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Title: D-Day
Post by: Eagler on June 06, 2007, 06:47:09 AM

to those who fell that morning

(http://www.daughtersofd-day.com/images/d-day_2.jpg)

Title: D-Day
Post by: DREDIOCK on June 06, 2007, 07:45:47 AM

(http://www.29th.co.uk/photos/dday/dday6.jpg)

Title: D-Day
Post by: storch on June 06, 2007, 07:49:38 AM

Title: D-Day
Post by: Squire on June 06, 2007, 07:58:26 AM

http://members.shaw.ca/junobeach/images/juno-1-0.1-Queens%20Own%20landing%201.jpg

Title: D-Day
Post by: Angus 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!

(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g50000/g59422.jpg)

Title: D-Day
Post by: Masherbrum on June 06, 2007, 08:03:05 AM

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Title: D-Day
Post by: Halo 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.

Title: D-Day
Post by: RedDg on June 06, 2007, 08:10:37 AM

Title: D-Day
Post by: Angus 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 :(

Title: D-Day
Post by: Angus on June 06, 2007, 10:06:27 AM

Sword Beach
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Infantry_waiting_to_move_off_%27Queen_White%)

Title: D-Day
Post by: Maverick on June 06, 2007, 10:12:42 AM

<> to those who went in harms way, the living and those that fell.

Title: D-Day
Post by: DiabloTX 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.

Title: D-Day
Post by: soda72 on June 06, 2007, 01:32:19 PM

Title: D-Day
Post by: DYNAMITE 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.

Title: D-Day
Post by: Denholm on June 06, 2007, 04:53:20 PM

Title: D-Day
Post by: BiGBMAW on June 07, 2007, 06:10:50 PM

thank you to one hell of a tuff generation..

(http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2363/approachingomahalw6.jpg)

Title: D-Day
Post by: PanzerIV on June 08, 2007, 01:02:08 AM

to the brave soldiers who fought on June 6 1944, not just American but British and Canadian also. Without their sacrifice WW2 would have been much longer and difficult for the Allies.

Title: D-Day
Post by: Grayeagle on June 12, 2007, 02:33:12 AM

My Dad went ashore D-Day +3 as fwd radio observer for Patton's 3rd (yanno .. I dont even know what artillery battalion he was part of :(
.. told me of a tank that is still there, in a ditch, with an impromptu bridge built over the top of it.

Said it's still there, bridge an all, when he went back for the 50th anniversary. He checked.

I wish he had lived long enough to see Saving Private Ryan ..I wonder what he would have thought of the opening scenes..
.. we used to enjoy watchin 'Combat' starring Vic Morrow ..I listened when he picked apart what they did wrong .. it wasnt much :)

-GE aka Frank

Title: D-Day
Post by: SteveBailey on June 12, 2007, 02:52:08 AM

I own a medical transport van company in AZ and we  provide transport for hospice patients.  Nary a week goes by where I don't drive an WWII vet on the last ride of his life. I have spent hours with these gents, fighter pilots, bomber pilots, boots on Tarawa, G-canal, Omaha, Iwo... you name it.  I get goosebumps sometimes when  I talk to them and they are always willing to share an anecdote or two.




Steve

Title: D-Day
Post by: storch on June 12, 2007, 06:19:38 AM

GE, patton didn't have the third army until 1 Aug 44.