Posted on 06/05/2024 11:30:08 AM PDT by DFG
What a great read.
D-Day on Sword Beach. Saw some of his men get their head blown off!
Seconded from The Brigade of Guards to The Phantom Regiment. On the days following June 6th., they rode motorcycles around the countryside, reporting troop positions.
Came home with severe PTSD...was never the same.
Lest we forget....this man and thousand like him.
Shameless plug time. If you are ever in St. Lucie County, Fl. Visit, The National Navy SEAL Museum.
https://www.navysealmuseum.org/fort-pierce
Fort Pierce is where training for DDay was done.
Excellent book: “Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France” by James Holland. 650 pages.
Thank you for your service.
I feel very fortunate to have been able to visit the D-Day Landing Beaches back in 2006. It was the only reason I went to Paris, so I could book a bus tour for the day.
Joe's uncle was eaten by German zombie soldiers on Omaha Beach as soon as he made it to shore.
“And he never got a dinner.”
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I see what you did there! Good one!
On that day, my father was riding in the top turret of a B17 while bombing the beaches. Unfortunately for the landing, the bombs fell too far inland. Fortunately for the beachhead, the bombs held back German reinforcements.
As Stephen Ambrose wrote, the allies succeeded on D-Day because for everything that went wrong, something else went right.
Wonder how that compared to his salary for his first year playing Scotty on Star Trek 21 years later
Tremendous slap in the face to all those who involved in the D-Day operation especially those who survived, and apparently to you only the masculine males died. There is no less bravery today than there was 80 years ago on and above those beaches. You live and thrive in freedom by those who both lived and died there and you have the absolute gall to post your comment. I bet you didn't know that the Air Corps actually suffered the highest casualty rate during that operation. Now piss off.
I wonder what the over under is regarding biden mentioning Beau. We shall soon see.
Thanks for posting that. Watched it last year: found it to be superbly done, as is their weekly series. This year, think I’ll hang out with Wayne/Burton/Mitchum.
Phenomenal 24 hours of video reporting. Intense and exact— the desperateness of the invasion, the potential for failure, and the arrogance of hitler and his toady staff. Rommel knew- no one listened to him, and then, they killed him.
Poor zombies that is a rough chew.
No No No, not me - I was poking fun at Biden since he says he’s been to all the places and done all the things he says he did.
At today’s DDay75 President Trump read from FDR’s “Mighty Endeavor” WWII prayer – originally read on the radio to the Nation on the evening of June 6, 1944 while Allied troops were fighting on the beaches of Normandy.
At roughly 3:30 PM EST the Paratroopers took off (9:30 PM UK Time) for the coast of Normandy. Each of 20 C-47s carried TEN US 82nd Airborne Division or TEN US 101st Airborne Division elite Paratroopers. Oxfordshire & Buckingham Light Infantry took off at 10:46PM in wooden/canvas gliders towed by Halifax Bombers toward the Caen Canal and Orne River and the Pegasus & Horsa bridges there- 372 miles in gliders.
For a better than 2 hour flight across the Channel to parachute into the landing zones/attack zones that were to be assaulted- and mark them. Arriving at 12 midnite (6:00 PM EST US-80 Years Ago) to 2AM Normandy time scattered behind the intended beachheads.. Incredible. The British gliders arrived at 12:16 AM (6:16PM 80 years ago EST).
Humbling to think and to remember. God Bless these Brave Soldiers.
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It may have been a great strategy in as much as the enemy would think it an unlikely one.
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