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5th June 2017, 07:58
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Rome liberation day among other interesting events on this day. One thing that didn't get a mention, was the fact that it was my Dads birthday (1913)
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d.../5/default.stm
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5th June 2017, 09:20
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I can remember my Dad, who was in Italy at the time, not being overly impressed with General Mark Clark. He'd been ordered to cut off Kesselring's Army which was moving north following the Battle of Monte Casino, but decided to go for Rome instead. Kesselring was able to extract his army and build another defensive line in Northern Italy which pretty much stalemated the war in that country.
My Old Man referred to Clark with a word that rhymes with banker.
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5th June 2017, 20:23
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Similar weather patterns today to 5th June 1944. The lull this year is expected on Wednesday, though.
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6th June 2017, 10:36
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Probably the biggest day in military history.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d.../6/default.stm
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6th June 2017, 11:04
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Yes there will probably never be an amphibious landing on that scale again. Not far from where I live in Bude there is a monument on the promenade overlooking the harbour to the American Rangers who trained for D Day in the area. They had the unenviable task of scaling the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc in order to attack the heavy guns there.
The cliffs in this part of Cornwall are similar and were ideal for training. I've pottered about on them myself and they're not easy. To think of climbing them under fire is a very grim business, but those lads did it.
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7th June 2017, 11:19
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Two big events on this day. The Battle of Midway, and the day that Tony Blair got handbagged by the Women's Institute
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d.../7/default.stm
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7th June 2017, 11:42
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The first time the Decca system was used was on the 6th June, there were only twenty sets available for the invasion fleet craft that were being used as Guide vessels which included the HDML 'Medusa'.
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7th June 2017, 15:21
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It's hard to think of what more could have gone wrong with that operation. (Tiger.) I suppose the only consolation, and it certainly isn't much to the families of those who lost their lives, is that the mistakes that were made were rectified for the actual D Day landings.
One would hope so anyway. 
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Two fathers each with a son. Terrible and always prompts the question as to why the pit communities fought so hard to keep such a ghastly business.
Surely not coal gas but methane or 'fire damp'. Coal gas is largely H2 and CO mixture produced by heating coal (usually by man but I suppose it might result from an underground fire) AKA 'town gas'.
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I have no doubt about community but then again so is the Bethlem Hospital.
A better known comment: “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” Mind you he is also supposed to have defined "buggery" as a tem of endearment amongst seafaring folk.
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