D-Day - June 6, 1944
All gave some, some gave all.
**
In honor of all who served.
We will never forget.
and when he gets to Heaven,
to Saint Peter he will tell:
"Just another soldier reporting, Sir.
I've served my time in Hell."
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Recommended reading - D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (1994)
D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
by Stephen E.
Ambrose.
ISBN-13: 978-1471158261
D-Day is the epic
story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors,
complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian
Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and
determination — what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy” —
that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.
Drawing on more
than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German
veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be
abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own
initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.
The action begins
at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops
jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal
twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a
French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field
Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account
of one of our history’s most important days.
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Beverly Cleary, on books:
My favorite books are a constantly changing
list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary.
Is the word I want to use spelled practice or
practise?
The dictionary knows.
The dictionary also slows down my writing
because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
- Beverly Cleary.
Born on this day – Doris Merrick:
Doris Merrick
Actress
June 6, 1919 – November 30, 2019
Credits:
Interrupted
Melody (1955); The Neanderthal Man (1953); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952);
Death Valley Days (1952); Big Town (1952); Untamed Women (1952); The Cisco Kid
(1951–1952); Boston Blackie (1951); The Fighting Stallion (1950); The
Counterfeiters (1948); The Pilgrim Lady (1946); Child of Divorce (1946); Hit
the Hay (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Sensation Hunters (1945); In the
Meantime, Darling (1944); The Big Noise (1944); Ladies of Washington (1944);
Heaven Can Wait (1943); Time to Kill (1942); That Other Woman (1942); Girl
Trouble (1942); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
Born on this day – Joan Marshall:
Joan Marshall
Actress
Producer
June 6, 1931 – June 28, 1992
Credits:
77 Sunset Strip (1960–1962); A
Star Is Born (1976); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alcoa Theatre (1957); Bat Masterson
(1958); Biography (1999–2003); Bold Venture (1959); Bonanza (1967); Bourbon
Street Beat (1960); Bronco (1960–1961); Dante (1960–1961); Dr. Kildare (1966);
Follow the Sun (1962); Gunsmoke (1962); Gypsy (1967); Hal (2018); Harbor
Command (1958); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1963);
Hennesey (1960); Here's Hollywood (1962); Highway Patrol (1958); Homicidal
(1961); I Spy (1967); Kiss 'N' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century (2004); Laredo
(1966); Lawman (1960); Live Fast, Die Young (1958); Looking for Love (1964); M
Squad (1960); Maverick (1958–1961); Men Into Space (1960); Michael Shayne
(1961); Mike Hammer (1958); Paris Is Gay Again (1944); Petticoat Junction
(1964); Shampoo (1975); Star Trek (1967); Sunday Night Live (1984); Surfside 6
(1960–1962); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Tammy and the Doctor (1963); Target
(1958); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Chicago Kid (1945); The
Detectives (1961); The F.B.I. (1965); The Great Sex War (1969); The Greatest
Show You Never Saw (1996); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Horse in the
Gray Flannel Suit (1968); The Jack Benny Program (1963–1964); The Landlord
(1970); The Magical World of Disney (1971); The Millionaire (1958); The
Munsters (1964); The Road West (1967); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Rough
Riders (1958); The Twilight Zone (1962); Tombstone Territory (1958).
