Daily Archives: June 6, 2015

Historical, Military

D-Day in Pictures

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I’ve posted something on D-Day pretty much every anniversary since I began blogging. This time I won’t be writing so much about it–just showing imagery.

normandybeaches
These are the beach heads that had to be established. Only the one designated “Omaha” had heavy German resistance.

 

Ike meets with paratroopers of the 101st before their midnight jump into Hitler's "Fortress Europe."
Ike meets with paratroopers of the 101st before their midnight jump into Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.”

 

"One minute!" U.S. Paratroopers about to be scattered to hell & gone through a land crawling with Germans.
“One minute!” U.S. Paratroopers about to be scattered to hell & gone through a land crawling with Germans.

 

At H-Hour the ramps drop and ground-pounders have to slog through the surf through German fire.
At H-Hour the ramps drop and ground-pounders have to slog through the surf into German fire.

 

Here's what the folks back home knew.
Here’s what the folks back home knew.


This guy did a fairly decent job on the video, though he’s not informed well on the UN and China. But hey, most people in our dumbed-down culture don’t even know what WW2 was.

Action, Historical, Sports

99 Cent Sale: Tomato Can Comeback

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Got about two days or less before the sale ends.

Tomato Can is a retro-pulp novella in the gritty style of hardboiled noir from the 1950s, which is when, in fact, it is set. It takes place in the hometown of the Brown Bomber: Detroit, Michigan.

Unlike many boxing pulps (and retro-pulps), this one is technically accurate…though it is packed full of slinging leather.

We usually post something to commemorate D-Day. Might do that a bit later.