In Memoriam: 76th Anniversary of D-Day
On sad 76th anniversary, few mourn D-Day dead in Normandy
Take time out today to remember and honor all those who gave their lives so that others may be Free 76 Years ago today.
Strive to Be the Type of American they Died For.
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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at brushbeater@tutanota.com or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .
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GUNS N GEAR
So grateful for those Great American Partisans.
I knew two men in my lifetime who were there. Both shared their experiences on that memorable day with me. One nearly drowned after departing the LST on approach to Omaha Beach! I still remember seeing the movie “The Longest Day” back in the summer of ’62. The greatest cast of actors ever assembled for a spectacular re-creation of this historical event.
“What outfit you with?”
“Well you’re in the 82nd NOW!”
Heard that every morning on the Fayetteville rock station on the way to first formation. Legendary.
4.5
Amen to that brother. We can not even visit our WW2 vets left up in senior care facility due to Covid lock down. Man do we miss their wisdom and guidance! Toast the bothers from the greatest generation!! We shall enjoy eternity in great presence!!
My father landed on Normandy 9 June. He was a tanker in the 5th Armored Division.
I was the Operations officer in the JVB when the 29th LID was deployed for SFO10.
During that deployment Steven Ambrose brought over a dozen of the men from the 29th that landed on that beach 76 years ago. During their stayed on Eagle Base in Tuzla Mr Ambrose had a few book signing sessions. All these WWII vets made themselves available for us to gawk at and to sign books. And they called us heroes. What an amazing unassuming generation.
Cavguy
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I’m morne their deaths.
They made decisions upon the information they had at the time.
Today it’s crystal clear that the USA’s involvement in World War II was solely to save the world for Joseph Stalin and preserve communism. We could’ve stayed out of that one.
I’m a veteran too.
I took my wife, son, and a couple of his friends to Normandy three years ago. It was a very humbling experience, and a good history lesson for they younger ones. Seeing all the crosses in the cemetery was a very somber time. We walked through the concrete gun emplacements with the scars from naval shell hits. Also went to Utah Beach and British landing beaches.
Stalin, for all his underhandedness, murder, and perfidy, tied a lot of German divisions in the eastern front, so he was useful in weakening the defenses against allied invasion. Sometimes one must make a deal with the devil, disgusting as it is, with the information you have at the time, and the limited kit of options there, too.
We took a walk at low tide to the beach at Normandy and looked out to sea, imagining hundreds of fighting and support ships out there, then we turned around and tried to imagine the living hell of getting out of the landing craft and heading uphill on the killing ground to take the German defensive emplacements and move ahead for the next obstacle–the hedgerows.
It was overwhelming, awe inspiring, and a dirty business that young men did that fateful day in 1944.