LOOKS like Red and Rover plan to stay involved in D-Day maneuvers for a while yet. I wonder if this means that they might also observe Flag Day or V-E Day! OF COURSE, V-E Day has already passed for this year. V-E Day 1945 was rather amazing. There was an impromptu barn dance at VFW hall, a picnic in the park and a baseball game in the afternoon. The following Sunday, even people who lived so far out in the country that they rarely made it to town to attend church in a church building found ways to make the trip into town and all of the churches were full. The local VFW post had purchased a buffalo and set up a barbecue pit in the park. Many of the men in town took turns, watching the buffalo while it roasted. In the afternoon, everyone who had a musical instrument marched down main street. Then everyone went to the park and we had barbecued buffalo sandwiches and baked potatoes. (The sandwiches were on home-baked bread – sliced “factory” bread was still many years away. The ladies all brought out their best pickles. We celebrated for almost a whole week! Churches which had bells rang their bells every day at noon for the entire week! We celebrated V-E Day with a town-wide celebration for several years after that.
Friday, June 9, 1944The days that marked the Battle of Normandy
Allied forces continue to land a considerable number of men and equipment in Normandy. Facing them, in the British area of responsibility, the Germans position three divisions northwest of Caen: the 21st Panzer Division, the 12th Panzer Division and the Panzer-Lehr. These divisions are in contact with the British soldiers of the 2nd Army who are supported on the ground by anti-tank guns and in the sky by a particularly effective allied aviation which worries the German generals.
Luftwaffe counter-attacks are rare and doomed to failure in Normandy: on June 9, German Bf 109 fighter-bombers are reported near the village of Lion-sur-Mer. Immediately, American P-51 Mustang aircraft repulsed them.
The American troops of the 7th Corps continue to attack the village of Montebourg in the Cotentin, fiercely defended by the German soldiers. The losses are significant. Other units seized the locality of Azeville and silenced the German battery that fired on the area of Utah Beach since D-Day. The 1st American infantry division, disembarked on June 6 in Omaha Beach, launched an offensive west of Bayeux: the villages of Tour-en-Bessin, Etreham and Blay were freed. The 29th American infantry division is on its way to Carentan and seizes, after a long day of fighting, the city of Isigny-sur-Mer. South-west of Isigny, the command post of the 2nd American infantry division settles in the village of Formigny. Its forces advance in the south towards the localities of Trévières and Rubercy which are reached in the evening.
To read further: https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy/days/9-june-1944
There was a reference to a trampoline in the Mintz Twins story arc last summer. This suggests that Red is lobbing pine cones into their garden and that he associates them with the Nazis.
I remember one of the kids in the neighborhood had a toy hand grenade that could be loaded with a cap. He quickly quite using it as it was a pain to find in all of the weeds and brush in our play field. We didn’t have pine cones handy but crab apples made for some pretty convenient hand grenades as they were plentiful.
I also remember all of the fathers hated their kids when we would play knights. We would make wooden swords and our shields would be the aluminum lid from our parents garbage cans. On garbage day you could tell the houses with kids from the houses without kids as our garbage can lids were all dented and bashed up.
GeorgeInAZ over 2 years ago
The M79, aka Thumper, and the M203 made this situation a lot less likely.
LoisG Premium Member over 2 years ago
LOOKS like Red and Rover plan to stay involved in D-Day maneuvers for a while yet. I wonder if this means that they might also observe Flag Day or V-E Day! OF COURSE, V-E Day has already passed for this year. V-E Day 1945 was rather amazing. There was an impromptu barn dance at VFW hall, a picnic in the park and a baseball game in the afternoon. The following Sunday, even people who lived so far out in the country that they rarely made it to town to attend church in a church building found ways to make the trip into town and all of the churches were full. The local VFW post had purchased a buffalo and set up a barbecue pit in the park. Many of the men in town took turns, watching the buffalo while it roasted. In the afternoon, everyone who had a musical instrument marched down main street. Then everyone went to the park and we had barbecued buffalo sandwiches and baked potatoes. (The sandwiches were on home-baked bread – sliced “factory” bread was still many years away. The ladies all brought out their best pickles. We celebrated for almost a whole week! Churches which had bells rang their bells every day at noon for the entire week! We celebrated V-E Day with a town-wide celebration for several years after that.
Catfeet Premium Member over 2 years ago
That pine cone isn’t going anywhere soon!
SteveHL over 2 years ago
Very tricky, those Nazis!
robertdkrebs Premium Member over 2 years ago
That’s one way to get bounced out of the military, Red! Ha
allangary over 2 years ago
Cartoon physics at work. In real life, the pine cone would continue away from Red after bouncing.
sarahbowl1 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Cute!
Daltongang Premium Member over 2 years ago
Friday, June 9, 1944The days that marked the Battle of Normandy
Allied forces continue to land a considerable number of men and equipment in Normandy. Facing them, in the British area of responsibility, the Germans position three divisions northwest of Caen: the 21st Panzer Division, the 12th Panzer Division and the Panzer-Lehr. These divisions are in contact with the British soldiers of the 2nd Army who are supported on the ground by anti-tank guns and in the sky by a particularly effective allied aviation which worries the German generals.
Luftwaffe counter-attacks are rare and doomed to failure in Normandy: on June 9, German Bf 109 fighter-bombers are reported near the village of Lion-sur-Mer. Immediately, American P-51 Mustang aircraft repulsed them.
The American troops of the 7th Corps continue to attack the village of Montebourg in the Cotentin, fiercely defended by the German soldiers. The losses are significant. Other units seized the locality of Azeville and silenced the German battery that fired on the area of Utah Beach since D-Day. The 1st American infantry division, disembarked on June 6 in Omaha Beach, launched an offensive west of Bayeux: the villages of Tour-en-Bessin, Etreham and Blay were freed. The 29th American infantry division is on its way to Carentan and seizes, after a long day of fighting, the city of Isigny-sur-Mer. South-west of Isigny, the command post of the 2nd American infantry division settles in the village of Formigny. Its forces advance in the south towards the localities of Trévières and Rubercy which are reached in the evening.
To read further: https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy/days/9-june-1944
Calvinist1966 over 2 years ago
As I said yesterday, I remember parts of this story arc from three years ago. It’s good seeing the story arc reprinted.
Calvinist1966 over 2 years ago
There was a reference to a trampoline in the Mintz Twins story arc last summer. This suggests that Red is lobbing pine cones into their garden and that he associates them with the Nazis.
Daltongang Premium Member over 2 years ago
Who knew that the Mintz girls were on the side of the Germans?
Daltongang Premium Member over 2 years ago
I remember one of the kids in the neighborhood had a toy hand grenade that could be loaded with a cap. He quickly quite using it as it was a pain to find in all of the weeds and brush in our play field. We didn’t have pine cones handy but crab apples made for some pretty convenient hand grenades as they were plentiful.
I also remember all of the fathers hated their kids when we would play knights. We would make wooden swords and our shields would be the aluminum lid from our parents garbage cans. On garbage day you could tell the houses with kids from the houses without kids as our garbage can lids were all dented and bashed up.
g04922 over 2 years ago
LOL… a VERY bouncy trampoline…
WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago
So – they’re playing like they are Russians?