Happy 3rd Birthday to
“Mark Teaches Ethan to Read With Hooked On Phonics”
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D-Day services at Congregation Emunath Israel on West 23rd Street, June 6, 1944.
Photo: Howard Hollem et al. for the Office of War Information via Shorpy
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The D-Day invasion began in the pre-dawn hours of June 6 with thousands of paratroopers landing inland on the Utah and Sword beaches in an attempt to cut off exits and destroy bridges to slow Nazi reinforcements.
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La Mode illustrée, no. 23, 6 juin 1897, Paris. Boléro. Modèle de chez Mmes Gradoz-Angenault, rue de Provence, 67. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
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On this day, June 6
In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their fourteenth show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Munich, Germany. At this show, the quote “A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.” from the novella "The Cat Inside" by William S. Burroughs was printed out and taped to the drum kit, alongside a pink heart. (🖤)
Watch the show here!
ᴅᴇᴀᴛᴛʜsᴘᴇʟʟs
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𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹
[ID: Without weight, without bones, without body, walked through the streets for two hours considering what I overcame this afternoon while writing. END ID]
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D-Day
June 6, 1944
0710
- Pointe Du Hoc -
They were behind scheadule. Due to a navigational error, the landing crafts were initially bringing the Rangers to the wrong landing zone. After some argument and corrections, which caused a forty minute delay, the Rangers were eventually brought to the correct landing point. But now they had to make up for lost time.
Upon hitting the beach, specially made rocket-launched grappling hooks shot up into the air to grab onto the barbed wire and rocks at the top of the cliff. Many of the hooks fell short, but at least one from each landing craft reach the top of the cliff tops and hooked onto something.
Now came the difficult part, scaling the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc under enemy fire.
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Pointe Du Hoc was a problem for the US landing force. At the top of the cliffs were 155 mm guns inside concrete casemates. With Pinte Du Hoc located between Omaha and Utah beach, these guns could wreak havoc on the landings US landings on both beaches. Because of this they had to be taken. The task was thus assigned to the US Army Rangers.
Trained under the guidance of the British Commandos, the Rangers were among the US Army's elite forces. Now they were tasked to scale a cliff and destroy the German guns.
The original plan called for Force A, composed of Companies D, E, and F of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, to attack Pointe Du Hoc. Then, Companies A and B of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, and the entirity of the 5th Ranger Battalion, were to join them if they had successfully captured the position, which was to be relayed via signal flare.
However, due to a delay in getting the Force A to the right spot, the signal flare came too late and their reinforcements were thus landed in Omaha beach to support the landings there.
Despite the lack of support, Force A managed to achieve their objective, climbing the cliff and taking Pointe Du Hoc. However, to their shock, the German casemates were emport and the 155 mm guns they were supposed to destroy were not there.
Luckily for the Rangers, a recon patrol found the guns a bit further inland. The guns had been moved away from Pointe Du Hoc after previous Allied bombings made the Germans realize the vulnerability of the position. Quickly the Rangers used thermite grenades to destroy the gun's firing mechanicisms, disabling them.
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Featuring:
@bexdrey @nopony-ask-mclovin and @whirlwindflux mod as members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
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A Battery bum surveys this scene, June 6, 1941. Kodachrome slide.
Photo: Charles W. Cushman via Indiana Univ.
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“It made me think about my own life. And it wasn’t about career or anything. It was about being remembered as someone who was good and kind and contributed something of value… I certainly don’t think about the films I’m going to leave behind and how people are going to remember me in that sense. I hope that people think of me fondly and that I was a good person. That I was a good bloke. Like my grandpa.”
-Chris Hemsworth on gaining more perspective after his grandfather’s recent death (British GQ, June 6, 2023).
📸 by Georges Antoni
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RIP Dwight Twilley
June 6, 1951 – October 18, 2023
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