Amherst County D-Day veteran Bob Sales dies at 89 [Omaha Beach Survivor]

The Lynchburg News & Advance ^ | February 23, 2015 | The Lynchburg News & Advance

[Timber Rattler]

Robert Luther "Bob" Sales Sr. enlisted in the National Guard at the age of 15, lying his way into the service. It was 1941, before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

“My father told my mother, ‘don’t worry, because he won't last a week,’ but I lasted five and a half years, won many decorations, killed a lot of Germans, done a lot of things,” he had said in a 2011 interview with The News & Advance recorded in his Madison Heights home.

Sales, an Amherst County native who landed in France on D-Day at the age of 18 and then fought his way across Western Europe, died Monday. He was 89 years old.

[Timber Rattler]

Very few of these real men left.

[headstamp 2]

Rest in Peace soldier. Your work is done.

Thank God for men like this.

[jmacusa]

29 men killed in a landing craft. My God, that's inconceivable but that was how it was. God bless you Mr. Sales. Thank you for my freedom.

[rfreedom4u]

Thank God that men such as Mr. Sales existed. We need more like him.

[BlueNgold]

Godspeed

[Nailbiter]

ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.