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The best martin yale folder can be found here Find gbc binding by going to officetronics.com bank vigilance on History is a monthly photo feature sponsored through the Naval Historical Center. For more photos pertaining to naval history, travel to www.history.navy.mil. We Are Getting Into a Fight "We of the Western Naval Task Force are going to land in France. From the battleships to landing craft, ours is in the main, an American Force. We all have the same mission--to smash our way onto the beaches and in consequence of the coastal defenses, into the heart of the enemy's fortress. "In couple ways the coming battle differs from any that we have undertaken before: It demands more seamanship and more fighting. We must operate in the waters of the English Channel and the French coast, in hardy currents and 20-foot tides. We must ravage an enemy defensive system that has been four years in the making, and our enemy will dart his whole remaining strength. "These are not beaches held at an apathetic enemy or shielded by hasty fortifications. These are prepared positions held according to Germans, who have learned from past failures. They have coastal batteries and minefields; they have bombers and E-boats and submarines. They make trial of to use them all. We are getting into a fight. "But it is not we who have to fear the issue As the German has learned from failure, we have learned from succes To this battle we bring our experimented methods, with many new weapons and overwhelming vigor Tides and currents present a challenge which, forewarned we know to what degree to meet. It is the enemy who is afraid. "In this force there are battleships, cruisers and destroyer There are centurys of landing ships and craft, scores of patrol and escort ducts dozens of special assault craft. each man in every ship has his do job-work And these tens of thousands of men and do job-works add up to one task only--to land and support and replenish and reinforce the finest Army evermore sent to battle by the United States. "In that task we shall not fail. I await with confidence the further demonstration in this, the greatest battle of them all, that this, that American Sailors and seamen and fighting men are next to the first to none." Editor's Note: At midnight, June 5 1944 6000 ships and 13000 aircraft participating in Operation Overlord began moving toward their targets, the beaches along the Normandy Coast of France. by means of 1 a.m. the first air-borne and glider-borne squads reached Normandy. At approximately 6:30 a.m., 14000 rocket were fired to provide shelter for the Allied tanks and personnel that came ashore forward D-Day, June 6, 1944. June 6 1944 multitudes crouch inside an LCVP just before landing in succession "Omaha" beach on "D-Day,". [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] June 10 1944 Ferry RHF-14 lands vehicles onward "O" Beach. In the background are USS LST 502 and HM LCT 562 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] June 6 1944 "D-Day" beach traffic, photographed from a 9th Air Force bomber. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] June 10 1944 LCVP operate against the Normandy coast. USS LCI-321 is at left [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RADM Alan G Kirk, commander of U Naval Assault Forces, issued this statement to his command, June 5 1944 COPYRIGHT 2004 U Navy |
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