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Can confirm that is at Oceano Dunes Beach, about 2 miles south of Pismo Beach. I live in the area.
Well said, and I agree. Great movie. I also loved the Irish drill sergeant. He really seemed to care.
He landed at Omaha Beach with Big Red One, fought his way to Nuremberg, Germany, and received three Silver Stars, two Purple Hearts, and the Medal of Honor for single-handedly killing 15 German soldiers and destroying three machine gun nests . . .
Born on September 15, 1924, Michael J. Daly, the son of a World War I veteran who had been recommended twice for the Medal of Honor, grew up hearing his father's stories about the Great War and the importance of honor, commitment and duty.
But he didn't seem to listen. As a rebellious teenager, the Fairfield, Connecticut native was kicked out of boarding school for disciplinary issues (he was caught drinking at a bar) and left West Point because of poor grades and a less-than-stellar attitude.
“I went to West Point and was a failure at the academy, a mediocre student with severe disciplinary problems, on special confinement, and continuously walking off punishment tours,” he later recalled.
In 1942, determined to make his father proud and fight for his country, he enlisted in the Army and was soon on his way to Europe.
Over the next eleven months, the 18-year-old infantryman would receive a battlefield commission and three Silver Stars and earn the reputation as a combat leader with a "high degree of aggressiveness, cool courage, and calculated daring."
On April 18, 1945, Lt. Daly, serving with the Third Infantry Division, was leading his company through the bombed-out ruins of Nuremberg when his men came under a withering barrage of small arms and machine gun fire.
Telling his men to take cover, the 20-year-old lieutenant "dashed forward alone, and, as bullets whined about him, shot a 3-man guncrew with his carbine."
With men getting hit and falling all around him, he then located an enemy patrol carrying rocket launchers and despite the hail of German fire now directed at his position, systematically eliminated all six soldiers in the unit.
But the Germans refused to back down.
Inching his way from one bunker to the next, the 6'3", 190-pound lieutenant destroyed two more machine gun nests, taking out the final gun crew with an M1 he had picked up from a dead American soldier.
For his "heroism during the lone bitter struggle against fanatical enemy forces" and for his extraordinary courage that inspired his men to continue to the attack and take Nuremberg, Lt. Daly was awarded the Medal of Honor.
"Captain Mike Daly was the finest officer and bravest man I have ever known," one of his sergeants later said.
Postscript:
The day after his heroic actions at Nuremberg, Daly, exhausted but still fighting, was shot in the head, the bullet entering through his ear and exiting at his opposite cheek.
Miraculously, the seemingly indomitable Daly survived the wound. He returned to the States, spent a year recovering, and in 1946 was discharged from the Army. He later started a business, married, and had two children.
Always interested in helping others, he raised millions of dollars for Bridgeport's St. Vincent's Hospital and over time became an advocate for the indigent and terminally ill.
Talking years later with local high school students about his WWII experiences and Medal of Honor, Daly remarked. "We all lose our courage at times. It's something we pray for in the morning, that God will give us the strength and courage to do what is right.”
Mike Daly, the once-rebellious teenager who found the "strength and courage do what was right," died on July 25, 2008, at the age of 83.
Going to reply to this before reading down, so if already covered sorry.
Generals always.....I hate the term always, but lets use it anyway for this discussion.....fight the last war. They are slow to change, quick with the I did not have that in my army why do they want it now, and slow to new and changing tech that changed war. Napoleon fought his wars with smooth bore arms, a smaller then the hole round ball, so it was easy to load once things got fowled up, that generally went in the direction it was pointed.....stick a couple hundred guys together and you have a huge shotgun flinging half inch nasty lead balls at each other, that when hitting the human body huge chunks of person would be torn away, be it flesh or bone.....even in the medicine of today hard to recover from an inch of bone missing and still keep a limb. We all have read the stories of the magic thing called the RIFLE going back to the 1700's being used on the battle field, be they the lone man in a tree shooting a British general and changing the outcome of a battle, to the english rifles of Napoleon's era. But that was really not what armies got made of. It was the guy with a few teeth and that smooth bore......till the US Civil War, and one reason both sides had "observers" looking in on just what all these new rifles, canon and even balloons could do.....What did the press do in the war, telegraph was new, how did that change things.....people say Crimean war was the first "modern" war, but I think it was the US civil war.
Anyhoo, I have drifted again, but want to say yes they did stand there and shoot at each other, but some figured out pretty quick that everything from trenches (first wide use of this) to just hiding behind a cotton bail would stop those big ole bullets.....by the (I would argue) mid point, last third of the war, standing in line was pretty much out, and it would look closer to WWI then to Napoleon's battles.
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Nothing more than idle curiosity; can anyone decipher what is tattooed on her side? It appears to be a Latin phrase as I can make out at least one word "sine" ("Sine Metu" being latin for "Without Fear" the Jameson's Whiskey family motto).
She is hot but i think she'll look better bending from behind.
I'll say again, these guys were actors. Every time I see a picture of them, it furthers my belief that these guys have probably never fired a rifle in their lives. Some of the goofy things are unbelievable.
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I never correct these idiots (people who threaten, and are potential enemies), since they are often a bigger threat to themselves, left uncorrected.
Hey D, good thing you got out of that heat and came up to the high country. I've been here my whole life and sadly watched as this town has been infected by the California liberals. Next time you come up try eating someplace that serves real food. This establishment is too "granola" for me, I like meat!You can actually make this shit up but no one would believe you.
BLM and ANTIFA marching down the middle of the street chanting “fuck the police!” while the police do traffic control so they don’t get run over.
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