The FReeper Foxhole Remembers D-Day On Omaha Beach (6/6/1944)

Happy Anniversary SAMWolf

Foxhole Readers, may I have your attention please!
I apologize for interupting another wonderful thread by SAM but he would never mention it, so I will!

Today is The FReeper Foxhole's 6th month anniversary.

SAMWolf has worked tirelessly on 99.99% of all the threads over the last six months, day in and day out.
I wanted to take a moment to thank him for all his hard work and dedication in bringing the Foxhole Readers these great threads!
And we can't forget the wonderful pictures he brings to the threads each day!

Thank you SAM, I know how much work it is and I'm impressed and amazed.

I am so happy you've recently invited me to play a small part in the Foxhole. I hope I am able to give you a small break even though I know you love your work here and never complain.

Now that I've completely embarrassed you, I will go hide in the corner. :)

Here's to six more months and many,many years at least. lol.

SAM, by my count, you've put together 175 threads over the past six months! Wow!
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Rolling Thunder®, Inc. - June 5th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John Waldron and The Battle of Midway (6/4 /1942) - June 4th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) - June 3rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Vera Cruz to Mexico City (1847-1848) - June 1st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Francis Marion - The Swamp Fox - May 31st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Task Unit Taffy 3 - (10/25/1944) - May 30 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hollywood's Army - (1942-1945) - May 29th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Kiffin Rockwell & Lafayette Escadrille ( 1916-1918) - May 28th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle for Crete (May 1941) - May 27th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Easter Offensive - Vietnam Spring 1972 - May 25th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General of the Army Omar Bradley - May 24th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Fighting the Kamikazes (1944-1945) - May 23rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Guilford Courthouse (3/15/ 1781) - May 22nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Bud Farrell - 19th Bomb Group Korea (1952)- May 21st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle for Torpedo Junction (1942) - May 20th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Quantrill's Raid (8/21/1863) - May 18th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Philip Sheridan - May 17th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-1968)- My 16th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bombing of Dresden (Feb.13-15,1945) - May 15th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Captain Ken Pope - Liberation of Kuwait (2 /27/91) - May 14th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Cowpens (1/17/1781) - May 13 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 - May 11th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General George C. Marshall - May 10th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Robert Frank and VE-Day (5/8/1945) - May 9 th, 1945
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Lt. John Powers and Coral Sea (7-8 May, 1942) - May, 8th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Robert James Dicken, C.S.M. - USS SIMS (5/ 7/1942) - May 7th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Fallen Timbers (1791-1794) - May 6th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Chancellorsville (May-1863) - May 4th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Colonel John Singleton Mosby - May 3rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Brandywine (9/11/1777) - May 2nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Navy Blimps (1940-1945) - May 1st,2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Chris Woods - Frequent Wind - Saigon(4/30/ 75) - Apr. 30th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Tiger - Slapton Sands (4/28/1944 )- Apr. 29th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Torch - Casablanca (Nov-1942) - Apr. 27th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Geronimo - Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns") - April 26th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle for Peleliu (Sep-1944) - April 25th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Eagle Claw (4/24/1980) - Apr. 24 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Sam Davis - Confederate Hero (Nov-1863) - Apr. 23rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle of Imjin River/Kapyong (4/22/51) - April 22nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Lake Erie (9/10/1813)- April 21st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Liberation of Paris (Aug. 1944) - Apr. 20th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Fleet Admiral William (Bull) Halsey, Jr. USN - Apr. 19th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Doolittle Raid (4/18/1942) - Apr. 18th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Apr-1961) - Apr. 17th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Grierson's Raid (Apr-May 1863) - Apr. 16th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers When Hollywood Went to War (1942-1945) - Apr. 15th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Raid on Libya (4/14/1986) - Apr. 14th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Mexican Punitive Expedition (1916-1917) - Apr. 13th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz - Apr. 12th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Andrew's Raid -Locomotive Chase (4/12/ 1862) - Apr. 11th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Just Cause - Panama (Dec-1989) - Apr. 10th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Pte Leo Kelly - Vimy Ridge (Apr-1917) - Apr. 9th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Naval Battle of Santiago Bay (7/3/1898) - Apr. 8th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Chosin Reservoir, Korea (Nov-Dec,1950) - Apr. 7th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Marines and The Boxer Rebellion (1900) - Apr. 6th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart - Apr. 5th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Heartbreak Ridge - Korea (Oct-1951) - April, 4th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Forts Henry and Donelson (Feb-1862) - April, 3rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Leo J. Ghirardi - Remagen Bridge (3/7/1945) - Apr. 2nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Invasion of Okinawa (4/1/1945)- Apr. 01, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Seals(and Dolphins) at War (1959-2003) - Mar. 31st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bonus Army of 1932 - Mar. 30th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles William Tecumseh Sherman - Mar. 29th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Khafji (Jan-1991) - Mar. 28 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Invasion Of Southern France (Aug-1944) - Mar. 27th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Maj. Edwin Simmons - Battle for Seoul (Sep -1950) - Mar. 26th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Canine Marine Raiders (1943-45) - Mar. 25th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The US Army Camel Corps - Mar. 24th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Philippine American War (1899-1914) - Mar. 23rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington - Mar. 22nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Strategic Bombing of Japan - Mar. 21st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Seabees on Guadalcanal - Mar. 20th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John Marshall Alley - Union Soldier - Mar. 19th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Merrill's Marauders - Mar. 18th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Irish Brigade - Mar. 17th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - Mar. 16th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Casimir Pulaski - Mar. 15th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Claire Chennault & "The Flying Tigers" - Mar. 14th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Wounded Knee Massacre - 1890 - Mar. 13 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Sam R. Watkins, Confederate Soldier - Mar. 12th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The American Expeditionary Force to Siberia - Mar. 11th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of 73 EASTING - 1991 - Mar. 10 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Monitor and The Merrimac - Mar. 9th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles George S. Patton Jr. - Mar. 8th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Ripper - Korea, 1951 - Mar. 7th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Fall of the Alamo - Mar. 6th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Sgt Benjamin Franklin Scribner - Warrior Wednesday - Mar. 5th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of The Bismarck Sea - 1943 - Mar. 4th, 1943
