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To: GeronL

Minus 6 minutes til landing"

Then the landing under a barrage of fire

57 posted on 06/06/2014 9:29:08 PM PDT by caww

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To: caww

Smoke from the rocket barrage obscures the beach as the first wave goes in.... A rocket-firing LCI is visible ahead of the amtracks. I can't imagine facing that as they did

58 posted on 06/06/2014 9:34:10 PM PDT by caww

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To: caww; Homer_J_Simpson

extra extra.... how the papers covered the invasion

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/newspaper-front-pages-covering-the-d-day-invasion-70-year

63 posted on 06/06/2014 9:45:31 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)

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