Today's Trivia

[j-c-c-62]

I'm old enough to be eligible for collecting SS, and today I learned, TV Soap operas are so named because of their early and long sponsorship by Procter and Gamble, a major player in the soap industry.

Now I feel smarter.

 

[RTDaddy]

You stay at a Holiday Inn last night?

 

[33 IMP]

Today is the 81st anniversary of the first landings on D-day. (By paratroopers the night before the landing craft arrived!)


And the 83rd anniversary of the last day of the battle of Midway.
Two Japanese heavy cruisers collided, the Mogami and the Mikuma. Mikuma was sunk by American aircraft (I believe it was actually scuttled/torpedoed by the Japanese).

Interesting fact: the Mogami later in the war launched the most effective torpedo salvo in history, sinking five transports with six torpedoes fired.
Unfortunately they were Japanese transports.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Really needed to know about soap operas.

 

[YY1]

All to sell soap to your stay at home wife.

 

[j-c-c-62]

Today is the 81st anniversary of the first landings on D-day. (By paratroopers the night before the landing craft arrived!)


And the 83rd anniversary of the last day of the battle of Midway.

In 2006, my teenage son and I took an early morning car Ferry from Southhampton and arrived in Normandy, Caen France, trying to mimic the invasion. We explored the D Day sites for 5 days, We spent our first night in Bayeu, France the first city the Allies occupied in the invasion. It was fascinating. There are of course many more iconic historical pictures that are widely shared, but this one below I took of a German gun mount bunker impressed me as it shows well IMO the perspective of how much our troops were in the crosshairs. It also shows how the bunkers were angled to mitigate offshore incoming allied naval counter fire, and you can still see the visible battle damage on the left side of the opening they received, nevertheless. Later in the week we stumbled upon a weekly? invasion re enactment by the locals. It hadn't started yet and the locals were "arguing" about who would get to play the Americans during the "invasion". It was a humbling and proud moment, not earned by me.