D-Day: Three presidents, one of the great battles of history, and the heart and task of a nation

Liberty Unyielding ^ | June 6, 2014 | J.E. Dyer

[caww]

Allied troops on Normandy Beach, many falling down with wounds or from exhaustion, June 6, 1944

[caww]

89 yr. old Bernard Jordan was reported missing from his nursing home on Thursday night turned up on the beach in Normandy — wearing his medals — during the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on Friday..........He left the nursing home in England, on Thursday morning ....Dressed in a gray raincoat with a jacket underneath that had his medals pinned to it, Jordan took a bus to France to be there for the anniversary of D-Day.

The nursing home reported him missing to the Sussex Police at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, at 10:30 p.m., the home received a call from a younger veteran saying that he met Jordan on the bus and that he was accompanying him to Normandy.

[caww]

Here's a model of D-DAy beach showing the connecting tunnels you mentioned....this does give an idea of the layout

[caww]

Ol' Bernard is one happy man after escapade away from the "Nursing Home"....

[caww]

I could do no better with this memorial..says it all...

[johngrace]

Yes. I was profoundly in awe of it. Thank for your posts. Wonderful.

[Jane Long]

D-DAY IN HD EVENT PREMIERE concludes tonight at 9/8C, on the History Channel.

Never-before seen footage - much in color. Amazing video footage....interviews with many of the troops in the footage, riding in onto the shore, watching the ladders being catapulted up the cliffs, medics, action from German pillboxes, etc. Excellent presentation ... including graphics of maps, etc.

You can watch Part 1, online.

http://www.history.com/shows/d-day-in-hd

[caww]

Thanks Jane...I will watch that after dinner tonight and look forward to doing so. I’ll assume I can get that on line for Part 2?

[caww]

Am surprised more have not commented on the thread....but then it’s said in our nation these memorial Holidays are little more than a Time for Picnics.....I tend to agree there is little we do in our country as a whole....it’s so fractured now with the Liberal it’s all about ‘me’ generations. Maybe Freepers were away for this Day and with family...I’d like to think that.

[LibertyGirl14]

Goosebumps. Love that

[SeaBiscuit]

I agree... Thank you very much for posting all the pictures and bits of history. We we're so fortunate to have such fantastic men as they were and are, God Bless them all. FUB0!

[caww]

Thank YOU for starting this thread...it was fun to post the photos.

I just finished watching some videos of D-Day....even hearing some of the German men speak who fought there and how they saw it from their side.....

..... One guy said, when they saw all the ships it overwhelmed them all and not what they were expecting... he said to his friend...”This can’t be happening”....”The Ocean is black with ships!”

[caww]

My pleasure I can assure you..completely. You said it well about our soldiers...they are indeed fantastic! I enjoy listening to their stories of what they did and experienced. What an eyeopener when you hear from their own lips.

One guy said of the 30 men in his boat he was the only one that that survived that day....it was his first time in combat. Imagine your first time in combat pushing through on D-Day.....unimaginable! ...and then finding your the only one in your group who survived!