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From: "Steven G Frank" <taxi_steve929@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: D-Day 60th Anniversary
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Teriffic post Ray...I remember them all year long.
I have a couple friends from the Woodbridge VFW Post 4410 who landed
at Normandy...when they talk about Normandy, the most used word I
hear is Chaos. Any plans went out the window once the fighting
started...you couldn't turn back, so you just moved ahead and tried
to get them before they got you. They don't make a big thing of it,
but everyone knows what they did.
There was an excellent article in the National Geographic a year or
two ago about the landing. I gave the issue to a Coast Guard friend
of mine. the first to go ashore were the Coast Guard. They had to
run lines to the beach and secure them with stakes so the soldiers
and sailors could guide themselves ashore without sinking. These
Coast Guard members wore nothing more than bathing trunks and many of
them were cut to ribbons by enemy machine gun fire while trying to
secure the lines. While being fired upon, they still attempted to
complete what turned out to be a suicide mission. Some of them were
killed before the lines could be secured, and this caused more deaths
as soldiers attempting to follow the lines sank and drowned unable to
stay afloat with all the extra weight they carried. It is amazing to
think of what occured that day, and this article had me even more in
awe of these great and heroic Americans.
Steve
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, Ray Williams <njraywms@o...>
wrote:
> As time goes on, the number of surviving veterans from WWII
decreases. If you know a Vet, thank him or her. That was truly a
time of world crisis and our nation was unified in an effort to win
like never before. My Dad's ship was in North Africa, Italy, the
Pacific and in Tokyo Bay a few hundred yards away from the signing of
the surrender with Japan. I wish I could thank him now, but... I've
started a personal tradition of reading the biography in the First C4
Auction Catalog, on every June 6th. It was in France that John
Griffee got his second Purple Heart and the "Million Dollar" wound
that sent him home. Thank him when you see him. I always get a tear
in my eye when I see those thousands of white crosses perfectly lined
up in Normandy. Normandy is the only site in France that I have a
desire to visit. From all the movies we see, we think of US soldiers
freeing Europe. I'd like to find out what the losses were for the
British and Canadian, and Australian and other Allied troops. They
must have been comparable. Must get dressed and to church. Remember
our Vets today.
> Ray
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