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Topic History of: On D-Day 6 June+70, Remember Monty's Successful Landings, 3 Sep '43
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The WW2 Allied Powers first successful seaborne landings in Nazi held Europe were not the D-Day 6 June 1944, 130,000 man Normandy landings, Operation Overlord.
But were 9 months earlier on 3 September 1943. With the 189,000 man landings of Operations Baytown, Avalanche, and Slapstick in southern Italy, lead by General Sir Bernard Montgomery Of El Alamein, General Sir Harold Alexander, and Lieutenant General Mark Clark.
Assigned to Montgomery's 8th Army, Operation Baytown drew German forces south to Calabria allowing them to be trapped 6-days later by the Avalanche and Slapstick landings at Salerno on September 9 and on September 16 at Taranto.
Biographer Nigel Hamilton suggested that WW2 Hero, Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Montgomery may have been a repressed homosexual. And in the late 1940s Montgomery maintained an affectionate friendship with a 12-year-old Swiss boy. One biographer called the friendship 'bizarre', although not 'improper'.
And, what would today's Witch Hunting deeply corrupt Cops/Polit/Media make of Brit War Hero 'Monty', with 10ft statue since 1980 in Whitehall opposite Downing Street ?
While, WW2 young coal miner 'Bevin Boy' Sir Jimmy Savile was rightly honoured in 2008.
www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/300325221/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Baytown
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1582809/...wartime-service.html
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BEVIN-BOYS-SECOND-WOR...istory-/350705355735 |
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