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Offline Eagler

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« on: June 06, 2007, 06:47:09 AM »
to those who fell that morning

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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2007, 07:45:47 AM »
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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2007, 07:58:26 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2007, 07:59:04 AM »
Just starting ploughing two fields this morning, then while at it I recalled that it is the 6th of June. (Should bloody well, my daughter has her 3rd birthday tomorrow at D-Day+1).
Anyway, it's some 50 acres or so, and I shall nickname it "Normandy".
Salutes to the gone, - and living!

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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2007, 08:03:05 AM »
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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2007, 08:04:14 AM »
Item in our electric cooperative magazine reminds us that Bedford, Virginia, lost more men per capita in the D-Day invasion than any other town: 19 of 3,200 population.  

Sixty-three years later, it's estimated that some 1,200 to 1,500 WWII veterans pass away every day.
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2007, 08:12:43 AM »
Iceland had relatively more WW2 losses than the USA as well, but not quite up to the scale of Bedford on that day.
Had a relative that was there on D-Day+1, as well as another one that was at IWO.
Crazy small planet :(
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2007, 10:06:27 AM »
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2007, 10:12:42 AM »
<> to those who went in harms way, the living and those that fell.
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« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2007, 12:44:17 PM »
Tell you what I love about Houston.  It has just about everything.  Including a battleship that was there that day off of Normandy in '44.    Just get in the car, drive about 20 minutes, and I'm standing on the deck of a ship that saw WWI, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Operation Torch, etc, etc.

to all of the D-Day veterans.  Not just the soldies, saillors and airmen, but the machines used during that day.
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« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2007, 03:37:51 PM »
And thank you to all of those brave men, and to the men and women serving today.
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« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2007, 04:53:20 PM »
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