Well stated hillbillybear. My father was in Service Company 508 PIR 82nd Airborne Division. He landed in the edge of the water along a causeway. I have taken several trips to Normandy with him and other members of the 508. It is very interesting to be with the veterans who were there and explain the battles. My father is alive and well living in Casa Grande AZ at 93 years of age.
My uncle Mike was on one of those landing crafts that day. He found out 40 years later watching tv that they landed way off coarse. He was with the 4th ID.
May we never forget the brave heroes of the greatest generation living and dead. My wife just returned from Normandy and any talk of D-Day brings tears to her eyes for the 4,500 men (2,500 Americans) who died that first day and all the thousands wounded.
BTW, I haven't heard much about it on the national news.
My uncle and name sake Paul was killed a few months earlier on a beach named ... Anzio. My dad was fighting in a cold place he could not tell anyone where. Later learned it was Attu. He joined the Great Crusade on 1 Jan '45.
The sad thing today? not the loss of all those brave boys... that was the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom
But the sad thing today? We could not do it again.
here it is 69 years later, and we could not save the world again, if we had to.
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My dad was stationed at a base in Louisiana and on leave in New Orleans 69 years ago today. He was transferred from the medical corps to the infintry a few months later. He was in Texas finishing up training when the Germans attacked at the Battle of the Bulge.
He was sent to Europe ASAP which got him there in Jan. 1945. They took his Garand away, painted a red cross on his helmet and made him a medic 2 days after he got off the boat. He spent the rest of the war drivng an ambulance to the front picking up wounded and bringing them to the rear. Dad died 4 months ago, 1 week short of his 90th birthday.
Some photos in honor of "The Greatest Generation"
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My dad was stationed at a base in Louisiana and on leave in New Orleans 69 years ago today. He was transferred from the medical corps to the infintry a few months later. He was in Texas finishing up training when the Germans attacked at the Battle of the Bulge.
He was sent to Europe ASAP which got him there in Jan. 1945. They took his Garand away, painted a red cross on his helmet and made him a medic 2 days after he got off the boat. He spent the rest of the war drivng an ambulance to the front picking up wounded and bringing them to the rear. Dad died 4 months ago, 1 week short of his 90th birthday.
Some photos in honor of "The Greatest Generation"
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing them.
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My dad went through Normandy with the 69th infantry a month and a half after D-day He was a Combat Engineer and part of the outfit that tried to blow up the bridge at Remagen, liberated Buchenwald, and met up with the Russians at the River Elbe on VE day..
The Ludendorf Bridge..after it finally gave up the ghost..
Photos from Captured/killed Germans.
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My dad went through Normandy with the 69th infantry a month and a half after D-day He was a Combat Engineer and part of the outfit that tried to blow up the bridge at Remagen, liberated Buchenwald, and met up with the Russians at the River Elbe on VE day..
The Ludendorf Bridge..after it finally gave up the ghost..
Photos from Captured/killed Germans.
TERRIFIC pictures. Thanks for sharing them.
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