D-Day
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many Xs,most millennials, and all Zs have no clue what 6/6/44 means or what it was.
ms gamboolgals father, Mr. Beam was with the original Toccoa group and all the way thru the war.
Never wounded. Although, he did say he had a pencil shot of his hand and all his web gear shot off of him once.
He said the sky was bright as Daylight when they were getting ready to jump at Normandy from all the Shell fire. He said all he wanted was to get out of the plane.
We lost Mr. Beam in 2008 and I miss him sorely. I would sit with him for hours and listen to him talk of growing up in East Texas as dirt poor sharecroppers of a widow with 7 children and the war. There was 5 brothers. 4 served and all were in combat and all survived. Although, Uncle John had a glass eye after being shot in the head - he died an old man with the bullet still in his brain - he married and had a family and good job and he walked with a slight limp but no other ill effects.
Mr. Beam lower right.
Bottom is him at Nuremberg where he was a guard and escorted the Nazi's to/from the Trials and some to the gallows.
He had the utmost respect for the combat capabilities of the German soldiers as he said they were excellent killers.
Respect and appreciation to all the Veterans of all the wars !
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Never wounded. Although, he did say he had a pencil shot of his hand and all his web gear shot off of him once.
He said the sky was bright as Daylight when they were getting ready to jump at Normandy from all the Shell fire. He said all he wanted was to get out of the plane.
We lost Mr. Beam in 2008 and I miss him sorely. I would sit with him for hours and listen to him talk of growing up in East Texas as dirt poor sharecroppers of a widow with 7 children and the war. There was 5 brothers. 4 served and all were in combat and all survived. Although, Uncle John had a glass eye after being shot in the head - he died an old man with the bullet still in his brain - he married and had a family and good job and he walked with a slight limp but no other ill effects.
Mr. Beam lower right.
Bottom is him at Nuremberg where he was a guard and escorted the Nazi's to/from the Trials and some to the gallows.
He had the utmost respect for the combat capabilities of the German soldiers as he said they were excellent killers.
Respect and appreciation to all the Veterans of all the wars !
e e
Maybe most but not all millennials.
My dad was in F-company, 501st and carried the 60mm motor in France.
'Band of Brothers' Actors Are Training to Parachute into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would commemorate the D-Day landings by training at Camp Toccoa and then jumping into the Cotentin Peninsula.
If I met a millennial or Gen Z who knows about Normandy and WWII history details accurately, I think I have a clear picture of where they stand politically and who they are voting for this November too.
My apoligies, I was 0015 early... although The Paratroopers did leave on the 5th.
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Pathfinders: First on French Soil | ASOMF
Shortly after midnight on 6 June 1944, a group of low-flying C-47 aircraft crossed over the French coast. Eight minutes later, Captain Frank L. Lillyman, le ...
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The day of days, in the words of Winston Churchill “never was so much owed by so many to so few”
I feel the need to thank them for saving our asses 80 years ago !!
I also feel the to apologize to them for letting everything they did go to shit , and I’m sorry I haven’t done anything to change things.
I also feel the to apologize to them for letting everything they did go to shit , and I’m sorry I haven’t done anything to change things.
Band of Brothers marathon today (benefit of working from home today.) Had some great uncle fight.
Worked on my 83 yr old bike today, a little re-restoring.
I'd like to think it could have been there but highly unlikely I'm sure nun returned.
I'd like to think it could have been there but highly unlikely I'm sure nun returned.
Well you just met one…If I met a millennial or Gen Z who knows about Normandy and WWII history details accurately, I think I have a clear picture of where they stand politically and who they are voting for this November too.
Good that this is commemorated, but we tend to ignore what happened on the other side of the globe, where a lot of good boys died fighting japanese in what some would argue were even more horrible conditions.
Victory Over Japan Day: End of WWII
V-J Day, or Victory over Japan Day, marks the end of World War II, one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history. When President Harry S. Truman announced on Aug. 14, 1945, that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, war-weary citizens around the world erupted in celebration.
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