Monday 8th June 2026
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2026 5:17 am
Morning all.
Up early to go for bloods with my nice nurse at the medcentre and as usual my GP had left his copy of the OuestFrance regional paper in his waiting room while he started working at his computer (bureaucracy here too!) and then seeing the first patient.
Three broadsheet pages on the 6thJune commemorations, with other articles from various towns and villages . Well the Battle of Normandy lasted three months and touched every part of the region , with about two million men in total.
The GI's finally charged south about a km from here on the 31st of July, Operation Cobra."" Throughout the entire Battle of Normandy, over 425,000 Allied troops and German troops were killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoners. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, 125,847 were U.S. ground troops and 83,045 were 21st Army Group men (British, Canadian, and Polish ground forces). Germany had about 200,000 casualties who were killed or wounded and about 200,000 who were captured as prisoners of war.""
Two articles on Hegseth, very uncomplimentary , what a skunk ! He paraded around Saint Mère Eglise without even visiting the 82nd Airborne Museum, which is really the point of going to the town !
