80 Years Ago Today

[Mud Hut]

 

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‘The first wave went through hell’ – how the 16th Infantry's heroism helped bring victory on D-Day: Joseph Harris Carpenter

Despite heavy losses and a powerful German defense, as the day wore on it became clear that the 16th Infantry Regiment had secured a foothold on Omaha Beach. The soldiers fought through concrete and wooden obstacles the Nazis had placed on the beach, destroying machine-gun emplacements and...

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[davest]

so many young men stood to defend freedom and liberty. Never forget...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

 

[Mackaydon]

Don......
PS: This order was distributed to the 175,000-member expeditionary force on the eve of the invasion.
PPS: If memory still serves me, IKE also wrote a draft in the event D-Day failed.

 

[RGINN]

Probably irreverent, but I talked with an old guy a long time ago. He said, yeah I was in that. We just tried not to get killed ourselves and killed as many as we could so we could go home. He didn't mention reading the president's pep letter. Thanks to those guys, I ain't typing this in German.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Probably irreverent, but I talked with an old guy a long time ago. He said, yeah I was in that. We just tried not to get killed ourselves and killed as many as we could so we could go home. He didn't mention reading the president's pep letter. Thanks to those guys, I ain't typing this in German.

Or Japanese.....