“He only spoke of it one time to the family”.
Seems most of my generation’s dads were WWII vets.
And one thing I’ve noticed is that most vets who saw real action never talked about the war. My dad never, ever talked about the war. To this day I know very little about his time served.
I recall being mystified as a young child at photos of my dad dressed in uniform in north Africa. He was part of the allied invasion of Italy where he was wounded at the battle of Salerno.
Seems the Normandy invasion eclipsed American involvement that proceeded D-Day.
“Seems the Normandy invasion eclipsed American involvement that proceeded D-Day.”
For the masses this is probably true. For those who study though it is just the most publicized. Few seem to know or remember what a horrible slog Italy was. After Patton took Sicily (Montgomery helped of course) and the conduct of the campaign was turned over to Clark there seem to have been a lot of “mistakes”. I can’t name them but Rapido River and Casino are mentioned often by people who were there. Those were the big ones though and if you can’t get the big ones right what does this say for the little ones?