D-Day

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I had a patient about 15 years ago who was first wave Normandy. Got shot twice (backpack and canteen). Humble guy. Could not talk in detail about his experience. Can't imagine the odds of getting shot but not injured. Talked about digging foxholes when it was so cold and sleeping in them. When he came back after WW2 his brother wanted to enlist and he tried to get him not to. His brother was killed in basic training in a truck accident.
 
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Thank you for remembering! It is ABSOLUTELY stunning how many ADULTS, much less children, DO NOT know what happened June 6, 1944 or even care. Most historians would agree this date, along with a handful of others of course, preserved our nation. The men dying on the beach that day were so young (many in their teens) its hard to imagine in today's world. My father, like many of your fathers, grandfathers, and even great grandfathers was there. I still am in possession of my fathers WW2 medals (he was first wave at Okinawa too) and pull them out from time to time and reflect. He was HIGHLY decorated again, as many of yours were as well. They are known as THE GREATEST GENERATION for a reason. May we never forget!!
 
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ENGRVOL said:
Really good President Eisenhower interview on the 20th anniversary of d-day at Normandy. No self-grandiosity and shows his humility and angst of sending young men to die to free Western Europe.

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Thanks for the 90 minutes of history. Perhaps CJH should show this to his troops before we take the field against Texas. After all, it is war out there.
 
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In 1984 I was working with a man I didn`t even know served in the Army during WWII. He never talked about it to me until June 6th, 1984, on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. He was at D-Day +1. He told me of how scared he was on D-Day sitting on the ship in the channel waiting to go in. He said he sat and listened to bombing and gun fire for hours. He was not infantry he was artillery. He said it was so sad as he went in early that next morning and they were still removing casualties. He later fought during Battle of the Bulge. He talked about it for a couple of hours and then never spoke about it again. I enjoyed hearing his experiences. Sadly, he passed away on 9/11 of old age.
 
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This thread seems appropriate to share what is in my humble opinion the greatest WWII documentary ever made, The World at War. Might honestly be the best documentary on any subject ever made period, it is excellent and in-depth (26 hours!). It is one of the rare films/series on IMDB that has a 9+ rating.
 
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Ike's decision to GO:

D-Day plus 70 years: "OK, Let's Go"

Author's note: Seventy years ago this week, more than one hundred thousand young men representing the armies of four different Allied countries, boarded ships and aircraft to begin the long-awaited liberation of Nazi-occupied France. To paraphrase Stephen Ambrose, the question before the D-Day...
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Pointe du Hoc:

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If you can swing it and get the chance, go visit Normandy the week of the anniversary. It’s truly amazing how the locals remember and honor the Soldiers who liberated them. School children will research a single Soldier and do a report on them to their classmates. The number of re-enactors is amazing, even the local ladies dressing in period attire. You’ll pass by jeeps loaded with “GIs” driving down the street. I’ve also been at other times; much less crowded but not nearly as exciting. If you’re a history buff, can’t recommend it enough.

Of course, the cemetery there will leave you in tears, and has an excellent museum, too.

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volfan2024 said:
June 6,1944 RIP uncle BH KIA Lest we forget our history people did pay the ultimate sacrifice.
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Thanks for posting this, to help us all remember all those who stormed those beaches.

About 5 years ago, my wife and I went to Normandy. We sat in a German position atop Pointe du Hoc, where the 75th Rangers scaled the cliff. We walked in the sands of Omaha and Gold beaches. Without shame, I cried. We went to the American Cemetery and I cried again. Normandy was, and still is, the most humbling experience of my life.
 
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My FIL, Frenchie, was in the 299th Engineers. They were underwater demolition experts responsible for clearing paths to the beaches on DDay.
He was later captured by the Nazis, escaped, was recaptured, had his teeth broken out for his effort. He escaped again and made it to Allied lines.
He never talked about it. He just did his job.

RIP Frenchie.
 
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My grandfather was a WWII vet. He met my grandmother while he was on leave in Paris, they married shortly after the war. I proudly served during Desert Sheild/ Storm and spent my 19th birthday in a hospital bed somewhere in Northern Saudi Arabia. I enlisted when I was 17. I can't imagine today's teenagers would be willing to put their life on the line for anything much less our country with all the hate indoctrination they get from our school systems. Sorry to rant, but yes the men and boys back in the 40's were a different bread and we will probably never see a generation like them again. RIP Papaw miss
 
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Never forget the sacrifices these young men made on this day and WW2 they saved the world and many died doing it. My granddad fought in the Pacific theater during WW 2 and luckily came back alive except for losing two fingers in an explosion he was very fortunate.
 
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A few years ago we got to go to the beaches during January. Not very crowded but moving. Standing in what the Germans built, it was truly amazing what happened. We are so fortunate the Nazis didn't listen to Rommel as well as the info the French resistance farmers shared with Ike. The cemetery is so beautiful.
 
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My great-uncle Ubert McConnell regaled us time and again with his D-Day experience, even though he witnessed incredible carnage as his fellow soldiers hit the beach. His stories were remarkably vivid and detailed. He always told us that he was on the first boat that landed on the beach that day. He took out two German machine gun nests with hand grenades, and a few days later he also managed to stuff one down the gun barrel of a Panzer, which earned him a tongue lashing from his CO for some reason. He wasn't the least bit shy about showing the "ack ack" scar on his hip.

Uncle Ubert died in Jan '22, just one month shy of his 103rd birthday.
102-year-old D-Day veteran honored as a Tennessee Colonel for his service

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