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62 posted on 06/06/2014 9:44:16 PM PDT by caww
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Some of the first reports said they had already reached 10 miles inland... When they were actually still stuck on the beach

Maybe some of the parachute guys made it 10 miles I guess...


65 posted on 06/06/2014 9:53:41 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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The yellow sands where the invasion happened:... Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France, where Allied troops first came ashore on June 6, 1944


66 posted on 06/06/2014 9:53:54 PM PDT by caww
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Thank you for posting the photos and info.

We need such heroes now.

And I think there are some like them, they just are not yet in evidence.


69 posted on 06/06/2014 10:01:20 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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