D Day anniversary

[hammocity]

Very proud ....he passed 8 yrs ago and like a lot of them never really talk about what he saw...when you are small he is just your dad,it`s only when you grow older you realise what he went through. A very special generation.

He had a great innings then and must make all his family so proud, thanks for sharing.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I have just concluded that there are more reporters from ITV 'n BBC today in Normandy than there were squaddies rushing the beaches in '44!

 

[BrianW]

Never forget what those servicemen went through for us.





Not meaning any offence by leaving out "women", by the way. Was there any women serving on the "front line" back then?

Not in army units, but there were women in the SOE behind enemy lines.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Not in army units, but there were women in the SOE behind enemy lines.

Carve Her Name with Pride (full film 1958) starring Virginnia Mc Kenna

 

[Scottyboi]

My great uncle died on D Day was my nannas younger brother bless him was just a boy who never got to grow up.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Never forget what those servicemen went through for us.





Not meaning any offence by leaving out "women", by the way. Was there any women serving on the "front line" back then?

Not in the front lines but behind the lines treating the injured even the Queen did her bit out in the fields growing crops.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Never forget what those servicemen went through for us.





Not meaning any offence by leaving out "women", by the way. Was there any women serving on the "front line" back then?

There was a terrific piece this morning on the BBC.

There were two nurses on one of the ships and they were killed in August 1944, the only British women killed in the Battle for Normandy.

I assume that you've seen the 1700 (?) silhouettes set out in the fields. Only two of them will remain after the current commemmoration. They've also made images of the two nurses - the only ones with facial features - and those two are also going to remain.

The brave nurses at the centre of D-Day memorial

Standing With Giants' founder says he is "humbled" to honour Mollie Evershed and Dorothy Field.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[cyan]

Never forget what those servicemen went through for us.





Not meaning any offence by leaving out "women", by the way. Was there any women serving on the "front line" back then?

There were some serving behind enemy lines with SOE.

Otherwise they played these crucial roles https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240530-wrens-unsung-british-heroines-d-day-landings-normandy

and there was a journalist

The Only Woman on the Beach at Normandy

This Saturday, June 6, will be the 76th anniversary of D-Day, the battle that would come to represent the beginning of the end of World War II. There was just one woman, a war correspondent, on the beaches at Normandy that day

news.wgcu.org

This article says first nurses had arrived by 14 June.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/104251

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Not in army units, but there were women in the SOE behind enemy lines.

If you've not seen Liberte: A Call To Spy from a few years ago, it's basically a film about the SOE women. I thought it was very good.

 

[jimharri]

There were some serving behind enemy lines with SOE.

Otherwise they played these crucial roles https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240530-wrens-unsung-british-heroines-d-day-landings-normandy

and there was a journalist

The Only Woman on the Beach at Normandy

This Saturday, June 6, will be the 76th anniversary of D-Day, the battle that would come to represent the beginning of the end of World War II. There was just one woman, a war correspondent, on the beaches at Normandy that day

news.wgcu.org

This article says first nurses had arrived by 14 June.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/104251

Didn't they play a vital role back home, keeping factories, farms etc running while the men were away? The "home front".