The average age of a soldier was 22-year-old; college-aged men who stormed the beaches of Germany under heavy fire, witnessing absolute hell as they pushed forward.
Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead among the ground forces and additional 16,714 deaths among the Allied air forces.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to investigate whether or not Russia was involved in Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack in Syria. Defense officials are not currently aware of any Russian involvement in the attack, which killed 72 and injured potentially hundreds more. However, a Russian-made drone was…
By Thomas Phippen Three British companies — Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems — are teaming up with American Liteye Systems, Inc. to demo the technology at undisclosed airports in the U.S., according to a press release from the FAA. “Government and industry share responsibility for keeping the skies safe,” Senior Advisor on UAS…
Blake Neff The U.S. Navy is taking fire for commissioning a ship as the USS Jackson, with activists claiming it wrongly commemorates the legacy of a racist slaveowner. The new USS Jackson, the third ship to bear the name, is a littoral combat ship (LCS) — a smaller vessel intended for operations in shallow water. The ship…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Islamic State leaders have retreated from their de facto capital in Raqqa, leaving their men behind to die as U.S.-backed forces close in on the Syrian city. The ISIS leaders are planning to continue their fight in other friendly areas in Iraq and Syria, a defense official…
Russ Read Islamic State religious leaders ordered all children born with Down syndrome to be executed immediately, reports Iraqi activist group Mosul Eye. Unconfirmed reports claim ISIS Sharia judges have made a fatwa (religious decree or order) instructing ISIS fighters to murder “newborn babies with Down’s Syndrome or congenital deformities and disabled children.” The order allegedly came…
Surviving Warriors Talk about Their 13 Hours in Benghazi During Attack by Joey Clark The word “Benghazi” has for better or worse become a political symbol of either (1) gross negligence and lack of wisdom on the part of executive branch leaders or (2) a cooked-up, right-wing, partisan witch hunt meant to skewer a former…
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