D-Day 67th Anniversary

[WoodiE]

Today marks the 67th Anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy, June 6th 1944.

 

[hamz9561]

D-Day was a almost a failure, but for the courage of our forefathers the day would have been lost. We owe a lot to those men who who shed blood that morning.

 

[slowngreen]

The D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, England claims a total of 2,500 Allied troops died, while German forces suffered between 4,000 and 9,000 total casualties on D-Day.

Insane numbers.

 

[HPI-Killer]

My grandfather was the only surviving photogropher on Omaha beach on this day (6th) So anything of the landing/ships and air baloons are from him. What a bloody day it was too

EDIT: THought D-Day was the 4th, I'm an idiot...

 

[slowngreen]

My grandfather was the only surviving photogropher on Omaha beach on this day (4th) So anything of the landing/ships and air baloons are from him. What a bloody day it was too

Really? Very cool info.

 

[NitroRC4Life]

This brings back some old memories for me. A few years ago when my grandparents were moving out of there house from NY to Florida they found an old safe in the basement. Nobody had ever seen it or even knew what the code to open it was. So we took it back to our house to try and crack it open. A few days went by and we couldnt pry it open or hit the lock off with a hammer so we called a locksmith. He opened it for us and when we took the stuff out we had actually found stuff from when my great-grandfather was in the military. We found medals, and some paper documents about him being part of this war on D-Day. It was actually very interesting to now know my great-grandfather was in the military.

 

[srusinek]

My grandfather was on the Missouri when Japan surrenderd. I think that if our troops didn't use the carbine we could have saved some lives that day due to the fact that it made a loud clicking noise when you had to reload and your enemy knew that.

 

[HPI-Killer]

My grandfather was on the Missouri when Japan surrenderd. I think that if our troops didn't use the carbine we could have saved some lives that day due to the fact that it made a loud clicking noise when you had to reload and your enemy knew that.

Do you mean the M1 Garand? I have both M1A1 Carbine and M1 and only the M1 makes the loud CLING noise when it pops the clip out of the top

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Really? Very cool info.

Yeah its nuts, my dad showed me some of the pictures of the after-math and all the beached ships and it was nuts! I have not seen the true originals because my dads siter has them all, wish I could see them, my dad has and always points them out to me. some of originals of his were used in the movie Saving Private Ryan.

My dad found this for me and told me these are all pretty much his stuff, there was 1 other photographer but was killed before he could get on the beach.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz0GjOhCZq8&feature=related"]YouTube - ‪Omaha Beach Tribute‬‏[/ame]

 

[neobart]

My grandfather was on the Missouri when Japan surrenderd. I think that if our troops didn't use the carbine we could have saved some lives that day due to the fact that it made a loud clicking noise when you had to reload and your enemy knew that.

They actually learned to use that to their advantage. They saved some old clips and threw them on the ground, making the enemy think they were out of ammo. Or at least, that's what I've heard.

 

[Rolex]

Let's pray for the day when there will be no NEW anniversaries to remember.