Status Report (July 5, 2012)

Had a great 4th of July celebration in Boston with my family. Did some great exploring and enjoyed the awesome fireworks in the rain, which actually made it more fun.

A view of the South End. Come to find out, my grandfather actually designed one of the hotels down around there (a majority of my family is from the Boston area, including me). 

Me at the Reflection Pool at the Christian Church of Science, probably doing some... you know... reflecting...

Anyway, I should be ordering a copy of Force on Force rather soon. I'll just have to read it and maybe even review it!
Stay tuned!

68 years ago today...

It was exactly 68 years ago today that the greatest invasion in man's history was carried out.
The people who took part in it deserve some good recognition.
Operation Overlord was one of the biggest invasion forces in history, and it was also the biggest amphibious operation in history.

Paratroopers were dropped 6 hours ahead of the seaborne troops (seen in this picture) to clear bunkers behind Utah Beach (this is the beach in the photograph). A funny thing about Utah Beach is that the troops landing there actually landed in the wrong location!

The Canadians also landed on Juno Beach. The Canucks actually pushed further inland that day than any other army taking part in the invasion!

The British landed on Sword Beach.

Omaha Beach was a tough nut to crack. It was taken by the Americans and it saw the heaviest casualties out of the 5 beaches.

Gold Beach was also taken by the British.

Pointe Du Hoc was tricky because of it's cliffs.

About 200,000 American, Canadian, British, Polish, French, Australian and New Zealand men died that day along with 200,000 Germans as well. Let them never be forgotten.
Also, while we're on the subject of WWII, I ordered a Flames of War Late War Strelkovy Platoon, which should be along either today or tomorrow.
Stay tuned!

Last Night I had the strangest dream...

Today is Remembrance Day, which is a time for wearing that good ol' artificial poppy around remembering the brave men that died in the fields of Flanders.
I have a video for you guys to watch, an old anti-war tune. Enjoy!

Basement productivity at it's finest

Happy Halloween!!! So yes, it's Halloween, dress up in your spooky costumes, go trick-o-treating with the kids, pass out goodies, sit at home and veg while eating candy and watching scary movies or go about your day like I did.

With the recent Nor-Easter (as they're called here), I've found myself with extra time on my hands, trapped in the house. So I've gotten around to some minor upkeep around the office.

Here's the old office. Yes, I do have a poster to a movie that I didn't like very much. What? It was on sale...

I made my own turf mat, replacing the old tiles. I basically just took some brown construction paper and some modelling flock followed by tonnes of glue. I then stapled it down to the table.

I began working on the new moderns. However, I'm a little bit short on primer, so I sprayed what I could out of the can onto the miniatures and found that I could only completely cover 3 total. I haven't yet decided who to assign the British and the Americans to. I'm debating whether or not to assign the British in this set to the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (I like the Irish Regiments and the Welsh Regiments in particular) and the Americans to the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment. I tampered with painting them a desert camo, but I like woodland camo.

Here's the British section leader.

And the 2 yanks.

So have a fun and relatively safe Halloween!!!

It's been 10 years...

It's been a long 10 years for America, and the world for that matter. I can't quite remember where I was that day, because it was so long ago. Since it's Patriot Day here in the states, I thought I might just put on a post about the day that changed history.
Lest We Forget September 11, 2001.