I did promise in the last post that I'd introduce you to Montgomery. I'll do it later. Because I'd like to talk about my FAILING grades. As all of you know my parents are crazy because they expect me to do so well for EVERYTHING (i.e. all A1s) except Chinese (B4) and Art (any grade as long as it's not a fail). But what do I get? Three A1s, Three A2s, One B3 and two C5s. Which is terrible.


And I seriously don't get the concept of blogging during Infocomm. Shouldn't we learn something that we don't know how to do instead of doing something that we already know how to do? Not that I'm complaining because it's all free time and we'll probably do whatever we want after we finish and after I stop complaining but I STILL DON'T GET why Generation X who is known for their total computer illiteracy is trying to teach Generation Y who is known for their absolute computer supremacy something computer-ish like BLOGGING.


So, anyway, let's talk about Montgomery and my favourite topic of the entire WWII - D-DAY. I know you'll probably fall asleep after reading this post because WWII is just such a bore for all you poor little non-enlightened people. (And yes, my sentences are abnormally long today and I don't know why, I think I'm just having a mild bout of long winded sentences. You should be thankful because I'm not as bad as the boy who wrote an entire composition with only one full stop.) But it's the only thing I know how to ramble about and get my blog posts to well over two hundred words because I've always prided myself on going way over the word limit in writing competitions.


By the way, James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin's birthday was on March 22, four days ago so wish him a happy birthday. He would be a hundred and three years old this year. Unfortunately he died in 1990.


Anyway, Bernard Law Montgomery, or Monty as you all know him (maybe you don't know him or I wouldn't be telling you about him, right?) was this idiotic British General who was in command of the ground troops during D-Day. He's the bloke who came up with Operation Market Garden which ended up in roughly 4/5s of the British 1st Airborne being decimated and because of him Patton couldn't race across Europe resulting in the war ending a year late. You've seen his photo. Now let's talk about D-Day!


D-Day was on the 6th of June 1944. Basically summarised it means "THE INVASION OF NORMANDY BY THE ALLIED FORCES". It's your fault if you don't know where Normandy is or what the Allied Forces are.


The reason why I'm boring you to death with this is because a) I have nothing better to talk about, b) a historical thing is much easier to put up pictures and videos and c) because I like boring you to death. So there.


So anyway let's add photos, people! So that we can be done with this once and for all.


Right. So D-Day had five beaches. Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, Juno beach, Sword beach and Gold beach. Omaha and Utah are for the AMERICANS! 1st and 29th divisions for Omaha and 4th division for Utah. Juno was the Canadaians, Sword and Gold the British. Are you dead of boredom yet? Dying, perhaps? Good, let's go on.

These two pictures show Omaha Beach, although they could be any beach. Yeah. (WOW, that must be one of the shortest sentences in this post!) Omaha Beach was really, really, really, really bloody and suffered roughly 2000+++++++ casualties compared to Utah Beach's puny 200-. Of course if Theo Roosevelt Jr and his gang hadn't been blown off course Utah's casualties would've been a lot higher.


You think you're dead enough now? Yes? No? No? Ok, let's continue.

Let's just watch some footage from the history channel shall we?



I don't know if it'll work but who gives a -ahem- you know what. Anywaythis shows actual footage taken way back in 1944. So be proud.

If we still have to do this I'll talk about Iwo Jima next, or maybe Operation Market Garden or the Battle of the Bulge, but maybe I won't because this blog is probably going to be dead after this so-called competition ends.