Total and utter respect to all that served The time line highlighting how the invasion took place from this moment 76 years ago 21:00– Attack led by 3 companies of the 21st German Panzer Division, commanded by General Feuchtinger, south of Juno Beach: it is a failure. – Pointe du Hoc: 24 Rangers of A company,5th battalion, having landed on Omaha Beach reach the Pointe du Hoc battery. 21:30– Marshal Rommel arrives at his command post after a car trip of nearly 800 kilometers. 21:45– Omaha Beach: artillery barrage from the southeast and from the Maisy area is reported. 22:30– Aerial bombardment of the city of Caen. – After heavy fighting, liberation of the town of Tailleville, defended by the 736th German Grenadier Regiment. – The men of the 1st Royal Hampshire Battalion liberate the locality of Arromanches. 23:00– Pointe du Hoc: a counter-attack by 40 German soldiers belonging to the 1st company of the 914th regiment, 352nd Infantry Division, is launched against the Rangers at the Pointe du Hoc battery. – Omaha Beach: Major Tegtmeyer radioed to Colonel Ficchy that nothing is in place to evacuate the wounded and something has to be done. 23:30– Pointe du Hoc: General Kraiss reports to General Marcks that “the counterattack of the 1st company of the 914th Grenadier Regiment is still in progress.“
Excellent web site for those who are interested , just normal men and women telling their stories of their service to the country https://www.legasee.org.uk/veteran/ian-hammerton/
Pointe du Hoc was brutal, read a good book last year about the D Day landings timeline and it’s fascinating how some areas we’re relatively easy to take and some areas just a massacre.
Swansea Town, the professional football club, came into being on June 14, 1912. It is 108 years to the day since the club officially took root during a meeting at The Royal Hotel on High Street.
It’s a pity that he and his manager had a falling out with the chairman. Where would be now if he had stayed ?
They want us to extend for another 2 years so that we can contribute to their COVID-19 related costs .....