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.
Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/07/2005:12 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.
Re: 76 years ago today -- D-Day - 06/08/2002:55 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.