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Baltimore - 1814 - Mar. 3rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The CSS Hunley - Mar. 2nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Asiatic Fleet and the USS Edsall - Mar. 1, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Barbary War - Feb. 28th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers "Harlem's HellFighters" 369th Infantry - Feb. 27th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Frank P. DeNardo and U-505 - Warrior Wednesday - Feb. 26th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Army Rangers - Feb 25th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hamburger Hill - Feb. 24th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Los Banos Raid - 1945 - Feb. 23rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles George Washington - Feb. 22nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The 9th and 10th Cavalry - Feb. 21st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bataan Death March - Feb 20th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Iwo Jima - Feb. 19th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Siege of Port Hudson - 1863 - Feb. 18 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The War in the Aleutians - Feb 17th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The Clear Lake, Wi. All Veterans Memorial - Feb. 16th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Woman in the Military - Feb. 15th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle at Sidi Bou Zid - Kasserine Pass Feb. 14th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Lake Champlain - 1775 - Feb. 13th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers William Churchill Houston - Warrior Wednesday - Feb. 12th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Saratoga Campaign - 1777 - Feb. 11th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Waal River Crossing - Sep. 20th, 1944 - Feb. 10th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The 100th Battalion/442nd RCT - Feb. 9th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The VVA (Vietnam Veterans of America) - Feb. 8th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle of Shiloh - Feb. 7th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Cantigny - May, 28, 1918 - Feb. 6th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The USS Juneau and the Sullivan Brothers - Feb. 5th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cactus Air Force - Guadalcanal - Feb. 4th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the First Special Service Force - Feb. 3rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Military Police / Tet 1968 - Feb. 2nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The American Legion - Feb. 1st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Task Force Smith - Korea 1950 - Jan. 31st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Tet 1968 - Jan 30th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Ruel Nathan Lawrence - Warrior Wednesday - Jan. 29th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Bunker Hill - Jan. 28th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Ploesti Raid - Aug. 1, 1943 - Jan. 27 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Urgent Fury - Grenada - Jan. 26 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Looks at PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) - Jan. 25th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Navy Divers - Jan. 24th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Anzio - 1944 - Jan. 23rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Clifford Olds - Warrior Wednesday - Jan. 22nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Manila Bay - Jan. 21st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Nashville - 1864 - Jan. 20th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Desert Storm - The Air War - Jan. 19th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) - Jan. 18th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers "Black Thursday" Schweinfurt, 1943 - Jan. 17th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Task Force Baum - The Hammelburg Raid - Jan. 16th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John J. Briol - Warrior Wednesday - Jan. 15th,2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Germantown - 1777 - Jan. 14 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battles for Pork Chop Hill - 1953 - Jan. 13th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Mobile Riverine Force - Task Force 117 - Jan. 12th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The Marine Corps League - Jan. 11th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The BATTLE OF SUNDA STRAIT - 1942 - Jan 10 th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of New Orleans - Jan. 9th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Richard Morton Hess - Warrior Wenesday - Jan 8th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Charge at San Juan Hill - Jan 7th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John Paul Jones - Jan 6th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Berlin Airlift - Jan 5th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles AmVets (American Veterans) - Jan. 4th, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of 1st Manassas(Bull Run) - Jan 3rd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the U.S. Merchant Marine in Vietnam - Jan. 2nd, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Nordwind - Jan. 1st, 2003
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Beginning of the Mexican-American War- Dec. 31st, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Desert Storm - The Ground War - Dec. 30th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The 1st and 2nd Guadalcanal Nov 13-15, 1942 - Dec. 29th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole - Profiles the GI Bill Education Benefits - Dec 28th, 2002
The Freeper Foxhole Remembers Con Thien/Operation Buffalo - Dec. 27th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Trenton - 1776 - Dec. 26th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Wishes Everyone A Merry Christmas - Dec. 25th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Sinking of the SS Leopoldville - Dec. 24th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Defense of Wake Island - Dec. 23rd, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Gen. Anthony McAuliffe at Bastonge - Dec. 22nd, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Navajo CodeTalkers - Dec 21st, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The American Ex-Prisoner of War Organization - Dec. 20th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Linebacker II - DEC 19th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Typhoon Cobra - Disaster at Sea - Dec. 18 th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole - One Vietnam Vets Battle with the VA - Dec.17th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of The Bulge - Dec. 16th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers THE COAST GUARD AT WAR - Dec.15th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole - Help Save A Veterans Memorial - Dec.14th,2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN - Dec. 13th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Spotlights The DAV - Dec.12th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers "Little Friends" - USAAF Fighter Escorts - Dec. 11th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Siege of Khe Sanh - Dec. 10th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole - Gulf War Syndrome: Fact vs. Fiction - Dec 9th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole - Remembers The Inchon Landing - Dec. 8th, 2002
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 2002

