D-Day 70th anniversary thread.

[Henkeman]

It's extremely moving seeing this service. It always is.

I grew up able to visit the old men in the retirement homes (as you do at school) who were WWI veterans. All gone now. If you've a relative who served, do ask them and talk to them. You'll regret it if you don't.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Forever in their debt, I will admit when I was younger I just didn't get it, but as I've grown up and up the more I've researched and learnt I am but humbled by what these people did for us, heroes is not a good enough word for these people did for us. I've never visited the war graves in Europe but I did visit the one near the bridge on the river Kwai, it moved me to tears to see that graveyard, so many young people, and the way they look after it is a credit to war graves commission and the people who tend it.

 

[waterloo blue]

Off to dusseldorf today; intrigued to see if they have anything happening in relation to this.

It was the beginning of their liberation too,in the West anyway.
A lot of untested troops against battle hardened,dug in Wehrmacht,courage beyond belief.

 

[Henkeman]

Forever in their debt, I will admit when I was younger I just didn't get it, but as I've grown up and up the more I've researched and learnt I am but humbled by what these people did for us, heroes is not a good enough word for these people did for us. I've never visited the war graves in Europe but I did visit the one near the bridge on the river Kwai, it moved me to tears to see that graveyard, so many young people, and the way they look after it is a credit to war graves commission and the people who tend it.

Kanchanaburi or Chungkai?

 

[Rodney Marsh's Hair]

I will raise a glass to all of the heroes, men and women, who fought to keep our country independent and free from Hitler and who aided our allies in freeing themselves from being under German rule.

 

[metalblue]

The memorial flight is a sound I can listen to again and again

 

[Always Ali]

I will raise a glass to all the men and women involved in the invasion of mainland Europe, and watch the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan......as close as any of us lucky enough to be born in "Peace Time" will ever get to knowing how fucking grim it must have been landing on those beaches!

 

[york away to this!]

I once had a t-shirt that said "life's a beach" on it - I need to dig it out for later...

 

[Henkeman]

I posted on the initial thread that D Day was essentially a British operation. Of the 1,200 warships involved, 1,000 were Royal Navy. Air cover was mostly supplied by the RAF. The landing craft (even for the American landings) were mostly British and British crewed. It was Britain's last day as a superpower.

 

[Maintainin]

320th Battalion at Omaha n' Utah Beaches...


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