This date in 1944

[jbsoonerfan]

I say it every time a post is made about the military and how I thank each one of them everyday and not just on certain days. But in my mind, this date had to be one of the biggest, most important dates in our militaries history. I simply cannot imagine what some of those guys went through. I have been watching a reunion where they took 8 men still living back to the beach and to see their reactions just blew me away. Far and away the greatest generation and unfortunately we are losing them quickly. 

[Mike L]

Well said

 

Before my Ma passed she always made sure the family remembered her brother. 
 

My Uncle Jim

Staff Sargent 

101st Airborne Div

Normandy France

June 6 1944

 

 

 

 

Mike

[MN Fisher]

None of my serving relatives were there for D-Day...but one celebrity was.

 

Part of the Canadian Army landing at Juno Beach - took out two snipers himself.. Later that night, he was shot by a nervous sentry (friendly fire) with a Bren - 4 in the leg, 1 in the chest deflected by a cigarette case, and 1 took off most of his right middle finger.

 

Retrained as a pilot for artillery observation - labeled "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force" due to him slaloming telegraph poles during training at RAF Andover because..."to prove it could be done."...got a reprimand on his record for that stunt.

 

After the war, went into acting...and I think everyone knows him.

 

[A-Jay]

This famous photo was called "Into the Jaws of Death" when it was taken on June 6, 1944. Original caption: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day Invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming Invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft. (U.S. Coast Guard photo, now in the National Archives)

Via Navy Times

A-Jay

[Glenn]

From a strategic standpoint, it is one of the most brilliant assaults in the history of modern warfare. The monumental level of work and detail that went into it - way before the boats were loaded with soldiers - all the way through to the grits and guts demonstrated by the Allied forces on the ground, in the water, and in the air is hard to fathom.  Simply amazing.

 

Hats off to the brave men and women on the front and behind-the-lines that made freedom ring that day!

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                               

[12poundbass]

I couldn’t imagine. 

[Columbia Craw]

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

I couldn’t imagine. 

Well said.

[bowhunter63]

My Dad got the boat ride, Never really spoke of it but it was with him his whole life. They were a generation of ass kickers . Americas finest ????????

[Bird]

9 minutes ago, bowhunter63 said:

My Dad got the boat ride, Never really spoke of it but it was with him his whole life. They were a generation of ass kickers . Americas finest ????????

My Dad enlisted in 1944 and didn't come out until 1965, he never had much to say.