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  • AuburnAlumni
    War Eagle
    • Jul 2002
    • 11939

    #1

    June 6, 1944

    Every bit as big of a day as December 7, 1941.

    Thanks to the American, British, French, and Canadian Servicemen who stormed the beaches of Normandy (and parachuted all over France) that day.

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  • TheMatrix31
    RF
    • Jul 2002
    • 52931

    #2
    Re: June 6, 1944

    To the bravest of men who stormed a beach in hopes of freeing a continent and world from tyranny and evil, to those who didn't make back home, and to those who succeeded with the greatest of honor and valor, I thank you.

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    • Knight165
      *ll St*r
      • Feb 2003
      • 24964

      #3
      Re: June 6, 1944

      From reading accounts and watching many docs on a lot of WWII, but what seems like mostly accounts of D-Day....I gotta say that it took balls of steel to perform at the level that these guys did.
      Those that made it and those that didn't.

      Amazing.

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      • sydrogerdavid
        MVP
        • May 2009
        • 3109

        #4
        Re: June 6, 1944

        Operation Overlord.

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          Chaos Theory
          • Aug 2008
          • 8859

          #5
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          • dickey1331
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            • Sep 2009
            • 14285

            #6
            I couldn't imagine doing some of the things those young men did. God bless them.


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            • RJTurneR
              MVP
              • Aug 2010
              • 2183

              #7
              Re: June 6, 1944

              Every single one of them is a hero. Some of them, most of them, made the ultimate sacrifice. I would do the same for them if it was me. We owe them everything. The world might not be the same if it wasn't for the events that took place that day.

              I would like to see the world through their eyes on that day, just so I could really appreciate what they did.

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              • DaveDQ
                13
                • Sep 2003
                • 7664

                #8
                Re: June 6, 1944

                I couldn't find it again but I read an article about a veteran who still struggles with this event. He was a medic and was attending to several downed men. At one point he was helping one man who had been shot in the chest, noting that he could see his breath coming out his chest. Meanwhile, he kept hearing cries of, "Medic!" His decision was to give the one man morphine and move on to other men.

                Can you believe how horrible such scenarios were and how they must haunt some? These men deserve so much respect.
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                • Blitz1942
                  MVP
                  • Apr 2009
                  • 2645

                  #9
                  Re: June 6, 1944

                  My great-uncle Norman was a gunnery sergeant of an M7 Priest howitzer motor carriage with the 58th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. The battalion was attached to the 29th Infantry Division on Omaha Beach for the attack. His battery provided some indirect fire from the landing crafts before landing and moving inland, providing direct fire support on several targets.

                  He told my dad a lot about being in the war, but never really talked about D-Day (he talked more about his time while the battalion was attached to Patton's 3rd Army). He really only said it was a day he loved remembering, but hated remembering. He did tell my dad one detailed story about the day though. After a large enough beachhead had been established, he and his battery were awaiting orders at one of the beach exits of Omaha Beach when General Norman Cota walked up to them and thanked them for braving the machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank guns to land their vehicles on the beach to provide direct fire support.

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                  • C the Lyte
                    Left side, strong side
                    • May 2009
                    • 2253

                    #10
                    Re: June 6, 1944

                    Every time I see that date I can't help but think about Uncle B.S. and a metal detector salesman.
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