On June 6th, 1944, allied forces under the flags of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States landed on Juno, Sword, Gold, Utah, and Omaha beaches in Normandy in the largest landing invasion in history, paving the way for a western front to be opened in Europe during WW2.

Plus it's my birthday today, so I figured I'd ask!

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The US's part in defeating the Nazis is one of the few morally good things we've ever done with our military, so naturally the US had to go and undo all of it in the years immediately following the fall of the third reich by reinstating all of their officers into NATO positions and supporting the worst warcriminals in Europe as part of anti-communist "resistance" efforts. Thinking about it though it's kind of hilarious how little attention the pacific theater gets nowadays and that's because subconsciously every American knows it wasn't justified like the war in Europe was. The war in the Pacific was a battle between two empires for resources, not a war of liberation