75th Anniversary of D-Day

[DA SWO]

Saw this onFacebook. If only I could be as badass if I reach his age.

https://www.facebook.com/242181938605/posts/10157681447038606

I've got friends jumping this year.
37 C-47's, Bn worth of jumpers.

 

[SpitfireV]

I found out today that a Kiwi shot down the first enemy on D-Day. There's an account of it here:

Squadron Leader John 'Johnnie' Arthur Houlton DFC

 

[Brill]

...this idyllic Berkshire village where – unknown to its residents – 150 Americans received and analysed vital covert intelligence from France ahead of the Allied invasion on June 6.

For almost 75 years there was only one clue to Station Victor, a radio centre run by the secret intelligence branch of the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

That was the words ‘Staff Only’ in white paint on a door in a ramshackle building full of farm machinery and memories.

Idyllic English village that played host to D-Day's last great secret

 

[Red Ryder]

My Grandfather was a Gliderman in the 82nd. He didn’t talk about the war much but I’m told he was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

 

[Brill]

Pathfinders! “First in, last out”

Tuesday, June 6, 1944 hour by hour, minute by minute

00:10
– The first US pathfinders jump on the Cotentin to mark the parachute zones for the C-47 pilots who will arrive in the next few minutes.

D-Day timeline - Operation Overlord hour by hour, minute by minute

 

[Gunz]

The Regiment is scaling the cliffs again this year.

The boys in action.

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Freaking awesome.

 

[Devildoc]

Iconic pic of members of the Filthy 13 (roughly about whom the story of the Dirty Dozen came from), a demo unit tasked with sabotage. My uncle was a combat engineer with the 101st Abn in WWII and did similar job, made every jump. @Red Ryder , he did not talk about it either, at all, until he was fairly close to death in the early 2000s. I wish I had an opportunity to talk with him more and write his 'story.'

 

[x SF med]

Here's a local story about a plane participating in DAKs over Normandy...

Miss Montana – Miss Montana to Normandy

 

[Devildoc]

Stirring and moving...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2265619043692393

 

[Centermass]

 

[Brill]

Apolitical page from Brietbart with a good collection of pictures from D-Day.

D-Day: A Photo Remembrance

 

[Centermass]

Apolitical page from Brietbart with a good collection of pictures from D-Day.

Modern day picture from another source.

 

[BloodStripe]

Have a family member that assaulted at Normandy. Here's his brief story.

 

[Brill]

@Centermass , Rangers do the beret right!

 

[AWP]

Something I learned today: One of the LST's (LST-230) involved in both the Overlord and Dragoon (Southern France) invasions is still active. In this case it is the BRP Laguna of the Philippine Navy.

BRP Laguna (LS-501) - Wikipedia

LST-230

 

[Gunz]

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[Kraut783]

My Grandfather was a Gliderman in the 82nd. He didn’t talk about the war much but I’m told he was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. View attachment 28127View attachment 28128View attachment 28129

Holy crap, a glider pilot....a very brave man!!

 

[Red Ryder]

Not a pilot. I don’t know the correct way to refer to him but he was a paratrooper and then moved to gliders.

 

[Kraut783]

Not a pilot. I don’t know the correct way to refer to him but he was a paratrooper and then moved to gliders.

My pardon, I saw the glider badge on his uniform, but realize he was "assigned or attached" to a glider unit. A lot US Glider guys were paratroopers. Still, the men in the "Flying Coffins", brave men just to be in them.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Remember today - 78 years ago