D-Day

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Ah - yes, Band of Brothers. I have the entire mini-series on DVD. A most interesting eight hour scenario. Malarkey - one of the main characters.

After that program aired I'm surprised more people do not visit the Currahee Military Museum in Toccoa...it is only about a two hour drive south of Cherokee in the Great Smokey Mountains...

Currahee Military Museum

Currahee Mountain - Wikipedia

 

[Aquamoose]

At only 49, I still am tremendously fascinated and in awe of “The Greatest Generation” that ever lived through the Great Depression and endured through the war on many fronts, both at home and on the frontlines.

The effect of the war still resonates with me practically everyday in the form of freedom to live as Americans and I’m extremely proud to be one and will continue to honor those by being a good patriot.

 

[bigtiller]

At only 49, I still am tremendously fascinated and in awe of “The Greatest Generation” that ever lived through the Great Depression and endured through the war on many fronts, both at home and on the frontlines.

The effect of the war still resonates with me practically everyday in the form of freedom to live as Americans and I’m extremely proud to be one and will continue to honor those by being a good patriot.

Well spoken..... they did what they had to do to exist, something that in todays world doesn't happen often. It seams with any hardship the first thing people do now is go to a crowdfunding site and beg for someone else to make them whole.

I have to agree with Tom Brokaw, they are the Greatest Generation.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Watching WW2 in colour, s1,E9 Overlord on Netflix

 

[David Wayne]

I bought my house from the folks that were my neighbor for all of my life. I think he was in Africa in artillary. While remodeling one of the bedrooms some years later I found a shelf that had been paneled over. It had a box that had German, and French, phrase books, and
field artillary military fundamentals. On the bottom was a folded cloth, as I unfolded it the hair on my neck stood up. It was a 3x5
********. I went to two of his brothers one Navy WW2, one Korea to get the story of where he got it from, they had no idea it existed
and said when he came home he never spoke of the war. I wish I had found it while he was still alive so I could get the history behind it.

 

[Lgim]

My Dad died in 1969 when I was just a young boy so I don't remember ever talking to him about the war. However my Mom said he served in the Canadian Army and had crossed to France on D Day.

I never really thought about it until a couple years ago, I was surfing the web and about ready to call it a night. I came across a story that was written by a gentleman in his later years recalling his service in WW2, the man had just passed away and his son had posted the story online so the rest of his family could see it. Anyhow I started reading it and "hey" this is the same division and unit that my Dad was in. I continued on and and when he got to D Day he listed the men he was with. Seems him and my Dad and two others were in the same truck, they loaded on the landing craft on the evening of the 5th and were expected to land on Juno at 3:00 pm on the 6th. As it turned out there was no room on the beach so they were ordered back and spent the rest of the day and night under the guns of one of the Navy ships that was shelling the mainland. It was early the next morning before they were allowed to land.

Needless to say it was several hrs later before I went to bed. Without a doubt the best thing I have found on the internet.

I am truly amazed at what these people saw and did simply because it had to be done. different times for sure.

 

[Sigarms]

10 uncles who served in WW2, one KIA in Belgium.

All of my uncles were born in the United States, and thier parents came to the US AFTER 1900 (all immigrants).

My mom's mom was a single mother around the age of 40 with 12 kids. My dad was one of 11.

My mom's mother second husband had his first wife die of a infected tooth that was pulled. No insurance, no outrage, just bad luck and no one really cared. My mom's mom first husband died of black lung working in the mines.

The only grandmother I knew was on my moms side. She was probably as tough as any of her sons who went to war. Most religious woman I personally knew.

 

[teejk]

In the run-up to the 75th anniversary tomorrow, a few cable channels have been running hours and hours of historical film. It's disrupting my sleep schedule because I can't turn it off. We visited Normandy about 20 years ago (was living in the UK at the time). My in-laws came over for Christmas and we got on a ferry between Christmas and New Year. We were the only tourists there. Besides the "beach" (cliff?) we also visited the huge museum in Caen where we could have spent days. That trip still ranks #1 on my long list of trips. A good friend of mine's father was attached to Patton's army (demolition expert) and came up through the Italian campaign and into the battle of the bulge and later stayed on through the reconstruction. He rarely talked about the war which I understand was common in both the European and Asia/Pacific soldiers...mental blockage. After he passed, my friend showed me a shoe box of those old B/W snapshot photos which included a lot of pictures of the Buchenwald concentration camp that he helped liberate. Shocking.

 

[MossRoad]

That's All Brother...

D-Day 75th Anniversary | C-47 Plane

 

[USAFpj]

That trip still ranks #1 on my long list of trips.

Teejk- I've been to Normandy twice, but a trip that I think would be great is to transport our 1943 Dodge over and drive it all over the region. It's a fairly common occurrence from what I saw. Maybe once the kids are all out of the house, the wife and I could do it..

But you're right- there just is not enough time in a day to see everything, and to do it in a patient manner.