Born on this day – Billie Whitelaw:
Billie Whitelaw
Actress
June 6, 1932 – December 21, 2014
Credits:
A Dinner of
Herbs (2000); A Matter of Conscience (1962); A Murder of Quality (1991); A Tale
of Two Cities (1980); An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (1994); An Audience with
Mel Brooks (1983); An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982); Anna Christie (1963);
Arena (1976 / 1995); Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960); Armchair Theatre
(1956–1971); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1959); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Big
City (1956); Bobbikins (1959); Born to Run (1997); Breakout (1959); ...but the
clouds... (1977); Call My Bluff (1967–1969); Camille (1984); Carve Her Name
with Pride (1958); Charlie Bubbles (1968); Companions in Crime (1954);
Confidential Report (1955); Deadly Advice (1994); Dixon of Dock Green (1955);
Don't Say a Word (1963); Dope Sheet (1998); Duel of Hearts (1991); Eagle in a
Cage (1972); Emergency-Ward 10 (1959); Espionage (1963); Eustace and Hilda
(1977); Film '81 (1981); Firm Friends (1992–1994); First Night (1963); Flight
of the Dove (1957); Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992); Frenzy (1972); Ghost Trio
(1977); Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958); Golden Gala (1978); Gumshoe (1971);
Hell Is a City (1960); Hell's Kitchen (2004); Hindle Wakes (1957); Hot Fuzz
(2007); Huckleberry Finn (1952); I Like Money (1961); I Promised to Pay (1961);
Imaginary Friends (1987); In Search of Maitland (1953); ITV Play of the Week
(1957–1960); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); ITV Television Playhouse
(1959–1961); Jackanory (1969); Jamaica Inn (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Joyriders
(1988); Judge John Deed (2002); Knock on Any Door (1966); Kraft Mystery Theater
(1961); Late Show London (1966); Leo the Last (1970); Leopard in the Snow
(1978); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Little Red Monkey (1953); Lorna Doone
(1990); Love Story (1966); Make Mine Mink (1960); Masterchef (1997); Maurice
(1987); Merlin (1998); Miracle in Soho (1957); Morrissey: Everyday Is Like
Sunday (1988); Murder Elite (1985); My Pal Bob (1957); Napoleon and Love
(1974); Night of One Hundred Stars (1980); Night Watch (1973); No Love for
Johnnie (1961); Not a Word (1970); Not I (1973); NOTFILM (2015); Oresteia
(1979); Othello (1955); Patrol Car (1955); Performance (1993); Poet Game
(1971); Private Schulz (1981); Quills (2000); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Rockaby
(1982); Room in the House (1955); Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1984); Screen
Two (1989–1994); Shadey (1985); Shooting the Past (1999); Simply Red: Never
Never Love (1996); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967); Slayground (1983); Small
Hotel (1957); Space: 1999 (1976); Special Collector's Edition (2015); Start the
Revolution Without Me (1970); Stryker of the Yard (1961); Sunday Story
(1964–1965); Supernatural (1977); Tales from Soho (1956); Tangiers (1982);
Television (1985); Television Playwright (1958); Television Scrabble (1984);
Ten from the Twenties (1975); Terminus (1955); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The
21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The Adding Machine (1969); The
Adventures of Robin Hood (1957); The Ball Is Round (1994); The British Academy
Award (1973); The British Academy Awards (1979); The Canterbury Tales (1998–2000);
The Chain (1984); The Cloning of Joanna May (1992); The Comedy Man (1964); The
Crimean War (1997); The Curse of 'The Omen' (2005); The Dark Crystal (1982);
The Devil's Agent (1962); The Dressmaker (1988); The Eamonn Andrews Show
(1966); The Fake (1953); The Fifteen Streets (1989); The Flesh and the Fiends
(1960); The Krays (1990); The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000); The Lively
Arts (1977 / 1978); The Lost Son (1999); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC
Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Omen (1976); The Pattern of Marriage (1953); The
Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Secret Garden (1952 / 1987); The Sextet
(1972); The Slackering Field (1955); The Sleeping Tiger (1954); The Story of
'Frenzy' (2001); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968); The Water
Babies (1978); The World Our Stage (1957); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966); This
Is Your Life (1999); Three Plays by Samuel Beckett: Rockaby, Footfalls and Eh
Joe. (1988); Time Out for Peggy (1958–1959); Twisted Nerve (1968); Val
Parnell's Spectacular (1959); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1960
(1961); Wessex Tales (1973); Whodunnit? (1974); Wicked Women (1970); Without
Love (1956); Without the Prince (1952); Wogan (1985–1989); You're a Long Time
Dead (1958).
Born on this day – Erica Hagen:
Erica Hagen
Actress
June 6, 1946 – September 15, 2018
The Rockford
Files (1979); CHiPs (1978); Quincy M.E. (1978); Operation Petticoat (1978);
Kojak (1977); Wonder Woman (1976); Holmes and Yoyo (1976); Silent Movie (1976);
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976); Baretta (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Switch
(1976); Petrocelli (1974–1975); Let's Do It Again (1975); S.W.A.T. (1975); Get
Christie Love! (1975); Mannix (1975); Adam-12 (1975); McCloud (1975); Land of
the Lost (1974); Police Woman (1974); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); The Bob
Newhart Show (1974); Trapped (1973); Love, American Style (1972–1973); Coffee,
Tea or Me? (1973); The Last American Hero (1973); Soylent Green (1973); The
F.B.I. (1973); Barnaby Jones (1973); Banacek (1972); Together (1971).
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