had no choice about the yes or no go to war with the democraties...a bright (but infame) Japanase victory but on a strategic plan a catastrophic affair for the axis , this act has been surely a bad new for AH and a good new for Churchill ....
I try to imagine what would been happened if the USA had stayed out of this conflict some years more,until where the axis alliance could gone if the weight of the America was not in the balance at this date... a very scary "what if" scenario

JP