72 years ago today

[AustinN4]

June 6, 1944 https://www.army.mil/d-day/

 

[riata2]

Thank you and STOLEN

 

[ROGER4314]

My Father came ashore on Normandy on D+3 or D+6. He was a Captain in the medical corps which was similar to a MASH unit in Korea. They were positioned just behind the front and when the front moved, so did their hospital.

He was there when a German Death Camp was liberated and was wounded when a German kid tossed a grenade into his Jeep. Two of the men in that Jeep were killed.

He had his faults but served our wounded soldiers well.

Flash

 

[BRD@66]

My flag's a-flyin' on the front porch.
My dad took the long way to France via Africa, Sicily, Italy.
But he got there.

 

[Bozz10mm]

My Dad was there. He was in a field artillery unit and made it all the way into Germany. I believe this is before he left the states. He's on the right.

 

[vmax]

watching Saving Private Ryan tonight doing my part to remember
better than memoralizing a draft dodging boxer which is all the news channels are doing today