Medal of Honor Recipients, Normandy Invasion

MedalofHonor.com ^ | June 6, 2004

[MEG33]

I remember DDay..and going to church with my mother for prayer services for our troops.

You are most welcome..It is a great resource.I’ve seen many of the links..more to go.

Thank God for heroes such as the ones you have honored.

[jazusamo]

You’re most welcome, Gitmo. Good to see you, hope all’s well.

[VOA]

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[NonValueAdded]

I thought the name DeFranzo sounded familiar. There is DeFranzo Circle in Saugus, Mass. and the VFW post (2346) is named in his honor. Now I know the rest of the story.

[jazusamo]

DeFranzo Circle, Saugus, MA

 

The link didn't work for me so I posted a pic of DeFranzo Circle.

[jazusamo]

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks for that post. The traffic circle is history, now an interchange where rte 99 meets US 1. If that picture brings back memories to anyone, then this Blog thread is for you: Route 1 memories. How could I forget Heck Allen's?

[freema]

Thank you jaz and Bender.

[ConorMacNessa]

Great men and heroes from our fathers' generation. Thank God for them and thank God that we still produce men of this caliber in today's military!

[jazusamo]

I just discovered I posted the wrong photo of LtCol Robert G. Cole. My apologies.

Lt. Col. Robert G. Cole

[La Enchiladita]

Thank you for that and thank you for posting all the stories. I have yet to read every one of them, but I will.

[mtntop3]

These men will will be always young and alive in the hearts of those who know now of them - and who learn of them as long as history continues...

With their examples, what is to be thought of those today who blandly (and most arrogantly) say, sniffingly, that their precious selves are not going to participate in the political process because some aspect of it or a candidate does not suit their ideological purity....?

And therefore they will allow politicians to turn into defeat that which our men and women of the armed forces today - in our time - have so painstakingly and so honorably and so bravely and so well accomplished in the Middle East?

These will be remembered, too - not with love but with everlasting derision.

[Marine_Uncle]

And so many honorable men and women follow in the footsteps of those that fateful day that did not return or returned missing limbs and eyes. War is hell. But the worst hell is when a peoples allow some dictator to rule over them and oppress the God given right of expression of mind, movement, and will to make a living as they well choose within the body of laws set forth. The lack of any joy in their hearts. This is the worst hell.

[Dawnsblood]

God Bless these men. If ever our country loses the ability to find men like this that will be the end of our nation. God grant that we can find brave, selfless and courageous people like this when we are in our most dire times!

[goresalooza]

I can’t believe I googled “Heck Allen’s” and came to Freepers...LOL!

My mom is from near Saugus and we had family there too. Used to go to Heck’s when I was a little kid. I also heard that Kowloon closed..is this true? And Hilltop...none better. Loved it.

I miss it up there. I’m in FL now.

[Legacyremembered]

Jake Lindsey MOH and my father, were buddies at Fort Knox. I can attest to the stories my father shared with me that Jake had told him. Apparently one story was that Jake was on the battlefield in Germany and heard a shell coming his way. He said that by the whistling sound he knew it was going to be very close and resigned himself to that being the end and didn't dive for cover. As Jake told the story the shell landed directly in front of him and it was a dud. He said if he did dive for the ground the shell would have impaled him. A funny story was that there was a General at Fort Knox that Jake used to deliberately wait for and pass frequently so that the General would have to salute him as is customary with MOH recipients’ being saluted by higher ranking officers. As my father told me during the Korean War Jake was actually put up for another battlefield honor and when word got back that he had already received the Medal of Honor in WWII and was back on the battlefield in Korea the command couldn't believe that a MOH was back out on the battlefield let alone in a different war. Apparently they pulled him out of action not wanting to jeopardize him. That's when I believe he was stationed at Fort Knox. Jake and my father lifted a few more than two glasses on many occasion's. Truly a Great Generation.

[centurion316]

Thanks for the story. Apparently there are thousands of them when it comes to Jake.