58th Anniversary of D-Day

[Warthog]

June 6th, 1944.

Was watching History Channel the other night...between 30min and an hour, all beaches but Omaha were taken....Omaha took 1/2 a day.

Hitler's mighty Atlantic wall stopped the Allied armies for less than 1/2 a day. Quite possibly the greatest blunder in the entire war

*salutes all the vets who served during that period*

Warthog

[Thud]

*salutes all the vets who served during that period*

I'll second that....there's fewer and fewer of them every day.

[kenyg]

God bless them all.

[osprey4]

Hard to believe the heroism of the men that went ashore that day.

I'm currently reading "The Greatest Generation" and I highly recommend it. You can read it in bits and pieces, if you're not the long reading type.

John

[caddmannq]

It was right after D-Day that my dad joined the Navy. He lied about his age to get in, as he was over a year too young. Both his older brother & older cousin had joined the Army. The Army didn't believe dad was old enough, and sent him packing, but evidently the Navy did. They send him off on a supply convoy to the South Pacific.

While supplying another ship, their ship took a shell, and a bunch of guys went into the sea. Something took a chunk out of his leg as he went down, and they sent him home with a purple heart, at the ripe old age of 16 1/2 years old.

Both his brother and cousin made it back from Europe OK, but they don't like to talk about it. It must have been pretty gruesome where they were.

[osprey4]

By the way, found this site:
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/d-day/3.html

They have several audio clips of first hand accounts of men who landed on D-Day. Pretty riveting.

John

Brave Man, your Dad, Cadd.