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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: oakranger on June 05, 2009, 11:28:31 AM
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A day early but want to :salute to all WWII veterans of Americans, Brits, Canadians, French, Germans and any other contry that fought in Normandy.
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"Don't worry chaps you'll only have to do this once.
I'll have to come back and do a dozen takes with Erroyl Flynn!"
David Niven rallying his platoon before landing on gold beach.
LTC James Rudder CO of Ranger Force (2nd Bn(-) & 5th Bn) assaulting at Pointe-du-Hoc.
In 1954, he revisited the site with his teenage son and a journalist from Collier's magazine. Rudder looked at the Pointe and said,"Will you tell me how we did this? Anybody would be a fool to try this. It was crazy then, and it's crazy now."
"They're fattening us up for the kill"
Soldiers quote about the much improved food they received just prior leaving England to land at Normandy
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Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eves of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe; and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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also happy birthday to my dog benny :D, he was born on june 6th, we were going to name him Ike but I read somewhere its better to use a two sylable name, for training purposes.
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"Hit the dirt boys!"
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remind me of the trip we made with squadies last year :
For those not having seen the photos :
http://picasaweb.google.fr/fdejager
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:salute DDay Vets.
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Here is a god vid I found from liveleak for D-Day. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2c4_1241016815
Man, I can't imagine what it would be like to charge the beach knowing you will die. Maybe excepting the fact that you're going to die and just charge?
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Thank you allied Vets and those forever on duty.
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To all of those who served the cause of freedom in all theaters of that great and terrible war.
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In '99 I was selected to be one of a few soldiers sent to Normandy to represent my unit for the 55th anniversary ceremony. I have quite a few pics like straffo's, but no scanner to upload the pics (no digital camera back then). All I can say, as a soldier and as an American, is that the beach at Normandy is a life changing experience. I was awed at the cemetary, beautiful and sadly amazing. Pointe-du-hoc humbles even the most badass of today's Rangers. The beach, if you stare at it long enough from above and at the shoreline, you can almost relive it in your mind, almost hear it. There's enough structures still around to help out with the mental picture. If any of you high rollers ever goes to Europe, go there, not Paris or London or Rome, etc. Go to Normandy. You will never look at your country the same again.
Hooah
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-BigBOBCH
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I salute all veterans who landed on foreign soil everywhere to preserve freedom.
From Operation Torch, Sicily, Anzio, Tarawa, Okinawa and many many more during WWII.
My Father who is 87 and atm in a rehab facility trying to regain his health fought in North Africa and found himself
in landing craft at Sicily and then again at Anzio. Many landings were accomplished before D-Day with the same Peril that
our D-Day Heros faced. Salute to all who faced that peril with strength, resolve, dignity and heroism.
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:salute To me its ONE of the most important battles of the war. thanks to all those that fought hard, gave their lives, and those that continued on to the end, for fighting as hard as you did.
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Remember those who gave thier lives 67 years ago today in the fight for freedom on the sands of the beaches of a far away foreign land
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