Let the enormity of what they did sink in.....

[308pirate]

We're up here cut off from the whole thing by a layer of clouds. All I could see were a few ships shooting like mad at something. But the mist.....it's closing in again. There's not a speck of flak. I guess all the flak guns are levelled, waiting for our guys on the ground.........

 

[Maggot]

Amen.

 

[ArmyJerry]

Two of my fathers uncles killed that morning a couple hours apart, actually a grave section apart, they are buried by approximate time of death in the cemetery, both 101 Abn, one landed in St Mere Eglise the other outside the walls, the one in town was killed in a shootout in the walls, the other attacked the town at daybreak thinking the rest of the unit was still in the town being held captive, 80 dudes attacked at daybreak, most were killed in a crossfire. the next week was a sad for the family, between my moms side and my dads side we lost a lot of boys from the extended family in that war. they, were all 1st and second gen Americans from Shannon (Sixmilebridge) and Kilkenny , all infantry. I went to visit all their graves France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy. I gotta get out and see those buried in the Pacific.



Wife on Bunker overlooking Beach


Church in center of St Mere Eglise




Omaha

A half mile run into the MG and 88's


French people enjoying teh beach today, gotta say you will not be treated better as an American anywhere in the world than you will in Normandy


destroyed Bunker, this one looks like it got hot with a 500 pounder

 

[TheGerman]

Other side of the fence here, and I still have absolutely zero fucking idea or comprehension of how both my Opa and his older brother (great uncle) survived that shit.

 

[jmar]

It's hard to imagine going into something you know you'll probably die in. They probably looked around those boats and said their goodbyes before they landed. The Germans in most cases had more training and better weaponry, some of the Germans running around had kill counts of 500+ people. Far cry from a retard in a cave plinking at you with a rusty AK-47 which we see today. WW2 soldiers were truly some of the most brave and heroic men the world has ever seen. I get shivers whenever i think about it.

 

[Maggot]

Jerry, if this werent such a solemn subject Id have to insult the bald guy in that beautiful photo, Ill just say RIP to yours and all that gave it all. Mine were mostly all squids.

 

[ZiaHunter]

Jerry:

Great post and thanks for sharing. Knew an older gentleman who was landed at Normandy and mentioned that it was sheer randomness on those who survived and those who didn't and thanked God that he survived. John C McManus has authored several books on D-Day as well as the other battles that followed. Have read them all and one comes away with a sense of awe of what citizen soldiers accomplished and sacrificed. I grew up in one of those post war housing developments and it seemed that every father on the street was a veteran with most combat veterans; Bataan survivors, airmen, Marines, Army. They were the guys that after the war returned to their lives at home and coached our baseball teams delivered the mail and worked in the factories nearby. My Dad was a B-24 ball turret gunner with the 15th AAF in Italy. His brother was a B-29 crewman killed in a training accident. Truly a great generation. BTW my mother was born in Kinsale in the south and my fathers family came from County Cork. O'Brien's, Ahearn's, Dillon's, Mahoney's and O'Donahue's.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Love this dudes site. Contrasts little girl problems with real problems.

 

[tnichols]

Care to share the sites addy? Good stuff ^^^^

 

[bogeybrown]

Care to share the sites addy? Good stuff ^^^^

Ditto, that's some good shit. I'd like to set up some of these images as my screensaver.

Totally random, but does anyone else remember the early days of the Magpul home page? It was a great collection of moto pictures and quotes. I used it as my screensaver on my work computer until they changed it.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

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[tnichols]

Thank you!

 

[pmclaine]

It's hard to imagine going into something you know you'll probably die in. They probably looked around those boats and said their goodbyes before they landed. The Germans in most cases had more training and better weaponry, some of the Germans running around had kill counts of 500+ people. Far cry from a retard in a cave plinking at you with a rusty AK-47 which we see today. WW2 soldiers were truly some of the most brave and heroic men the world has ever seen. I get shivers whenever i think about it.

Those retards in a cave have lived a life with little regard for life and death as a daily occurrence no more unusual than the daily dump.

Mix that with training that becomes a volatile combination.


Japan and Germany were/are advanced cultures with bad politics.