D-Day

xoxoxoBruce · 06-02-2014, 08:35 PM

This guy in the Paris train station was taking his son to Normandy for D-Day.
You're doing it right, Dad, you're doing it very damn right.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-03-2014, 11:12 AM

CBCnews has interactive pictures of D-Day then and now.

glatt · 06-03-2014, 11:26 AM

Those interactive pictures are impressive

xoxoxoBruce · 06-03-2014, 09:24 PM

Progress.

nowhereman · 06-04-2014, 06:00 AM

A friend's father was a paratrooper who jumped in on D-Day. I can't even imagine what that was like. Our car club hosted a fellow who built an exact reproduction of a WW1 Model T ambulance and is taking it to France this year for the 100th anniversary of the war. Thank you Sarge and all who serve our country - you're the best !

BigV · 06-04-2014, 10:27 AM

Some guys just can't get enough...

D-Day Paratrooper to repeat jump--70 years later.

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DAYTON, Ohio (Army News Service, June 2, 2014) -- Veteran paratrooper Jim "Pee Wee" Martin, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day, is returning to coastal France to mark the 70th anniversary of the invasion that changed the course of World War II.
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Martin said he hopes to leap from the skies again during the anniversary.

"I truly would want to do that one, because there's no other 93-year-old guy in the unit who can do it but me," he said. Martin was a private first class with the elite 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

Gravdigr · 06-06-2014, 10:47 AM

I thought that was just awesome.

Ran across this on another site: D-Day + a day or three

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Gravdigr · 06-06-2014, 10:48 AM

Those guys (WWII soldiers in general) saved the fucking world.

glatt · 06-06-2014, 11:09 AM

Hard to believe it was 70 years ago. I remember when WWII was like a recent memory, but it seems so long ago now.

When I was a kid, hearing about WWII, it was more recent than the Vietnam war is to kids today. Time just keeps marching on.

Big Sarge · 06-06-2014, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Those guys (WWII soldiers in general) saved the fucking world.

amen. I don't think we could do it now. They were really our greatest generation. Makes me worry about the future with Russia and Syria continuing aggressions while we seem to be playing the role of Chamberlain. That being said, I'm beginning to wonder why we have to be the world's police? There is no right choice.

Carruthers · 06-06-2014, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

Some guys just can't get enough...

D-Day Paratrooper to repeat jump--70 years later.

Ours was a young whippersnapper at eighty-nine.

D-Day veteran parachutes to recreate French landings

Life gets boring, says D-Day parachutist, 89

xoxoxoBruce · 06-06-2014, 06:49 PM

Remember the Marines in the Pacific did this same thing, over and over and over again.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-06-2014, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

Some guys just can't get enough...

D-Day Paratrooper to repeat jump--70 years later.

After his jump.

Griff · 06-07-2014, 08:42 AM

Bravo!

xoxoxoBruce · 06-07-2014, 05:33 PM

The first show for the troops after D-Day.

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"Acrobatic dancer performs for U.S. troops lounging in field at rest camp. Show featured girl dancers, also had two clowns, one of whom had once performed with Ringling Circus in New York. The girls heavily relied on dancing and pantomime because none of them spoke English."

LIFE didn't publish these pictures... wonder why?

06-02-2014, 08:35 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	D-Day This guy in the Paris train station was taking his son to Normandy for D-Day. You're doing it right, Dad, you're doing it very damn right. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-03-2014, 11:12 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	CBCnews has interactive pictures of D-Day then and now. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-03-2014, 09:24 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Progress. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-06-2014, 10:47 AM	#7
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I thought that was just awesome. Ran across this on another site: D-Day + a day or three __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

06-06-2014, 10:48 AM	#8
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Those guys (WWII soldiers in general) saved the fucking world. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

06-03-2014, 11:26 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Those interactive pictures are impressive

06-04-2014, 06:00 AM	#5
nowhereman sliding down the razor blade of life Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: just over the edge Posts: 228	A friend's father was a paratrooper who jumped in on D-Day. I can't even imagine what that was like. Our car club hosted a fellow who built an exact reproduction of a WW1 Model T ambulance and is taking it to France this year for the 100th anniversary of the war. Thank you Sarge and all who serve our country - you're the best !

06-06-2014, 11:09 AM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Hard to believe it was 70 years ago. I remember when WWII was like a recent memory, but it seems so long ago now. When I was a kid, hearing about WWII, it was more recent than the Vietnam war is to kids today. Time just keeps marching on.

06-06-2014, 06:49 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Remember the Marines in the Pacific did this same thing, over and over and over again. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-07-2014, 08:42 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Bravo! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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