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Forecasting D-Day From Above
Image Credit: Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Office of Public and International Affairs
It was the raw courage of the more than 160,000 Allied troops who stormed an 80-kilometer (50-mile) stretch of heavily fortified beaches in Normandy, France, that made victory on D-Day possible. But without the sound advice of meteorologists and geologists working behind the scenes, one of the most consequential battles in human history could have gone quite differently.
As D-Day neared, the American meteorologists predicted fair weather on June 5 and pushed for invasion, based on a forecasting method that gave great weight to historical weather conditions for a given date and location. The British forecasters took a different approach, focusing instead on analyzing measurements of temperature, pressure, and humidity to try to map out weather fronts. Unlike the Americans, the British teams predicted low clouds and stormy weather on June 5. At the last minute, Captain James Martin Stagg, the highest ranking of the meteorologists, convinced Eisenhower to postpone the invasion.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Meanwhile, on the other side of the English Channel, German meteorologists had come to the same conclusion—and then some. Their forecasters had predicted that gale-force winds would arrive on June 5 and persist until mid-June. The Germans were so confident that the Allies would not dare attack that they allowed many soldiers to leave their posts on the beaches and take part in war games in Rennes, France. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel felt comfortable enough to return to Germany to deliver a pair of shoes to his wife as a birthday present.
Image Credit: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. ca. 1974-5/15/1984
When the first paratroopers were dropped behind enemy lines around midnight and the first wave of Allied boats began to swarm the beaches at dawn on June 6, the weather was still far from ideal. Cloud cover meant many paratroopers ended up in the wrong locations, and rough seas and high winds made the task of landing boats and unloading tanks a terrible challenge. But by noon the skies cleared, just as the Allied meteorologists had predicted. The Germans, meanwhile, had been caught off guard. That day the Allies endured thousands of causalities, but they established a toehold in France that they would never give up.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
An enormous amount of scientific expertise went into even the most unscientific of tasks, like rolling a tank up the Normandy beaches. Prior to the invasion, Allied military planners studied nearly one million aerial photographs of the shores of Normandy to find the best landing sites. The aerial photographs would have looked something like the Landsat 8 images shown above. Acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on July 15, 2018, these image offer a top-down view of the sandy Normandy beaches that were center stage on D-Day.
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Grazing sheep on saltbush in front of the French landmark the Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy
Photo by Vutheara Kham
Today is June 6th. On this day, in 1944, 156,000 allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in Nazi occupied France. 10,000 of these soldiers were counted as casualties by the end of the fighting. The troops consisted of American, British, and Canadian forces. The soldiers attacked at 5 beaches: Utah and Omaha by the Americans, and Gold, Juno, and Sword by the British and Canadians. All five beaches were linked by the 12th. By then, the liberation of France and all of Europe had begun.
I like this...like a lot! It's cute!
headcanon that James Vega knows all disney songs ever. Literally all of them, he will challenge you to a duel and he will win.
he puts on his disney station while he’s working out and just goes at it, and any poor sap who comes down to the shuttle bay gets accosted/serenaded.
Steve, on the other hand, did not have every disney song ever memorized, but by the time they got to Sur’kesh, he felt like had a pretty good handle on it.
(strangled sobs)
We are travelers constantly moving forward and looking back. Alone and as one.
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To be given the possibility to experience some games for the first time again. I remember staying up until 4 in the morning with Mass Effect and listening to the credits song after finishing the first game... 😭
if i ever lose my memory give me a controller, pop mass effect in, and turn off the lights so i can experience the trilogy for the first time again
Mass Effect Harem Fanfic: Harem x reader: Harem x reader: Harem and relationships
Miranda Lawson (Futanari/G!P):
Mass Effect Harem Fanfic: Harem x reader
Synopsis: The year is 2183, and humanity has traversed far into the galaxy and it has be 26 years have passed since humans encountered alliens that made them realize they aren't alone, plus the fact they discovered the Mass Relays which they discovered and used to travel the galaxy, create colonies and etc.
Fast forward after the First Contact War against the Turians, humanity being accepted by the council races and all that.
Everything seems peaceful till the universe becomes threatened by the Geth, Collectors and Reapers and every bad guy in this crazy galaxy.
So, it's up to Lieutenant Commander Kairo Shepherd and Lieutenant Commander Y/n L/n to save the day from these threats.
And Y/n has to deal with the threat of a ship of people who are very in love with her, and I mean in love with her.
Then there's Y/n's bio:
Y/N: Your Name
M/N: Middle Name
L/N: Last Name
E/C: Eye Color (Changes to indigo and purple when biotic powers are in use).
Age: 29
Class: Vanguard:
Class description: Basically if a biotic and soldier class had a baby, combining the strengths and abilities of a both classes. Vanguards are the type of classes that use their biotics to more combat scenarios.
Rank/ Position: Lieutenant Commander, Council Spectre and secondary captain/first mate of the Normandy.
Background: Was born into a Spacer family...
Having spent most of her life on space ships and stations, moving from place to place with her family. She has two older siblings, Jacob Drew L/n as the eldest and Gina Serena L/n as the middle child.
From a young age, Y/n developed biotic abilities at birth and was the third and youngest amongst her family since her siblings had before her.
This was due to their mother experiencing Element Zero exposure while each of her children individually were exposed in-utero.
During this time, Y/n grew up alongside her childhood friend/ future soldier in arms, Kairo Shepherd.
Both became good friends due to their shared backgrounds, biotic abilities, and...
Their families knowing each other. Y/n would eventually grow up, enlist at the Alliance at the age of 18, then join the N7 program and become one of it's top-tier candidates and one of the alliance's best biotics that she is known and feared by many while worshipped and reverred by others.
Then she and Shepherd would take part in the Akuze mission which ended up in the death of their entire unit. This scarred Y/n so much that she vowed to never let anyone she cared for die, ever again.
Now, she and Shepherd are here, saving the galaxy from an ancient threat: The Reapers.
Now then, let's move forward to her personality and other things
Personality: Y/n is known to be brave, strong, great-willed and heroic person. She is also kind, loving, caring, warm, sympathetic, nurturing and sweet.
And a bit introverted and shy in large crowds.
Y/n is basically a model soldier and person, but don't let that fool you, cause that's just one side of her.
The other is shown on the battlefield or a firefight where she is cold, ruthless, a tiny bit sociopathic and killer efficient.
Likes and Dislikes :
Likes: Guns and other weapons, modifying her arsenal, her harem, the Normandy, the crew, music.
Ice cream, pizza, generally eating food and fashion.
Dislikes: The Reapers, Saren, the Collectors, Cerberus, losing people she cares for, the council doubting her and Shepherd, not being able to save her former unit on Akuze, Thrasher Maws, Shepherd's terrible driving skills, being alone, isolation, disappointing those she loves, and being weak and pathetic.
I've also been thinking of doing a mass effect fanfic where the reader is a vanguard and has a harem. Also the girl on the left who isn't femshep is just some character I found on the internet, plus I initially thought of having the Dark hair girl in the picture be a female version of Jin-Woo but I'm scratching that entirely.
