{"id":33405,"date":"2023-07-06T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=33405"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:58:32","slug":"band-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=33405","title":{"rendered":"Band Beach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1922,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/oldnfo.org\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/06\\\/tbt-255&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/oldnfo.org\\\/2023\\\/07\\\/06\\\/tbt-255\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Today I learned something new. We&#8217;ve always known there were five beaches on D-Day in Normandy: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, and Juno. However, there was a planned sixth beach called Band that was a contingency to protect the eastern flank from the German shore batteries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim aka Old NFO has more on it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oldnfo.org\/2023\/07\/06\/tbt-255\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-1024x720.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-1024x720.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-768x540.png 768w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-1536x1081.png 1536w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-2048x1441.png 2048w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-640x450.png 640w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-940x661.png 940w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1-1320x929.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned something new. We&#8217;ve always known there were five beaches on D-Day in Normandy: Utah, Omaha, Gold,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6511,185,3175],"class_list":["post-33405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-band-beach","tag-d-day","tag-old-nfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33407,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405\/revisions\/33407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}