Posted on 05/24/2019 5:09:44 AM PDT by DFG
Clifford Stump visited the VA Hospital Thursday morning in Dallas.
He got there bright and early at 5:30 a.m. so that he could get a full checkup and a doctor's blessing to take a trip back in time.
The 94-year-old World War II veteran served in the 82nd Airborne and fought in three major battles, including D-Day and the invasion of Normandy. He was a member of a crew in a glider that was towed and released behind enemy lines so he could deliver a cavalry cannon and the Jeep that would pull it into battle.
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There were many D-Days in WW 2. Normandy was huge and deadly and so many brave Americans/Canadians/Brits lost everything.
Dad was in a few invasions in the Pacific. Every pissant Island was an invasion. Some were really awful for the marines/army.
God Bless the men who fought for the allies in WW 2. Our last war fought to WIN.
Tough old guy.
Salute!
BTW, my dad landed on Utah Beach, and I never use the term 'D-Day'.
Forgive me for forgetting the Navy. These guys had it rough. Kamikaze was no joke, neither were submarines.
Nasty action that Overlord. God bless those guys.
I have noticed 82nd AB guys get shorter and shorter with each jump.
My Dad was WWII Navy escorted many ships over the atlantic when the Nazi subs were sinking everything in sight. He was a gunners mate. Then in the pacific he helped shoot at kamikazes.
“D-Day and the glider, it’s something you’ll never ever forget,” he said of the lightly-engineered aircraft. “The shell of that glider just rumbles and rattles. You wonder if it’s ever gonna hold together for you to get to the ground. It was the most scariest thing you could ask for.”
But, if he had the chance, he admits he’d probably climb on board again.
I live in the home of one of those vets.
He was in the 101st Airborne and landed behind enemy lines on D-day in such a glider (Waco’s ? http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/normandy/airborneAssault/waco.html), he parachuted into Holland and was trucked into the Bulge. He and his wife were both childhood friends of my father and a close friend of my wife and I.
When his widow moved into a retirement home, we bought their home.
Leon was a great humble (little) man.
My dad landed at Le Havre, France after Overlord...he was with General George Patton’s Third Army throughout the war...
Most of those brave young men who stormed the beaches at Normandy 75 years ago were only in their twenties, a few even in their late teens. When I see many of today’s generation of young people especially those on college campuses who suffer suffer from perceived microaggressions when they might hear a word contrary to their leftist world view and need safe spaces with coloring books to cope, I fear we might never again see a generation of young people like those who stormed those beaches. Thanks to leftist indoctrination we have created a generation of eunuch pajama boys and screaming feminists in handmaidens robes and pussy hats. Pray God that in our time of need there might be a few young people with the courage and dedication of their grandfathers and great grandfathers who stormed those beaches 75 years ago
A family friend of ours Robert Murphy was one of the Pathfinders from the 82nd. He landed in the middle of a garden in Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
He has a street named for him near the Airborne Museum.
May God bless those remaining and their descendants.
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