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Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now
theatlantic.com ^
| June 5, 2014
Posted on 06/05/2014 1:55:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Photos and link at the link
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posted on
06/05/2014 1:55:04 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/05/2014 2:07:13 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: BenLurkin
Pretty interesting! Gotta like the crossfade feature.
I especially liked #5 and #14...stuff in quite the same position.
These photos also tell you something about the French economy. We can long for “the old days” all we want, but the fact of the matter, stuff moves very, very slowly there.
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posted on
06/05/2014 2:07:30 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: BenLurkin
Amazing....
It's been 70 years and the sea level appears to be at the same level!
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posted on
06/05/2014 2:39:39 PM PDT
by
NELSON111
To: BenLurkin
Thank you for posting. Enjoyed looking at real heroes...
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posted on
06/05/2014 3:07:36 PM PDT
by
Texas56
To: BenLurkin
Thank YOU!!!
Extraordinary
To: BenLurkin; skinkinthegrass; onedoug; 2ndDivisionVet; ConorMacNessa; zot; NKP_Vet; PROCON; ...
B-L, Thank you for posting this link
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posted on
06/05/2014 3:16:36 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: BenLurkin
I visited Normandy in June of 1986. I remember walking down the cliff from the American Cemetery and out to the low water line and looking back at the several hundred yards of open beach and thought: “My God, how did they have the courage to cross this beach?”
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posted on
06/05/2014 3:20:01 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/05/2014 3:31:53 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: BenLurkin
Very cool!! Thanks for sharing.
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posted on
06/05/2014 3:46:42 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: GreyFriar
I was fortunate to have visited Normandy in 2006. The only reason I went to Paris was to take the full-day tour.
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posted on
06/05/2014 3:49:37 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: BenLurkin
Photo #16 is a close family friend (wearing the number 23 on his chest) talking to Ike.
Uncle John survived D Day and went on to fight in several other engagements.
After the war he lived the rest of his life in Nutley, NJ.
He died about 4 years ago and is buried in Burlington County, NJ.
Before he died he gave my sister a large colored poster of that photography which hangs in her home.
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posted on
06/05/2014 4:00:48 PM PDT
by
mware
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/05/2014 4:05:34 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: mware
I’ve always wondered what Eisenhower was telling them.
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posted on
06/05/2014 4:14:17 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Wow. Fascinating pictures, thanks for posting. Number 5 really got to me.
To: BenLurkin
Uncle John was in Easy Company, but from the 502, not 506 (BOB unit)
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posted on
06/05/2014 4:18:28 PM PDT
by
mware
To: GreyFriar
Thanks for the ping. Very good! I had not seen most of these pictures before. And I like the cross-fade feature.
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posted on
06/05/2014 4:49:11 PM PDT
by
zot
To: mware
Cool! When I was a kid and looking at that picture in a book, my father told me most of those guys probably didn't make it. I'm glad that your "Uncle John" did!
I've always wondered about the older balding guy being helped ashore in #11. Who was he? Was he hit bad, did he survive, etc...
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posted on
06/05/2014 5:22:20 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: GreyFriar
Thank God for our heroes!
To: BenLurkin
Number 11 is my favorite.
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