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76 years ago today -- D-Day

Posted By: Sluggish Controls

76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 04:13 AM

To all those young men back in Summer 44 - landing on the beaches and dropping behind enemy lines - thank you All for your grit, courage, tears and sacrifice.



Never forgotten
S!

Slug
Posted By: NoFlyBoy

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 05:31 AM

Yes, Thank you.



Wow, this USAAC pilot is 102 and still alive

https://www.dailypress.com/virginia...05-grlr42j5ojhj5azylepudfuc24-story.html
Posted By: Mark Aisthorpe

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 08:04 AM

S!
Posted By: RedToo

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 09:02 AM

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituar...commando-cleared-beaches-d-day-obituary/
Posted By: F4UDash4

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 10:24 AM

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Posted By: WangoTango

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 12:25 PM

Thank you to the greatest generation.
Never forget
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Posted By: Alicatt

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 02:18 PM

Part of the untold story of the Rangers at Normandy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2uQLnRgu_k
Posted By: McGonigle

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/06/20 07:50 PM

Thank you. S!
Posted By: Crane Hunter

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/07/20 05:22 AM

S!
Posted By: No105_Archie

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/07/20 12:43 PM

God Bless them all
Posted By: semmern

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/07/20 05:12 PM

If you made it off the landing craft at Omaha, having the courage to work your way up the beach in the face of withering machine gun fire, then forming part of an effective fighting force for at least the next 24 hours before getting any rest at all, simply boggles the mind! Heroes one and all.

S!
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/07/20 10:44 PM

Respect to every one and all who were part of the Normandy landing and assault.

On a related note, has any other film or tv series matched the brilliance and power of the Normandy landing segment in Saving Private Ryan?
Posted By: NoFlyBoy

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/08/20 12:42 AM

The Longest Day
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/08/20 02:55 AM

Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
The Longest Day



Very good movie but the beach invasions depicted in that film are incredibly sanitized and even a bit idealized. There was nothing emotionally draining about it unlike the Omaha sequence in SPR.
Posted By: NoFlyBoy

Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/08/20 03:43 AM

The British beach landing in The Longest Day is emotional with that Scottish guycussing and nearly drowning.



This scene is emotional too.

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