I completely agree snippy. SAM thanks for your superhuman efforts!

That list reads like SamWolf's Greatest Hits!

Sam, great work, my friend. Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge with us - You are a scholar and gentleman.

Aomagrat thanks for your hard work, too. I always enjoy learning a little more about the Navy.

< virtual appluase > Hurrah!

Well said. Thanks SAM.

Hats off to SAMWolf. For the life of me, I have never understood how he find the time to carry out this marvelous task on a daily basis.

SAMWolf -- FreeRepublic's Designated Military Historian

"Long May You Run . . ."

Wow! Congratulations SAMWolf and many thanks.

(P.S. snippy_about_it: Thanks to you, too)

Great Work Sam!
Thank you for your tireless work in the FOXHOLE.
And for allowing me to post my poetry here.

WOW.
I wasn't aware that it's been six full months, nor was I aware of ALL THOSE THREADS.
SAM, when are you going on vacation?

Good Morning Feather.

Congradulations to the Freeper Foxhole on six years of service to the Free Republic.

On no, only six months. lol. But six months EVERY day is a feat indeed by our SAMWolf. :)

Awwww. Thank you, Snippy.

Antijen was a big help by doing all the initial work to get the Foxhole started and managed the pinglist for most of these last six months.

You've been doing the threads on Monday, handling the pinglist and are about to take on another day.

I had a lot of help from other Freepers who suggested topics, gave me links, and who contribute to the thread each day.

Now I'll go hide in a corner for the rest of the day and die of embarrassment.

Now isn't it just like you not to take credit when credit is due. You're too modest SAMWolf. LOL.

Only a few more hours til MIL arrives, don't spend it in the corner! :)

I'm gonna get you for this. ;-)

ruh-roh. lol.

Come out from that corner you're hiding in, Sam. Y'all have done a great job these past six months. Thank You!

An excerpt from an interview with Stephen Ambrose
(snip)

The true story is, junior officers and noncoms who had been college students two years before and had ROTC commissions pinned down at that sea wall and couldn't retreat, couldn't go back -- it was just chaos back behind them -- couldn't, as the plan called for, go up the draws. They were getting butchered where they were all the sea wall because the Germans had it all zeroed in with their mortars that were coming down on top of them. And, "Over here, Captain," "Over here, Lieutenant, over here." A sergeant looked at this situation and said, "The hell with this. If I'm going to get killed, I'm going to take some Germans with me." And he would call out, "Follow me," and up he would start. Hitler didn't believe this was ever possible. Hitler was certain that the soft, effeminate children of democracy could never become soldiers. Hitler was certain that the Nazi youth would always outfight the Boy Scouts, and Hitler was wrong.

The Boy Scouts took them on D-Day. Joe Dawson led Company G. He started off with 200 men. He got to the top of the bluff with 20 men, but he got to the top. He was the first one to get there. He's going to be introducing President Clinton tomorrow at Omaha Beach. John Spaulding was another. He was a lieutenant. Many of them are nameless. I don't know their names. I've talked to men who've said, "I saw this lieutenant and he tossed a grenade into the embrasure of that fortification, and out came four Germans with their hands up. I thought to myself, hell, if he can do that, I can do that." "What was his name?" I will ask. "Geez, I don't know. I never found out his name. I never saw him before, and I never saw him again, but he was a great man. He got me up that bluff."

For the entire interview
http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1202

First, excellent thread as usual.

Congratulations on the six month anniversary of the foxhole. I'm sorry had to miss the very first foxhole thread though, it was the same day of the Louisiana Senate runoff.

One final thing, snippy, I'm sure you'll do just fine the next two weeks while SAM is out.

lol. I think SAM is still in the corner. ;)

Thank you for your vote of confidence.

SAM will still be doing all the work as usual, I'm just going to try and put it together and post it in the correct order! lol.

You do a fine job yourself on your Western Civlization Military History threads and I know you know what it must take to do this day in and day out.

:)