So after the @WeHaveWaysPod on Gold Beach, a question relating to the Sanatorium came up. It got me thinking so I decided to look at the targets designated to Force D, Sword to see exactly what was in the plan for the most eastern landing beach.
Video- IWM ADM 1258
HMS Danae and Dragon both with five 6-inch guns and a 4-inch gun.
Photographs from https://t.co/TLuLXokg0T
HMS Roberts with two 15-inch guns and over 40 anti aircraft guns. Image- IWM FL 3787
HMS Mauritius with twelve 6-inch guns and eight 4-inch guns. Image- IWM A 10614
HMS Warspite with four twin 15-inch guns and fourteen 6-inch guns. Image- IWM A 23975
I have heard two first hand accounts of veterans that passed Warspite firing broadsides, it always remained with them.
Image of HMS Arethusa, Danae and Mauritius IWM A24094
To assist those who haven't looked at timings before H-Hour is the time the landings began, - is before and a + is after, both in minutes.
Video- ADM 671
To be hit at H-40 to H+50 by HMS Frobisher. It would also be bombed during the night twice by Heavy and Medium bombers.
To be hit at H-40 to H+320 by HMS Roberts. It would also be bombed during the night by heavy bombers.
AA guns from this location would also cause issues for planes heading into LZ and DZ during the night.
To be hit at H-40 to H+320 by HMS Ramillies. It would also be bombed during the night by heavy bombers.
AA guns from this location could also trouble planes for the initial drops.
To be hit at H-40 to H+320 by HMS Warspite. It would also be bombed during the night by heavy bombers.
To be hit at H-40 to H+140 by HMS Dragon. The RAF via air spotting to hit up to H+30 by medium bombers or fighter bombers.
*guns actually found at locations may have been different to the intelligence.
With timings, HMS Dragon given a window to fire up till H+140, it was key that naval spotters on the ground with infantry could communicate and give ranging, update on targets and friendly force locations.
To be hit at H-40 to H+50 by HMS Danae. The RAF via air spotting to hit up to H+30 by medium bombers or fighter bombers.
This location just north of Le Port and Benoville was to be neutralised by 6 Airborne Div.
Nothing is clear from the reconnaissance photograph but may have been ATK Guns covering the main road of Ouistreham/Caen.
To be hit at H-40 to H+50 by HMS Arethusa. Heavy Bombers of the RAF were to hit at H-230 to H-220.
This was an objective of 9 Parachute Battalion, 3 Parachute Brigade, 6 Airborne Division.
The actions at the Merville Battery are worthy of its own thread at a later date.
To be hit at H-45 by two fleet destroyers.
RAF heavy day bombing.
Remark- All destroyers at call FOsB when landed.
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I’ve asked Byers to clarify, but as I read this tweet, it seems that Bret Stephens included an unredacted use of the n-word in his column this week to make a point, and the column got spiked—maybe as a result?
Four times. The column used the n-word (in the context of a quote) four times. https://t.co/14vPhQZktB
For context: In 2019, a Times reporter was reprimanded for several incidents of racial insensitivity on a trip with high school students, including one in which he used the n-word in a discussion of racial slurs.
That incident became public late last month, and late last week, after 150 Times employees complained about how it had been handled, the reporter in question resigned.
In the course of all that, the Times' executive editor said that the paper does not "tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” This was the quote that Bret Stephens was pushing back against in his column. (Which, again, was deep-sixed by the paper.)
Stephens goes on in his column (which never saw light of day) to cite famous Lee Atwater quote that uses racial slur, and which NYT has cited \u201cat least seven times.\u201d
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 11, 2021
"Is this now supposed to be a scandal?\u201d he asks.
...
Four times. The column used the n-word (in the context of a quote) four times. https://t.co/14vPhQZktB
That is correct. In his draft he quotes Atwater using the word (4 times) and he does not redact it.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 11, 2021
For context: In 2019, a Times reporter was reprimanded for several incidents of racial insensitivity on a trip with high school students, including one in which he used the n-word in a discussion of racial slurs.
That incident became public late last month, and late last week, after 150 Times employees complained about how it had been handled, the reporter in question resigned.
In the course of all that, the Times' executive editor said that the paper does not "tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” This was the quote that Bret Stephens was pushing back against in his column. (Which, again, was deep-sixed by the paper.)
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