D-Day Normandy

[Dogovich]

There not even anything on the Historical Message Board about it. Not even the usual, cynical, conspiracy theory type hyperbole that one has come to expect from some of our more "intellectual" type armchair generals. How odd. Here in the middle of "God's Country" i.e. Central Oklahoma (where the wind comes blowing down the plain) we had a big three day D-Day commemorative miniature battle event during 2-4 June. Friday night saw the airdrops with tons of US and Brit airborne types dropping in the put some scare into the krauts and jerries. I was on the Jerry side that night and was proud to say I was one of the last two German players driven off the game table. Saturday, 3 June saw about 18 of us fighting each other on the beaches. My Brits were hitting Sword and running into stiff resistance from ol'Jerry while the Americans on Omaha were taking quite a pasting until they finally managed to get off the beach. Was a good time. I wasn't there for the Sunday battle, but it was intended that to represent the "push inland." Lots of bloody fighting and hundreds of little lead/pewter 15mm figures and vehicles were sacrificed on both sides. We even had t-shirts and plenty of historical, brainy discussion of the events surrending the historical landings. What a fight! So what did we do on the 62nd Anniversary of D-Day? We dug in behind the seawall and waited til the tanks and arty took out the bunkers and pillboxes that's what we did. Oh yeah, also ate Chinese food. Anything like that happening in your neighborhoods?