Posted on 06/05/2016 9:22:52 PM PDT by pboyington
Considering the target that had to be overcome, the thousands of men, equipment and weaponry that had to be transported across the ocean to accomplish that mission, I might be biased but I view D-Day as the greatest military accomplishment in the history of warfare.........
Greater than December 26, 1991? Greater than February 2, 1943?
That's a bit much.
My dad was a marine stationed aboard the USS Indiana somewhere around ‘44 - ‘45
The father-in-law I would have had was in the U.S. Army, and was killed during the Battle of the Bulge. One of my uncles (father’s side) was in an Army petroleum supply unit that landed in Normandy after the D-Day landings. My other uncle (mother’s brother) was in a railroad supply unit and was supposedly in the China - Burma - India theater. I tried getting his military records for verification, but was told they were among those destroyed in the fire at the personnel records unit.
FDR gave a radio address on or around D-Day, which included a prayer, and it is one of the most moving things you’ll ever hear.
“Our sons, Pride of our Nation”...chills every time I hear those words.
I think my dad was supposed to land with the group that attacked Omaha beach but he was sent to the infirmary just before everyone shipped out so he missed the boat. He told my Mom that all but four guys from his division were killed in the assault and that sounds to me like it was the 29th infantry. I can’t find his DD-214’s and the National Personnel Records Center informed me that his records were probably lost in the 1973 fire.
Thank God for the brave men that fought to preserve our liberty. It’s a crying shame how it is being simply discarded by those that have little regard for the price that was paid by the greatest generation.
As if you believe there is any difference between fascism and communism. Socialist in the name of the masses or socialist in the name of the state is the same totalitarian cesspool.
Also, MSM did not televise the war. People did not have tv’s during wwii. Information was very controlled and sanitized through radio and movie news.
Yes....there was.a large fire that destroyed a lot of files so I read previously.
Fascism (not Nazism) retained a middle class, private property rights, and freedom of religion.
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