72 years ago today!

RalphM

RalphM

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The largest invasion ever undertaken, the beginning of the end of tyranny in Europe.
Take a moment and remember those that fought and those that paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
 
Amen and God Bless all who continue to serve and have served
our country. The Greatest Generation literally saved the world.
 
RIP My father who fought in Germany and my father-in-law that fought from a destroyer at Leyte Gulf against Kamakazie planes. We are losing ALL of our heroes too quickly.

Fourdy
 
My Dad served late in the war. missed D-Day, as he was still in radio school at Fort Sill. I miss him every day. Been 33 yrs now.
Our Korean war vets are next, most in their mid to late 80's now and are dying off now.
Never forget the day, the men who died and the sheer hell they went thru that day.
 
I just finished reading our local paper (Hartford Courant), the only mention of WW!! I found was in the "Snoopy" comic. Sad.
Paul in CT
 
My father had a school mate that landed at Omaha beach 6-6 with the big red 1. My father landed in LaHarve France in November of that year. My dad said he recognized him in an old bombed out church in Belgium. He was so excited to see a guy from home. As he started talking to him he soon realized his buddy was now a war hardened soldier, as were all the soldiers in his outfit, not the same boyhood friend. They exchanged notes and said goodbye. My dad still had not seen combat at that time and had a hard time understanding why Bob was so cold and rough to him. My dad wrote home to tell his mother to tell Mrs Henry that he saw her son and he was alright. When my dad got home after escaping as a POW he found out Bob Henry had died a hero just a week after they had met.
 
The History Channel had a good documentary today of the D-Day Invasion, with some actual footage and narration by some survivors of the invasion. We owe these people with our freedom and the fact that we are still speaking English (mainly that is).

Sal
 
Just lost a Bommber Pilot Friend in Europe Theater. He was 95...hell of a guy ! 28 missions
 
Those hero's of 'D-Day' would roll over in their graves if they could see the American flag being burned and the Mexican flay being waved in today's America....
 
Paul- The Hartford Courant is a joke now. It is so small and so full of ads and very little news. Profit is all they care about now. Not news events. There was a small pic on the front page that showed a Soldier visiting one of the cemetery's near the beaches. No articles at all. I delivered the Courant in the late 60's and Thursdays papers were larger than the Sunday edition is now. It is a disgrace to see a paper go so downhill.....
 
Being a history buff of both WWs' I remember this day everytime I look at my "other car" (64.5 Mustang)
 

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My dad missed D Day but got to see the devastation a month later when he landed at Bayeux with the Canadian army. In later years he wrote down some of his memories from that time and the days that followed. It was 13 years this weekend that we lost him. Some of his story is in a blog I published and hope to put a little more on there eventually.
http://mindlessramblings-rlg.blogspot.ca/2008/11/memories-of-wwii.html
He was a hero to us. Just another reason his old 52 Mercury sedan means a lot to me.
 

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I was a D Day replacement, in a too small group to replace the many beach casualties my Infantry Company suffered. .They needed far more than the few men in my group to replace far more casualties than planned for. The Omaha Beach landing, the bloody one, was the First Division and the 29th Division. I was in Company B, 116th Regiment, 29th Division. Not many of us WWII vets on Fordbarn but I have been on it since it began.
 
barnstuf said:
I was a D Day replacement, in a too small group to replace the many beach casualties my Infantry Company suffered. .They needed far more than the few men in my group to replace far more casualties than planned for. The Omaha Beach landing, the bloody one, was the First Division and the 29th Division. I was in Company B, 116th Regiment, 29th Division. Not many of us WWII vets on Fordbarn but I have been on it since it began.
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Thank you sir!!!! Was that Andrews Sisters' song (Boogy Woogy Bugle Boy Of Company B) about you? Thank you again and glad you were able to come home.
 
barnstuf said:
I was a D Day replacement, in a too small group to replace the many beach casualties my Infantry Company suffered. .They needed far more than the few men in my group to replace far more casualties than planned for. The Omaha Beach landing, the bloody one, was the First Division and the 29th Division. I was in Company B, 116th Regiment, 29th Division. Not many of us WWII vets on Fordbarn but I have been on it since it began.
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Thank you sir!
 
my Dad was on a destroyer off the beach on D-Day plus one--shelling inland and chasing E-boats-german torpedo boats. later they sunk a u boat. he would never talk about it. he left there and was on a new destroyer headed to pacific when the bomb was dropped they were in the panama canal. did almost two years out there cleaning up jap garrisons and hauling prisoners to war crimes trials.
 
This year I played in a Community Band at the huge VA Hospital in Dublin, Georgia. Among the audience were two WWll vets. It gave me a good feeling and I hope they enjoyed the musical commemoration.
 
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